Our
world is only shadows, mere projections from the reality beyond our ordinary
space and time. Despite its apparent materiality and enormous size, the
[3D]-space and its contents do not exist of itself. With its material contents,
space perpetually appears and disappears at the rate equal to the speed of
light, creating a dynamic dimension that we call time.
The world around us
seems to persist because nobody can see the discontinuity of time, which
interval is in the order of 10-44 seconds. What we recognize as the
passage of time is nothing but the manifestation of the creation and
annihilation of series of 1044 3D-space in a second a).
Space is a series of spaces, one to the next, separated by a gap of nonexistence.
Within such a gap of
nonexistence b), the locality no longer has any meaning. It
manifests the undivided wholeness in which all become united and entangled. At
such non-locality, the speed limit does not have any sense as no matter, and
even light exists, only energy does.
The nonexistence is far
from being a vacuum state. It is a plenum full of energy, the ground for all
existence, inanimate and animate beings. The matter is merely an ephemeral
derivative of energy perpetually created and annihilated under the interaction
of the opposite positive and negative energy c).
The sequence locality
and non-locality (Figure-1) taking place in a series at the rate equal to the
speed of light fashions the passage of time. As the quantum measurement can only
take the snapshot of the existence and not the whole series of the
existence-nonexistence, it gives us perception as though the act of measurement
collapses the wavefunction d).
The successive
transformation of the local and nonlocal orders is, therefore, not in
point-to-point correspondence. It is the underlying probabilistic feature of
quantum mechanics against the classical deterministic mechanism.
In a grander picture of
the cosmos, this dynamic, temporary space is like a front-wave propagating at
the speed of light across an unimaginably vast ocean of high energy (Figure-2).
This front-wave perpetually rises and dissipates above and below the level of
the surface of the sea.
In Bohm’s notion, this
dynamic phenomenon is called the unfoldment of the implicate order and
enfoldment of the explicate order e), like what implies in the
hologram f). According to Bohm 1, the universe
is like a kind of sizeable dynamic hologram or holo-movement.
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 is what we
call the present time, its surrounding surface, and the vast ocean beneath it,
is nonlocal (enfolded order) g).
This super-implicate order is the foundation that
has given birth to everything in our universe. This infinite sea of energy must
contain every configuration of created matter, energy, and more sophisticated forms of energy, i.e.,
information (knowledge), consciousness, intelligence, and life h). We may visualize those as
multilayer grand cosmos, each layer representing an individual universe is
embedded one within another, in successively higher and higher dimensions
(Figure-3) i).
What the fantastic thing
is that the working of the universe seems to conform to that of the human
brain. Karl Pribram 2, a neurophysiologist at Stanford
University, discovered the brain works under the hologram mechanism j).
He concluded that if the brain works following the holographic model, then so
does the universe.
The world around us was
just an illusion. The universe and everything within existing only in a series
of a fraction of seconds successively separated by gaps of nonexistence.
Notwithstanding, as both the brain and cosmos work at the same mechanism and
rhythm, we the human being feel at home as we are unaware of experiencing such
weird underlying reality.
This grand relativity
theory is the theory of everything in its proper meaning.
[The end of the series]
Notes:
a.
There is no such [material] thing that
persists in nature. Everything "within" space perpetually appears and
disappears "through" time, except the energy which alone continues.
The persistence of matter and space is just an illusion.
b. In the state of nonexistence,
everything dissolves into energy. As such, space and time have no meaning; the
nonlocal order implies.
c. Energy as everything else in
nature is the blending of its opposing parts, the positive and negative energies
as implicitly expressed in the relativistic energy equation E2=m2c4+p2c2.
The 4D-spacetime is split into two sections as the positive and negative
energies globally segregating from each other. The interface of opposing
energies is the 3D-hypersurface (3D-space) on which their interactions create
particles. This interaction occurs as the quantum fields generated by the
opposite energies piercing through the interface igniting quantum sparks
("quarks") we perceive as particles.
d. The wavefunction describes the
gross sum of the manifestation of local-nonlocal orders mathematically. All the
laws of motion in quantum mechanics correspond to enfoldment and unfoldment.
Bohm put forward that the propagator (Green's function) determines the relation
between the wavefunction at one time and its form at another time.
e. Our current concepts of order,
which have lasted for centuries, are based on Descartes's ideas, who introduced
coordinate systems to describe the order in the physical process. The Cartesian
grid and those of curvilinear coordinates essentially described a local order
of separate points. However, the quantum realm doesn't take this kind of local
order and seems to have no significant order which Bohm called implicit or
enfolded order. This kind of nonlocal order is what hologram does have.
f. The enfolded order which
applies within such a nonlocal unbroken wholeness is what David Bohm called the
implicate order, taking the analogy of the "order" produced in a
hologram where each of its regions makes possible an image of the whole object.
Rather than being in point-to-point correspondence, the entire object is
enfolded in each part of the universe. 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 rule.
g. Bohm described the universe as
a comparatively small pattern of excitation. It is a ripple on the infinite
ocean of energy, which is a deeper order enfolded in the warp of reality. Bohm
failed to elucidate his idea more explicitly by describing geometrically i.e.,
the relative number of dimensions of the ripple vis-a-vis that of the ocean of
energy. People blame his description of the universe in terms of implicate and
explicate order to be merely a metaphor.
h. We may call all of the later
(information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) energy but in different
degrees of sophistication (dimensions). Nothingness in the sense of an absolute
term in which it is devoid of matter and energy or anything else, emptiness,
vacuum, absolute nonexistence, or whatever you call it is just pure human
imagination.
i. 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.
j. He found that memories do not
localize at specific brain side but somehow spread out throughout the brain.
Every part of the brain contains all the information necessary to recall a
whole memory, just like the hologram of which every small fragment of a piece
of holographic film contains all the information recorded on the whole.
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
3. Bohm, D. et al.:
"The Undivided Universe," Routledge, London, 1993, p. 350-355.
