UPDATED Nov. 22, 2022
Prime Mechanics was developed as part of a passion project dubbed the ‘Axiom Project’, established in late 2015. The goal was to re-evaluate the division between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity by exploring numerous schools of thought with an empty cup*. This involved a rigorous analysis of several subjects, practices, ideologies and languages around the world, culminating in mathematics.
Initially, the Axiom Project was a multi-disciplinary amalgamation starting with philosophy and expanding to geometry, physics, music, mythology, aesthetics, computing and more. After several years, Prime Mechanics was established and so-named because of its use of Pi, the prime value of the language.
Prior to the development of PM, Pi was theorized to represent a 4-dimensional condition. That is to say, a fixed state of three, inclusive of a one-dimensional path which, when utilizing Base-10, provides the foundation for a theoretically infinite set of expanding values by orders of magnitude (3.141592…). It’s important to note here that orders of magnitude utilizing Base-10 are also conventionally used to establish scales of matter within the observable universe. PM also re-interprets concepts such as String Theory and computer language (Binary, or Base-2) because of how it pre-defines I and 0 (Pi and Tau, respectively) and their subsequent forms.
Outside of mathematics, it was also fascinating during the development of PM to explore the cultures of Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism and others with a common thread in the number three – for example, the trinity, trimurti and taijitu. The Axiom Project wasn’t established in order to invalidate belief systems such as these (nor should it), rather to create a method outside the box of paradigmatic thinking established by historic/modern academic guidelines, principles and doctrine. Neither was it established in order to invalidate applications of science such as Physics, but to instead provide an alternate and perhaps complementary framework for understanding the universe.
The Axiom Project was inspired under the principles of open-source and open-access information for a global audience in order to empower individuals and communities from all walks of life. Prime Mechanics is the result of that effort – whether or not its development is continued on this site in the coming years, I hope it may provide students of the cosmos with a new method for exploring its profound beauty.
*The Tea Cup
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”