The New FlatlandersThe New Flatlanders

A Beginner’s Guide to the

Theory of Everything

By Eric Middleton

How the Flatlanders How the Flatlanders beganbegan

- Angus and Josh, Melissa, - Angus and Josh, Melissa, Ruth and ThomasRuth and Thomas

To find the beginnings of To find the beginnings of a working “Theory of a working “Theory of Everything”Everything”

How big is the Universe?

Galaxies: The Expanding Universe

The Universe and Beyond

The Universe and BeyondThe Universe and Beyond

How did it all begin?The Big Bang, Black Holes and Dark Matter

How will it all end?

a Big Crunch?

Mystery, Models and Mystery, Models and Quantum TheoryQuantum Theory

•Probability, Waves and Particles

Mystery, Models and Mystery, Models and Quantum TheoryQuantum Theory

•Probability, Waves and Particles

•Schrodinger’s Cat The Central Mystery of Consciousness

Mystery, Models and Mystery, Models and Quantum TheoryQuantum Theory

•Probability, Waves and Particles

•Schrodinger’s Cat The Central Mystery of Consciousness

•Observer-centred Reality

•Spooky Action at a Distance

A Theory of Everything A Theory of Everything for the 21st centuryfor the 21st century

•Atoms, Quarks and Unification

•The Origin of Extra Dimensions Theodor Kaluza

•Superstrings and Duality - in 10 Dimensions

•M-Theory in 11 Dimensions

Plato and AristotlePlato and Aristotle

Where are you?

What is Reality?What is Reality?

•Where are these Extra Dimensions?

•Plato’s Cave

•Out of the Cave?

•Shadows of a Higher Reality

The Story of FlatlandThe Story of Flatland

Squares and Polygons

The Sphere comes himself?

A new Flatland Cicuit boards

Only a story? Or . . .

A three-dimensional slice of a higher reality

THE ANTHROPIC THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLEPRINCIPLE

• Was the Universe made for us?

• Why did it take so long?

• “Rare Earth”

Time out - What are your Time out - What are your questions?questions?

• Neither literalism nor triumhalism!

• Evolution

• Consciousness

• Miracles

• What about other religions?

What about the beautiful fractal What about the beautiful fractal pictures of Chaos theory you pictures of Chaos theory you

promised to tell us about?promised to tell us about?

Another language for describing the indescribable

Chaos and the hidden orderChaos and the hidden order

• The Mandelbrot Set and a Butterfly’s wings

• Fractals and Computer graphics

• Jesus - a fractal image of God?

• A Strange Attractor - and the Logos challenge

But Why? The Problem of But Why? The Problem of EvilEvil

• The Milgram Experiment

• Free will and the Origin of Evil

• Occult Power and the Reality of the Spirit

• So prayer does work?

• Meeting the Holy Spirit

• A language for coping with the supernatural

• Living in two worlds

Inner HealingInner Healing