ARE WE ON THE BRINK OF A REVOLUTIONARY BREAKTHROUGH IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE?

Rodney Bartlett

Thursday, 30 Jul 2009 08:48 UTC

Before I begin, this article was pieced together from paragraphs in longer writings which were recently published as an ebook. Here’s the link to a short slideshow about the ebook I made at www.slide.com (it includes a video clip from their library). And yes, it tells you how to obtain the ebook. Go to -

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MODERN SCIENCE IS DISCOVERING THAT THERE’S MORE TO THE WORLD THAN CAN
EVER BE REVEALED BY OUR PHYSICAL SENSES AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS.

I read a very short adaptation in the science magazine Discover of the May 2009 book “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe” by medical doctor Robert Lanza with astronomer Bob Berman. They say life – particularly consciousness – creates time, space and the cosmos itself: without us, the universe could not exist. They say things like – “… time does not exist independently of the life that notices it”, “… space is neither physical nor fundamentally real in our view”, “In daily life, space and time are harmless illusions” and “Quantum theory even casts doubt on the notion that distant objects are truly separated …”

How could the conclusions of Biocentrism possibly apply to the solid world of distinct objects and periods of time that we can see and touch; and which all our scientific instrumentation, medical imaging and sophisticated detectors unequivocally confirm? Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia says, “British software developer, physicist and mathematician Stephen Wolfram’s conclusion is that the universe is digital in its nature, and runs on fundamental laws which can be described as simple programs: cellular automata. He predicts a realization of this within the scientific communities will have a major and revolutionary influence on physics, chemistry, biology and the majority of the scientific areas in general.” In “The Atlantic Monthly” for April 1988, journalist Robert Wright says U.S. computer scientist and physicist “Ed Fredkin thinks that the universe is a computer. According to his theory of digital physics, information is more fundamental than matter and energy. He believes that atoms, electrons, and quarks consist ultimately of bits—binary units of information, like those that are the currency of computation in a personal computer or a pocket calculator.”

And it is stated by http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physics-David-Bohm-Holographic-Universe.htm (part of one of the top philosophy sites on the Internet) that the British quantum physicist David Bohm (1917-1992) asserted that the tangible reality of our everyday lives is really a kind of illusion, like a holographic image. Underlying it is a deeper order of existence, a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical world in much the same way that a piece of holographic film gives birth to a hologram. Bohm calls this deeper level of reality the implicate (which means enfolded or hidden) order, and he refers to our own level or existence as the explicate, or unfolded order. Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe is a hologram. Working independently in the field of brain research, Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded by the holographic nature of reality. He says that the human brain can be modeled as a hologram. Capitalizing on Pribram’s findings, Bohm states that our brains are smaller pieces of the larger hologram. That our brains contain the whole knowledge of the universe. So, you can see how each mind has a limited perspective of the universal hologram. Our brains are our windows of perception. Each mind always contains the whole picture, but with a limited and unclear perspective. We each have different experience in our lives, but each perspective is valid. Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by interpreting frequencies that are ultimately projections from another dimension, a deeper order of existence that is beyond both space and time.

I think these 2 methods are complementary – one uses lasers and produces a hologram (whose digitization depends on the programming of its photons and other parts by the second procedure’s QM-SCN), another which doesn’t use lasers but concentrates on a Quantum-Mechanical SuperComputer Network whose simulation of worlds and people is displayed on the universal hologram. Holograms we’re familiar with only result from visible light. But the word light can be applied to any form of electromagnetic radiation. Superimposing various frequencies in an object might cause them to stimulate not just our eyes but also nerves involved in perception of touch, temperature, smell, etc. This would make any object appear solid and to have mass (near the end of the 1980s, the magazine “Scientific American” reported that holograms have been made not only with visible light and X-rays, but also with microwaves and sound waves). The object could even affect any scientific instrument e.g. detectors of electric, magnetic or gravitational fields. And objects in the universal hologram would not only include the screens of our computers, TVs and mobile phones but every physical and nonphysical part of the universal hologram would be a receptor for the downloading of data from the Quantum Supercomputer (in other words, a “screen” for invisibly displaying data).

Quantum teleportation is the process of making a subatomic particle´s physical state vanish from one place and appear in another. It´s possible because of a bizarre phenomenon known as entanglement, which allows particles to share information even if they are physically separated. This phenomenon is so odd that Albert Einstein uncomfortably referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.” Eugene Polzik and his colleagues at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, in collaboration with Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, entangled a light beam with a magnetized gas of cesium atoms. “For the first time,” Polzik says, quantum teleportation “has been achieved between light—the carrier of information—and atoms.” This was also the first time that it was done with a macroscopic atomic object acting as the target, instead of teleporting occurring between pairs of photons or pairs of atoms. But a superfast quantum computer, Polzik notes, requires the transfer of information between a data stream like light and a stored quantum state (such as the atoms in the computer´s hard drive).

But isn’t all this just an interesting new way of describing the real and tangible world which we see and which our technology detects and manipulates? No, there is plenty of room for our preconceptions to be cast aside, and for so-called miracles or magic to become routine parts of everyday life. Unconventional US cosmologist Max Tegmark says “You are made up of quantum particles, so if they can be in two places at once, so can you.” We can take this to its ultimate conclusion and say “The universe is made up of quantum particles, so if they can be in two places at once, so can the universe.” There need not be any such thing as parallel universes, however (the parallel-universes, also called the many-universes or many-worlds, interpretation of quantum mechanics was developed by American physicist Hugh Everett III in 1957). The universe’s being in two places simultaneously could mean it’s in the same space-place as any or all of its particles. It could also be in the same time-place as any or all of its earlier or later selves because there can be be no space without time).

Jack Harris, an Applied Physicist at Yale University says quantum mechanics describes a crazy microscopic world where particles whiz around at blistering speeds and routinely violate the classical laws of physics we take for granted. Jack Harris’s goal is to take advantage of the “really strange, even mystical” laws of the microscopic and apply them to problems in our macroscopic world. “The ultimate eureka moment would be to suddenly realize that a [macroscopic] object is doing something that is absolutely forbidden by classical physics,” he says. If we look closely at the universe by not restricting it to the classical physics which preceded the quantum principle, we can comprehend how the macroscopic universe could behave quantum mechanically and violate classical physics. It´s easy to imagine all parts of the universe being in contact (and thus forming a unification) when that universe was the size of a subatomic particle, nearly 14 billion years ago. Since the universe still has the same properties as a particle (and particles obey quantum mechanics’ wave-particle duality in which subatomic particles and waves of energy can behave as each other), it is still a unification (and a unified field).

In 1980 or the late 1970s, American astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) wrote these lines for his award-winning television series and accompanying book, “Cosmos”: “There is an idea – strange, haunting, evocative – one of the most exquisite conjectures in science or religion. It is entirely undemonstrated; it may never be proved. But it stirs the blood. There is, we are told, an infinite hierarchy of universes, so that an elementary particle, such as an electron, in our universe would, if penetrated, reveal itself to be an entire closed universe.” Well, this writing doesn’t support the idea of a hierarchy of universes. But I do believe – it stirs my blood! – in the “exquisite conjectures” of the universe (and the infinite Cosmos) behaving like an elementary particle, and of these two combining to form one unified field.

In about 1980 (and also in his 2008 book, “The Moon Is New – Time Comes In With A Minus Sign”), the implications of Einstein´s Special Relativity theory were studied by the American John Dobson (creator of the “Dobsonian” telescope mount, co-founder of the Sidewalk Astronomers Organization). He coined the term “zero separation” to describe Relativity´s implications, but describing the universe as a Unified Field or Grand Unification would be just as accurate. Suppose a star we are viewing is at a distance of 100 light years (this can be represented as +100). Since we see nothing as it presently is but as it was when the light left it, we are seeing the star as it was 100 years ago (represented as -100). Repeated experimental verification of Einstein’s Relativity theory confirms its statement that space and time can never exist separately but form what is known as space-time. The space-time distance between us and the star is therefore 100 + (-100) i.e. 100-100 i.e. 0 and there is actually zero separation between us and the star’s gravity, heat etc.

How can zero separation be true if our eyes and telescopes can see that the star is obviously far away, if its gravity has no noticeable effect on us and if its heat has no effect on us but would instantly evaporate anything that, in fact, had no separation from it? This is a very hard question to answer in a few lines. For now, I’ll just say that I find it convenient to think of people living in two worlds (one of zero separation, one where things are as they seem) but the unification spoken of throughout these paragraphs unites these two worlds into one. Remembering that I believe all existence unfolds in a computer-generated hologram, “the truth of zero separation is similar to 2 objects which appear distant from each other on a huge computer screen actually being unified by the strings of ones and zeros making up the computer code which is all in one small place”. The 2 objects which appear distant from each other but are not actually separated at all could be the star (along with its gravity or heat) and us – or you and me, or 2 atoms in your or my body, or the opposite sides of an atomic particle somewhere in space or somewhere in time, or the entire universe throughout eternity and a cell in your little finger or in your brain.

After suffering any kind of illness or injury, an approach which enlists mind-body unity (think of psychoneuroimmunology extended into realms of universal unification and zero separation) and all 5 dimensions in the universe is essential to a complete and lasting recovery. Belief in 5 dimensions arises from equations worked out by Einstein and remarkably, there is absolutely no difference between these 5 and the 10 dimensions of physics’ superstring theory – except for scale, which the explained fractal nature of our universe makes relatively unimportant since the microscopic and macroscopic worlds are merely the same irregular, fragmented shapes of fractal geometry repeated at different magnifications. The 3 space dimensions of length, width and height plus the 4th dimension we call time are handled admirably by the doctors and nurses involved in any necessary surgery and followup medical treatment (their efforts are aided by eating well, sleeping well, doing daily exercises, not smoking etc.) The 5th dimension seems to be responsible for unification of the entire universe – a pursuit started in earnest with Einstein’s attempt to find a “unified field theory” and continued by scientists to this day (the best known modern contender would be physics’ string theory).

“Unify” means “make into one” or “form into a unit”. So in a truly unified universe, there can be no distance between any physical or non-physical entities in space or time (otherwise, there would be more than one entity in the universe and it would not be unified). Thus, zero separation must exist between all things (this is similar to 2 objects which appear distant from each other on a huge computer screen actually being unified by the strings of ones and zeros making up the computer code which is all in one small place). Therefore, there is no separation between a person and health (or indeed, sickness). But the conscious mind can choose one or the other, and I choose to be healthy. Everything can be done perfectly in the first 4 dimensions but to be assured of the desired outcome, we must not ignore reality and the 5th dimension (of course, consciousness has its limits too and we have to let our unconscious minds guide us to health, just as our conscious minds alone have little to do with e.g. maintaining a normal heartbeat). Of course, all this could be dismissed and a person’s health attributed to the placebo effect. But doesn’t it make more sense to accept the wonders of a 5th dimension than to assume placebos can work actual miracles? (Or maybe these paragraphs merely attempt to detail how the placebo effect works?)

Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is a geometric description of the universe. This letter uses that geometry, aided by fractals, to support the conclusions in the paragraph above (a fractal is a geometric structure having an irregular or fragmented appearance which is of a similar character at all magnifications – the word “fractal” was coined in 1975 by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot). Following are a few lines on the astronomical, the human (Einsteinian), and physics’ string or superstring, magnifications -

Astronomy pictures space-time as 3+1 dimensions (space’s length, width and depth + an extra dimension called time) existing on the surface of a balloon which is expanding but there is no centre to the universe from which that expansion originates i.e. the balloon must possess an inner “hyperspatial” point (not in space-time) where the Big Bang occurred. According to the 1973 book ALBERT EINSTEIN: CREATOR AND REBEL by physicist Banesh Hoffman and Einstein´s secretary Helen Dukas, mathematical equations developed by Einstein in 1917 say a maximum of 3 “subuniverses” could exist in our cosmos: here, I´ll refer to them as SPACE (embracing the 3 dimensions of length, width and height), TIME (the 4th dimension) and HYPERSPACE (the 5th dimension). Astronomy’s picture unites space and time into Einstein´s space-time (and adds a 5th dimension, which was introduced in a letter to Albert Einstein written by Theodor Kaluza). He proposed that Einstein’s dream of finding a unified theory of gravitation and electromagnetism might be realized if he worked his equations in five-dimensional space-time. Einstein scoffed at the idea at first but later reconsidered and helped Kaluza get his paper published. A few years after that, physicist Oskar Klein published a quantum version of Kaluza’s work. In the 1970s, the resulting Kaluza-Klein theory turned out to be beneficial in working on supersymmetry (a postulated unifying relationship between elementary particles). The first paragraph stated, in a truly unified universe there can be no distance between any physical or non-physical entities in space or time (otherwise, there would be more than one entity in the universe and it would not be unified *). We can already travel in the 3 dimensions of ordinary space, so in a universe where all the dimensions form a unity, sooner or later we’ll learn to travel in 4th dimensional space (time) and 5th dimensional hyperspace. If we journey in these other dimensions, they must have spatial coordinates for us to navigate in (length, width and depth in time and 5D as well as familiar 3D – if we choose, we can therefore say the universe has 9 dimensions – and the zero separation unifying these 9 can be regarded as a 10th dimension).

  • A few more details of the unification I envisage might be appropriate: the Grand Unified Theory sought by today’s scientists and mathematicians aims at combining electromagnetism (the relations between electricity and magnetism) with the strong and weak nuclear forces of the subatomic world. Another step in unification would see this followed by the Unified Field Theory which adds gravity to the mix (begun by Einstein and continued today by string theory as well as other theories). Yet another step would be practical combination of unification not only with quantum mechanics and General Relativity but also with zero separation (first implicitly suggested in Special Relativity and elaborated on about 1980 by the American John Dobson). If you’re impatient, just remember that all the scientific and computing knowledge is united with us and has no separation from us right now – I’m sure people, being ingenious creatures, will gain access to it much sooner than expected (perhaps in years instead of centuries). And I’d expect this new science to reach into areas once reserved for religion and philosophy.

Relativity and fractals present us with a world and universe that are ultimately mathematical in nature. According to U.S. cosmologist Max Tegmark, mathematical formulas create reality – he says in a 2008 interview with theoretical astrophysicist Adam Frank, “I got excited about the idea that the universe is really nothing more than a mathematical object. That got me thinking that every mathematical object is, in a sense, its own universe.” When his paper regarding this was submitted to a scientific journal and rejected as being too speculative, he showed the rejection letter to his friend John Wheeler (1911-2008), a Princeton theoretical physicist. Wheeler said, “Extremely speculative? Bah!” Then he reminded Tegmark that some of the original papers on quantum mechanics were also considered extremely speculative.

This lends credibility to what I said in the first paragraph about zero separation existing between all things – “this is similar to 2 objects which appear distant from each other on a huge computer screen actually being unified by the strings of ones and zeros making up the computer code which is all in one small place” (this analogy also invokes mathematics … maths of a binary nature). Thus, it appears reasonable to suggest the universe’s fifth dimension truly could be the location of strings of ones and zeros creating unification and zero separation and that, as paragraph 1 states, “Everything can be done perfectly in the first 4 dimensions but to be assured of the desired outcome, we must not ignore reality and the 5th dimension”.

Not having access to anything resembling a time machine so we can physically manipulate the 5th dimension, all actions utilising hyperspace in 2009 must be purely mental and based on unwavering belief in the existence of a 5th dimension. There is a technological approach which I’ll now try to describe – Morpho butterflies create colour by selectively adding and deleting certain wavelengths of light. Physicists have only recently devised comparable materials, called photonic band-gap crystals; and are now exploring their use in phone switches, solar cells and antennas. No surprise, then, that some engineers are looking to the living world for the next generation of optic inspirations. I believe advances in engineering and biology will enable humans, like the morpho butterfly, to selectively add and delete certain wavelengths of light. But other portions of this writing have shown how anything and everything can be regarded as light (by e.g. superimposing electromagnetic and gravitational waves). So the day will come when we can add or delete wavelengths anywhere we choose, and there will be absolutely no limits to what a human can do!

However, it is good to remember that we will never be gods or goddesses because the rest of the universe is also included in this unification. I anticipate people will oneday have band-gap structures in their brains that are no bigger than a computer chip (these won’t require surgical implantation because of the Quantum-Mechanical SuperComputing Network’s creation of the pre-existing digital nature of all parts of the universe*). Photonic band-gap crystals would, of course, only deal with light in its photonic forms (energy forms such as visible light or radio waves). The band-gap structures I have in mind would need to deal with forms like matter, so they could add or delete anything and everything we choose. They might accomplish this by acting similarly to a modem that acts on a scale trillions of times smaller than a modem manufactured by nanotechnology, and would be capable of manipulating digitised matter. Then they could emulate computers´ copy/paste function to add things; as well as their delete function, to remove things. This ability must only come to fruition in a future, ideal society: it would only be wasted and abused in the present warring and selfish world! Despite this short article not being written in mathematical equations and its conclusions seemingly not capable of being verified in a laboratory, our minds can use the unification of everything – including matter, mind and energy – to produce physical and reproducible results.

  • Advanced software could also be used to genetically engineer people whose genes have been disassembled into subatomic, electromagnetic pulses and manipulated by computers. An opportunity to possess an eternally youthful body and a brain free of criminal tendencies may therefore exist. When we develop this electronic hardware and software, and also acquire the technology to manipulate the unification and zero separation of all space-time (resulting in unimaginable revolutions in travel within outer space and on Earth, as well as what science-fiction fans term time travel), everyone who has long since died could have their minds downloaded into reproductions of their bodies and be resurrected (establishing colonies throughout space and time would prevent overpopulation).

Updated 22 Oct 2009 05:40 UTC


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