Causality

We begin with the Prime Mover—the logical necessity of a first cause. If every event is caused by a previous event, there must be an initial 'Unmoved Mover' that started the chain. The Orphic Egg represents the state of unity before causality unspooled—the vessel of potential that cracked to birth the cosmos.

Once the egg cracked, the rules were set. The Light Cone defines the absolute limit of influence—the geometric boundary in spacetime that dictates what events can possibly affect others. Nothing can travel faster than light, so we are imprisoned in our local reality.

Physics calls it a light cone. Mythology calls it a web. The Three Moirai—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—weave the threads of destiny. The future is set, but it is an impossibly complex fabric. The Norns of the North and the Moirai of the South tell the same story: we do not walk a path; we are woven into a pattern.

The Endless Knot (Srivatsa) is the visual geometry of Karma. It has no beginning and no end, showing that causality is not a straight line but a complex feedback loop. Every action ripples out and eventually returns to the actor. Morality is not a judgment; it is a mechanical law of return.

If the future is determined, can it be read? The Shang kings of China didn't just wait for fate; they interrogated it. By applying heat to tortoise plastrons and interpreting the cracks, they sought to glimpse the causal chain before it locked into place. This is the ancestor of all simulation and forecasting—the human refusal to be blind to the effects of the present moment.

The Antikythera Mechanism is the physical embodiment of Determinism. This bronze machine used a complex train of gears to predict the positions of planets and eclipses decades in advance. If we can build a model that predicts the sky, then perhaps the sky itself is just a larger mechanism, grinding forward without choice or deviation.

For centuries, science believed that if we knew the position and speed of every particle, we could predict the future perfectly. Heisenberg destroyed that dream. His inequality proves that nature has a fundamental 'blur.' The more precisely you know where a particle is, the less you know where it is going. Determinism fails at the foundation.

Einstein called it 'spooky.' Entanglement shows that two particles can be linked such that measuring one instantly decides the state of the other, even if they are galaxies apart. It breaks the rule of the Light Cone. It suggests that underneath the separate objects of our world, there is a deeper layer of connection where distance does not exist.

We end with a mirror. The Sator Square is a perfect palindrome that reads the same in four directions. It represents the idea that the end is in the beginning. Time Symmetry in physics says the laws work the same forwards and backwards; the Sator Square says the same in language. We are caught in a loop of our own making.