Most people wrongly perceive matter as an object existing in an
empty space. Space is far from the vacuum; it is a plenum full of energy, the
ground for all existence, inanimate, and animate beings.
Despite its apparent materiality and enormous size, this interface
- the 3D-space and it's content (universe) - does not exist of itself a).
Together with the matter it contains, space perpetually appears and disappears
at the rate equal to the speed of light, creating a dynamic dimension that we
call time.
In a more profound reality, we may describe this dynamic,
temporary space as a front-wave propagating at the speed of light across an
unimaginably vast ocean of high energy (Figure-1A). This front-wave perpetually
rises and dissipates above and to the surface of the sea, manifesting
respectively, using Bohm's terms, the unfoldment of the implicate order, and
the enfoldment of the explicate order b).
It is only at this wave structure (unfolded order) that every
materialized thing is localized. In this front-wave, the universe where we
live, the local order implies. It's surrounding (enfolded order), in front and
behind the wave and the vast ocean beneath it is non-local c). The
surrounding of our universe, the enormous calm sea of energy we used to think
as nothingness, is a real plenum. Nothingness, emptiness, vacuum, nonexistence d),
or whatever you call it, is pure human imagination.
Bohm correctly stated that because the implicate order is the foundation
giving birth to everything in the universe, it must contain every configuration
of things that have been, and will be created, such as energy, information
(knowledge), consciousness, intelligence, and life e).
But again, Bohm had no idea on how to describe these profound
layering realities physically. He talked about super-implication by extending
the notion of implicate order to quantum fields instead of particles f).
The whole idea of implicate order could be reached in a natural way implying
indefinitely higher levels of implicate order. To visualize the Bohm's view, we
may enhance it by figuring out that each of those multi-layered implicates
orders (energy, information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) is embedded
one within another, in successively higher and higher dimensions (Figure-1B, C
and D) g).
Notes:
a. The
4-dimensional spacetime splits into two parts as the positive and negative
energies segregating from each other. The energies' interaction creates
particles at the interface of these opposite energies, the 3-dimensional
[hyper] surface. This interaction occurs as the quantum fields generated by the
opposing energies piercing through the interface igniting quantum sparks we
perceive as particles.
b. Bohm 1
described the universe as a comparatively small pattern of excitation. It is a
ripple on the infinite ocean of energy, a deeper order enfolded in the warp of
reality. Bohm failed to elucidate his idea more explicitly through the
geometrical description, i.e., the relative dimensionality of the ripple
vis-a-vis that of the ocean of energy. His story of the universe in terms of
implicate and explicate order was merely a metaphor.
c. Our
classical notions of localized order imply in spacetime arise as limiting cases
of the deeper implicate order. The manifest level of everyday experience and
the quantum level underlying it emerges from a still deeper implicate level in
which the classical Cartesian notions of form, order, and structure have more
or less dissolved. Bohm believed that the implicate order would be more
suitable for expressing the fundamental laws of nature than the explicate
order, which is only a particular case of the general order.
d. Nothingness
in the sense of an absolute term in which it is devoid of matter as well as
energy or anything else.
e. We may
call all of the later (information, consciousness, intelligence, and life)
energy but in different degrees of sophistication (dimensions).
f. There is
indeed no distinction between the fields and spacetime itself.
g. The dimensions shown in the figure are relative. We should bear in
mind that each of those individuals (energy, information, consciousness,
intelligence, and life) may have different levels of existence and, those, the
variety of their dimensions.
References:
1. Bohm, D.
et al.: "The Undivided Universe," Routledge, London, 1993, p.
374-380.
2. Talbot,
M.: "The Holographic Universe," HarperPerennial, New York, 1992, p.
46-49
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