The
Malta Cosmology Template is a sequence of selfcontained chapters
which
together present a comprehensive description of the
cosmology knowledgebase. Chapter One, as always in a Darwin
Template, serves as a foundation for what follows. Here, the
base
parameters are identified
and defined - in this instance, the most fundamental of
physics.
The chapters are each comprised of two parts. The first part is a sequence of "arguments" in which
the facts are laid out in an "evolutionary" pattern. The second part
is devoted to "selfproof" in which the evolved pattern is related to
the real universe. Selfproofing is dealt with in detail in Note 4.
Every
argument in the Malta Template stands alone but it
isn't isolated. Every argument interlocks with every
other argument so that each chapter becomes a comprehensive
description of the aspect being dealt
with.
Just as evolution dominates every chapter, it dominates the whole template. The arguments of Chapter Two evolve out of the arguments of
Chapter One. The arguments of Chapter Three evolve out of the arguments of Chapters One and Two. And so on all the way to
Chapter Sixteen.
Even the arguments are evolutionary. Each has four parts, thus:
- PRECEDENTS: here are listed all the preceding experiments, discoveries, and ideas that are relevant to the argument. It is
important that EVERYTHING is included, not just the items that support a
favoured conclusion. If there is a "favoured conclusion"
the argument is already compromised.
- PARAMETERS: here the facts are winnowed out of the precedents.
- REASONING:
here the facts are assembled in the most logical and sensible way.
Ideally, little serious reasoning is required because the only
possible outcome is selfevident. As a general rule, the
more complicated the reasoning, the greater is the likelihood of there
being more than one possible outcome and the greater is the
likelihood of error. For this reason, whenever the reasoning becomes
unwieldy it is better to break the argument down into a
succession of smaller, simpler, arguments.
- FINDING:
here is the result of the reasoning which will be
be either a “conclusion” or an “assumption”. It is a
conclusion when the reasoning leads to a single outcome. It is an
assumption when the reasoning leads to more than one outcome, with the
selected outcome being the assumption. Obviously, conclusions
are preferred to assumptions but there are occasions
when facts are so few that conclusions cannot be drawn
honestly.
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