Part 1 introduced the idea of the world as a single living organism and the strange world of subatomics particles. Now the focus shifts to the struggle scientists confronted in trying to understand and explain this strange new world.
Scientists began to realize when they uncovered the subatomic world that they had no appropriate language to discuss or think about these discoveries of matter being mostly empty space. Through further experimentation and proofs, they concluded that matter does not exist with certainty, in any given place, but only shows tendencies to exist. At the subatomic level, when an electron is observed and measured, it does show up in a definite place, but when the measurement/observation ends, you cannot say the particle exists in any place, nor can you say that it traveled a definite path to anywhere else when you measure it again. Rather, the particle “manifests itself as probability patterns”. The shape of these probability patterns changes slowly over time, something that might appear as movement, or better, the effects of age. The only conclusion scientists could reach in this regard is that subatomic particles maintain a strange existence between potentiality and reality.
And yet our experience of the solidity of matter (the hardness of rock) is still real through the five senses and Newtonian laws (weight, mass, etc.) So we perceive matter to be solid. In terms of the evolution of consciousness, this means the true nature of what we call matter goes beyond the current power and ability of our sensate brain. We can prove the “emptiness” of particulate matter with scientific equations, but we have no metaphor for it. One way it has been described is, “Granite rock is solid because the probability patterns of its electron shells are stable.” This is obviously awkward langauge, attempting to explain that there is no final particulate stuff called “granite” that has an independent existence.
Therefore, probability patterns of any material are not of things, but of interconnections. Interconnections are sets of relationships that reach out to connect with other interconnections. They might be visualized as spheres of energy continually approaching one another, sometimes overlapping, exchanging particles, sometimes colliding, co-creating, and co-destroying each other in infinite combinations. In the sub-atomic world, the essential nature of matter lies not in objects but in interconnections.
In Part 3, an analogy between matter and music will be made.
Scientists began to realize when they uncovered the subatomic world that they had no appropriate language to discuss or think about these discoveries of matter being mostly empty space. Through further experimentation and proofs, they concluded that matter does not exist with certainty, in any given place, but only shows tendencies to exist. At the subatomic level, when an electron is observed and measured, it does show up in a definite place, but when the measurement/observation ends, you cannot say the particle exists in any place, nor can you say that it traveled a definite path to anywhere else when you measure it again. Rather, the particle “manifests itself as probability patterns”. The shape of these probability patterns changes slowly over time, something that might appear as movement, or better, the effects of age. The only conclusion scientists could reach in this regard is that subatomic particles maintain a strange existence between potentiality and reality.
Therefore, probability patterns of any material are not of things, but of interconnections. Interconnections are sets of relationships that reach out to connect with other interconnections. They might be visualized as spheres of energy continually approaching one another, sometimes overlapping, exchanging particles, sometimes colliding, co-creating, and co-destroying each other in infinite combinations. In the sub-atomic world, the essential nature of matter lies not in objects but in interconnections.
In Part 3, an analogy between matter and music will be made.
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