The Human Restlessness Called Science

Physics is the science that sets out to gaze at the essence of the universe. As for physics, it is the laying down of rules perceivable by the human mind, rules that define in human writings what the universe is.

The two disciplines are opposite, though complementary, within the integral study of a basic restlessness in human nature: the hunger for knowledge.

Physics explores certain experiments in which the universe behaves however the universe wishes to behave at the instant the experiments in question are being observed. The study itself is not about the universe, for Physics itself observes that the universe is only being observed because there is an Observer. The Observer, then, through these experiments, is observing that the essence of the universe is nothing more than its own gaze being observed.

An experiment, in the realm of human time, is the occurring of a series of events, at a given mental coordinate, before the Observer's gaze.

Then there is physics: the human result, across the Cartesian plane of human time, which produces, from its infinitesimal derivative, the expression of individual existences that dwell at that coordinate of time and appear, to the human realm, in the guise of natural laws.

The essence of the universe goes on being, and cannot fail to go on being, the Observer's gaze at the instant the gaze is happening. But the dynamism of existence, as perceived by a human mind, takes the appearance of a universe moving forward along a coordinate that the human being, through physics, called time.

So time, when observed by the Observer's gaze, appears as the residue of a universe occurring as the Observer looks at it. The universe is then observed as the movement of instants as they are being observed. The result, in the realm of the human mind, is that the universe is expanding through the manifestation of an existence that physics called space.

Time and space are, then, the coordinates of the human mind, as the discipline of physics establishes.
But Physics knows, because it is observing it so, that the essence of the universe cannot be defined. And that the results of observation can only dwell in the realm of time, which is a human conception. And therefore, they are not the essence of the universe.

The adventure of living, from the human perspective, carries in its adventurous nature the thirst to know. This knowing, in the human being, is nothing more than the occurring through time of an existence that physics called experiment. The catch is human existence itself, which is nothing more than the occurring through time of an existence that biology called human being. Human existence cannot be the essence of the universe either. Does the Observer exist, then, or is it nothing more than the observation of an existence that physics calls Observer?

Physics is, in conclusion, the observation of an instant that, free from the human experience of time and from the very notion of being an observation, is Eternal.