DNA Monthly August 2005

BREAKING NEWS: A Shift in human consciousness is occurring even as you read these words that employs celestial triggers such as supernovas and Earth's alignment with Galactic Center in the years leading up to 2012 to trigger the evolution of our species. Perhaps this is why, consciously or otherwise, this publication has piqued your interest.

Today this Shift is visible every time you open a newspaper or turn on the TV. It can be seen in the breakdown of old structures such as those of governments, churches and corporations, as well as in families and individuals. The Shift is also evident in the ecological breakdown of many Earth systems, a generalized perception that time is accelerating, drastic changes in weather patterns, more people feeling unsatisfied by modern life, and increased polarization in regions, religions, and groups.

Fortunately, along with signs of breakdown, there is also overwhelming evidence of breakthrough: the appearance in unprecedented numbers of stunningly gifted children, the emergence of innovative and integrated healing modalities, people becoming less religiously and more spiritually inclined, and the dawning of new communities and other social structures based on servant leadership and similar partnership principles.

The significance of the winter solstice on December 21, 2012, according to Aztec, Hopi, Incan and Mayan traditions, is that this date marks the close of several cycles of time. The first is the end of the 26,000-year Mayan calendar, also called the Annus Magnus ("Great Year"), considered by many a gestational or birth cycle for our planet. Interestingly, the number 26,000 is very close to Plato's "ideal" number of 25,920.

Mayan timekeepers believe that human evolution unfolds as a result of such precise cycles of time. They ask us to understand that Earth and humanity are about to be birthed into a new reality based on unity predicated on a dramatic advance in consciousness. And of course, this involves the evolution of human DNA.

FEATURED IN THE AUGUST 2005 ISSUE OF DNA MONTHLY

1. "The Biology of Enlightenment," by Sol Luckman

3. "The Universe Is Obsolete: A Gallery of Multiverse Theories" (Part Two of Two), by Iona Miller & Richard Alan Miller

The evolution from human to divine consciousness involves healing duality and its legacy of karma and disease at the cellular and atomic levels. There is no illness that cannot be healed simply through the proper use of intention. Many of the thousands of documented so-called miracle healings powerfully demonstrate the impact of consciousness on physical as well as emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Mind-body medicine, which is statistically valid enough to be taught in today's medical schools, offers additional proof of our ability to heal ourselves. Molecular biologist Bruce Lipton's research further indicates that people can modify their DNA and overcome life-threatening illnesses simply by changing their consciousness.

Deepak Chopra has remarked that "the similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep." A photon is a particle or quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. Dr. Chopra is implying a connection between thought and light. In many shamanic traditions, thought (intention) is considered a form or function of higher-dimensional light. Mind is "the illuminating energy which 'Lights the way' of an idea or form to be transmitted and received," wrote Alice Bailey. "Upon a beam of light can the energy of the mind materialize." Following this line of reasoning, we can imagine ourselves not only as "frozen light" (to quote Dr. Richard Gerber) but also as "frozen thought."

This way of looking at the human body as a congealed thought, which may at first strike the reader as strange, is in the final analysis deeply empowering. Quantum physicists have repeatedly demonstrated that a scientist always affects the outcome of an experiment simply by observing it, a realization now universally accepted in the scientific community as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Even more amazing is the paradigm-altering discovery that gives rise to the particle-wave duality: the probability that the physicist actually creates the quantum particles that he or she observes, since in unobserved states these particles appear to exist only as waves.

A fundamental and revolutionary truth emerges from this information: consciousness creates. As human beings imbued with free will, we can use the power of our consciousness to re-create our reality: including but not limited to a body, mind and spirit free of disease.

I stress "re-create" because, clearly, we already inhabit one creation. The world as we know it is based on the principle of duality. Another way of stating this is that a dualized or divided consciousness, one that already saw itself as separate from other consciousnesses, including unity or God consciousness, gave birth to the universe as humans often experience it: a battleground between good and evil, light and dark, right and wrong, "us" and "them."

But duality is not merely a philosophy; it is a physical state of being as well. The very atoms that make up our cells are based on positive and negative charges whose opposition sustains a certain life-form. Lipton has coined the phrase the "biology of consciousness" to summarize the transformational idea that living organisms, including humans, rather than being empirical givens, are actually malleable thought-forms. In other words, adopting a quantum perspective, we are basically waves that only cohere as particles through an act of consciousness. By changing our consciousness, we change our physical form and functioning.

Healing means to make whole. Healing leads to unification and implies atonement, which in this context really should be read as "at-one-ment." In a world where thought creates and biology is a product of consciousness, not the other way around, the mind has the power to forge a new biology, one no longer based on duality but on principles of unity and harmony. In Return of the Bird Tribes, where a central theme is the reunion of the human body with the soul in the pivotal years we are currently experiencing, Ken Carey neatly summarizes how we must proceed, individually as well as collectively: "In the order of healing, it is human consciousness that first must change." Our challenge, which is also a tremendous opportunity, is to open up to a literally life-changing way of thinking ourselves into existence.

Enlightenment is about raising consciousness and letting the light of the soul in to the point that we become it. True enlightenment follows a path of conscious personal mastery that results in transformation and, by definition, involves the creation of a stable lightbody. The lightbody or soul body is a "trinitized" (balanced and harmonious) physical vehicle that has resolved duality, karma and disease at the cellular and atomic levels.

We can conceptualize the current evolutionary Shift in our species' DNA as a change in "operating systems" from a binary to a "trinary" code based on the ener-genetics of the three-fold tetrahedron shape. We might even go so far as to say that humans are evolving out of biology into "triology." In this light it is most interesting that some in the alternative science community have alluded to suppressed research on a third DNA strand reportedly activating in many humans.

An illuminating way of visualizing how metamorphosis into a light-based physiology actually occurs is to look at a quantum particle known as positronium. Positronium is composed of an electron, which has a negative charge, and a positron, which has a positive charge. Positronium is a perfect example of duality. It also provides a wonderful illustration of how the lightbody is created. Since electrons and positrons are antiparticle opposites, after combining to form positronium, they immediately cancel out each other and decay into two particles or quanta of light (photons). A third stable and unified element, that is neither positive nor negative, is thus created from a preexisting dualism.

Barbara Hand Clow has written that this process of combination and decay in the positronium atom, mirrored in lightbody activation, "resolves inherent duality into light … [As] the electron is the basic unit of activation--life--it triggers the transmutation of the positron--karma." Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universe's binary or dualistic operating system only to teach us responsibility for our creations--and all things we experience are our creations. When these creations are out of tune with Source, they often manifest in the disharmony known as disease. This can occur not only in individuals but in entire civilizations. In both cases, disease, which is typically considered a crisis, simultaneously serves as a powerful stimulus for transformation and transcendence.

As we raise our consciousness and activate our lightbody, we realize that we are our own creators made, or making ourselves, in the image and similitude of the one Creator. Indeed, since in a hologram the part contains the whole, we are the one Creator. By learning this truly transformative lesson, we return to unity consciousness while mastering physicality. In other words, we achieve god-realization as the light of soul descends into a divine or soul body healed of duality and freed from the instructional cycle of karma.

Copyright (c) 2005 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is editor of DNA Monthly and cofounder of the Phoenix Center for Regenetics, offering cutting-edge educational services and materials designed to activate unity consciousness and actualize human potential. The developers of the Regenetics Method are educators and ordained ministers, not medical doctors, and do not purport to diagnose or treat illness. The preceding article is adapted from Book One on the Regenetics Method, Conscious Healing. For information click here.]

DNA-related Definition of the Month

Transposon: term recently employed by cell biologists to describe what has also been called "jumping DNA"--tiny segments of potential DNA that can be prompted by torsion energy or universal creative consciousness to change their positioning in the DNA molecule, rewriting or reprogramming the genetic code.

To have hopes and dreams for the future is wonderful. If you want to call them "goals," that's fine also--but learn to put things in perspective. Goals are not achieved in the way you probably have been led to believe.

The much talked about conscious mind, subconscious mind, will, belief patterns, etc., are simply descriptions of mental procedures and do not exist in isolation, as many people believe. They are all part of the same "mental cooperative."

The moment you set a goal, you instantly cause an "inner conflict" between various departments of this mental cooperative. This is unavoidable due to the way we were brought up, our parents, how we were educated, our religious beliefs, or lack of them. The list is almost endless.

All these factors make up our core beliefs. These beliefs give rise to our personal creative patterns of thought that dictate our individual realities which, in turn, give life to our own set of "Living Laws."

Living Laws are laws that we follow, that we adhere to for the sake of leading a "normal," acceptable life. But they also have a life of their own and can be changed, amended, or completely abolished to make way for new ones. Each of us has a set of these laws. Some we live by are similar to other people's--but never 100%. That's what makes us individuals. Sure, we are all human beings--but we are not all the same.

Inner conflict arises when what I call "The Judge" evaluates, compares and checks out your goal to see if it is valid. That is to say, if it complies with your current set of internal laws. When your goal is found to contravene these laws, for whatever reason--and the reasons we are very rarely aware of--it is immediately and unceremoniously overruled and thrown out of court with no hope of appeal.

The secret to achieving our goals is to engender a new creative pattern of thought and thereby amend our current set of Living Laws. We must become an active and willing member of the cooperative. We must, in fact, cooperate with the cooperative!

The modern idea that you can use visualization techniques or repeat endless affirmations in order to change these laws and therefore The Judge's mind is erroneous--it will not make the slightest difference.

Before we go further, let's take a look at these beliefs and where they come from and see why they are so difficult to change.

It's all very well being told to change our beliefs and we will change our lives, but just how do we do it? We know from experience that simple visualization doesn't work, nor do affirmations. So what does?

The DNA of beliefs are MEMES (pronounced as in cream). Memes are a relatively new discovery and seldom, if ever, talked about in books or courses about personal success and achievement. Why? If memes are the very foundation of our personality, why are they never mentioned? The main reason is that few people actually understand how they work or the significance they have in our everyday lives.

The dictionary defines a meme as "a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another." Memes have been likened to viruses and the comparison is indeed very apt. Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins defines memes as a set of ideas that can replicate itself like a virus and spread from one brain to another.

For example, it took only 300 years for the meme of Christianity to "overrun" the Roman Empire and less than 130 years for the meme of communism to "infect" 1.8 billion people. Memes such as "Life's a constant struggle," "There are no free meals" and "Money doesn't grow on trees" have had many generations to set up shop in our psyches and become part of our everyday lives. Besides, they have to be true--our parents said so!

Memes come in all shapes and sizes. Some are relatively innocent. But some are extremely dangerous. I don't wish to enter into a religious or political discussion, so suffice it to say that "religious memes" and "political memes" are particularly virulent--and in some cases deadly!

Memes form what are known as PARADIGMS. A paradigm is "a set of assumptions, concepts, values and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them."

We must be very clear on the power of paradigms and how they affect us in order be able to exercise our right of free choice. Which paradigms we choose to accept determine the form or our perceptions, which in turn shape our decisions, actions, experiences, social systems, worlds, and futures.

If you don't understand just how much of a grip paradigms have on your life through shaping your experiences, then you will be under the impression that you and the world are set in stone and "There's nothing you can do to change it."

Copyright (c) 2005 by Ian S. N. Randall. All Rights Reserved.

[Ian S. N. Randall is author of Accelerated Goal Manifestation. Click here for information. The preceding article is reprinted with permission from http://EzineArticles.com.]

In Buddhism, the universe is perceived as timeless, eternal with no beginning or end. It is rooted in the Void. In Vedic cosmology, ours is one of countless universes clustered together like foam on the surface of the Causal Ocean. An enveloping shell of subtle primeval elements separates each. In the Judeo-Christian vision, the universe begins with Light.

Some modern theories mirror these metaphors, but multiverses are more than metaphorical. In the beginning was nothing but hyperspace with fluctuations in nothing. Bubbles emerged and began expanding rapidly, producing our universe. As Kaku (2003) says, "The Judeo-Christian genesis takes place within the Buddhist nirvana, all the time, and our Multiverse percolates universes."

Shall we imagine chains of universes, bubbles within bubbles, endless proliferations of universes reiterating in fractals? Do baby universes sprout from black holes or are there isolated island universes in other dimensions? We can take the top-down view of cosmology and superspace. Superspace is John Wheeler's original name for what is now called quantum foam. It consists of pure massless charge flux, scalar waves.

Or we can take the bottom-up view of infinitely small quantum worlds, string theory. Are there anti-matter universes? Are these meta-universes divergent or aligned with our own? Are they close at hand or far away? Are there more multiverses as time goes by?

Alan Guth of MIT created the inflationary theory of ever-expanding universes. As the visible universe expands, it gives birth to new universes. Since inflation is eternal, the creation of new worlds is also eternal. In "an eternally inflating universe, anything that can happen, will happen," he says. "In fact, it will happen an infinite number of times."

The multiverse already has an infinite history, far exceeding that of our local universe, which is around 14 billion years old. Everything that can happen does, somewhere in dimensions we will probably never fathom. In the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, all possibilities exist and simply are. Life only thrives in a small subset of the sets of universes. Not every embryonic universe forms hydrogen or carbon essential for life as we know it.

Hugh Everett III first proposed his many worlds theory in the 1950s to overcome the need for an observer to collapse the wave function of the Copenhagen interpretation. The wave function rotates in an abstract infinite-dimensional space called Hilbert space. Collapse is a change in our knowledge of the system through measurement, and interaction of observer and observed. The wave function is a quantity that encodes the probabilistic information about such variables as position, momentum, and energy.

In Everett's theory (the "relative state" formulation), the universe is one holistic wave function. There is no collapse from possible to actual, just a set of amplitudes in which all possibilities throughout space-time remain as superpositions. Each world splits into equally real multiple possibilities after each and every event. Our doppelgangers live on other quantum branches in infinite Hilbert space.

All possibilities are physically real in their own dimension, though virtual entities to an observer in another dimension. Ordinary existence, from possible to actual, arises from quantum decoherence. Decoherence, which mimics wave function collapse but preserves unity, is the term for disappearance of multiple additional possibilities. Interaction of object and environment destroys certain states faster than others. Vacuum fluctuations generate superpositions of all possible initial conditions. These coexist simultaneously, but decoherence causes them to behave classically viewed within separate quantum branches.

David Deutsch, who developed quantum computing, is the most prominent supporter of Everett's many worlds interpretation (MWI). Quantum computers theoretically use atoms from parallel universes for their calculations. Deutsch says that different times are the same as different universes. "The universes we can affect we call the future. Those that can affect us we call the past." All outcomes are present. This is reminiscent of Einstein's statement: "The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one." The many-worlds branch toward the future creating an apparent arrow of time.

In the branching tree of alternative histories, the outcome of one branching profoundly affects probabilities of subsequent branching, and even the nature of alternatives subsequently available. Different possible histories each have their own probability, according to Murray Gell-Mann.

In Andrew Gray's History Selection formulation of MWI, history is selected over all space and time. Particles "decide" which equi-probable branches to take by choosing the least destructive path, avoiding interference with another particle at some stage in the future. The particle seems to "know" what will happen if it goes one way or another, and chooses the highest "survival" potential. It seems to perceive the whole of its space-time world line with its actions now influenced by what can happen in the future. It somehow avoids interference in a non-causal way by selecting from all probabilities.

We cannot control the fates of our other selves in the multiverse. But if someone dies, that person can still be alive in another universe. This elicits intriguing questions about free will, reincarnation, immortality, and perhaps the supernatural. Shall we take comfort that there are some worlds where we don't make our worst mistakes, where we don't lose our loved ones or die prematurely?

Wormholes, Sprouts, Strings, Bubbles & Handshakes

Our universe could be just one of a manifold of all possible universes. Perhaps the universe tunneled from nothing. Quantum tunneling allows objects to pass through barriers that are impassable according to Newton's classical laws of physics.

In 1962 John Wheeler discovered the Einstein-Rosen bridge, later known as a wormhole. Sidney Coleman, theoretical physicist from Harvard, investigates the nature of the vacuum and its relation to the cosmological constant. Wormholes are tubelike regions of space that connect one region of the universe to another. Wormholes may contribute information to our universe in the form of values for the constants of nature, or fix the energy density of the vacuum--the cosmological constant.

Coleman says that "the cosmological constant is zeroed out by wormholes; invisible, submicroscopic rips in the fabric of spacetime that tunnel out of our universe, linking it to an infinite web of other universes." Dark matter, the invisible gravitating substance that possibly makes up part of the missing mass of our universe, may reside in parallel universes. Such matter would affect our universe's gravity and is necessarily "dark" since our species of photon is stuck on our membrane (flat universe). Photons cannot travel across the void from parallel matter to our eyes, though they may look like normal light to inhabitants of their own universe.

Stephen Hawking invented quantum wormholes in 1988. Just as quantum mechanics says there is a certain probability that particles can appear from nowhere in a vacuum, quantum cosmology says there is a certain probability that a small chunk of space and time can suddenly pop into existence. A wormhole is a fluctuation in the space-time field, just as a virtual particle is a fluctuation in an energy field. The wormhole can connect to any of an endless number of preexisting parallel universes otherwise inaccessible to us. In 1989, Kip Thorne showed that a region of space containing a negative mass-energy could stabilize wormholes.

David Bohm's notion of the holomovement includes an enfolded and manifest world, and a something-from-nothing philosophy. Is there one massive holographic field that actually exists in nature? Specific wave-forms can be exact representations of spatiotemporal objects. Does the non-material implicate realm underlie our reality as an immense multidimensional wave function? Bohm also invokes the notion of the "pilot wave," claiming that a quantum wave guides particles along their trajectories.

Thomas E. Bearden is the darling of the ZPE (zero point energy or vacuum potential) free-energy crowd. A stalwart defender of crosstalk with other dimensions, which interact with our own in extraordinary circumstances, he has concentrated on the properties of the vacuum as space-time. He describes a hyperworld as a 3-space or 4-space rotated one or more orthogonal (90 degree) turns away from the ordinary world, constituting an entire subquantal level in a virtual state.

What appears real in one parallel world is a virtuality in its 90 degree companions. In Excalibur Briefing, Bearden uses his model as a theoretical framework for vacuum energy, mind, and matter. He describes the relation to hyperspace of the panoply of paranormal phenomena from UFOs and cattle mutilations, to the whole range of psi abilties, apparitions, and psychotronic weapons that add hyperdimensional aspects to their function.

Moving beyond simple inflationary models, Andrei Linde of Stanford created a self-generating universe theory with complex elements. He calls it "self-reproducing inflationary universe." He views our universe as one of many sprouts of a growing fractal, sprouting inflationary domains that sprout more inflationary domains, each spreading and cooling into a new universe. According to this theory, our universe came from a singularity. A universe can come from as little as an ounce of vacuum. Universes sprout into existence by the billions in dimensions we can't see. Those with excessive gravity are crushed; with weak gravity no stars form. In an expanding bubble closed universe, inside is normal space, outside is energy super-saturated space from the initial conditions. Connections are possible only through wormholes.

Maybe our universe is just a bubble in an endless chain of big bangs, bubbles within bubbles. Each new universe is a separate closed volume of space and time. Quantum fluctuations in inflationary expansion have a wavelike character. When these waves "freeze" atop one another, their effects are magnified. These stacked-up quantum waves disrupt scalar fields--the underlying field that determines the behavior of elementary particles. Such waves exceed a sort of cosmic critical mass and start birthing new inflationary domains.

Bubble universes are presumed approximately uniform. The laws of physics are the same in most of them. The multiverse has a common time for the primordial froth as a whole. Because of the infinity of universes, stars and planets, Earth-like planets must exist in infinite number. That implies also infinite numbers of each of us. Right now an infinity of all humans exists in all possible variations.

John Cramer describes a transactional theory where information passes backwards and forwards through time. Quantum handshakes between the future and the past create reality. Past emitters and future absorbers interlace past and future together. The nonlinear collapse of these wave-particle complementary pairs creates a single world history, but past events are not causal.

Greene and others have invoked string theory, suggesting that rather than particles, matter is the resonating tip of vibrating strings or tiny one-dimensional filaments curled up into virtual nothingness in 7 dimensions in addition to our three common dimensions of space plus time. In superstring theory we live in a nine-dimensional space. We notice three of them while the others remain curled up so tight they are unnoticeable.

In Hyperspace Michio Kaku describes the 10 dimensions of the universe with string field theory. Strings have just one dimension: length. Fundamental objects in this theory are one-dimensional strings living in 10 dimensional space-time. The vibrating string drives all subatomic particles. When they collide they create atoms and nuclei, jump-starting chemistry. Kaku says, "If you kick the string, then an electron will turn into a neutrino. If you kick it again ... it will turn from a neutrino into a photon or a graviton. And if you kick it enough times, the vibrating string will ... mutate into all the subatomic particles." String fans tend to be particle physicists.

In Surfing through Hyperspace, physicist and mathematical artist Clifford Pickove conjectures on the nature of four-dimensional beings: "A 4-D being would be a god to us. It would see everything in our world. It could even look inside your stomach and remove your breakfast without cutting through your skin, just like you could remove a dot inside a circle by moving it up into the third dimension, perpendicular to the circle, without breaking the circle. A hyperbeing can effortlessly remove things before your very eyes, giving you the impression that the object simply disappeared. The hyperbeing can also see inside any 3-D object or life form, and if necessary remove anything from inside. The being can look inside our intestines, or remove a tumor from our brains without ever cutting through the skin."

Fred Alan Wolf (1988) also helps us speculate about all the wild ramifications and paradoxes of such views. In Parallel Universes he delves deep into the mysteries of the various theories. We live in a cloud of positional universes; the fog of time is parallel universes. Wolf says that "we need all the points in the cloud to have any stable universe, in the same way that we need a single electron to exist as a cloud in an atom in order that the atom have a stable energy.

"The key idea, the central core of all of the quantum paradoxes, is that possibilities-universes conspire. It's a quantum conspiracy" among infinite worlds. The whole multiverse is connected through the existence of all parallel universes. But many nuances have developed in the last fifteen years since Wolf's publication.

As Above; So Below

Hermetic philosophers used an axiom attributed to Hermes Trismegistus as the basis of their metaphysical worldview. "As Above; So Below" implied that what is true of the most exalted or superior realms of nature is also true of the most finite. These ancient philosophers also believed in finer planes of consciousness: a plenum filled with hierarchies of supernatural beings, some far removed, others close at hand.

They spoke of a branching Tree of Life filled with primordial dynamics, and a spiritual field with four levels of force that permeates all. In their vision the universe of energy and matter emanated from the primordial state, impenetrable veils of negative existence, becoming progressively denser. They attributed existence to resonance and the transformations of Light and Sound. They recognized four primary elements, which we can correlate with the four fundamental forces: strong force, weak force, gravity, and electromagnetism.

Even though superstition filled gaps in knowledge about the nature of these other worlds, in essence they are surprisingly close to the truth. Only in the last century has science been able to affirm these ancient intuitions. As man looked inside himself, he saw the basic essence of reality and struggled to describe it in common terms. Even in science, there is always a gap between reality and the descriptions of it.

The multiverse, however, is not metaphysical (notions that cannot be proved or disproved) but quite scientific. It is studied in the fields of quantum cosmology and high energy physics. The normal laws of physics were "unborn" at the birth of this universe, because of the incredible density of energy. Some physicists speculate that compacting a mere ounce of matter could ignite a big bang that would create a universe we could never see.

In the Beginning?

These ancient intuitive ideas are echoed in another scientific creation theory: in the beginning was the Void. Sound waves originated in the first instant of the universe's life, when the cosmos underwent an extraordinary expansion. No one really knows what drove it, but by stretching the very fabric of space, creation magnified a weird subatomic phenomenon--the spontaneous materialization of particles from a complete vacuum. Vacuum fluctuation underlies both cosmology and quantum processes.

Vacuum-spawned particles flickering into existence from the Void were energized by the Big Bang to remain in the real world. This sudden influx of countless particles from the vacuum was like throwing a stone into the dense particle pond of the early universe. Pressure waves rippling through the gas were nothing more than sound waves. The entire universe rang like a bell. The particle fog cleared and the universe became transparent. There was no longer enough pressure to support the sound waves. But now photons traveled freely through space ("Let there be Light").

Before fading forever, those echoes of creation's thunder left their mark on the cosmic microwave background. These sound waves compressed the particle soup in some regions of the cosmos and rarefied it in others. The resulting temperature patterns show the universe just as it was when the particle fog--and the sound waves--vanished.

The first moments of cosmic history show the ambient energy was so great that the entire universe was in a false vacuum state. The energy of the false vacuum acted as a kind of antigravity and caused space to balloon at an exponential rate. During inflation the universe was nearly empty, its energy content having been swallowed up into the false vacuum. Once it decayed to a classical vacuum, its excess energy precipitated like raindrops into the myriad hot particles of the Big Bang. The universe has never stopped inflating and is actually accelerating space and expanding the cosmos faster than we believed likely before 1998.

When scientists look backward in deep time and try to see through the Big Bang, they cannot apply normal rules. Even the sometimes bizarre notions of quantum mechanics don't apply, let alone the mechanistic rules of Newton. Some speculate that our universe came either from a void, or a white hole--a singularity (Hawking). Others suggest it is the result of the collision of two bubble universes in a frothing stew of similar self-contained bubbles (Linde). Still others contend it comes from a non-material realm of pure information (Siegfried). Bohm's implicate order is actually a quantum fuzz or superdense quantum vacuum. We know the Big Bang happened because the universe is still expanding, even accelerating (Goldsmith).

What's the Matter?

Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet said, "The nature of reality is this: It is hidden, and it is hidden, and it is hidden."

Physical reality is not absolute. Materialism is as dead as communism. Science has tried to find the fundamental building blocks of matter, but has been stymied. It simply depends on the assumptions and theory you use with the level of observation: cosmological, molecular, atomic, or subatomic. Now the quark (theoretically point-sized), long thought the smallest unit discernable, is giving way to finer distinctions--a whole new level of the makeup of matter.

In The Quantum Brain, Jeffrey Satinover describes "a world in which one can comfortably argue the dynamics of interference among multiple universes both forward and backward in time; can ask seriously, as did Feynman and Wheeler, whether every electron in the universe is the same one, just reappearing through multiple loops in time."

Lee Smolin is not a fan of MWI, but he describes its anomaly: only "an observer who lived outside the universe who had somehow the same relation to the whole universe that we may have towards some atoms of gas in a container, could observe this quantum state of the universe ... [Only] such an observer ... could know all of reality."

Creation may come from nothingness (ex nihilo), but it doesn't travel very far from it when closely examined. It only and ever manifests as quantum potentiality, though it appears particle-like. This includes both so-called organic and inorganic matter. The universe is more like a dream than something concrete.

In fact, there is no such thing as solid matter at all, no hordes of tiny particles. All manifestations are reduced to probability waves in quantum mechanics. We have suggested elsewhere (see "Helix to Hologram," Nexus) that the so-called material world is a projection of a frequency domain, fields within fields, tuned with resonance, light, and sound. This holographic concept of reality requires the unperceived information background as its basis. Both particle and field exist only in the implicate order.

Light is even more ephemeral. As Wolf (2000) relates, "When we see light, we really don't see light at all; we see an effect appearing as a result of light pushing and pulling on the mattter making up our sensory bodies. We see matter moving. Light itself is really out of this world and, as far as I can tell, out of any parallel world we wish to think about."

The most theories provide is the best explanation. Explanation not prediction is the point of science. We explain the world in terms of embedded hierarchies of substructures and superstructures. Each appears as a thing in itself with specialized functions and dynamics. Physics determines what can be computed, including the information capabilities of matter and energy underlying physical dynamics and deeper subquantal levels.

Reality consists of continually diverging and converging waves unfolding from the information level, but that is another story, as is the physics of consciousness. The mind arises from the laws of matter. While some scientists are trying to describe matter as consciousness, others are trying to reduce consciousness to matter.

A thought of a thing is not that thing, but it is not nothing either. Our thoughts about the ultimate nature of reality affect that reality at the metaphysical level. As intuitive and author Jorge Luis Borges said, "Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures." All that can happen, must happen.

The outdated notion of our universe is an idea, not a reality. As an idea it has been proven obsolete.

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