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Abstract:-- This paper follows The
Cartesian Theory (Hammond, New Ideas in Psychology Vol. 12(2), 1994)
which advanced 3-axis brain cleavage as the cause of the
Structural Model. This second paper reports
gravitational curvature in the brain. Intelligence plus
Personality form a 4D space. The eigenvector of the 4x4
metric is the Secular Trend and Einstein curvature
Guv of linearized gravity. Penrose's quantum
brain gravity is the source thus confirming the
Hameroff-Penrose model. This factor proves to be the
classical "God" of history. A causal link between
Relativity and the Structural Model yields the world's first
experimentally confirmed scientific proof of God.
I Introduction: George Gamow's
relativistic
world of Mr. Tompkins.
Sir Roger Penrose was the first to
suggest that gravity controls the human brain (Penrose 1989,
1994). Many scientists are skeptical. In a 1994
lecture at the Isaac Newton Institute Stephen Hawking made the
following comment to Roger Penrose: "One doesn't need quantum
gravity to explain Schrodinger's cat or the operation of the
brain. It is a red herring." (Hawking and Penrose 1996,
p. 121). The discovery reported here suggests that
Stephen Hawking is wrong, at least about the human brain, and
Roger Penrose is correct. The reason is that Psychometry
has uncovered an enormous relativistic curvature in brain
function. Classical gravity being eliminated, we are
left to conclude that quantum gravity somewhere in the brain
must be the cause. Coincidentally then, the natural
candidate for this phenomena is Roger Penrose's quantum brain
gravity hypothesis.
If that was all, perhaps
a mere Psychometry discovery would only be of passing
interest, however this discovery includes a truly breath
taking corollary. It is elementary to show that the
discovery of a curvature in psychometry space yields a
stunning explanation of "God". In view of this startling
development, the fact that gravitational curvature only
appears as a factor analytic identification becomes an
objection that pales into insignificance.
Given the novel claims of this paper, it is relevant to
mention that there is an intriguing historical
background. In 1940, the famous Russian-American
physicist George Gamow wrote a fictional story about a world
where the speed of light was only 10 miles per hour (Gamow and
Stannard 1999). Because of this, people could actually
see
relativity. Relativity caused people to shrink in size
and behave oddly. According to the present theory,
Gamow's world is real, but the cause of this dramatic effect
is General Relativity, not Special Relativity. It is
Gravity that is vastly altered, not the speed of light.
Unknown to Gamow, quantum gravity in the brain produces an
enormous classical curvature in perceptual
reality,
drastically changing the visible size and speed of the world.
We now realize why Gamow's story captured the public
imagination and has passed through 20 printings. Gamow
was describing "God".
Before leaving this introduction I should mention the
title The
Scientific Proof of God. Today it is absurd to believe that anyone could
claim priority in such a discovery. For one thing, if
God is explained by gravity Albert Einstein or even Isaac
Newton by discovering the theory of gravity must be given that
priority. Interestingly, Einstein, a firm believer in
God stated that he believed in a Cosmical God but not a
Personal God (Jammer 1999). The term Personal God refers
to an anthropomorphic deity, that is God in the form of an
invisible
man. It
is historical irony then that this paper not only proves God
really is an invisible man, but identifies Einstein's theory
as the proof of it.
With that, we turn to a
presentation of this newly discovered theory. We begin with a
brief explanation of what Psychometry is, and then move on to
the central psychometric result itself and its connection to
the theory of General Relativity.
II Discovery
of the Structural Model of Personality.
The author is a physicist and this paper
is written primarily for physicists. This makes
explaining a linear algebra theory like
Psychometry(1) a simple task. In fact, a
physicist can easily comprehend this entire thesis once he has
been briefed on Psychometry. The theory is based on the
discovery that the orthogonal cleavages of human anatomy,
specifically in the brain, cause the orthogonal eigenvectors
of Psychometry. The geometry is 4-dimensional and
mathematically identical to what physicists call "linearized
gravity". The reason for this is that the orthogonal
structure of real space is the cause of the orthogonal
structure of human anatomy (Hammond 1994). As
Relativists know, the eigenvector of the spacetime metric is
caused by mass and is called Gravity. As we shall
demonstrate, the eigenvector of the psychometry metric is
caused by brain growth and is called "God". Since real
space causes psychometry space¾ God is
caused by Gravity. Penrose's brain gravity is identified
as the (semiclassical) source of this curvature. Now,
compared to contemporary physics this is an elementary theory.
How could such an elementary result lie undiscovered until
2003? The reason is that Psychology is statistics and
required computers capable of diagonalizing a 200´200 matrix and 40 years of psychometrists using
them testing millions of people, to finally allow Physics to
recognize this structure.
Having explained
this theory in a single paragraph I'm sure it raises a host of
questions in the minds of most scientists. That is why
we must spend 10 more pages examining details and explaining
how an invisible man, the God pictured on the Sistine Chapel
ceiling, actually exists and is caused by Gravity. We
begin with a briefing on what the science of Psychometry
is.
Psychometry is the field of psychology
measurement; mainly IQ and Personality tests. The
Stanford-Binet and Wechsler IQ tests, the Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Test are well known
examples.
Modern Psychometry is based on the linear algebra of
Factor
Analysis, the
Factor Analysis of written questionnaires mainly. As a simple
heuristic example, an unabridged dictionary contains roughly
4,000 adjectives describing human personality (Allport and
Odbert 1936). A core list of about 200 substantially describes
it. These are words such as:
raffish, effete, hidebound,
taciturn, optimistic, facetious, congenial, flamboyant,
impudent, gullible, suspicious, skeptical, naive, prudish,
jovial, witty, smug, pompous, gregarious, polite,
cynical, .... etc.
By making up a simple 200 word Adjective
Checklist and giving it as a test to 5,000 people with
instructions to score each adjective from -5 to +5 as to how
well it describes themselves, one can compute the correlation
coefficients (of described behavior) between the 200
adjectives. In this case such a procedure yields a
200´200 correlation matrix
describing human personality (Goldberg 1994, Cattell
1973).
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"Psychometry has
two definitions. Here we are discussing mental
measurements (IQ, Personality tests etc.). To avoid
possible confusion the term Psychometrics is often used.
Factor Analysis is the method by which the Structural Model of
Personality is
deduced from the matrix. Every real symmetric matrix has
what are known as eigenvectors. This correlation matrix
is a scalar product matrix where each adjective is modeled as
a vector in a vector space. The correlation coefficient
is the cosine of the angle between vectors. If all the
correlations were zero the space would be 200 dimensional, but
because most of the correlations are nonzero the vectors
occupy far less than 200 dimensions. The Rank of the
matrix is the dimensionality of the space, the Rank being
identical to the number of eigenvectors since the eigenvectors
are coordinate axes of the space. A modern desktop
computer can easily determine the Rank and extract the
eigenvectors. This is called "Factoring" the
matrix. This vector space is referred to as "Psychometry
space" and every point in it represents a different
personality type as measured by the coordinate axes of the
space.
Suppose the Rank of the matrix turned
out to be three(2). Then what we would know is
that the Structural Model of Personality is
3-dimensional. One might be able to discover this using
psychoanalysis (Freud did apparently, the Tripartite Model),
but there is no way to measure it. Psychometry is a way
of measuring it. Further, by observing which of the 200
vectors load on each of the 3 dimensions, we can identify the
3-dimensions. That is, we can discover the names of the
3-dimensions.
Incidentally, one can see that
there is nothing psychoanalytical about this
procedure. It involves only the simple categorization of
objectively visible human behavior on a large statistical
basis. To that extent it is a scientifically "metrical"
procedure. While Freudian Psychology belongs to a
premetrical era, the invention of Psychometry early in the
last century marks the beginning of the modern metrical era. Largely as a result of
this, and advances in Brain Science, in 1982 the prestigious
International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) admitted the
International Union of Psychological Sciences (UPsyS) to full
membership, de facto recognizing Psychology as a
"science".
Meanwhile, 70 years of research by
many thousands of investigators in an enormous peer reviewed
academic literature, has actually confirmed that personality
space is 3-dimensional, and these 3 dimensions have been
named E, N, and P; Extraversion, Neuroticism and Psychoticism
(Eysenck 1990)(3). Of course the
methodology now extends to elaborately written modern
questionnaires not merely adjective checklists, and includes
sophisticated physiology methods also (Eysenck 1990, Cattell
1973). However, there is still something missing which
makes the discovery fall short of a scientific law. No
one can explain why personality should be 3-dimensional.
Until that is discovered, we do not have a scientific
law.
This is where the author's preliminary
paper comes in (Hammond 1994). In that paper I published
the first experimentally confirmed explanation of why the
3-dimensional result exists. I showed that the 3-Factor
result is caused by the 3-axis anatomical cleavage of
the brain. The 3-axis orthogonal cleavage of the brain
is caused by the 3-axis structure of space, hence¾ Personality is 3-dimensional because space is
3-dimensional. As we are about to see, this axiomatic principle turns out to be the
master key which unlocks the world's first scientific proof of
God.
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(2) Actually the rank is
about 30 and these are called the 1st order Factors
(eigenvectors). After "rotation and refactoring",
13-2nd order Factors are found, then
4-3rd order Factors, and finally 1-4th
order Factor (Cattell 1973). ENPg are both
2nd and 3rd order Factors [1].
This is discussed in Sections IV and VI.
(3) Eysenck's ENP are
identified as Cattell's 2nd order Factors QI,
QII, QIV (Exvia, Anxiety, Independence) by both Cattell and
Eysenck in the case of E and N, and by the author in the case
of P.
There is much more to this 3-dimensional discovery and
it is detailed in my 1994 paper. Besides the
3-orthogonal dimensions E,N,P, there are also 10 oblique
dimensions. I showed in that paper and in subsequent
work, that all 13 of these experimentally known dimensions are
(correlationally) the 13 symmetry axes of a cube. E,N,P
are simply the 3 normals of the cube, the Principal
Axes of
personality space. For decades Factorists have been
arguing over whether there are 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 or 13 dimensions
(Eysenck 1991). My paper resolved the entire problem by
showing that everyone is right, and that all the different
models are simply geometrical redactions of a cube. This
is due as I have shown, to the fact that the human brain is
structurally cubic, possessing the 8 corner octants (brain
lobes) of a cube. This resolution of the Structural
Model controversy is overwhelming experimental support for the
present theory. At this point I will have to refer the
reader to the original paper (Hammond 1994) as we must move
forward to the topic of this paper, the scientific explanation
of God.
III That the unification of
Personality and Intelligence is
caused by Einstein's unification of space and
time.
Intelligence and Personality
are two different phenomena. Historically, Psychometry
is divided into two eras. 1900-35 saw the study of
Intelligence by Sir Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Charles
Spearman and Sir Ronald Fisher whom founded Statistics and
Factor Analysis and which produced the modern IQ test by
1935. After that, Louis Thurstone, R. B. Cattell and
Hans Eysenck turned this new mathematics on personality
research, which with the aid of modern computers resulted in
the discovery of E,N,P in Personality by 1990. Until now
it has never been suspected that there might be a structural
connection between Intelligence and Personality, but as we are
about to see, there is. This connection turns out to be
the same as the connection between Time and Space, discovered
by Albert Einstein!
I discovered this
connection quite by accident 3 years after the publication of
the Cartesian Theory. I discovered some advanced
research by Raymond B. Cattell the most accomplished
experimentalist ever to investigate Psychometry. His
research indicated that there were 4 factors, not 3 (Cattell
1975) [1]. Since I had just published that the 3
dimensions of space XYZ cause ENP, it seemed impossible that
there could be 4 dimensions. Then I noticed that Cattell
had included Intelligence in his factor analysis, and I
suddenly realized that the Structural Model was not only
caused by the 3-dimensions of space, but that all 4-dimensions
of "spacetime" caused factors. Intelligence
correlates with the 4th dimension¾ Time. The past 4 decades of research on
intelligence has confirmed that Mental Speed is the principal
biological component of intelligence (Eysenck 1997, Jensen
1998). Speed correlates with time. The explanation
of an enormous mystery was revealed. What I realized, is
that since the most phenomenal thing about spacetime is that
it is curved as Einstein discovered, and since spacetime
causes psychometry space, that psychometry space must be
curved also and that this curvature would appear as a "higher
order factor" in psychometry. Cattell's 1975 paper had
even predicted such a factor. Knowing as I did by then
that the phenomena of brain growth probably explained this
factor, I immediately realized that this final, lone,
gravitational
factor was
probably "God"¾ the classical God of
history. The fact that all of Psychology ends in a
single axiomatic physics factor, namely Gravity, is a powerful
clue! In the next section we establish that brain growth
is the direct biological cause of this final
factor.
IV The identification of the
Secular Trend
as the direct biological
cause of God.
Besides the simple factors we
extracted from the correlation matrix, there are also "higher
order factors". This is due to something called
Simple
Structure. We would expect 200 random words to form a
spherical cloud in psychometry space. They do not,
actually they form distinct bands or streaks. Long ago,
Louis Thurstone the discoverer of Multiple Factor Analysis
suggested that the factors, that is the eigenvectors, should
be "rotated" to the center of these streaks to give a more
meaningful interpretation of the axes (Thurstone 1947).
Dubbed "Rotation to Simple Structure" this quickly proved
physically meaningful. Today desktop computers utilizing
commercial statistical programs perform thousands of these
rotations automatically every day in factor analytic research,
not only in Psychometry but in dozens of other Natural Science
fields. The consequence of rotation is that the
eigenvectors, or factors, are no longer orthogonal or
"independent" of one another. This points to the
existence of some higher order cause mutually influencing all
4 factors, causing them to correlate. Because of
rotation to oblique, or curved structure, there is now a 4´4 matrix,
which like the original 200´200 matrix,
can be factored all over again to extract a new "higher order"
eigenvector. In Physics, curvature of the 4 spacetime
axes is the cause of Gravity. In psychometry, curvature
of the 4 psychometry space axes is the cause of "God",
as we shall see in the sequel.
As I stated
above, Cattell never factored his 1975 experimental
4´4 3rd order matrix to
the 4th order [1]. However, having found a
theoretical explanation of the 4th order factor, I
sent Cattell's 4´4 correlation matrix to Drs.
Paul Barrett and David Routh in England. They factored
the matrix using an SPXX computer program. Sure enough,
the 4th order factor appeared. The existence
of God has been experimentally confirmed!
Now, factor analysis only discovers factors it does not tell
us what is causing them. In this case however the direct
biological cause is not hard to find. The cause turns
out to be something called the Secular Trend in human growth. The
Secular Trend is the name given to a now well known biological
discovery made over 75 years ago, that Man is not fully grown
(Tanner 1981, Dasgupta and Hauspie 2001). In fact, it
was discovered that Man is becoming more fully grown with each
passing generation. This effect is not genetic, it is
due to the rising world standard of living, particularly
nutrition. At first it was noticed in increasing
height. It is frequently remarked that modern Man is so
much taller than his ancestors that practically no modern
soldier can fit into a Medieval suit of armor. So
dramatic and well established is the literature on this
subject that a report on the Secular Trend has even made the
front cover of Time Magazine (Steckel 1996). Since the
entire human body is growing larger, the brain is also getting
larger, and this contributes to a rising level of world
intelligence (IQ) known as the Flynn Effect (Jensen 1998, 325,
318). Intelligence is apparently rising at the rate of 3
IQ points per decade while height is currently rising several
inches per century. Obviously this can't continue
forever and it is generally recognized that this is a
sigmoidal or S-Curve that eventually will level off at 100%
growth. At that point Man will have reached his full
theoretical (or genotypic) size. Apparently, this final
eventuality will occur thousands of years in the
future.
Meanwhile, the origin of this human
growth deficit which the Secular Trend is slowly reducing, can
be graphically diagramed on an individual human growth curve,
Figure 1.