The Theory Of Bias

This is about cosmology and has been added to "The Theory Of Infinite Dimensions", April 2026.

A basic presumption in science is that we have an unbiased view of the universe around us and can completely rely on our own measurements and observations. But there is much that doesn't make sense. There is classical, or Newtonian physics. There are new branches of physics, Relativity and Quantum Physics. These two new branches are incompatible with classical physics and also with each other. But yet the proponents of all three can demonstrate their veracity by experiments.

My theory is that we do not have an unbiased view of the universe. We are part of the universe and see it as we do not only because of what it is but also because of what we are. My Theory Of Bias is that no created being, made of material that is in the universe, can ever have an unbiased view of the universe. But what we can do, to really understand the universe, is to realize that we don't have an unbiased view.

There is the "with us" universe and the "without us" universe. The "without us" universe is the way the universe would operate if we were not here, or not watching it. The "without us" universe is classical "textbook" physics. The "with us" universe is the way that we see the universe because of what we are. My first cosmology theory has Special Relativity and Quantum Physics as being the result of our own nature, but in two different ways.

A simple example of how we see the universe as we do because of what we are is sunrise and sunset. We know that there is nothing about the sun that rises and sets. We see it that way because of our perspective on the rotating earth. This doesn't make it incorrect to say that the sun rises and sets but it is necessary to see outside of this if we want to really understand the universe.

Another example is color. The colors are the "with us" universe. There is no such thing as color in the inanimate universe, the "without us" universe, there is only different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. We can see only a very limited portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and the different colors are just how our eyes and brains interpret different wavelengths. When we describe something by color we are describing it not as it really is but the way we see it.

Any created being in the universe must be of some scale, and that scale will affect how it sees and perceives the universe. The closer a scale is to our own the easier it is for us to understand it. If humans, ants and, elephants were equally intelligent and interested in the universe, each would notice things that the others didn't because of the difference in scale.

Any created being must have some way of receiving information about their surroundings and this has a great effect on how they see the universe. We are completely dependent on electrons to get information. All of the information that comes to us by our senses depends on electrons. Our most important sense is vision and we see because light knocks electrons out of orbitals in atoms in our eyes, thus creating an electric current. This is also true of any equipment that we use to receive information. But this means that we can only see things with the "whole" electric charge that electrons have. This is why, I believe, we cannot perceive quarks, black holes, or dark matter.

The wavelengths of light that we can see very much affects our perspective on the universe. Our view of the universe would be different if we saw in infrared or ultraviolet. This doesn't mean that our view would be completely different but we wouldn't have noticed things that we know now but would have noticed other things that we don't know now.

Our complexity very much affects how we see the universe. Any created being that can think must be more complex than their inanimate surroundings. All that the universe really consists of is negative and positive electric charges and energy. The basic rules of electric charges are that opposite charges attract while like charges repel. Energy can, to some extent, overcome the basic rules of the electric charges.

But there are patterns in how the electric charges end up being arranged when the basic rules are overcome by energy. We see these patterns as matter and electromagnetic waves. But how complex the universe is actually depends on us. When we look at the universe we are seeing our own complexity reflected back at us. If we were more complex then the universe would also be more complex. The universe is as complex as we are and it is because we, like any created being, must necessarily have a biased view of the universe.

What we must do to really understand the universe is to understand that our view of it is biased.