What this all means is that, at the cutting edge of contemporary science, the emerging insight indicates that the Universe, with all the things in it, is a quasi-living, coherent whole. All things in it are connected. All that happens in one place also happens in other places. All that happened at one time happens at other times. All the traces of each thing that ever existed endure.
Matter, though it appears solid, is energy bound by and in quantized wave-packets. These packets are further bound together to create the vast and harmonious architecture making up the world. It is deemed a mistake to believe that all matter was created in the Big Bang and that it will disappear in the Big Crunch. This idea, this finding, that everything is connected, coherent, and whole reflects an ancient notion that was present in the traditions of most every civilization. We are validating our sense of Oneness, of belonging, of being part of each other and of nature. We are a conscious part of this universe, beings through which it comes to know itself; where all things interact with all other things - together creating a coherent whole. The scope of this interaction transcends the prior known limits of space and time, is instantaneous over any distance, and conserved over any known (and unknown) span of time. The fundamental particles of the cosmos turn out to be continuous with each other and remain thoroughly 'entangled.' These particles have both corpuscular and wave aspects. They have no definite characteristics and exist simultaneously in several states at the same time until they are observed or measured. These states are all pure potential. It is as if the observer or the measuring instrument fishes the particles out of the sea of possibilities, transforming them from virtual into 'real.' |
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