So far we have paid our
attention to the nature of energy on its potency, its capability to generate
power and strength. There is another aspect of the energy which hardly any
physicist is touching namely its capability to store and process the
information. The power and information are two sides of the same coin.
Let us revisit the
phenomenon of the wave-particle duality as diagrammatically shown in Figure-1.
A particle which we perceive subsisting through time is, in reality, a series
of different but similar particles appear and disappear successively.
Particle "A"
disappears as one moment passes, and new particle "B" appears as the
next moment arrives. This process takes place perpetually so that another new
particle "C," "D," "E" and so forth appears and
disappears successively. We wrongly perceive as though all those different
particles are the same particle ("A") like a bullet flying through
the air.
So what bewilders us
more is that those processes take place simultaneously upon all particles in
the whole universe. Even though there is a gap of nothingness between the two
consecutive moments of the appearance of the whole universe, the order in
macroscopic level is rigorously maintained. We, our form and shape appear to be
the same today and tomorrow. A chair will remain the same as of yesterday,
today and tomorrow, and never randomly changes to become a table.
So what does this
imply? Energy, which survives throughout
the whole process of creation and annihilation, should possess a sort of
information that it carries and processes along with at the speed of
light. At the quantum level, energy
performs like small processing units which are integrated at macroscopic level
as a large supercomputer processing all those information at the speed of
light.
The appearance and
disappearance of matter to and fro energy might function as natural binary
digits which are the basis of quantum computation. It opens to a new era of
information technology. Some physicists1 seriously consider the
possibility to tap and wangle this quantum processing which
will radically change, one way or another, the conventional methods of
information processing.
What is life?
The natural capability
to store and process the information, in psychic terms, is called awareness. At
a higher degree, we may call it consciousness and intelligence. The higher the
dimensions of energy are, the higher the degree of its consciousness and
intelligence. The [four-dimensional] energy which is intimately related to
matter possesses the lowest degree of awareness. Those related to the plant,
animal, and human possess higher and higher dimensions, thus, higher capacity
and capability in carrying and processing the information.
Plants and animals might
evolve for the better, but this evolution cannot pass through the barrier of
their owned energy dimensionality. There is no missing link between the plant
and animal kingdoms and between the latter with that of human, just because
there are no links between them. Darwin's evolution theory was correct but within
the corridor of the respective kingdom.
Schrodinger2 was
one of the prominent physicists who tried to embark on the study of life.
Physicists, who are interested in doing so more deeply, should be prepared to
confront something having infinite-dimensionality.
REFERENCES:
1. Jurgen, A., et al.:” Entangled World”,
Wiley-VCH GmbH, Weinheim, 2006
2. Schrodinger, E.:” What is life”, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1967
