What is time? This is one of the big issues in science and philosophy. What is consciousness? This is called “the hard question in science.” We now have a useful and important answer.
Time is not actually a real dimension or quantity in physics, yet we all know it is all-important, and appears in most equations describing physical phenomena. Time is actually metaphysical; i.e. transcendental, vertical, or “seong-sang” to use a Korean term.
Other items in the “metaphysical” category are consciousness, the spiritual component of the human mind, the natural laws and physical constants, the internal guiding structure of external reality, and God.
Science deals with physical, materially measurable realities and does not, as a rule, deal with “God”, or for that matter, “consciousness” as such either. However, science is now running hard up against these and other fundamental issues in its research — including such challenging problems as dark matter and energy, the origins predating the “Big Bang”, the precise tuning of the physical constants, and consciousness itself.
The problem in science, in dealing only with physically measurable realities, is that the causal realm (i.e. cause, source, control, calibration, etc.) is not in the horizontal, material, physical dimension itself, but rather underlies material reality in the so-called internal, vertical, metaphysical, transcendental, unreal, or seong-sang realm or dimension. In other words, science is being pushed now to address these causal factors.
Human beings ask the questions “What?”, “How?”, and “Why?” It is fair to say that these are the topics of science, and science intends to answer them as fundamentally, completely, correctly and accurately as possible. Thus, it is within the “ball game” to inquire about ultimate origins, realities and causes. Science is now called upon to supply satisfactory and convincing answers to these questions.
In Einstein’s Theory of Relativity there are four physical dimensions, time and three spatial dimensions, within which material, physical objects, relations, and events ought to be able to be described. These dimensional axes always maintain perpendicular angles within any given frame of reference, and are basically equivalent in value or priority. Even time has no precedence (no pun intended); “relativity” means that, while their relationship is absolute, the angle of the reference coordinate system is relative in regard to another reference system in a different field of velocity and/or acceleration.
However, in establishing a correct Unified Field Theory, it has to be specified that “time” is, after all, different from the other three or more spatial dimensions. Time is, namely, metaphysical, which means not physical, although time is in a causal, subjective, or determinant relationship to events taking place within the spatial, physical dimensions.
In fact, “time” (the regular, cyclical or linear, measurable “passage of time” or “time interval”) is precisely, to a practically infinite number of decimal places, regulated and controlled from some universal source. Astronomers and physicists know full well and rely upon the incredibly accurate “clockwork” of time in all parts of the universe, microscopic to macroscopic, taking into account relativistic considerations whereby “the flow of time” is warped to a known degree by speed and gravity (warping or curvature of space due to concentrations of energy).
It is unthinkable that each particle of matter and point of space contains such an accurate “clock” within itself; rather, it is reasonable to suppose that there is a universal clocking or tuning reference, ensuring that all “clocks” throughout the universe, despite their mutually relative differences, maintain the same exact local rate of the flow of time. We believe in this, trust this, and rely upon it in doing hard science; and there has been no evidence to the contrary.
Such a system inherently implies a unified source or origin, and a universal, holistic connection among all parts of the universe for the maintenance of universal laws and principles, including the rate of passage of time, the speed of light, and the physical constants. In other words, the physical constants and the rate of time cannot be “self-contained”, but rather must have a “universal, holistic referent.”
We observe this sort of connection in the quantum realm, in the form of particle entanglement, tunneling, “path integral”, and a host of other quantum mechanical applications. The observed speed of such quantum connection is not infinite, however, but has been recently (by Chinese researchers in 2013, et al.) been measured as at least four orders of magnitude or 10,000 times greater than the speed of light. This has been alternately described as “time tunneling” to get around the impossibility of breaking the speed of light — but at any rate (no pun intended) it shows that there is holistic connectedness across space and time within the quantum realm.
This begs the question then: “What is, then, the quantum realm?” A subatomic particle manifests in various locations with various other attributes in the physical world, as detected and measured by instruments, in a seemingly random manner. However, it is manifesting out of another, underlying realm that is not directly accessible to physical instruments. In quantum physics, we might well call this the “causal realm.”
Dr. Gennady Shipov (b. 1938 in the U.S.S.R.) has worked in theoretical physics since the 1970s, and has gone a long way to solving Einstein’s problem of the “unified field theory.” His solution is described in his “Theory of Physical Vacuum” (published first in Russian in 1988, with new editions and translations as recently as 2020). I (the author of the present essay) have met and communicated with him personally on numerous occasions and translated some of his works).
Shipov calls himself “a student of Albert Einstein” (intellectually rather than personally, of course), and he calls his theory “a generalization of Einstein’s geometrized field equations.” His theory goes under several other names, including: “Theory of Physical Vacuum”, “a torsion field theory”, and “Universal Relativity.”
Theory of Physical Vacuum features seven levels of “reality”: 1. The Absolute Nothing; 2. The Primary Torsion Field; 3. The Physical Vacuum; 4. Subatomic Particles; 5. Gaseous; 6. Liquid; and 7. Solid.
Each of these realms has different properties, structure, and contents. 1. Absolute Nothing may be understood as God, Logos, the Platonic ideal realm, and the Divine Energies (borrowing an Eastern Orthodox term). This is the source realm, where planning, design, and management takes place. We cannot definitively say anything about it, except to know that such a realm must exist, beyond our knowledge or detection.
2. The Primary Torsion Field is a subliminal realm with spatial and temporal properties analogous to our physical world, but having an infinite speed of connectedness from point to point. It is the bridge realm connecting the Absolute Nothing, or God, to the physical realms. It includes what is called the “Spiritual World.” Torsion fields corresponding to individual entities persist or are preserved here eternally.
3. The Physical Vacuum is spatial, connected directly to the physical world on a point by point basis, has a rigid yet flexible structure, and is populated by Planck-size “torsion field particles” similar to the Calabi-Yau manifold. Space-time constitutes four dimensions here, with six additional compactified dimensions pertaining to the spin of the torsion field particles. This is the bridge realm connecting directly to the subatomic particles as physical entities. This is what is called the “quantum realm.” If you would look for Einstein’s “hidden variables”, this would be the place.
4-7. Subatomic particles make up atoms all the way up to galaxies and the whole universe. These levels of reality have been well studied, and are the subject of physics and the other material sciences.
The levels of reality are connected vertically and horizontally by a universal, ubiquitous, holistic, and supraluminal “information field”, enabling God the source and origin, designer and creator to monitor, supervise, communicate, direct and modify situations under His realm of dominion throughout the universe in real time. God is actively involved in our universe. At the same time, He observes His own principles in managing things, not intervening in the human realm of responsibility but granting and honoring our free will.
The point is that Dr. Shipov has developed a conceptual and mathematical structure as a support system to explain the origin and connection of the external material phenomena we study in science. It is capable of handling the hard problem of consciousness, identifying the “dark matter” and “dark energy”, proposing a source for the material universe as well as the physical constants and their maintenance, and unifying the four physical interactions.
The unifying field is called in Theory of Physical Vacuum the “inertial field.” Shipov presents the “generalized geometrized field equations” that cover all four force fields.
What he has added to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is to include subatomic particle spin along three Euler axes, requiring six dimensions for its description, amounting to a total of ten dimensions replacing Einstein’s four dimensions of space-time. Einstein’s ten tensor field equations describing the curvature of space-time are upped to 44 tensor-and-spinor field equations in a regular matrix, which describe not only linear space-time and curved space-time, but also twisting of space-time at a point-to-point basis.
The long and the short of it is: Albert Einstein’s quest for a Unified Field Theory has finally been solved and consummated by Gennady Shipov, a Russian physicist, with his Theory of Physical Vacuum.
Shipov adds to Einstein’s materially based physical theory the inclusion of God and the metaphysical world as necessary and integral components of a complete “Theory of Everything.”
The next step is connecting Shipov’s work to the West and the whole world. The present author and his family lived in Russia for 18 years (1992~2010) as missionaries of the Unification Church of Rev. Dr. Moon Sun-myung. I have actively sought the solution to Einstein’s quest for a unified field theory from age 12 (1967), started learning Russian at that age, and also began receiving serious revelatory messages, inspirations, and guidance from God. While in Moscow, working as a database manager, I prayed every night between 1995 and 1997, and received the details of the structural model for the Unified Field Theory. Then God told me to set it aside, for “I have something even more important for you to do; even if you throw away this theory, another person will find it.”
The “more important task” is the “Heaven-and-Earth Unification and East-West (Cosmic) Unification” which I began to pursue in earnest from June 14, 1999 with Polina Lepyoshkina, a Russian member from Kaliningrad (originally from Rechitsa, Belarus). She died on September 3, 1999 but continued to work with me spiritually. We predicted that Russia would go through an extended providential period of 21 years until 2020. That period is now finished and we have proclaimed the fulfillment of our mission.
In Seorak-myeon, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (2017) I was teaching our Divine Principle to Russian-speaking guests, and met Mr. Yuri Lee, an Uzbek construction worker, formerly a Gazprom regional manager, who told me about the “torsion field theory” of Anatoly Akimov and Gennady Shipov. I recognized that this theory was the same as what I had been revealed by God.
Right away three directions converged miraculously, as it were. My own research coincided with what Yuri Lee shared, and then I coincidentally met Dr. Jin Sung-Bae of the Hyojeong Academic Foundation (a student of Dr. Lee Sang-hun, founder of the Unification Thought Institute).
Dr. Jin Sung-Bae was following the direction of Dr. Han Hak-ja, wife of the late Rev. Moon Sun-myung to research torsion field theory. I had met a friend of mine, Roy and Nancy Hewitt, in a parking lot, and they had given me a scientific treatise on quantum mechanics and the philosophy of science to translate from Korean to English. When I finished the document, Dr. Jin was surprised that someone could understand the contents, and asked to meet me. This began our relationship; now we all work together under his guidance.
Dr. Jin gave me the book “Physics of God” by the Bulgarian theologian Bozhidar Paliushev to render from broken English into a smooth, readable text, which we published. The work mentioned Akimov and Shipov as the founders of this torsion field theory. In almost all respects, Dr. Paliushev’s book is right along the lines of Dr. Shipov’s theory, but without the mathematics, and with some different points of emphasis.
Most recently, the Conference on the 21st Century Scientific Paradigm–Theory of Physical Vacuum has been organized by Dr. Gennady Shipov to take place on November 7-8 in Moscow, to the great credit of the nation and people of Russia, and in particular to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Moscow State University, along with numerous other Russian and international institutions, corporations, government agencies, NGOs, and private citizens.
Dr. Jin Sung-Bae is the keynote speaker for the conference section “Philosophy of Science”, with his speech “Science and the Concept of Peace”, available in Russian, Korean, and English.
Here you see the process of uniting East and West. There are two levels of the East-West problem in history and in our present time. The Christian West is most fundamentally divided by the Great Schism of 1054, which had its roots in the controversy between Greece and Rome. As an American, I recognized that Russia and the East Bloc in general is the inheritor of ancient Greece and the Eastern Orthodox faith, while the U.S.A. and Western Europe are the legacy of ancient Rome. From childhood, I took interest in Russia, and longed to learn the language and eventually go there, which I finally did on my 37th birthday, August 1, 1991 — and ended up staying until June 4, 2008, while my wife and two daughters (both born in Moscow) stayed until August 25, 2010.
The second aspect of East-West Unification is that between the Judaeo-Christian West and the Orient (particularly China, Korea, and Japan). We may say “Orient and Occident.”
The challenge of both aspects of East-West Unification continue up right up to this moment, as we can readily see in the news. These serve as a fundamental axis of history and the development of civilization. They are problems which must be fundamentally addressed in order to realize a global civilization as One Family Under God.
Secular attempts at realizing world peace are doomed to failure unless they include God. Same as physics!
Dr. Moon Sun-myung, proclaimed as the Messiah, Savior, and Second Advent, and his wife Dr. Han Hak-ja, proclaimed as the Only Begotten Daughter, have spearheaded the world peace movement called “Universal Peace Federation” along with “Women’s Federation for World Peace.” These are the “wonderful counselor, prince of peace” of Isaiah 9:6.
So how do we realize world peace? America, Japan, Russia, and China as superpower nations are in positions to support the process, but cannot alone be the host of peace, for various reasons. The cornerstone of world peace and a unified world has to be a unified Korean peninsula — North and South Korea together in harmony as a model of peace and a lighthouse to the world, as Rabindranath Tagore prophesied in 1929.
The relationship of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (South Korea and Chosun as they call themselves in the north) has been one of the most tense and difficult in the world since 1948. No diplomatic, economic, military, or cultural efforts have succeeded thus far.
Dr. Jin Sung-Bae is the author of the book “Shin Tongil Hanguk Ron“, or “Theory of the Unification of the Korean Peninsula Centered on Heaven.” You see that God is in the center position. His book lays out systematically, based on Unification Thought, the principles requisite for the unification of North and South as the foundation for world peace.
Now how does this relate to Dr. Shipov and physics? In fact, they are connected.
Dr. Shipov respects Dr. and Mrs. Moon as well as Dr. Jin Sung-Bae. He attended the Peace World Summit 2020 at KINTEX outside Seoul, and presented his theory at two sessions, one the International God and Science Conference led by Dr. Douglas Joo, and at the International Association of Academics for Peace under the leadership of Dr. Jin Sung-Bae. His Theory of Physical Vacuum was well received and his books were distributed to all the participants, some of whom have followed up with great interest.
We are publicizing Dr. Shipov’s “Theory of Physical Vacuum” as the completed Unified Field Theory in the overall context of the quest for world peace as One Family Under God. His theory is centered on God, the Heavenly Parent of all humanity, and is correct in detail as far as we can discern.
Moreover, Shipov’s theory as promising implications for solving environmental problems, particularly water purification and vacuum free energy. It goes further to propose methods of medical therapy, metallurgy, long-distance communication, and space travel.
Yet, closest to our heart is the goal of providential history, world peace in the universal family of humankind under one common Heavenly Parent — whose lynchpin and milestone will necessarily be the peaceful reconciliation and reunification of the Korean peninsula.
For this purpose, I propose, based on the Jardim Proclamations of Dr. and Mrs. Moon of 1998 and the Declaration of the Cosmic East-West Victory of True Parents on June 14, 1999, that the following points are key pillars to unifying North and South Korea:
- The Heaven-and-Earth Unification, meaning the union of the spiritual world and people on earth in true love.
- The first level of East-West Unification, that is, centering on America and Russia.
- The second level of East-West Unification, namely the Orient and the West.
- The unity of religion and science, through the Unified Field Theory and the Theory of Everything rooted in God the Heavenly Parent.
- The First-Wife Second-Wife Cooperation and Unification, a hidden providential secret.
