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IN TRANSCENDENTAL PHYSICS, utilizing a single assumption, Dr. Edward R. Close presents the elements of a comprehensive science that includes matter, energy, time, space and the conscious observer. Transcendental Physics integrates the search for answers to questions ranging from the mind-body problem, to survival of consciousness after death, to the frontiers of quantum physics and relativity. Proceeding from a single assumption, the “inner” world of consciousness and the “outer” world of physical phenomena can be united, contemplated and explored within one logically consistent system of thought.

THIS SCIENTIFIC THEORY is the culmination of more than forty years of thought, experimentation and research. The book Transcendental Physics, first published in June, 1997, outlines the concepts, empirical evidence, and logic that leads to a new paradigm providing a natural framework for further investigation of a reality composed of matter, energy and consciousness.

THE CALCULUS OF DISTINCTIONS, a new non-numerical mathematics that allows the scientist to include consciousness in the equations that describe the basic laws of nature, is a mathematical method adapted from G. Spencer Brown’s calculus of indications published in Laws of Form, 1969. The Calculus of Distinctions was first developed by Edward R. Close in 1986 and published in 1990 as Infinite Continuity, A Theory Unifying Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Bell’s Theorem, and the Aspect Experiment have proven that quanta exist only as probabilities until an observation is made. The Calculus of Distinctions is applied to scientifically known events occurring at the first moment of physical creation with the following results:

• Proof of the existence of non-quantum receptors
• Proof that in order for the first quantum of the physical universe to emerge from the realm of probability, an observation had to be made by “something” that was neither matter nor energy.
• Strong evidence of the existence of a non-local, conscious, non-quantum receptor prior to the emergence of the physical universe.

Transcendental Physics is the first complete theory to satisfactorily encompass quantum mechanics, relativity and consciousness. Replacing the several assumptions of current theory with a single assumption, Transcendental Physics and the new mathematics described in the Calculus of Distinctions provide the basis for a shift from a materialistic-based science to a consciousness-based science and opens the door to undreamed of possibilities that may be tested empirically and explored through rational, scientific research.

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Transcendental Physics is a rare treat...a substantial contribution to the advancement of quantum interpretation and is well-written besides. No feeble-minded hocus pocus resides here." Dr. Philip Petersen Astrophysicist

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