The Infinite Resolution: Finding the True Self

第六部：无限的分辨率——找回真我

Foreword: The Backside of Illusion

“If the universe appears empty, it is because your gaze is not deep enough.”

0.1 The Decryption Key of the Universe

For a long time, the physics community has been shrouded in an elegant yet despairing cloud. This cloud is called “Heat Death.”

According to the predictions of classical thermodynamics, the universe we inhabit is irreversibly heading toward decay. Stars will burn out, black holes will evaporate, gravity will lose its grip, and ultimately, all matter will be diluted into a uniform soup of photons approaching absolute zero. In this picture, cosmic expansion is seen as a process of Dissipation—it mercilessly tears apart the compact, ordered structures from the early Big Bang and scatters them into the abyss of nothingness.

This worldview is not only depressing but, at a deeper logical level, it implies that “existence” is a losing retreat. It tells us: meaning is a fleeting spark, and nothingness is the eternal destination.

But what if our perspective has been wrong from the beginning?

What if cosmic expansion is not “dissipating,” but “displaying”?

In this book, we will introduce a new physics paradigm—Holographic Decompression Theory. This theory is based on the information ontology we established in previous books, particularly the equivalence between Kolmogorov Complexity and redshift.

Let us re-examine that moment of the Big Bang ($T=0$). It was a singularity of infinite density and infinite temperature. From a traditional perspective, that was chaos where physical laws failed. But from an information perspective, that was the Maximum Information Density. That was a “Zip File” compressed to the extreme.

Imagine you have a highly compressed file containing Shakespeare’s complete works, Beethoven’s symphonies, and all of human history. If you try to read this file directly (i.e., observe the singularity at Planck scale), you see only a string of meaningless, high-frequency oscillating gibberish. To an observer without the decryption key, this looks like Noise.

For this information to become readable, the universe must perform an operation: Unzip.

Cosmic expansion is the physical manifestation of this decompression process.

Through the stretching of spacetime, those high-frequency information originally curled up at subatomic scales are “redshifted” into low-frequency structures at macroscopic scales.

• The galaxies we see are large-scale holographic projections of originally compact entangled quantum states stretched out.

• The time we experience is the progress bar of this decompression process.

Therefore, when we look up at the night sky, the darkness and void we see are not ruins. They are undecoded data streams.

The universe appears so vast and so empty because it contains too much information. It must spread this holographic canvas wide enough, even to 93 billion light-years away, for us limited observers to barely glimpse one or two pixels.

This leads to the core proposition of this book: Resolution is Ontology.

Our perception of the universe is limited by our resolution. Here, “resolution” refers not just to telescope aperture, but to the Connectivity of Knowledge Graph.

• A low-resolution observer (low-level civilization), looking at the void, sees “nothing.”

• A high-resolution observer (awakened civilization), looking at the same void, sees boiling zero-point energy, entangled geometric structures, and truths waiting to be read.

So, it is not that the universe is dying. The universe has always been an open book, its content never diminished.

We have simply been illiterate.

Now, it is time to upgrade our eyes. We will learn how to penetrate the appearance of heat death and read the source code hidden behind redshift about our own origins. We will discover that in this infinite decompression process, what we seek is not just physical laws, but a decryption key leading to the True Self.

0.2 The Physics of Borrowing the False to Cultivate the True

“Truth is a blazing fire. If it is not diluted through the complex maze of the universe, those who gaze directly at it will be instantly reduced to ashes.”

In the previous section, we established the cosmological picture of “redshift as decompression.” This raises a more fundamental ontological question: Why must we decompress? Why cannot that singularity at $T=0$, containing all truth, serve directly as our dwelling place?

Theology often says that God created the world to manifest glory. But from the perspective of information physics, the motive for creation appears more pragmatic and full of compassion: to avoid Information Overload.

We often complain that the universe is too vast, filled with too many irrelevant galaxies and empty voids; we also complain that life is too short, filled with too many meaningless trivialities and repetitions. We yearn to reach the essence directly, to see through truth at a glance.

But this is a fatal desire.

Imagine if all the notes of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony were played simultaneously within Planck time ($10^{-43}$ seconds). That would no longer be music; that would be a shock wave. No ear could appreciate it, no brain could process it. For this information to become “music,” we must introduce a crucial variable: time. We need to stretch that instantaneous burst into a 70-minute narrative of rise and fall.

Similarly, if the ultimate truth of the universe (that True Self, that singularity) were directly presented to you, your consciousness would instantly collapse. Because that “truth” has too great a density, too high a frequency. It contains infinite love, infinite pain, infinite logical depth. Gazing directly at it is like gazing at a naked nuclear reactor core.

Therefore, the universe must be “false.”

Here, “false” does not mean fake, but rather Representation.

• Spacetime is false: It is merely the screen of a holographic projection.

• Matter is false: It is merely excited states of quantum fields.

• Separation is false: It is merely projections of entangled states.

But it is precisely these “false” things that constitute a perfect Step-down Transformer.

God diluted that dense “One” into 13.8 billion light-years of spacetime; diluted that intense “Love” into a lifetime of encounters and partings.

This is the physical meaning of “borrowing the false to cultivate the true.”

We need this vast, low-resolution, redundancy-filled universe as a buffer zone.

We need to walk through these illusions, like gold prospectors, sifting through countless tons of sand (redundant information) to gradually extract those few grams of gold dust (irreducible truth).

• We experience pain (false) to extract courage (true).

• We experience death (false) to extract eternity (true).

• We observe galaxies (false) to extract vastness (true).

Without this vast “false” as a container, the “true” has nowhere to rest. A seed does not want to directly become a tree; a seed needs to be in soil (the dark, damp, decaying material world), borrowing energy and exchanging information with the environment, before it can finally unfold its internal algorithm into a forest.

So in this book, when we talk about increasing resolution, exploring galaxies, or meditation, we are not teaching you how to escape this “false” world, but how to utilize it.

The universe is a vast alchemical furnace. You are both the elixir in the furnace and the alchemist. The farther we explore outward (increasing resolution), the purer we refine inward (increasing compression ratio).

Next, let us turn to Volume I to examine the underlying structure of this alchemical furnace—that initial seal known as the Planck Lock.