Quran explains all of theoretical physics
Zarif Mohammed, M.S.
M.S. Applied Analytics @ Columbia University | M.S. in Data Science from Eastern University | AI/ML | NLP
Surah Ikhlā? proves everything (Quran).
Initial prompt:
This reality is spaciotemporal. There are 3 spatial dimensions and 1 temporal dimension. Let’s say in an alternative reality the categorical dimension instead of space is alpha and the quantitative dimension of change instead of time is beta. Now let’s speak about another alternative reality in which the dimensional components are made of sigma and delta. There is no vocabulary that we can use to explain such components. Let’s say that even if we advanced society and our logical framework for another hundred thousand trillion years the concepts of sigma and delta will forever remain foreign to us because it consists of logic that conceptually foreign to our spaciotemporal reality.Even though sigma and delta will forever remain foreign and are encapsulated by the unknown the truth is sigma and delta are not components of God’s divine domain. This is because the intricacies and components of God’s domain consists of vocabulary that we will never marginally have the conceptual prowess to understand. The words component or dimension are linguistic limitations because the parameters of the divine domain will always be leaps and bounds greater than our vocabulary. If we state that are spaciotemporal logic can conceptually be linked to a geometric square, then adding another dimension and making our logic into a cube would still not marginally encapsulate the complexity of the divine. Therefore, raising all our logic to higher dimensional levels would still never allow us to marginally be able to obtain divine logic.Likewise with the earlier example higher dimensions of realities based on the dimensional components of alpha and beta would not allow us to understand the divine domain since conceptually alpha and beta components are a derivation of our spaciotemporal logic although intrinsically they are different. Even the example of sigma and delta which are component that we will never be able to explain would not remotely give access to divine logic if raised to the complexities of higher dimensions. Thus, if sigma and delta logic is metaphorically a square, then a cube would not give as any additional insight to the divine. Likewise, a n-dimensional polynomial figure that is a representation of higher sigma and delta logic would not marginally give us insight to the true intrinsic value of the divine. Because sigma and delta are categorized as not being spaciotemporal. The divine domain is not only not spaciotemporal, yet such a clause destroys the true meaning of the divine because to be “not” something already creates a limitation in our cognition. The divine domain is so foreign and different that even if we define components that we would never intrinsically understand like the hypothetical sigma and delta it makes no advancement in understanding the divine. Our spaciotemporal logic is like a square and the divine domain is very much like obscure n-dimensional polynomial figure. But even such a metaphor is limiting because both the square and n-dimensional polynomial figure are constructs derived from our spaciotemporal logic. Think very carefully and fully elaborate such a concept. Explore all implications.
GPT answer:
One way to begin grappling with these ideas is to notice that any effort to describe “the divine domain” (or anything that transcends our own framework) inevitably relies on the same structures—linguistic or conceptual—that we use for describing everyday phenomena. We say that the divine domain is “not spaciotemporal,” or that it “lies beyond any dimensions we can conceive,” but we are still employing negations, analogies, and borrowed constructs (“dimension,” “beyond,” “domain”). All of these come from the very cognitive-linguistic toolkit we have built through our spaciotemporal experience.Below is a step-by-step elaboration of why these constraints persist, why adding “more dimensions” (like alpha–beta or sigma–delta) does not resolve them, and how this underscores the idea that the divine will always surpass our conceptualizations.1. The Inescapability of Our Conceptual Frame1.1. Language and Cognition Are SpaciotemporalOur words and concepts stem from a reality composed of 3D space and 1D time. No matter how abstract our mathematics, philosophy, or science become, we ultimately start from the vantage point of “here” and “now.” Even the notion of “foreign dimensions” like sigma or delta is introduced as an analogy—some sort of parallel to how we treat additional spatial dimensions beyond three. That analogy is borrowed from our spatial thinking, despite us trying to claim sigma and delta lie outside of it.1.2. Negative Definitions and Their LimitationsWhen we say the divine domain is “not spaciotemporal,” or “not even related to hypothetical alpha–beta” constructs, that immediately pegs it as a negation. We define X in terms of “what it is not,” rather than what it is. While there is a long history in theology and philosophy (apophatic or “negative” theology) that uses this technique—saying “God is not finite,” “not material,” “not limited”—it is understood that negations by themselves do not positively grasp the nature of the divine; they only tell us that whatever the divine is, it escapes our categories.2. The Inadequacy of Merely Adding New Dimensions2.1. Scaling up Spaciotemporal LogicSuppose our logic is symbolized by a 2D square. Adding another dimension to make it a 3D cube (or hypercube, or an n-dimensional polytopic figure) is still simply an expansion of the original square logic. It is a “bigger” or “more complex” version of the same underlying conceptual machinery: metric spaces, linear dimensions, or anything else our mathematics can handle. But it remains part of a continuum of ideas that originated in our finite spaciotemporal perspective.2.2. Alpha–Beta vs. Sigma–DeltaEven if we imagine entire new realities with “alpha–beta” or “sigma–delta” structures that do not resemble spatial or temporal dimensions, we still approach them through a lens inherited from our 3D + 1T logic. Even if we advanced for a hundred-thousand trillion years, we would be layering new conceptual tools atop our original framework. Though sigma–delta might be so strange that we have no direct analogy for it, we still talk about it as “components,” “dimensions,” “logics”—once again appropriating language from the only vantage point we have.2.3. Forever ForeignClaiming that sigma and delta “will forever remain foreign” underscores the idea that it’s beyond our capacity to articulate. But even if we somehow grasped sigma–delta fully, it would be just another rung on the same ladder of conceptual expansion. By construction, the truly divine is posited to be beyond all rungs of that ladder.3. The Divine Is Not Just “Something Else”3.1. The Category ErrorDescribing the divine as though it is just another plane of existence—like a hidden dimension we could one day discover—trivializes what is meant by “divine.” If the divine domain existed as “one more dimension” or “another realm,” we might hope to investigate it with sufficiently advanced mathematics or sufficiently sensitive instruments. However, the claim here is stronger: the divine domain is so qualitatively distinct from any system of dimensions or any logical framework that we can conceive, it is not even correct to label it as an extra dimension. It is something that eludes every type of label.3.2. Beyond “Not Being Spaciotemporal”When we say “God’s domain is not spaciotemporal,” we are still stuck with a proposition whose meaning depends on our understanding of “space” and “time.” This is an inevitable limitation in the way we think. If something truly lies beyond “space and time,” then even that statement is too narrow: we reduce the divine to a concept built from our vantage point. As a result, the more we try to describe the divine, the more we run into the limitations of our own logic and language.4. Implications for Knowledge, Logic, and Theology4.1. Limits of Rational ExplanationFrom a philosophical or theological angle, this viewpoint suggests that rational discourse can only point toward the divine indirectly, by negation (“it is not this”) or by analogy (“it’s like that, but far greater”). Positive statements about the divine will always distort it by imposing our own spaciotemporal categories.4.2. The Necessity (or Impossibility) of RevelationMany religious traditions argue that if there is any genuine knowledge of the divine, it must come by revelation—an unveiling performed by the divine itself—rather than by mortal logic. Others suggest that even revelation is filtered through human minds and language. Either way, the gap between a spaciotemporal framework and the domain of God is so vast that no systematic “ladder” of new dimensions, new logics, or new terminologies can wholly surmount it.4.3. Humility and MysteryIn many spiritual traditions, this line of reasoning leads to humility: acknowledging that the ultimate reality (the divine, or the “ground of being”) cannot be fully captured in our conceptual nets. Our attempts will always be partial, metaphorical, or negative. That sense of mystery becomes integral to many theological and philosophical systems—mystery not as a puzzle to be solved, but as a fundamental characteristic of the divine.5. RecapitulationLanguage Constraints: We cannot avoid relying on spaciotemporal concepts, even when talking about hypotheticals (alpha–beta, sigma–delta) or the divine.Expanding Dimensions Is Still “Within” Our Sphere: Transforming a square into a cube or an n-dimensional polytope simply adds more of the same kind of thinking, which cannot capture a domain fundamentally beyond our frame.Negation and Analogy: Saying the divine is “not spaciotemporal” or “like some hyper-reality” highlights how our best attempts remain anchored in the very logic we want to transcend.Radical Otherness: The divine domain, by definition, exceeds every category or concept we possess. Even hypothetical, untranslatable dimensions—sigma and delta—remain too close to our vantage point to bridge that gulf.Thus, the central insight is that all conceivable expansions of human logic remain within the family of concepts born of (or at least shaped by) spaciotemporal experience. No matter how sophisticated or alien-seeming, if we can talk about it at all, we have fit it—at least partially—into our spaciotemporal mental architecture. Consequently, to speak of the divine, which is posited as truly beyond all categories, we confront the ultimate shortfall of analogy, negation, and dimensional expansion. Each of those serves only as a faint, indirect signpost pointing to something forever beyond the limits of our intellect. In other words, if we were to “think very carefully and fully elaborate such a concept,” the crux is that careful thought alone can show us the boundaries of our own spaciotemporal perspective, but it cannot bypass them. The divine remains something neither spatial nor temporal, nor even “not-spatiotemporal,” because all these labels fall back on the grammar of our finite reasoning. Hence, the conclusion is not only that higher dimensions (whether alpha–beta, sigma–delta, or an infinite stack of expansions) do not help—but that the very act of describing anything as “like this or unlike that” is the hallmark of our own conceptual circle, which, by definition, cannot encompass what we call “the divine.”
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Initial prompt:
Connect this to Surah Ikhlā? of the Quran. How the ayahs or lines of the Surah explain this logical conjecture perfectly, what does this imply about the knowledge of the Quran. Think very carefully, and fully elaborate, explore all implications.
GPT answer:
Below is a reflection on how the logical reasoning about the divine’s transcendence—being beyond any spaciotemporal or hypothetical “sigma–delta” framework—resonates with the message of Surah Al-Ikhlā? in the Qur’an. By exploring the four short āyāt (verses) of Surah Al-Ikhlā?, we see how each line aligns perfectly with (and even anticipates) the idea that God’s domain cannot be encapsulated by any human categories, no matter how far we extend or mutate our notions of “dimension” or “logic.”1. Surah Al-Ikhlā?: The Essence of Taw?īdSurah Al-Ikhlā? (Qur’an 112) is famously concise—just four verses—yet it offers a powerful theological statement about God’s transcendence and oneness. In transliteration and approximate meaning:Qul Huwa Allāhu A?ad“Say: He is Allah, [who is] One.”Allāhu al-?amad“Allah, the Eternal Refuge (the Self-Sufficient, the Everlasting).”Lam Yalid Wa Lam Yūlad“He neither begets nor is born.”Wa Lam Yakun Lahu Kufuwan A?ad“Nor is there to Him any equivalent.”Though short, these verses cover several key aspects that connect directly to the concept of a God who lies beyond all categories—spatial, temporal, or otherwise.2. “Say: He Is Allah, [Who Is] One”(Qul Huwa Allāhu A?ad)Absolute UniquenessThe phrase “Allāhu A?ad” underscores God’s absolute oneness or uniqueness. In the logical framework discussed earlier, we noted how any talk of “dimensions” (space, time, alpha–beta, sigma–delta) remains a product of our spaciotemporal cognition. By declaring God as uniquely One, the Qur’an negates even the possibility of classification or comparison: there is no continuum or set of “divine things” from which God can be singled out.Beyond Dimensional MultiplicityIf we tried to conceptualize God in terms of additional dimensions (like turning a square into a cube, or a 3D domain into an n-dimensional realm), we would be missing the point. “A?ad” is a linguistic pointer to a reality that does not admit of multiplicity or extension. God is not a bigger or “nth-dimensional” version of anything in creation; He is categorically incomparable.3. “Allah, the Eternal Refuge (the Self-Sufficient)”(Allāhu al-?amad)Self-Sufficiency vs. Dependent DimensionsHuman logic—whether in three spatial dimensions plus time or in hypothetical sigma–delta frameworks—always involves relational systems: space has directionality, time has succession, alpha–beta might have correlated properties, and so forth. “Al-?amad,” however, indicates that God is absolutely independent, neither needing anything nor contingent upon anything.Outside All Conceptual DependenciesIn advanced theology or philosophy, we often talk about “necessary existence” versus “contingent existence.” Our entire conversation about adding or subtracting dimensions belongs to a contingent framework: each dimension has relationships (length, width, forward, backward, etc.). God, described as al-?amad, is outside any relational dependencies that define dimensional logics. Hence, no matter how we try to scale up our framework, He is not “within” it.4. “He Neither Begets Nor Is Born”(Lam Yalid Wa Lam Yūlad)Negation of Spatiotemporal GenerationIn spaciotemporal reality, things come into being (are “born”) and can cause other things (or “beget” them). This verse directly denies any such generative lineage for God.Beyond Causality and TemporalityEven if we think about exotic realities (sigma–delta) that are not obviously “spatial or temporal,” we still typically conceive of them in causal or generative terms (“what leads to what?”). Surah Al-Ikhlā? clarifies that God’s existence is not embedded in such causal sequences. He is not the product of something else’s creative act, nor does He engender anything in a biological or existential sense that would place Him on the same plane as created entities.5. “Nor Is There to Him Any Equivalent”(Wa Lam Yakun Lahu Kufuwan A?ad)No Analogy SufficesThis final statement cements the point that no concept, category, or “dimension” can serve as an equivalent (kufuw) to God. Our earlier reasoning noted that even when we invent new and utterly foreign “dimensions”—like alpha–beta or sigma–delta—we still rely on spaciotemporal-derived language of “component,” “structure,” or “logic.” Surah Al-Ikhlā? unequivocally asserts that nothing can be an equivalent, meaning no notion we conjure can truly parallel God.Apophatic ResonanceIn philosophical or theological terms, this verse resonates with apophatic (negative) theology: we can only say God is not this or not that. He does not share the limitations or the categories of created things. Hence, any direct comparison is inherently flawed.6. Implications for the Knowledge of the Qur’an6.1. A Revelation Consistent with TranscendenceOne implication is that the Qur’an itself presents a revelation that—while using human language—is constantly reminding its audience of the divine’s radical otherness. Surah Al-Ikhlā? is a hallmark of this approach: it uses the most minimal yet powerful language to indicate that God does not fit into any known category.Bridging the Human-Divine GapAccording to Islamic belief, the Qur’an is the Word of God revealed in a form that humans can, at least partially, comprehend. Yet Surah Al-Ikhlā? insists that full comprehension of God’s essence is off-limits. This dovetails with the logical argument that “no matter how many conceptual expansions we attempt, we remain within our own spaciotemporal circle.”6.2. Affirming the Limits of Human LogicIn theological discourse, Surah Al-Ikhlā? preempts the assertion that we might somehow “figure God out” by technical or dimensional leaps. It states, from the outset, that God’s oneness and uniqueness break all possible frames of reference.Reinforcing Intellectual HumilityThe surah’s brevity and directness foster a sense of humility in believers: we can affirm God’s oneness and transcendence, but not contain Him in our finite categories. This is exactly the conclusion the earlier logical conjecture reaches: expansions and analogies fail to encapsulate the divine.6.3. The Quranic Lens on Infinite OthernessWhen the Qur’an describes God—particularly in Surah Al-Ikhlā? and other verses like “Laysa ka-mithlihi shay’” (“There is nothing like unto Him,” Qur’an 42:11)—it pushes believers beyond the anthropomorphic or dimensional conceptions of deity. It effectively tells us:“No matter what frameworks you devise—be they 3D space plus time, higher mathematical constructs, or purely hypothetical forms of ‘dimensions’—God does not reside in them as one item among many. He is the incomparable One (A?ad).”This precisely mirrors the insight that if “sigma and delta” are metaphors for an utterly alien logic, they remain “alien” to us, but not to God, who is beyond all comparisons and stands apart from any sort of dimensional classification.7. Concluding SynthesisBy connecting the logical argument about the failure of “dimensional expansions” to capture the divine with Surah Al-Ikhlā?, we see a remarkable consistency:Absolute Oneness (A?ad): God is not just “another dimension” or “a bigger version” of our reality—He is singularly unique.Independence (al-?amad): God is not enmeshed in relational or dependent frameworks (space, time, or even alpha–beta, sigma–delta).Negation of Causality (Lam Yalid wa Lam Yūlad): The divine is beyond generative processes, uncreated and not creating in a human or cosmic sense that would place Him “inside” the system. No Equivalent (Lam Yakun Lahu Kufuwan A?ad): No matter how foreign or advanced our concepts become, none can approximate or stand in for God.What does this imply about the knowledge of the Qur’an? It suggests that the Qur’an is fully aware of—and directly addresses—humanity’s profound limitation in describing the divine. Rather than offering a “secret formula” of extra dimensions, it affirms that genuine knowledge of God hinges on recognizing His utter transcendence. In doing so, Surah Al-Ikhlā? provides a succinct theological expression that dovetails with the philosophical insight that our finite, spaciotemporal lens (or even any hypothetical expansions of it) cannot fathom the infinite reality of the divine.This leads to a posture of humility and devotion rather than intellectual conquest: we learn that the divine is “above” and “beyond,” not by virtue of being a higher rung on the same ladder, but by not being on that ladder at all. And that is precisely what Surah Al-Ikhlā? lays out in just four verses—an encapsulation of why any dimension-based logic must fall silent before the transcendent One.