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| Newo |
Posted - 08/16/2005 : 10:33:20
Guy called Itzhak Bentov has a book called Stalking the Wild Pendulum and writes of what might be seen with a microscope capable of observing single atoms and the subatomic realm. I'm not claiming it as gospel, just that it is mightily appealing to this Philip K Dick fan and it seems a bit kinder than the all-we-are-are-bunches-of-random-particles-knocking off-each-other thoughtstream that's been so popular ever since we started waking up to organised religion:
"Let us now magnify a piece of bone...we see the atoms weaving back and forth like a field of ripe wheat blown by the wind. They move in unison and in beautiful rhythm. Acoustical energy is flowing through the crystal.
Next we focus on the atoms. At first they appear as shadowy little balls vibrating about fixed points in the molocules. As we magnify, we see less and less. The electron shell has somehow dissolved, and we are looking at a vacuum. as we further magnify we see something tiny moving about. we focus on what we suspect is the nucleus of the atom, located in this vast space within the atom. If we take the diameter of the nucleus of a hydrogen atom to be 1mm then the diameter of the electron orbit will be 10 meters, a ratio of 1 to 10,000, and the intervening space is vacuum.
As we zero in and further magnify the vibrating nucleus, it seems to be dissolving. We are looking at some shadowy pulsation; some more magnification and the nucleus is almost gone. We are sensing the pulsation of some energy; it seems to be a rapidly pulsating field. But where did the bone go? We thought we were looking at a solid piece of matter!
Well it seems that the real reality - the microreality which underlies all our solid, commonsense reality - is made up, as we have just witnessed, of a vast empty space filled with oscilating fields! Many different fields, all interacting with each other. The tiniest disturbance in one field carries over into the others. It's an interlocked web of fields, eac pulsating at their own rate but in harmony with the others, their pulsations spreading out farther and farther throughout the cosmos."
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| PsychicTwin |
Posted - 08/16/2005 : 10:41:15
I need to check out this book.
This is the richest food for thought available in this day and age. Anyone with an interest in cosmology/philosophy/existentialism/science would probably be fascinated by this topic, I think... |
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