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Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic ParadigmEssays and Shadowless Poetry by Alan T. Williams
The Perpetual Puzzle of NatureThe fundamental Nature of the world and universe we live in is a highly complex puzzle that to one degree or another has fascinated all peoples, in all places, at all times. The exponential increase in complexity that accompanies the continual advancement of scientific knowledge, i.e., the exponential increase in the constructive representation of the unconditioned one and the conditionally relative many, leaves little doubt that the perpetual puzzle of Nature only grows larger in scope as one or another piece of the uncompleted puzzle is discovered and put into place. Any novel new piece added to the perpetual puzzle of Nature necessarily increases the bounds of scientific knowledge beyond previous theoretical and experimental limitations. Thus the recent discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) reveals the omnipresent, pervasive, nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) foundation of the macroscopic material domain humankind sees, hears, feels, tastes, and smells. The novel new first principle of physics states:
The implications of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) are astonishingly broad in scope:
More precisely, the universal principle of energy (TUPE) implies that each instance of matter/mass is produced by a discrete, conditionally relative phase transition (change of state) of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) within the massless nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED). The conditionally relative phase transition (change of state) of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) is analogous to the liquid, solid, gas, and plasma phase changes that take place in the classical and quantum mechanical domains of physics. In other words, TUPE points directly to the underlying identity – the irreducible sameness – of discrete conditionally relative states of matter/mass and massless nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE). Therefore the fundamental, irreducible nature of matter/mass can be definitively described as a conditionally relative state of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) created within the NED. Thus TUPE reveals that:
The classical and quantum mechanics of contemporary physics are wholly subsumed by the omnipresent, pervasive, conditionally relative NPE physics of the fundamental, irreducible NED. Moreover, the nonmechanical, nonmaterial (subquantum, prequantum) 2 primordial energy domain (NED) not only reveals the unexplored background of the perpetual puzzle of physical reality just-as-it-is, it also reveals the fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial foundation of the unconditioned one and the conditionally relative many. It is now clear that classical physics, quantum mechanics, and the 20th century Standard Model of high-energy particle physics 3 have essentially provided a material lens, a detailed description of the material domain that occupies the visually apparent foreground of the complex conditionally relative puzzle of Nature while the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) background remained hidden.
Einstein and Bohr:Fifty years prior to the development of the Standard Model of high-energy particle physics, Albert Einstein firmly rejected Niels Bohr's hypothesis that material reality has meaning only within the explicit act of measurement or experiential observation. To the end of his life Einstein asserted the objective, independent existence of the material universe. The universal principle of energy (TUPE) not only confirms that Einstein and Bohr were each correct in his own way during the revolutionary early 20th century scientific transition from macroscopic to subatomic physical reality just-as-it-is, TUPE also leads beyond the subatomic and subnuclear scales of materiality to the fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) itself. The historical Western scientific tradition that matter is a fundamental, irreducible material substance can be seen as the continuation of an inherently circular argument posited and developed by early Greek philosophers, which was then handed down from one philosopher-scientist or scholar to another through the ensuing centuries for more than two millenia. Following the classical laws of mechanics formalized by Isaac Newton in the late 17th century, the matter argument succinctly asserts:
The fundamental irreducibility asserted by the matter argument above can be seen as explicitly falsified by the unexpected subnuclear results of many high-energy particle physics experiments performed during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, especially those performed in support of quantum chromodynamics, and by the discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) in the zeroth year of the 21st century. In contrast to the truncated scope of physics limited by the traditional material view, the increased scope of physics implied by the universal principle of energy (TUPE) opens novel new pathways to and through the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) to a broader, more comprehensive nonmaterial/material physics. New physics:With the publication of his 1905 paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, which describes the first derivation of the mass-energy equation, m = E/c² , 4 Einstein eventually led the 20th century scientific community to the understanding that the relativistic mass (m) of particulate matter that occupies space and can be weighed in a closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) material system is approximately equivalent to the combined potential and kinetic mechanical energy (E) of the specific particle or closed material system under consideration divided by the speed of light squared (c²). Transposed, the popular version of Einstein's relativistic equation is written as E = mc². But not all physical systems can be viewed as closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) material systems. Fifty years after Einstein's derivation of m = E/c², the unexpected subatomic violation (apparent failure) of his longstanding mass-energy equivalence in theoretically closed system high-energy particle collider experiments during the late 1950s produced the mysterious, revolutionary, so-called "particle zoo" effect that is properly explained only by the recently discovered universal principle of energy (TUPE). Novel experimental results may still be seen in high-energy collider experiments as a consequence of the increased size of contemporary colliders like the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), for example, and the scattering resonance of the particles of interest. The universal principle of energy (TUPE) implies that the exotic particles produced in collider experiments confirm that matter/mass is a discrete, organized aggregation (phase transition, change of state) of fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) that cannot exist in the absence of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE), just as the frozen state of water (ice), for example, cannot exist in the absence of water. Moreover, the novel collider results suggest that in principle the astonishingly high energy released in the on-shell energy bubble that produces an ostensibly boundless on-shell and off-shell subnuclear energy during certain high-energy particle collisions can be seen as a prime example of a complex open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material system that is embedded in and cannot be physically separated or isolated from the omnipresent, pervasive NED. Interestingly, TUPE implies that each instance of matter/mass is a conditionally relative phase transition (change of state) formed by an NPE phase transition within the NED. Thus the fundamental identity of matter/mass is irreducibly identical to, and in fact is massless nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE). Thus the universal principle of energy (TUPE) points directly to the nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) as the origin of our compound open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material holonomic universe. In contrast to classical and quantum mechanics, complex open nonmaterial/material systems like the large-scale structure of our nonmaterial/material holonomic cosmos, for example, are mechanically nonconservative systems within which matter/mass and, therefore, mechanical energy are not only created, they are also subject to destruction. Clearly, if matter/mass is fundamentally a conditionally relative phase change of massless NPE within the omnipresent, pervasive NED, then the released creative energy returns to the undifferentiated state of massless NPE within the NED as its material character is either dissipated by natural means or destroyed by unexpected events, just as the melted state of ice is a return to undifferentiated liquid water in the material domain. The combined new physics of TUPE and the Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) reveals not only the NPE foundation of our nonmaterial/material universe. The new physics also imply that time (t = 0) and the initial conditions (t = t₁) of the source hologram are created on an extradimensional transcendent level (scale) of physical reality just-as-it-is. The source hologram, in turn, produces our reciprocally emergent nonmaterial/material holonomic universe where time t = t₂, and t₂ = 1 / t₁. Furthermore, the TEHP model of physical reality just-as-it-is implies that each all-inclusive, conditionally relative present moment in our contemporary four-dimensional (3 + t₂), compound open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material holonomic system is comprised of at least six extended dimensions and two synchronistic time dimensions (6 + 2 ; i.e., 6 + (t₁ + t₂)). If TUPE is confirmed by experiment and holonomic matter/mass is determined to be the result of a phase transition (change of state) within transcendent, extradimensional nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE), then the deterministic clockwork universe of classical physics as well as 20th century probabilistic quantum physics will be subsumed by the novel 21st century nonmaterial energy physics of TUPE and TEHP, thereby providing a robust new physics and a broad new scope of theory and practice in every field of science. Hence, in principle omnipresent, pervasive, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) is now unveiled as the fundamental ground of being, the irreducible foundation of the conditionally relative many on every level of material and nonmaterial existence that emerges reciprocally within uncreated, unconditioned oneness. Summarizing, the discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) in the zeroth year of the 21st century changes human and scientific understanding of the source and foundation of the universe from this time forward. Nonetheless, the totality of the perpetual puzzle of Nature – the totality of the unconditioned one, the conditionally relative many, and consciousness itself – remains obscure and difficult for the human mind to grasp. This online series of essays is a work in progress that describes the personal understanding acquired by the author while trekking through a few small areas of 20th century science and physics. The reader may also enjoy some of the 126 shadowless poems listed in the site Index under the heading Beyond Zen: The Footsteps of the Dragon. Next: Chapter 1, Section 1: The Subquantum Energy Bridge
Reference Notes (Click on the Note number to return to the text): 1 Pais, Abraham. 'Subtle is the Lord...' The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 29-30. ISBN 0-19-520438-1 (UK paperback) 2 Subquantum, prequantum: the nonmechanical, so-called virtual quantization of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) within the nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED). 3 The Standard Model of elementary particles was developed from 1970-1974 by Gerard 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman, recipients of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics. Veltman and 't Hooft each authored a highly recommended book that describes the Standard Model and 20th century elementary particle physics:
4 Einstein, Albert. "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?"; Annalen der Physik, 18 (1905): 639-641.
Index: Essays on Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic ParadigmLast Edit: February 28, 2010. Comments and suggestions welcome. Copyright © 2006-2010 by Alan T. Williams. All rights reserved. |
