The continuity of the passage of time we see in nature is
not what it seems to be. It is more like the continuity of the pictures we see
in the movie which are in reality the projection of a series of discrete
pictures which gives us a perception of seeing events running continuously
through time. While the pictures taken for the movie consisted of a series of
two-dimensional images separated by gaps, those of the universe consist of a
series of 1044 snapshots of the whole three-dimensional space per
second separated consecutively by a gap of nonexistence (Figure 1A).
The appearance of the space together with everything it contains is what we
call the present time, promptly followed by its disappearance dissolving
everything into nonexistence a) we call the past. This alternation
of the existence – nonexistence is what we perceive as the passage of time b).
Why does universe seem to be so over-designed in that the
inclusion of a series of wasteful nonexistence is required? Far from being
futile, this gap of nonexistence is strongly needed as the means to preserve the
universe as a single whole regardless of the limitation of the light speed
which in this case is not applicable.
Space together with everything within dissolves entirely in
such a gap of non-existence. As the locality has no longer any meaning, the state
of nonexistence manifests the undivided wholeness. All become united and
entangled in which the implicate order of non-locality implies c).
The state of existence which is the unfoldment of the
implicate order of non-locality manifests the explicate order of locality d).
The perpetual creation and annihilation, therefore, fashions alternately the
locality and non-locality orders (Figure-1B). These succeeding unfoldment of
the implicate and enfoldment of the explicate orders take place at the rate
equal to the speed of light. Alas, David Bohm1 who first proposed
the theory of the implicate order did not elaborate it to this direction, which
makes people consider his theory as a mere metaphor.
The gross sum of contributions of those explicit-implicit
orders or local-nonlocal orders e) is mathematically described by
what is called the wavefunction. As the quantum measurement can only gauge [the
snapshot of] the explicate order, and not the complete series of the
implicate-explicate orders, it gives us a perception as though the act of
measurement collapses the wavefunction.
The perpetual successive transformation of the local and
non-local orders which is not in point-to-point correspondence makes the
quantum probabilistic mechanism seem to take over the classical deterministic
mechanism.
Notes:
a. In the state of nonexistence, everything
dissolves into energy in which space and time has no meaning. It signifies that
in such nonexistence the non-local order implies.
b.
It implies that there is no such
[material] thing persists in nature. Everything "within" space
perpetually appears and disappears "through" time, except the energy
which alone persists. The persistence of matter and space are just an illusion.
c. The enfolded order which applies within such
a non-local 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 whole object is enfolded in each part of
the universe.
d.
As what is usually described using a Cartesian grid or its extension of
curvilinear coordinates. Locality fits comfortably within the space structure
which is mathematically described by a differential manifold.
e.
Mostly all the laws of motion in quantum mechanics correspond to enfoldment and
unfoldment. Bohm 1 put forward that the relation between the
wave function at one time and its form in another time is determined by the
propagator or the Green's function. The region near a point in space enfolds
contribution from all over space at other times and vice-versa in which the
Green's function is taken as the weighting factor.
References:
1. Bohm, D. et al.: "The Undivided
Universe," Routledge, London, 1993, p. 350-355.
2. Talbot, M.:
"The Holographic Universe," HarperPerennial, New York, 1992, p. 46-49
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