It is commonly believed that our five experiential senses are self-created - colours, sounds, smells, tastes and tactile sensations are not believed to exist 'out there'. In other words, consciousness is believed to be metaphysical. Substances, therefore, do not possess colour, so their true nature must be invisible. We cannot even describe what we mean by 'substance' because one's tactile sensations of it are believed to be self-created. Similarly, vibrations of air molecules are movements, not sounds, and even movements cannot be known to exist with certainty as a sense of movement consists of changes in the positions of colours, which are self-created. It seems that man is condemned to spend his life locked in an inner world of experiential senses, cut off from the true nature of what exists 'out there'. Even his interpretations and speculations about what may exist 'out there' are futile because they can only be meaningful if they refer to his experiential senses, which do not exist 'out there'.
The modus operandi of science is to measure what seems to exist 'out there', according to what our sense experiences tell us, and to use mathematical equations involving time, force and mass etc., which attempt to describe such measurements. The problem for science is that it does not restrict itself to measuring what it can sense. For example, time, force and mass, etc. do not exist in our experiential world of senses because they cannot be shown to exist separately from the effects they seem to cause. These terms were created in medieval times to describe metaphysical phenomena, the causes of which were believed to be beyond the power of human beings to comprehend. Today, nothing has changed. What is the structure of a force, which most of us still believe is able to move objects? What is the structure of time, which is believed to control man's destiny? What is the structure of mass, which is believed to give substances weight, by making them susceptible to gravity? How can time, force and mass exist if they do not have structures?
Scientists point out that measurements called force, time and mass make accurate predictions possible. But how can one be certain about any scientific prediction if its cause is utterly unknown? The nearest that science can approach reality is to measure what seems to exist 'out there', and by using a process of trial and error, attempt to manipulate it, for better or worse.
But perhaps this is just a science-fiction nightmare scenario. Perhaps man's five experiential senses are not self-created. Perhaps they originate ‘out there’ in the form of five pulsating layers of an aether touching our five sense organs. Perhaps the universe 'out there' is exactly as we sense it.
If our senses were real, as opposed to being self-created, science would become much simpler, and so would our lives. Of course, science would need to incorporate them into the structure of the universe, which they currently believe is three-dimensional. It is not difficult to show that everything in the universe is part of a four-dimensional aether, including time and forces, which are movements of the aether, and particles of mass, which are rotating vortices of the aether - not forgetting our experiential senses, which are the vibrations of different layers of the aether. In other words, the different frequencies of vibrations, including light, radio and mobile phone waves, are not jumbled up together in three-dimensional space, which would cause them to interfere with one another, but are separated from one another fourth-dimensionally.
The aether can easily be visualised as a four-dimensional onion, which has many concentric layers. At the centre of this onion-universe lies its brain. We know five of its layers as our five sensory experiences. They are near to the outer surface of the onion. But the brain of homo sapiens seems to be evolving at an ever-increasing rate towards the centre of the 'onion' in a fourth-dimensional direction, increasingly tapping into the onion's brain.
This may also seem like science fiction. But the purpose of science is to find certainty or truth, which cannot happen if science is based on metaphysical unknowns, such as time, force and mass. Science has reached the stage where it needs to concern itself not only with manipulating our environment but also with investigating its fundamental nature.