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
