The three Liora stories — The Shadowed Galaxy, The Valley of Construals, and The Luminous Universe — are more than whimsical tales of interstellar wandering. They are narrative reflections of the Dark Universe series, designed to illustrate, in story form, the ontological insights we explored in the blog posts.
1. The Shadowed Galaxy → Part I: Diagnosing the Dark Universe
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Narrative: Liora observes a galaxy rotating too fast, with invisible scaffolding of “dark matter” holding it together.
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Conceptual Mapping: This story shows how dark matter and dark energy arise from the assumptions of representational physics. The “dark” is not in the cosmos; it is in the blindspots of the observer’s ontology.
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Key Insight: Discrepancies between model and observation lead physics to invent invisible entities, revealing a mismatch between theory and phenomenon.
2. The Valley of Construals → Part II: Relational Reconstruction
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Narrative: Liora explores a valley of overlapping landscapes, where phenomena shift depending on perspective.
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Conceptual Mapping: Here, relational ontology is illustrated: system, instance, and construal replace pre-given spacetime, intrinsic properties, and representational assumptions.
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Key Insight: What appeared as missing matter or accelerating expansion is a matter of perspectival actualisation, not a property of the universe itself.
3. The Luminous Universe → Part III: Revealing the Cosmos Free of Dark Artefacts
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Narrative: Liora climbs a ridge and sees the universe fully illuminated; patterns of relational potential give rise to galaxies, redshift, and cosmic structure without hidden forces.
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Conceptual Mapping: This story shows the resolution once the ontological error is removed. The “dark universe” dissolves, leaving a cosmos that is luminous, coherent, and relationally actualised.
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Key Insight: Phenomena emerge from relational patterns; the universe was never missing anything — the darkness was in the conceptual frame.
4. Why Narrative Matters
Stories like Liora’s allow us to:
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Experience relational ontology in motion, not just as abstract theory.
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See how perspective, cut, and construal shape the phenomena we observe.
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Realise that “dark matter” and “dark energy” are not cosmic facts but artefacts of representational metaphysics.
Narrative becomes a tool for making the ontological shift tangible, showing readers what it feels like to see the cosmos as actualisation of potential, rather than as a ledger of substances and forces.
Closing: Liora as Guide and Lens
Liora is both observer and guide. Through her eyes, we glimpse a universe freed from the shadows of misapplied assumptions. She shows that the dark universe was never dark — only physics, constrained by representational thinking, failed to see it.
By following her journey, we come to understand the cosmos as luminous, relational, and fully actualised, revealing the power of ontological clarity in turning mystery into insight.
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