Written by Arjun Walia
It has been written about before, over and over again, but cannot be
emphasized enough. The world of quantum physics is an eerie one, one
that sheds light on the truth about our world in ways that challenge the
existing framework of accepted knowledge.
What we perceive as our physical material world, is really not
physical or material at all, in fact, it is far from it. This has been
proven time and time again by multiple Nobel Prize (among many other
scientists around the world) winning physicists, one of them being Niels
Bohr, a Danish Physicist who made significant contributions to
understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” – Niels Bohr
At the turn of the nineteenth century, physicists started to explore
the relationship between energy and the structure of matter. In doing
so, the belief that a physical, Newtonian material universe that was at
the very heart of scientific knowing was dropped, and the realization
that matter is nothing but an illusion replaced it. Scientists began to
recognize that everything in the Universe is made out of energy.
“Despite the unrivaled empirical success of
quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a
description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension
and even anger.” (T. Folger, “Quantum Shmantum”; Discover 22:37-43,
2001)
Quantum physicists discovered that physical atoms are made up of
vortices of energy that are constantly spinning and vibrating, each one
radiating its own unique energy signature. Therefore, if we really want
to observe ourselves and find out what we are, we are really beings of
energy and vibration, radiating our own unique energy signature -this is
fact and is what quantum physics has shown us time and time again. We
are much more than what we perceive ourselves to be, and it’s time we
begin to see ourselves in that light. If you observed the composition of
an atom with a microscope you would see a small, invisible tornado-like
vortex, with a number of infinitely small energy vortices called quarks
and photons. These are what make up the structure of the atom. As you
focused in closer and closer on the structure of the atom, you would see
nothing, you would observe a physical void. The atom has no physical
structure, we have no physical structure, physical things really don’t
have any physical structure! Atoms are made out of invisible energy, not
tangible matter.
“Get over it, and accept the inarguable
conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual” (1) –
Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins
University (quote taken from “the mental universe)
It’s quite the conundrum, isn’t it? Our experience tells us that our
reality is made up of physical material things, and that our world is an
independently existing objective one. The revelation that the universe
is not an assembly of physical parts, suggested by Newtonian physics,
and instead comes from a holistic entanglement of immaterial energy
waves stems from the work of Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Werner
Heisenberg, among others. (0)
The Role of Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics
