Physics Without Divinity: Series Conclusion — Physics as Relational Mapping

From Secular Theology to Processual Actualisation

If Series 1 exposed the hidden gods embedded in physics, Series 2 shows what emerges when those gods are removed. Laws are not commandments, matter does not obey, and constants are not eternal decrees. Cosmology is not creation; infinity is not sacred; the universe has no eschatology.

What remains is relation in process. Patterns, regularities, and “laws” are the visible contours of actualisations arising from potential. Observations are perspectival; constants are contextual; particles are nodes of interaction. Unity and plurality, beginnings and endings, eternity and infinity — all are shapes of relational unfolding, not metaphysical absolutes.

Physics, when stripped of theological residue, becomes a map of possibility actualising in relation. It charts the contours of potential without assuming command, design, or divine oversight. The cosmos is not decreed; it is coordinated, emergent, and open-ended.

Relational ontology does not reject physics; it reframes it. It replaces hidden authority with processual freedom, divine decree with relational constraint, and sacred perfection with contingent actualisation. In doing so, it allows us to see the universe not as a church of hidden gods, but as the ongoing unfolding of possibility.