BEFORE WE SEARCH DEEPER INTO THE UNIVERSE, LET US ASK WHERE WE SHOULD BEGIN GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE-BASED INTELLIGENCE Toward a Universal, Interdisciplinary and Cosmic-Scale Research Architecture for Understanding Existence, Nothingness and the Universe A M

AbstractHumanity has invested extraordinary intellectual, technological and financial resources in understanding the fundamental nature of the universe. Particle accelerators, quantum experiments, astronomical observatories, mathematical models and increasingly powerful computational systems have expanded our knowledge considerably.Yet an essential methodological question deserves much greater attention:Before asking how deeply we can investigate nature, have we sufficiently established what we are ultimately trying to understand, where our investigation should begin, and why that starting point is appropriate?This paper proposes a fundamental reassessment of the research architecture used to investigate existence, matter, energy, space, time and the possibility of nothingness.The recent research conducted by CERN's LHCb collaboration into the exceptionally rare decay of the B⁰ meson provides a contemporary example of the extraordinary precision achieved by modern particle physics. However, the broader question raised here extends beyond any individual experiment.The proposal is not to abandon particle physics, experimental science or established scientific achievements. Rather, it is to examine whether fragmented disciplinary progress, even when individually successful, is sufficient to establish a coherent pathway towards understanding the universe as a whole.We propose a universal interdisciplinary framework bringing together physicists, mathematicians, chemists, systems scientists, computer scientists, artificial intelligence researchers, philosophers, historians, poets, writers and representatives of humanity's accumulated intellectual traditions.The central objective is to establish a shared research question before committing to the next generation of increasingly complex investigations.The fundamental proposal is simple: before investing further in the depth of investigation, humanity must collectively examine the direction of investigation.