The Faces of Reality (Barnabas Bartfai)
140 pages
Physics has long proven that reality is far from what we perceive it to be. But what is it that we see and what is it that truly exists?
This book invites you on a thought-provoking journey, gradually revealing how human perception distorts reality, and how the world we experience is not the same as the one that truly exists. It explores the true nature and peculiarities of physical laws, then ventures further into deeper dimensions, introducing a realm where reality is no longer founded on matter, but on mathematics. All of this unfolds without equations or complex formulas – only through the free flight of thought.
Since the structure of the world displays fractal-like patterns almost everywhere, the wonders of numenism and fractal geometry illuminate paths to deeper interpretations that transcend materialist physics. By reinterpreting belief systems, we may even rewrite everything we think we know about the world – bold as that may seem at first.
This book is for those who are not content with the surface. For those who seek not only to know, but to understand. For the curious minds who wonder why we perceive the world the way we do – and what might lie beyond that perception. It speaks to science enthusiasts, philosophically minded thinkers, and all who seek the deeper faces of reality.
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Table of contents
Foreword 5
1. Introduction 7
1.1. Let's change our perspective 7
1.2. Philosophical and scientific background 9
1.2.1. Platonism – the world of existing ideas 9
1.2.2. Max Tegmark and the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis 10
1.2.3. Digital physics – reality as computation 11
1.2.4. Quantum physics as the wild child of reality 12
1.2.5. Fractal geometry as God's fingerprint 13
1.2.6. Self-interpreting structures 13
1.2.7. The independence of numenism 14
2. The nature of reality 15
2.1. Is the world changing, or do we misunderstand it? 15
2.2. Scientific disciplines, layers of knowledge and distortions 17
2.3. Dimensions 18
2.4. Physical properties – The paradox of measurement 21
2.4.1. Distances – Perception of magnitude 22
2.5. Matter – the illusion of compactness 27
2.6. Time – The dimension of processes 30
2.6.1. But what was there before the Big Bang? 38
2.7. Space – Does it exist on its own? 40
2.8. Mass and weight – The reality behind 42
2.9. States of matter – Forms of behaviour of matter 43
2.10. Light and other radiation – Visible and invisible reality 47
2.11. Force fields and gravity – But how? 52
2.12. Temperature as a sensory illusion 58
2.13. The quantum world, where interpretable reality ceases to exist 59
3. The world as a mathematical structure 64
3.1. The strange world of numbers 65
3.2. Fractals, chaotic systems, self-organisation 66
3.3. Order emerging at the edge of infinity – a structure that repeats itself 67
3.4. The world of fractals – when simple rules give rise to infinite patterns 68
3.5. When order emerges from chaos 69
3.6. Self-repetition in reality: when the world rhymes with itself
over and over again 75
3.7. Matter, space and time as illusions 77
3.8. Time as drifting in patterns 78
4. The mathematics of consciousness 80
4.1. Consciousness and reality 84
4.2. After death... 86
4.3. Gödel's incompleteness theorem and the paradox
of self-awareness 87
4.4. Consciousness and the soul as an internal perspective 88
4.5. The illusion of free will 90
4.6. Subjective perception of time in fractal structures 93
4.7. The formula cannot be calculated – we are in it 95
4.8. Reality as a self-speaking structure 95
4.9. Numenism as mental liberation 98
5. Scientific parallels and cosmological consequences 100
5.1. Mathematical descriptions of quantum physics 100
5.2. Fractal geometry as scientific proof 101
5.3. Fractal-like structures in the world 102
5.4. Patterns in physical laws 104
5.5. Spontaneous remission 104
5.6. The universe as a fractal pattern 105
5.7. Black holes, event horizons and asymptotes 106
5.8. Multiverse and self-similarity 107
5.9. Digital physics, information theory 108
5.10. The nature of waves and the internal examination 109
5.11. The relationship between simulation theory and numenism 110
5.12. Quantum thinking and the world formula 111
6. Impulses in the philosophy of religion 112
6.1. Problems with religions. Contradictions, paradoxes. 113
6.2. A new direction in interpretation 117
6.3. Faith as a patterned relationship 119
6.4. Morality, free will, and the illusion of the self 122
7. Critical Reflections 126
7.1. Possible Objections and Responses 126
7.2. Limitations 128
7.3. Practical implications of the model 130
7.4. Limits and open questions 132
8. And things come together 134










