Absolute Infinity: The Only Truly Complete Theory of Everything
Introduction
In scientific discourse, the term Theory of Everything (TOE) is typically used to describe a framework that attempts to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics. In this essay, however, the label Theory of Everything is used in its broadest possible sense. At its core, a Theory of Everything aims to explain the totality of existence. This includes not only physical laws but also the conditions for all possible experience, appearance, and understanding. Such a theory must account for all realities across time, including past, present, future, and all potentiality. The theory must be eternally complete, logically self-consistent and even capable of explaining its own existence.
This essay argues that there is a theory which satisfies these conditions completely: the theory that Reality is Absolute Infinity. This model proposes that all phenomena are finite expressions of an infinite totality. The following sections present the criteria for a true Theory of Everything and outline the logical structure of Absolute Infinity. They also explore the theory’s philosophical implications and show why Absolute Infinity constitutes a truly complete Theory of Everything.
Criteria for a True Theory of Everything
A valid TOE must meet the following criteria:
1. Total explanatory scope: It must account for all phenomena across time.
2. Eternal completeness: It must never require revision.
3. Logical self-consistency: It must contain no contradictions within itself.
4. Self-explanatory structure: It must explain its own existence.
5. Self-reflectivity: It must account for its own formulation and interpretation.
6. Experiential accessibility: It must be confirmable in direct, first-person experience.
7. Empirically Aligned: Every new phenomenon, information or discovery needs to confirm the theory.
8. Meta-consistency: It must explain the possibility of its own rejection.
Presentation of the Theory
Theory: Reality is Absolute Infinity.
This means:
1. The Ground of Existence is formless and unlimited: It is not confined to any shape, law, or identity. Because it is formless and unlimited, it is infinite in all dimensions.
2. Infinite potential actualizes itself: To be truly infinite, Reality must express every possibility.
3. All phenomena are limited expressions: Everything that exists is a temporary, finite appearance of the Infinite.
4. Absolute Infinity is all encompassing: It inherently encompasses all that was, is, and can be.
5. Self-reflection is inherent: Every perspective, including yours, is Infinity reflecting on itself through consciousness.
6. All appearances are included: Logic, paradox, time, matter, thought, experience, and every other conceivable aspect of existence are limited expressions of Infinity’s unfolding.
In this view, the universe is not a closed system governed by fixed laws, but an open expression of infinite potential manifesting in finite forms. In order for Infinity to be truly infinite, it must include the possibility and actuality of expression. Unexpressed potential would imply internal limitation. Without actualizing its potential, Infinity would remain incomplete; thus, creation is a necessary feature of Absolute Infinity.
Satisfying the TOE Criteria
1. Total explanatory scope
Absolute Infinity entails all past, present, and future phenomena as expressions of infinite potential. Everything that arises is already accounted for as a manifestation within Infinity. The theory predicts the actualization of all potential future events. It does not predict sequences, but it entails the inevitability of all possible forms arising.
2. Eternal completeness
The theory is eternally complete because it encompasses all possibilities, including the process of new discoveries. As such, it doesn’t require revision.
3. Logical self-consistency
Contradictions arise only from limited perspectives. Since Absolute Infinity includes all perspectives, it accounts for contradiction without being inconsistent. Since all paradoxes are included within the Infinite, they are no longer paradoxes in relation to the whole. All forms of logic and illogic are themselves part of the whole.
4. Self-explanatory structure
The theory explains its own presence as one of infinitely many conceptual forms arising within Absolute Infinity.
5. Self-reflectivity
It accounts not only for its content but for the process of its own formulation, understanding, and critique. Its own formulation, understanding and critique is a self-reflection process that necessarily needs to appear inside infinite potential.
6. Experiential accessibility
Many religious and mystical traditions report direct experience of Infinite Being. These first-person experiences are predicted and explained by the theory as forms of self-realization within Infinity. Moreover, the limited aspect of Absolute Infinity’s unfolding is continuously accessible through our ordinary conscious experience in every moment.
7. Empirically Aligned
Every new observation, phenomenon, or paradox, no matter how unexpected, is not only explained by the theory but also serves as evidence for it, because it arises as a unique appearance within infinite potential. This shows that the theory is continuously validated by the unfolding of Reality itself.
8. Meta-consistency
Even the appearance of refutation is included as a limited perspective within Infinity. The theory therefore explains the illusion of its own potential rejection.
Objection and Response
Objection: “If every new phenomenon, information or discovery can only confirm the theory, that means that it is unfalsifiable. How can it be trusted if it is unfalsifiable?”
Response: In most scientific domains, falsifiability is a virtue. However, for a true Theory of Everything, falsifiability implies incompleteness, as it suggests that something outside the theory could potentially disprove it. A TOE must be self-contained. Absolute Infinity is not a scientific hypothesis; it is a metaphysical ground that explains all scientific, logical, and experiential phenomena, including the principle of falsifiability itself.
Objection: “What if there is a second theory that also fulfills all the listed criteria?”
Response: If a second theory were to meet all the same criteria, it would not stand in contradiction to the theory of Absolute Infinity. Instead, it would be included within it. Absolute Infinity, by definition, is the most inclusive and comprehensive theory possible. Any theory that claims to be complete, self-consistent, self-reflective, empirically aligned and universally explanatory would necessarily be a limited expression within the infinite potential of Absolute Infinity. Rather than disproving the theory, the emergence of such an alternative would serve as additional confirmation of Absolute Infinity’s nature. It demonstrates that even seemingly distinct or new theoretical frameworks are already encompassed within the totality of infinite possibility. In this sense, there cannot truly be a second theory that exists outside of Absolute Infinity. If such a theory exists, it is already a subset or particular perspective within the all-encompassing nature of Absolute Infinity. Therefore, it supports rather than challenges the original theory.
Objection: “What if we find something that proves that Reality is limited in some way?”
Response: Even a proof that Reality is limited in some way would still not disprove the theory, because such a discovery is predicted as a limited appearance within infinite potential. If such a discovery wouldn’t be possible, then Absolute Infinity wouldn’t truly be infinite. What might seem like a contradiction from a finite perspective is resolved within the framework of Absolute Infinity, which includes all paradoxes and boundaries as partial manifestations of its boundless nature. Therefore, the discovery does not refute the theory but confirms its all-encompassing scope.
Conclusion
The theory of Absolute Infinity offers a comprehensive model of the deepest structure of Reality. By its very nature, it accounts for all phenomena across time, within an eternally complete and self-reflective framework. Though complete in itself, the theory unfolds in time through the dynamic interpretations of finite perspectives. Rather than threatening its coherence, each new insight reveals another facet of its inexhaustible scope. In this way, the theory not only explains all things but also includes its own reinterpretation as a necessary expression of the infinite totality it describes.