The Maya of Science 3
The problem as quantum mechanics discovered , is that particles aren't actually particles. A particle is a tiny lump of something, like a miniature cannonball. But subatomic particles don't always behave like little cannonballs. They sometimes behave like waves. And it seems that subatomic particles aren't either waves or cannonballs - they're both at the same time.
As techniques improved and physicists started finding smaller and smaller particles, the hunt went on for the ultimate particle. This ultimate particle would, of course, be the building block of all other particles, just as the atom was the building block of matter.
They didn't find it. There was no ultimate particle. If you went down deep enough into an atom, there was nothing at all!
This is so bizarre most people still find it hard to believe, but according to the very best investigations of the very best theory physicists have ever developed, the world of matter is made out of absolutely nothing (No-thing).
That's not another way of saying it's made out of energy (which it is), because energy is made out of absolutely nothing, too. In their most fundamental form, energy (the wave) and matter (the particle) arise out of a void. Another word for energy might be consciousness (an awareness of being).
It's bad enough to be told that if you look deeply enough into the world there's nothing there. It's even worse to learn that its apparent stability is purely statistical. Assuming you exist right now, there's a very good chance you will continue to exist in a second from now. But it's only a chance. There are small, but very real, odds that you will stop existing altogether, and this applies to your house, your town, your country, your world...even the entire universe. At any given moment, it's odds on that the universe will exist, but it is not a certainty.
While scientists were still reeling from those discoveries, quantum mechanics produced another surprise from up its sleeve. This was the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, based on the discovery that you could measure the speed of a particle or you could measure its position, but you couldn't measure both. The reason turned out to be as bizarre as anything Lewis Carroll ever wrote. It was the act of observation that screwed things up. Just looking at the particle influenced its behavior. Therefore a mental interaction can, at bedrock level, change the nature of reality. The conclusion is inescapable. Science has demonstrated what Buddhism has always taught: we inhabit a world of illusion or as they called it...maya.
Specifically, we inhabit a thought form.
to be continued...
Magical use of Thought Forms
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, J.H. Brennan
As techniques improved and physicists started finding smaller and smaller particles, the hunt went on for the ultimate particle. This ultimate particle would, of course, be the building block of all other particles, just as the atom was the building block of matter.
They didn't find it. There was no ultimate particle. If you went down deep enough into an atom, there was nothing at all!
This is so bizarre most people still find it hard to believe, but according to the very best investigations of the very best theory physicists have ever developed, the world of matter is made out of absolutely nothing (No-thing).
That's not another way of saying it's made out of energy (which it is), because energy is made out of absolutely nothing, too. In their most fundamental form, energy (the wave) and matter (the particle) arise out of a void. Another word for energy might be consciousness (an awareness of being).
It's bad enough to be told that if you look deeply enough into the world there's nothing there. It's even worse to learn that its apparent stability is purely statistical. Assuming you exist right now, there's a very good chance you will continue to exist in a second from now. But it's only a chance. There are small, but very real, odds that you will stop existing altogether, and this applies to your house, your town, your country, your world...even the entire universe. At any given moment, it's odds on that the universe will exist, but it is not a certainty.
While scientists were still reeling from those discoveries, quantum mechanics produced another surprise from up its sleeve. This was the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, based on the discovery that you could measure the speed of a particle or you could measure its position, but you couldn't measure both. The reason turned out to be as bizarre as anything Lewis Carroll ever wrote. It was the act of observation that screwed things up. Just looking at the particle influenced its behavior. Therefore a mental interaction can, at bedrock level, change the nature of reality. The conclusion is inescapable. Science has demonstrated what Buddhism has always taught: we inhabit a world of illusion or as they called it...maya.
Specifically, we inhabit a thought form.
to be continued...
Magical use of Thought Forms
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, J.H. Brennan
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