Not surprisingly, perhaps, the three Categories of Philosophy—the Syzygy, Force, and Form—provide us with all that we need to develop a hermeneutic appreciation, and thereby the beginning of a metaphysical explanation, of the physical creation of the universe. Admittedly, these Categories are parsed in terms of several concepts, and all of these concepts taken together do form quite an arsenal of ideas. Nevertheless, it is also true that these concepts are merely variations on the theme of the Hermeneutic Category. Our explanation, then, rests upon the smallest of assumptions: the System of systems is a Syzygy of syzygies.
According to Physics, the self-gravitating Void—which is the backstory, as it were, as well as the backdrop, of all physical systems—is constantly fluctuating, although the typically symmetrical nature of these fluctuations gives the Void the over-all appearance of vacuity, of nothingness. In all actuality, however, as Physics also informs us, this so-called Void is in fact a seething plenum, a caldron of creativity, and this eternal creativity is constantly erupting—fluctuating and exuding—and thereby evolving into various physical systems. For the most part, the natural tendency toward symmetry usually manages to maintain the emptiness of the Void (or at least it keeps things merely virtual). Occasionally, however—and through sheer serendipity, according to scientists—a confluence of minor concrete fluctuations occurs, such that the accummulative force of the fluctuations overcomes the symmetry by breaking or hiding it in the temporal dimension, and this brings time-irreversible entities into existence, producing what we call an actual universe.
Philosophically, this means that Asymmetry overcomes Symmetry, and the consequent Order that then prevails appears as the physical forces—the Energy/Information or Force/Form—of the universe within the expanding Space-Time "container" that these forces themselves constitute. In our own Universe, the first actual structures were 1) a scalar Form-Field (the Higgs Field) and 2) a tensor Force-Field (the Unified-Force Field). Soon after the Big Bang, this latter field deteriorated and separated into the four standard Force Fields of modern Physics, along with their Quanta: the Bosons. These four Fields and their Quanta—which are known as: 1) the Gravitational Field and the Graviton, 2) the Electromagnetic Field and the Photon, 3) the Strong Nuclear Field and the Gluons, and 4) the Weak Nuclear Field and the Intermediate Vector Bosons—constitute our Space-Time itself, as well as all the Energy and Information "contained" therein.
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