The Nothingness, Implicate Order and Non-locality

Most people wrongly perceive matter as an object existing in an empty space. Space is far from the vacuum, it is a plenum full of energy, the ground for all existence, inanimate and animate beings.

The matter is merely an ephemeral derivative of energy perpetually created and annihilated at the interface of the positive and negative energy as the result of the interaction of those opposite energies ^a). Despite its apparent materiality and enormous size, this interface - the 3D-space and its content (universe) - does not exist in and of itself. Together with the matter, it contains, space perpetually appears and disappears at the rate equal to the speed of light creating a dynamic dimension which we call time.

In a deeper reality, this dynamic ephemeral space might be described as a front wave propagating at the speed of light across an unimaginably vast ocean of high energy (Figure-1A). This front wave perpetually rises and dissipates above and to the surface of the ocean, manifesting respectively, using Bohm’s terms, the unfoldment of the implicate order and the enfoldment of the explicate order ^b).

It is only at this wave structure (unfolded order) that every materialized thing is localized. In this front wave, the universe where we live, the local order implies. Its surrounding (enfolded order), in front and behind the wave as well as in the vast ocean beneath it, is non-local ^c). The surrounding of our universe, the undisturbed vast ocean of energy, which we used to think as nothingness, is, in fact, a real plenum. Nothingness, emptiness, vacuum, nonexistence ^d) or whatever you call it is just pure human imagination.

Bohm was awfully correct when he stated that because the implicate order is the foundation that has given birth to everything in our universe, this infinite sea of energy must contain every configuration of matter that has been or will be created, energy, information (knowledge), consciousness, intelligence, and life ^e).

But again Bohm had no idea on how to describe physically these deep layering realities. He talked about super-implicate order by extending the notion of implicate order to quantum fields instead of particles ^f). The whole idea of implicate order could be extended in a natural way implying indefinitely higher levels of implicate order. In order to visualize the Bohm’s idea, we may enhance it by figuring out that each of those multi-layered implicate orders (energy, information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) is embedded one within another, in successively higher and higher dimensions (Figure-1B, C and D) ^g).

Notes:

a. The 4-dimensional spacetime is split into two parts as the positive and negative energies segregating from each other. The interface of these opposite energies is the 3-dimensional [hyper] surface on which particles are created as the result of those energies’ interaction. This interaction takes place as the quantum fields generated by the opposite energies piercing through the interface igniting quantum sparks we perceive as particles.   

b.  Bohm ¹ described the universe as a comparatively small pattern of excitation, a ripple on the infinite ocean of energy which is a deeper order enfolded in the warp of the reality. Bohm failed to elucidate his idea more explicitly by describing geometrically i.e. the relative dimensionality of the ripple vis-a-vis that of the ocean of energy. As such, his description of the universe in term of implicate and explicate order was blamed to be merely a metaphor.

c.   Our classical notions of localized order imply in spacetime arise as limiting cases of the deeper implicate order. The manifest level of ordinary experience and the quantum level underlying it emerge from a still deeper implicate level in which the classical Cartesian notions of form, order, and structure have more or less dissolved. Bohm believed that the implicate order would be more suitable for expressing the basic laws of nature than the explicate order which is only a particular case of the general order.

d.    Nothingness in the sense of an absolute term in which it is devoid of matter as well as energy or anything else. 

e.  We may call all of the later (information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) energy but in different degree of sophistication (dimensions).

f.     There is indeed no distinction between the fields and spacetime itself.

g.   The dimensions shown in the figure are relative. We should bear in our mind that each of those individuals (energy, information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) may have different levels of existence and, those, the variety of their dimensions.

References: 

1.    Bohm, D. et al.: “The Undivided Universe”, Routledge, London, 1993, p. 374-380.

2.    Talbot, M.: "The Holographic Universe", HarperPerennial, New York, 1992, p. 46-49

The Nothingness, Implicate Order and Non-locality

Energy, Spacetime and Riemann Sphere

The ultimate goal of the special relativity theory, if we are aware of, is the unification of the spacetime and energy. The union of these two would reveal the reality of energy which differs entirely from what we used to think about. Energy is a substance whose geometrical structure is reflected by the dimensionality of its spacetime.

Our ordinary [four-dimensional] spacetime is the physical manifestation of the energy whose vibrations are four-dimensional. As a [three-dimensional] human being we can only perceive this pure energy through its superficial three-dimensional aspect. Many underlying higher-dimensional ambient spaces which physicists have discovered, as they are adventuring deeper and deeper into the micro-world realms, are nothing but the reflections of various hyper-vibrations energies.

The relativity theory demonstrates that energy as a whole is inherently composed of positive and negative energies, as implicitly expressed in the relativistic energy equation E² = m²c⁴ + p²c². The segregation of its opposite parts that resulted in the split of energy created a 3-hypersurface (space) between the two halves of its separated respective spacetime. The world was not created through the "big" tiny bang bursting out of nothing.

In the quantum realm, energy as a wave can be described proportionally to its frequency as expressed by the Planck equation, E=hv.  We can express the energy, not only microscopically but also macroscopically, in term of the wavefunction whose character is completely holistic and non-local. However, the more natural way for us to grasp, is to express it in a periodic function such as a Fourier series ^a) or its complex form: the Laurent series ^b). 

In the relativistic framework, we map events in a complex plane where we express time in term of an imaginary variable. In such a plane, we have a Laurent series written as:

f(z) = F⁺(z) + c₀ + F^–(z),

which is a wave function expressed as the sum of its positive frequency (F⁺(z)) and negative frequency (F^–(z)). Physically, the constant term c₀ represents the real space at t=0 (the present now). This c₀, wholly or partially, becomes either the part of F⁺(z) or F^–(z) or maybe both. However, as there is only positive energy, at least in this corner of the world where we live in, the space (c₀) should be part of the positive ocean of energy, F⁺(z), and on the other side of the world it should be part of negative ocean of energy, F^-(z).

Geometrically, we can figure out this more clearly in terms of the Riemann sphere, the stereographic projection of the complex plane. On this sphere, we can transform the real axis (X) of the complex plane into a circle located on the equator, while the imaginary time coordinate (it) by the longitudinal circles. The positive frequency F⁺(z) extends holomorphically into the southern hemisphere, and the negative frequency F^–(z) extends holomorphically into the northern hemisphere (Figure 1). 

From this description, we have a complete similarity between that of purely mathematical geometry with the relativistic (Minkowski) spacetime geometry (Figure 2 A and B). The real circle on the Riemann sphere represents the 3-hypersurface (space) in the Minkowski 4-spacetime which separates it into two 4-halves. The positive energy segregates to one half, and the negative energy segregates to the other half of the spacetime. We can These two halves are respectively represented by the southern and northern hemispheres on the Riemann sphere. The real circle on the Riemann sphere and the hypersurface in the Minkowski spacetime, each represents the loci of all matters which may exist in the whole universe.

With this simple mathematical representation, we can have a deeper insight into how nature may work. As we have figured out previously, the real circle in the Riemann sphere represents the space, and the imaginary circle represents the time path. As time passes by along the imaginary circle, space (real circle) is rotating accordingly along the time direction (imaginary circle). As time flows resemble electric current, space is also rotating on its plane following the right-hand rule. The rotation of this space as a whole rotates, in turn, all celestial bodies from the super-galaxies down to galaxies, solar systems, and the earth.

Notes:

References:

1. Penrose, R.: “The Road to Reality”, Vintage Books, London, 2005, pp. 157-162.

Energy, Spacetime and Riemann Sphere

Energy and Quantum Information

So far we have paid our attention to the nature of energy on its potency, its capability to generate power and strength. There is another aspect of the energy which hardly any physicist is touching namely its capability to store and process the information. The power and information are two sides of the same coin.  

Let us revisit the phenomenon of the wave-particle duality as diagrammatically shown in Figure-1. A particle which we perceive subsisting through time is, in reality, a series of different but similar particles appear and disappear successively.

Particle "A" disappears as one moment passes, and new particle "B" appears as the next moment arrives. This process takes place perpetually so that another new particle "C," "D," "E" and so forth appears and disappears successively. We wrongly perceive as though all those different particles are the same particle ("A") like a bullet flying through the air.

So what bewilders us more is that those processes take place simultaneously upon all particles in the whole universe. Even though there is a gap of nothingness between the two consecutive moments of the appearance of the whole universe, the order in macroscopic level is rigorously maintained. We, our form and shape appear to be the same today and tomorrow. A chair will remain the same as of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and never randomly changes to become a table.

So what does this imply?  Energy, which survives throughout the whole process of creation and annihilation, should possess a sort of information that it carries and processes along with at the speed of light.  At the quantum level, energy performs like small processing units which are integrated at macroscopic level as a large supercomputer processing all those information at the speed of light.

The appearance and disappearance of matter to and fro energy might function as natural binary digits which are the basis of quantum computation. It opens to a new era of information technology. Some physicists¹ seriously consider the possibility to tap and wangle this quantum processing which will radically change, one way or another, the conventional methods of information processing.

What is life?

The natural capability to store and process the information, in psychic terms, is called awareness. At a higher degree, we may call it consciousness and intelligence. The higher the dimensions of energy are, the higher the degree of its consciousness and intelligence. The [four-dimensional] energy which is intimately related to matter possesses the lowest degree of awareness. Those related to the plant, animal, and human possess higher and higher dimensions, thus, higher capacity and capability in carrying and processing the information.

Plants and animals might evolve for the better, but this evolution cannot pass through the barrier of their owned energy dimensionality. There is no missing link between the plant and animal kingdoms and between the latter with that of human, just because there are no links between them. Darwin's evolution theory was correct but within the corridor of the respective kingdom.

Schrodinger² was one of the prominent physicists who tried to embark on the study of life. Physicists, who are interested in doing so more deeply, should be prepared to confront something having infinite-dimensionality.

REFERENCES:

1.      Jurgen, A., et al.:” Entangled World”, Wiley-VCH GmbH, Weinheim, 2006

2.      Schrodinger, E.:” What is life”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1967

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