Infinitely Connected - All is One

It astounds me at times, the lengths that humankind will go to, to prove their individuality and individual rights, when all the time in every minute, All is One. There is no me without you, there is no universe without me, so why would I hurt you, when all I am in fact doing is hurting me? And why would I beat myself up, as humans often do (in their mind) when in fact I am then by inference thinking the same things about you?

I know this is very philosophical, however it needs to be said as a prelude to what I am about to add to this article. The science of the universe proves these statements, we live in an ocean of particles with every particle touching every other particle, you and I, are concepts borne of perception, as two tiny whirlpools in the ocean would see themselves as separate. We who stand above, looking on from on high would know that those two tiny whirlpools were in fact just spots of turbulence in that great sea. Spots of turbulence that will eventually recede and disappear into the great ocean from which they sprang.

Because of this I do not understand war, hatred, violence or disunity of any kind, how can you be different from me when we are made from the same stuff that makes up the rest of the universe. All is One; and here is the science to prove it.

David Bohm, one of my all time hero's, an amazingly coherent physicist, provides a clear account of how this incorrect 'particle' conception of matter not only causes harm to the Sciences, but also to the way we think and live, and thus to our very society and its future evolution.

"The notion that all these fragments is separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who live in it. Individually there has developed a widespread feeling of helplessness and despair, in the face of what seems to be an overwhelming mass of disparate social forces, going beyond the control and even the comprehension of the human beings who are caught up in it."
(David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980)

Planck, Bohr and Einstien came to the conclusion in the early 1900's that the particle nature of the universe is an illusion, these discoveries formed the basis for many future experiments and hypothesis. They discovered that the universe had no actual space in it, in the way that most of us think of space, space as a hole does not exists, every part of our universe is filled with something - called energy, in some form.

"Since the theory of general relativity implies the representation of physical reality by a continuous field, the concept of particles or material points cannot play a fundamental part, nor can the concept of motion." (Albert Einstein)

"I wished to show that space time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe to a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept empty space loses its meaning." (Albert Einstein)

Next came de Broglie, Compton and Shroedinger who all gradually increased the research into the wave properties of electrons. In one momentous experiment, which has been repeated many times over the years, called the Double Slit experiment the wave nature of particles was given precedence, which lead to one of the most important discoveries in quantum science, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. (for more information please Google 'Double slit experiment' and 'Wave structure of matter.'

Werner Heisenberg developed the uncertainty principle which tells us that we (the observer) can never exactly know both the position and momentum of a particle. As every observation requires an energy exchange (photon) to create the observed 'data', some energy (wave) state of the observed object has to be altered. Thus the observation has a discrete effect on what we measure. i.e. We change the experiment by observing it! (A large part of their problem though was to continue to assume the existence of discrete particles and thus to try to exactly locate both their position and motion, which is impossible as there is no discrete particle!)
Further, because both the observed position and momentum of the particle can never be exactly known, theorists were left trying to determine the probability of where, for example, the 'particle' would be observed.

One of the things that has stumbled many quantum scientists, even to this day has been the practice of "normalization", whereby the mathematics of infinities (which come up in almost every equation concerned with the structure of our universe) is 'normalized to assume a finite world. Now why would you do that? Yes, I understand dealing with infinities is not easy for the human mind, and when dealing with infinities we cannot create, nice enclosed 'constants' and get our name on a universal constant. But this would seem to me to be seriously flawed mathematics, from people who love order (most mathematicians love order), to seriously undermine truth, just to create a false sense of order is incomprehensible to me.

If the universe is telling you that there are infinities, then in the interests of truth and order, you must include these truths in order to call it quality science!
In 1937 Paul Dirac wrote;

"I must say that I am very dissatisfied with the situation, because this so called good theory does involve neglecting infinities which appear in its equations, neglecting them in an arbitrary way. This is just not sensible mathematics. Sensible mathematics involves neglecting a quantity when it turns out to be small - not neglecting it just because it is infinitely great and you do not want it!" (Dirac, 1937)

and Einstein wrote:

"The inadequacy of this point of view manifested itself in the necessity of assuming finite dimensions for the particles in order to prevent the electromagnetic field existing at their surfaces from becoming infinitely large." (Albert Einstein, 1936)

To Be Continued....