The physical universe, of which we know only very little
through the limited scope and imperfect lens of our five physical senses, is
what we take to be reality, as long as we indentify ourselves solely as physical
bodies. Since we are only capable of seeing a tiny fraction of the spectrum of
electromagnetic radiation, hear only a negligible portion of the total range of
vibrational sound, feel only the surface of the deeply fractal structure of molecules
and atoms, and smell and taste far fewer organic compounds that many of our
animal friends, what makes us think that the picture of reality constructed in
our minds are complete? After all, that picture is nothing more than the
subjective interpretation of streams of severely limited data, allowed to
continue on its inward path to your mind only after it is processed and passed
through multiple layers of physical and neurological filtering structures that
are part of our pyhsical bodies. This reducing of bits, waves and fields of radiated
and reflected energy to specific forms is not arbitrary, however, it is done
for the practical reason of survival. Without this reduction of the spectrum of
energies that flood the cosmos, to a manageable stream going into our brains, the
physical vehicles forming a link between consciousness and the cosmos would be
destroyed.
As we push the frontiers of scientific understanding
beyond the simplistic pictures provided by our physical senses, the farther we
go, the more we see that those pictures are imcomplete and misleading concerning
the true nature of reality. The fact that our best pictures of reality, used by
science to construct a Standard Model of reality, are incomplete and
misleading, is reflected in the history of science. The Standard Model, the
consensus of mainstream scientists, defended by many as the truth, is constantly
changing. Examples abound: The consensus was once that the earth was flat and
the center of the universe. The scientific model of reality is continually changing.
Just during my lifetime, the confidently estimated size of the universe has
changed by huge factors multiple times. The continental drift theory was
rejected as psuedo-science when I was an undergraduate, but is now fully
accepted as plate tectonics. And there are many more examples of the dynamic
nature of scientific truth.
I have seen yesterday’s speculations become today’s reality
many times since I was in my twenties in the late 1950s and early 60s. And this
is as it should be. It is seen, in retrospect as progress. Perhaps the most
instructive example is the search for the basic building block of the universe.
As scientists studied the structure of physical reality, it became clear that the
everyday objects of our experience were made up of smaller objects, and those
smaller objects of yet smaller objects. The bodies of living plants and animals
were found to be made of organic structures and cells, inanimate objects were found
to be made of several types of macro-forms, supported by patterns of crystaline
structures, and both cells and crystals were found to be made of molecules, and
the molecules were found to be made up different atoms, which in turn were
found to be made up of electrons, protons and neutrons.
But when scientists tried to find the most basic building
block of atoms, it seemed to keep slipping through their fingers. The discovery
by Max Planck that reality is quantized promised a bottom to this descent into
micro-reality. From the point of view of a physicist, reality consists of only
four things: matter, energy, space, and time. But physicist Max Planck said, in
"'Das Wesen der Materie'
('The Nature of Matter')". Speech in Florence, Italy,, 1944.:
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed
science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research
about atoms this much: There is no matter as such.“
And Albert Einstein, on page 155, in Relativiy The Special
and general Theory, said:
“There is no such thing as empty space… Space-time
does not claim existence on ots own, but only as a structural quality of the field.“
So, three of the four things physicalists consider as
real, either do not exist, or they are not what our senses seem to tell us they
are! What about the fourth one: energy? Quoting Planck again:
“All [of what we call] matter originates and exists only by virtue
of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this
most minute solar system of the atom together.”
So is everything ultimately made of energy? Continuing on, Planck said:
“We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and
intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
So as long ago as 1944 (still well within my lifetime; I was born in
1936.) two leading physicists, Albert Einstein and Max Planck, now considered
to be the founders of the two pillars of modern science: relativity and quantum
physics, said that matter, energy, time, and space, have no existence of their
own, and Planck went a bit further, he said that consciousness is behind matter
and energy, the substance of physical reality.
So, to summarize, the four things we think of as the basic components of
physical reality: space, time, matter and energy, are not what we think they
are. This is just another way of saying they are illusions. And solid matter
faded away as an illusion, as we learned atoms are mostly space. The “particles”
we call electrons, protons and neutrons, are dependent upon energetic forces,
and consciousness is behind the forces.
Application of the quantum math I’ve described in several publications,
including Reality Begins with Consciousness, (Neppe and Close, 2015) and
Is Consciousness Primary? (The Academy for the Advancement of
Postmaterialist Sciences, 2019), reveals that consciousness (we called it gimmel)
is present in electrons and the quarks that make up the protons and neutrons in
every atom of what we call ordinary matter. Not only that, it is present in
greater proportions in the elements of the periodic table that make up living
organisms. Another important finding of analyses using quantum math is that
individualized consciousness (you or me, for example) is part of the primary
matrix of consciousness that is behind the forces that shape reality.
Conclusion: What we think of as physical
reality is an illusion.
Application of the calculus of
dimensional distinctios, the quantum calculus, shows that the basic building
blocks of reality are formed in the underlying reality of Primary Consciousness
by the conscious drawing of distinctions. As sentient beings, we are quantums
of conscioiusness evolving in a dynamic quantized world floating in the
infinite domain of Cosmic Consciousness. Thus we are all connected in
consciousness, and the evolution of reality is not random, it is meaningful
change driven by Spiritual forces.
ERC 9/22/2019
