"No physical theory that deals only with physics will ever explain physics" (John Wheeler).
"No science is capable of scientifically demonstrating its own basis" (Descartes).
"Quantum mechanics is at the basis of our consciousness" (Nick Herbert).
The Deep - Shallow Duality
Physics studies the physical "phenomena", the observable, the objective, the external, the perceptible, the superficial. But behind every phenomenon hides the "noomenon", the internal, the hidden, the deep cause. Science has fallen into the trap of objectivity, ignoring the deep world.
Therefore, to understand physics, one must go to the deep, to the origin from which phenomena arise. This transcendent level must be the foundation of physical phenomena and provide a unified view of reality.
In general, a science cannot ground itself. For example, mathematics cannot be founded on a formal axiomatic system (as Gödel's theorem proved). It must be grounded in something deeper, transcendent or higher: in a meta-mathematics. In the same way, physics cannot be grounded in itself. It needs a deeper foundation, a metaphysics or supraphysics.
Feynman said: "I think I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics". And, indeed, it is not understood contemplated from a superficial level. But by adopting a deep point of view, everything is easier to understand. Modern physics is not understood because we are applying a superficial mindset to explain what is intrinsically deep. "Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better" (Einstein).
Indeed, in an attempt to explain all the strange phenomena of quantum physics, the existence of a transcendent level of physical reality responsible for the immanent physical level has been postulated.
In the physical world, the most superficial and observable are matter, space (the environment where matter resides) and time (perceived mainly as change of position of matter in space). But when descending to the subatomic level, matter, at its deepest level, is not matter, it is "diluted" and identified with the subtle level of space or with the structure or geometry of space. And linear time (which is the one we observe at the external level) ceases to make sense to become a non-time or another type of time (imaginary, virtual, cyclic, etc.).
Some opinions in this regard are:
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of existence" (Nikola Tesla).
"As far as matter is concerned, we are all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, the vibration of which has been slowed down so that it is perceptible by the senses. There is no matter" (Einstein).
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but forms and variations in the structure of space" (Erwin Schrödinger).
"Atoms are not things" (Werner Heisenberg).
"Matter and energy are simply different kinds of curvature of space" (William Clifford).
"Matter as such does not exist. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. And we must suppose that behind this force there is a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter" (Max Planck).
"Matter is Spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level" (Helena Blavatsky).
"I think that modern physics has decided definitely in favor of Plato. In fact, the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas that can only be expressed unambiguously in mathematical language" (Werner Heisenberg).
The Ether
It is a hypothetical subtle and absolute space, in which many cultures believed.
Anaxagoras of Clazomene (5th century B.C.) postulated the existence of a subtle substance that filled all space and which he called "ether".
Aristotle was the first to postulate that space is a plenum, a substance that pervades the entire universe.
When light was discovered to be an electromagnetic wave, it was postulated that the ether must exist as the medium in which light is transmitted. In the same way that sound needs air to move, light needs ether.
In 1854, Riemann introduced the idea of hyperspace. He postulated that the basic laws of nature in 3D space, the three forces then known to physics (electricity, magnetism and gravity) would all be united in 4D space and would appear different because of the folded geometry of our 3D reality. This theory would explain the action at a distance of Newton's gravitation.
In 1875, Peter Guthrie Tait and Balfour Stewart wrote a popular science book with the title "The Unseen Universe, or Physical Speculations on an Future State". In this book, these authors suggested that all matter was composed of ether particles, particles which in turn were composed of other, more subtle ether particles, and so on ad infinitum. In this hierarchy of ethers, each level was formed from the deepest. The scale ascended until it reached the infinite energy of God. The creation of the world was a descending cascade of energy in the spectrum of ethers.
In 1887, Michelson and Morley attempted to detect the motion of the Earth through the hypothetical ether by observing its possible influence on the speed of light. It was shown that the speed of light was invariant and independent of the motion of the Earth.
Mendeleev −the creator of the periodic table of the elements− believed that space was composed of particles a million times smaller than a hydrogen atom. The combination of these particles would be the origin of atoms. For Mendeleev, space was not full of particles; space was the particles.
Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Faraday, Maxwell, Hamilton and many others launched the idea that space and three-dimensional physical reality could be a manifestation of a series of higher, hyperspatial dimensions.
In the 19th century, Faraday introduced the concept of "field". He postulated that the most important aspect of energy was not its source, but the space surrounding it. The field is the manifestation of a force (electromagnetic, gravitational, etc.) at the points in space surrounding the source of that force.
With the appearance of Einstein's theory of special relativity, the concept of ether as absolute space ceased to be necessary.
In recent years the concept of ether has re-emerged strongly as a unifying element, as the source of all physical phenomena. Its properties would be:
The common raw material of the universe, the basic substance of which everything is composed. The first of the elements, the absolute and supreme principle.
The matrix of all things, the primal source of all that exists on the physical level, the primal and primordial energy. All physical elements and phenomena (space, time, matter, electricity, magnetism, gravitational force, etc.) are different manifestations of the ether.
The unity that founds diversity. The place where everything is connected and where everything acquires meaning.
A metaspace or hyperspace, something beyond the space we know.
The germ of all possible physical manifestations.
The common deep level of the physical and the mental.
A reality superior to the material, because the ether is at a deeper level than matter.
The ether takes on various forms through vibration. Everything in the universe depends on vibration. The various vibratory levels make up the various manifestations, from the extremely subtle (higher frequency) to the higher density (lower frequency). This theory fits with modern string theory, where all particles are viewed as different modes of vibration of an archetypal string. In ether philosophy, what vibrates is the ether itself and that produces the different quantum entities.
The ether has been given different names in different cultures:
Akasha for the Hindus. The subtle substance that permeates all space, the root from which everything emerges, the matrix element of all things. The Akashic records hold all that occurs and all that has occurred in the universe. The Prana is the Akasha manifested in the form of energy.
Chi for the Chinese.
Ki for Japanese.
Tumo for Tibetans.
Mana for the Polynesians.
Ga-llama for the ancient Egyptians.
"Raw material" for the ancient alchemists. Paracelsus called it "quintessence".
Od (or odic light force) was called by Von Reinchenbach.
Avir in the Hebrew Kabbalah. From Avir springs the light (Aor). According to the Kabbalah, in all that surrounds us there is a limitless and indescribable energy, the presence of something divine that escapes our comprehension. Body and mind are connected in the same way as matter and energy.
The Zero Point Field
Quantum physics has discovered the energy of the vacuum, or Zero Point Field, the root of the physical world that can be identified with the primordial energy of the ether or deep space.
The name "Zero Point Field" refers to the energy field that exists in every volume of physical space. In the vacuum at absolute zero temperature (the lowest possible state) energetic fluctuations or vibrations are detected in the form of electromagnetic radiations.
Total physical vacuum is impossible, because there are always residual electromagnetic radiations, of different frequencies, which cannot be eliminated and which correspond to the lowest possible energetic state. Any other energy is always above this minimum value. The Zero Point Field is the background sea corresponding to this set of fluctuating or random energies of the different frequencies of electromagnetic waves.
The space we call "vacuum" is not empty at all; it is a huge reservoir of energy. It is a paradox that the vacuum is a plenum. According to Feynman, the energy of 1 m3 of space is enough to make all the oceans of the world boil. The quantum vacuum constitutes a virtually inexhaustible energy potential and is the ideal candidate for a free and clean source of energy, an energy far superior to nuclear energy.
Intuited by Nikola Tesla and investigated by physicists such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Walther Nerust, the idea of Zero Point energy was first introduced by Planck in 1911 in an attempt to understand black body radiation.
The existence of the Zero Point Field is a consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, according to which electromagnetic energy must exist at every point in the universe. This field was experimentally confirmed in 1949 with the Casimir effect: two metal plates in close proximity attract each other due to the external pressure created by the vacuum between the two plates.
In the 1930s the physicist Paul Dirac elaborated a theory that referred to a reservoir of energy located at a deep dimensional physical level, energy that he called "Zero Point Energy" and that today we call "Dirac's sea", a sea that sustains and grounds the subatomic world. Empty space "boils" with activity. This energy field is the support and engine of all that exists, the continuous regenerator of the universe.
The Zero Point Field possesses peculiar characteristics, where paradoxes and enormous potential possibilities occur:
Whether or not we make the vacuum, the Zero Point Field is everywhere, permeating all space.
The Zero Point Field contains and grounds the subatomic world.
Every quantum entity is continuously vibrating, absorbing energy from the Zero Point Field and returning it to the Zero Point Field. Subatomic particles exchange energy by means of virtual particles and antiparticles. There is production and annihilation of pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles. Elementary particles acquire their properties in interaction with the Zero Point Field.
It is not observable, because it is the lowest possible energy state. Light (as the electromagnetic wave that it is) we observe it because it is above the minimum energy of the Zero Point Field.
The Implicate Order, by David Bohm
According to David Bohm, reality is an indivisible whole in which everything is connected at a deep level, the "implicate order", a transcendent level, a "folded" world, a physical world beyond space and time. From the implicate order emerges or emanates the "explained order", the "unfolded" world. Mind and matter are projections or manifestations of the underlying implicate order.
Bohm's implicate order can be identified with the ether or Akasha. Bohm's theory of the nature of reality gave rise to the holographic theory of the universe, which was applied by Karl Pribram to postulate the holographic theory of the brain.
According to Bohm, quantum theory and relativity theory contradict each other, and that this contradiction implies that there is a more fundamental order in the physical universe. Quantum physics and relativity point to a deeper theory that is formulated in terms of quantum field theory.
A Universal Model of Physical Reality Based on Primary Archetypes
The Universal Model of Physical Reality is intended to aid in understanding physics and to offer a new and simple paradigm. It is based on the universal fundamentals: the principle of downward causality, the principle of duality, the dialogical principle, and the principle of simplicity, all of which are reflected in the model of the primary archetypes, which embody these concepts.
Reality is configured in levels, from the deepest level to the most superficial. The superficial-deep universal duality are the two extremes of physical reality.
Each level is sustained or supported by the deeper levels. The superficial is a manifestation of the deep. Every phenomenon or physical entity manifested at the surface level is grounded in the deep.
The deeper a level is, the more fundamental and simpler it is. And the shallower, the more complex.
The deepest level is the simplest and in it everything is connected. In the deepest everything is the same thing and is the source of all possible manifestations. It is the "unified field of consciousness", where mind and matter are unified. At the deepest level is the truth, the meaning of everything and the ultimate simplicity.
We cannot know the deepest reality. We can only approach the primary archetypes or archetypes of consciousness, which connect the superficial and the deep world. Primary archetypes are boundaries, limits, but they are also doors of consciousness. Physics must also be based on primary archetypes, and that should be the way to unification, to a theory of everything. Archetypal physics would not be just another paradigm, it would be a unifying paradigm, a unified vision of physics from a privileged point of view: consciousness.
Bosons and fermions
There are two types of subatomic particles: bosons and fermions.
Fermions are the particles that are observable (directly or indirectly by their effects). According to the Pauli exclusion principle, fermions cannot have the same quantum state. This gives matter its property of impenetrability.
Bosons are messenger particles that exchange fermions to produce forces between them. Fermions interact by means of bosons. Bosons can occupy the same quantum state. One familiar boson is the photon, responsible for electromagnetic forces. Another is the Higgs boson (discovered in 2012), responsible for mass. Bosons are responsible for the four forces of nature: electromagnetic, strong nuclear, weak nuclear and gravitational (with the theoretical graviton). The bosons represent the essence and force of nature, which give cohesion to the universe.
Electrons are fermions and cannot be in the same quantum state, they are bounded and differentiated. On the other hand, photons can be in the same quantum state, as in laser light (which is coherent light).
The supposed mechanism of "boson exchange" to generate the corresponding force between fermions is (or may be) an apparent phenomenon. According to the principle of top-down causality, bosons are deep quantum entities, and fermions would be surface manifestations of bosons, via an unknown mechanism. The deep physical world is a flexible field, capable of manifesting itself in multiple forms. This explains why there are few types of bosons (4 plus the Higgs boson) and more types of fermions (6 quarks and 6 leptons). In the deep is the unified. In the superficial is the multiplicity, the variety.
Supersymmetry (called SUSY) has been speculated upon. According to this theory, to each fermion would correspond a boson and vice versa, which could relate the properties of both types of particles. But according to the principle of downward causality, there can be no supersymmetry because bosons belong to a deeper level than fermions. There can only be horizontal symmetry between particles of the same level (for example, between electrons and positrons).
The two modes of consciousness and physics
At the mental level we have two types of experiences: 1) the clear, sharp, defined and determined ones, which correspond to the HI mode (left hemisphere). 2) the diffuse, indeterminate, ambiguous, perception of possibilities, which correspond to the HD (right hemisphere). The mind, by conscious decision, can jump from type 2 to type 1 experiences.
It is often claimed that since quantum theory is the most fundamental and profound theory of the physical world, it is logical to ask whether quantum theory could help us understand consciousness, knowledge and thought. According to Alexei Grinbaum, quantum physics can be a theory of knowledge. According to Christopher Fuchs, quantum physics consists mainly of a description of the laws of thought.
But it is just the opposite: consciousness (specifically, the two modes of consciousness) can help us to better understand the quantum world. Indeed, there is a clear analogy between:
Classical physics and the consciousness associated with the left hemisphere (HI) of the brain. It corresponds to the superficial world: analytical, rational, sequential, etc.
Quantum physics and consciousness associated with the right hemisphere (RH) of the brain.
Corresponds to the deep world: synthetic, intuitive, simultaneous, etc.
From here one could postulate that the universe "plays" the same game as the human mind, that there is synchronicity between the inner world and the outer world. This is the simplest hypothesis, the one that follows the principle of Occam's razor and, therefore, the one most likely to be true.
Of the characteristics mentioned in the chapter "Fundamentals Principle of Duality" we highlight the following:
This universal duality is also reflected in the world of physics:
⬤QUANTUM PHYSICS
■CLASSICAL PHYSICS
Matter-Energy (united)
Matter and Energy (separated)
Wave-Corpuscle (united)
Wave and Corpuscle (separated)
Space-Time (united)
Space and Time (separated)
The application of this simple analogy makes it possible to understand the strange phenomena of quantum physics and also to integrate and harmonize the different interpretations.
Quantum entanglement.
Because at a deep level everything is connected and unified.
The superposition of states.
Because at the deep level there is parallelism.
Uncertainty.
Because the deep level is diffuse, generic and qualitative. There are no crisp, specific, precise and quantitative states.
Quantum probability.
Quantum probability is internal or subjective (depends on the observer). Classical probability is external or objective (does not depend on the observer).
Matter-energy duality.
At the deep level everything is energy. At the surface level energy manifests as matter. Matter is condensed energy. Energy and matter are two poles of the same thing, "matter-energy".
Quantum logic.
Quantum logic is the logic of the third included, because there is parallelism between opposite states.
Bohm's theory.
The deep manifests itself at the surface level. The implicate or folded order, manifests as explicate or unfolded order.
The wave-corpuscle duality.
Bohr's principle of complementarity introduced a dualism that can be compared to Cartesian mind-body dualism. This wave-corpuscle dualism has to be overcome.
The internal world is continuous (wave) and the external world is discontinuous (corpuscle). Energy quanta do not belong to the deep world, but to its primary manifestations at the external level. The wave resides at the deep level. At the surface level this deep level manifests as corpuscle.
According to the principle of downward causality, the surface world is a manifestation of the deep world, matter is a manifestation of energy, and the particle is a manifestation of the wave. The wave is a pattern of subtle or ethereal energy, a pattern that can manifest in one of its states.
According to the Copenhagen interpretation, the wave "collapses" into a corpuscle when a measurement or observation is made. But the wave does not disappear because the wave belongs to a deeper, more fundamental level that "sustains" the more superficial one (the corpuscle). The nature of the wave is transcendent, and the nature of the particle is immanent. In this sense, the term "collapse" would be better interpreted as "manifest". The wave manifests itself as a corpuscle, without ceasing to be a wave. Surely Afshar is right.
Time.
Time is a mental construct. We perceive time as linear because phenomena persist in our memory. But at the quantum level time disappears or behaves in a cyclic, self-referential, fractal, virtual or imaginary way. On the other hand, no-time is consciousness, the "now", every instant, where the temporal opposites of past and future meet.
Knowledge.
Heisenberg said, "Quantum theory is not about the state of the universe, but about our knowledge of the state of the universe." This statement must be questioned because the mental and physical worlds share the same primary archetypes. To know the universe is to know oneself, and to know oneself is to know the universe. To know the world of classical physics is to know ourselves at the level of HI consciousness. To know the world of quantum physics is to know ourselves at the level of HD consciousness.
String theory.
According to string theory, subatomic entities are manifestations of different modes of vibration of a string.
Since Newton (with his theory of universal gravitation), the central idea of physics is to try to explain the different phenomena by means of a unified theory with the minimum number of concepts. With string theory there is only one object (the string) and its different manifestations (its modes of vibration). String theory is a serious candidate for a "theory of everything".
But to say that a string vibrates is to give a superficial and materialistic interpretation. There are probably no vibrating strings, but rather it is deep space itself, ether or Zero Point Field that when vibrating manifests itself in the form of archetypal patterns or shapes, which are the quantum entities.
Pregeometry.
There is a pregeometry or deep or abstract geometry where there are no distances and everything is connected. The supposed "hidden variables" of quantum physics are actually deep, "hidden relationships" that connect things, beyond the physical level.
String theory and mathematics.
String theory is bringing about a change in the relationship between mathematics and physics. The central issue is played by the duality phenomenon, which is intrinsic to quantum physics in general and especially in string theory.
The relationship between mathematics and physics has a long history, the outstanding milestones of which are:
Galileo is the father of mathematical physics, by mathematically formalizing the motion of bodies. "Mathematics is the language of nature."
Newton developed differential and integral calculus to formalize the laws of mechanics.
Einstein used Riemannian geometry to formalize the theory of general relativity.
Quantum physics impacted many branches of mathematics such as geometric algebra, topology, representation theory and complex analysis. But quantum theory brought something new: the phenomenon of duality: two opposite aspects of the same phenomenon or two interrelated phenomena: wave and corpuscle, positive and negative electric charge, mass and energy, fermions and bosons, space and time, electricity and magnetism, particles and antiparticles, and so on. This duality facilitated the unification of scattered areas of mathematics and allowed to deepen the relationship between mathematics and physics.
But string theory (especially M-theory) has an even closer relationship with dualities because string duality is a kind of symmetry that connects the 5 string theories.
Modern string theory uses very complex mathematics. The need for a "new mathematics" capable of expressing this complexity in a simpler way has been suggested. MENTAL, in this sense, provides a deep (yet simple) mathematics for deep physics. Because of its high level of abstraction, MENTAL should favor the formalization of a deep or transcendental physics because mathematics and physics share the same archetypes. Duality is essential to understand the close relationship between mathematics and physics.
This process toward duality has been top-down: from classical physics to quantum physics. All possible dualities derive, in an ascending way, from the primary dualities of MENTAL, with its 12 dual primitives, with which quantum physics can be formalized in a simpler way.
The archetypes of consciousness
Consciousness is impossible to conceptualize and define; we only intuit some of its characteristics. That is why it is preferable to speak of archetypes of the consciousness or primary archetypes, the elements that connect the internal (mental) world and the external (physical) world. Instead of saying that everything is a manifestation of the consciousness, it is better to say that everything is the manifestation of the primary archetypes. The primary archetypes constitute the limit and foundation of our knowledge of reality, the most primary, simple and profound knowledge.
Instead of speaking of "science within consciousness" (the philosophy of Amit Goswami), it is better to speak of "science grounded in the archetypes of consciousness":
The model or principle of primary archetypes is universal. It is valid for the microscopic world and for the macroscopic world, but it is especially suitable for describing the phenomena of quantum physics.
What is truly real are the primary archetypes. Everything is a manifestation of the primary archetypes, which reside at the deep level and manifest at the physical and mental level.
At the deep level everything is connected. Separation is apparent, superficial. At the deep level, the physical and mental worlds are connected, and both are manifestations or effects of something higher or deeper: the archetypes of consciousness, the primary archetypes, which belong to the realm of the abstract. In this abstract world, there is neither space nor time nor matter.
The primary archetypes are possibilities from which the consciousness chooses. Without possibilities there is no consciousness and there would be blind and automatic determinism. However, many of our decisions are almost automatic (and, therefore, with hardly any consciousness). This is true of animals, which have behaviors governed by instinct.
Eugene P. Wigner's statement, "It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent manner without reference to consciousness," is understandable.
The parallel drawn by Fritjof Capra, in his book "The Tao of Physics", between quantum physics and Eastern mysticism is better understood. Because the deep physical world is closely related to consciousness.
In the act of observation, the observer (the subjective) and the observed (the objective) are intertwined through a correlation between a quantum state and a mental state. Consciousness connects a mental content with a physical content. Consciousness unites the opposites from a higher point of view. By using MENTAL we are collapsing the two levels: the universal (the chosen primary archetype, one of the degrees of freedom) and the particular (the content).
Information vs. Consciousness
Information is a subject closely linked with consciousness:
Information, like consciousness, resists a formal and precise definition, although intuitively everyone knows what it consists of.
Information, like consciousness, has neither spatial nor temporal attributes.
Information is initially internal or subjective, but can become external or objective, independent of the observer, through a representation, and manipulate that representation (duplicate, delete, transmit, etc.).
Information can be considered to be at a less deep level than consciousness. In fact, it emerges from the manifestations (expressions) of the primary archetypes.
The quantum world as archetype
Every archetype unites opposites. The quantum world can be considered an archetype because it connects dualities between the internal world and the external world: wave and particle, energy and matter, the infinite (a quantum entity possesses infinite states) and the finite, the qualitative and the quantitative, the possible and the real, the deep and the superficial, the unmanifest and the manifest, the visible and the invisible, the concrete and the abstract, the precise and the diffuse, the local and the non-local, and so on. It is on the border between two worlds: the physical and the mental. It is a limit world and in the limit is consciousness.
In the Dirac sea there are also dualities: particle and antiparticle, past and future, positive and negative time. Indeed, in Dirac's relativistic quantum equation there are solutions corresponding to quantum entities of negative energy, which Dirac interpreted as antiparticles. An antiparticle has the same mass and spin, but opposite electric charge. Some particles are identical to their antiparticle, such as the photon (which has no electric charge). With this interpretation, Dirac predicted the existence of the positron, the antiparticle of the electron. Feynman interpreted the process of particle creation and annihilation as a change of time direction of the particles: from the past to the future or from the future to the past. Feynman interpreted the positron as an electron moving into the past.
Light is also the union of opposites or duals. It unites wave (electromagnetic) and corpuscle (photon), it unites electric and magnetic fields, and it unites space and time in an entity called "space-time".
In the first chapter of Genesis it is said, "Then God said, 'Let there be light.' And the light was made." This can be interpreted literally, not metaphorically, i.e., light would be the first manifestation of the Spirit.
The manifested world is illusory. It is not the true reality. Space and time are illusory phenomena, although they seem real to us. From our (superficial) point of view, light creates space-time for us, although at small velocities with respect to the speed of light, they seem to be separate concepts. It always happens like this: the more superficial the level, the greater the separation we observe between things, and the deeper, the greater the unification, and in the limit, everything is unified.
It has always been said (or intuited) that matter is condensed light. Conversely, it is also said that light is "evaporated matter". What we do know is that the electrons of atoms contain potential light or condensed light. Indeed, when an electron "jumps" from one level to another of lower energy, it emits a photon, whose frequency is proportional to the energy consumed or released. And when an electron and a positron collide, two photons of opposite spins and traveling in opposite directions are produced.
If we assume that matter is condensed light, then matter cannot exceed the speed of light because matter is made of light.
Matter may be a structure of photons. Scientists at Harvard University and MIT have created a new form of matter by binding photons together to create a "photonic molecule" (Nature, September 25, 2013). This contradicts the commonly accepted wisdom that photons cannot interact with each other because they are bosons.
For John Wheeler "All electrons are the same electron". By this he wanted to explain the properties shared by all electrons and why electrons are indistinguishable from each other. It is as if there were an archetypal electron, at a deep level. The electrons of the universe would be just manifestations of that archetypal electron.
Conclusions
Simplicity.
Quantum physics is possibly the most complex and most difficult scientific theory to understand. To understand quantum physics you have to go up a level; not to see it from the physical point of view, but from a higher point of view: that of the mind and consciousness. Because, at a deep level, the physical connects with the mental. With this approach, quantum physics is perfectly understood and intuited. The details do require knowledge of classical physics and mathematics (linear algebra, complex analysis, etc.).
The true reality.
The true nature of reality resides in the deep physical world, in the microworld of quantum physics. The laws of quantum physics are really the true, the deepest and most universal. The laws of the macroscopic (superficial) world are apparently different, but they are based on the microscopic world.
Paradoxically, what we call "real" is grounded in the non-real. "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real" (Niels Bohr).
The quantum world is an unreal, imaginary or virtual world. "Atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they constitute a world of potentialities or possibilities and not of things or facts" (Heisenberg). Paradoxically, the deep physical world is more real than the superficial physical world. This fits with the Platonic philosophy of the higher world of ideas.
True reality is found in the deep. Therefore, quantum physics is closer to true reality because it deals with the deepest level of the physical world.
The objective-subjective duality.
The objectivity associated with the macroworld is an illusion, a mere appearance because of our false identification with the material world. Macroscopic objects also behave according to quantum laws. Superficially they behave according to the laws of classical Newtonian physics and create the illusion of a shared reality: the illusion of objectivity. The macroscopic world is only superficial, the result of a process of quantum decoherence: the phenomenon by which quantum particles lose entanglements and superpositions and form larger bodies that behave classically. The physical world (paradoxically) is not physical, it is made of invisible energy. Matter is pure illusion.
Our consciousness determines how we experience the world by selecting meanings among the existing mental possibilities. Just as we collapse possibilities at the mental level, physical possibilities are collapsed through consciousness.
The mind is semantic in nature. It interprets reality by searching for general patterns and assigning meanings. Faced with an external phenomenon, the consciousness chooses one of the meanings to be processed by the mind in the form of thought. When it stops thinking, the mental wave of possibility expands again. This is the same thing that happens with gestalt images that can be perceived in various ways, with their corresponding meanings.
Mathematics.
Quantum theory can only be expressed in mathematical terms. Physical and mental objects and phenomena are, deep down, abstract entities. The archetypes of consciousness facilitate their formalization. The mind (and consciousness) does not distinguish between the microscopic and the macroscopic; it only distinguishes patterns, abstractions.
Therefore, the best method for modeling physical phenomena is primary archetypes, which operate in abstract space and time, better than traditional mathematics because MENTAL is the foundation of mathematics. Primary archetypes are the best tool we have to formalize the quantum world.
This abstract space is governed by the algebra of operators and not by the algebra of numbers. Operators are at a deeper level than numbers.
Space and time.
Space and time, two fundamental concepts in classical physics, are abstract in quantum physics. Entanglements, which interconnect quantum systems, make no reference to space or time. Space and time are actually emergent entities at the macroscopic level. Negative time in quantum physics (such as Feynman's interpretation of the Dirac equation) does not mean that one goes back to the past, since time must be interpreted as abstract. Concrete time is linear and belongs to the macroscopic world.
Time is a construct of the mind, as a fundamental element that is mainly behind the changes. And space is another construct of the mind that is behind the different positions of objects. At the deep level there is an abstract field in which there is neither space nor time.
The union of the physical and the mental.
Just as the absence of thought (mental emptiness) leads to or approximates pure consciousness, the level from which thoughts emerge, the absence of physical elements (physical emptiness) is the supra-physical level from which physical phenomena emerge. But both levels (mental emptiness and physical emptiness) are connected at a deep level and unite mind and nature. Nothing is isolated. Everything is connected to everything from the deep level. It has also been speculated that, at the cosmic level, dark matter and dark energy may be subtle manifestations of the ether, deep space or the void.
Interpretations of quantum physics.
From the point of view of the primary archetypes it is seen that all these interpretations of quantum physics are partly right. From a higher point of view they are seen as aspects of something more general and deeper. The metaphor of the story of the blind men and the elephant can be applied here.
All interpretations of quantum physics converge, just as topics from other disciplines converge. With the MENTAL paradigm everything is unified and better understood.
In short, the quantum problem is an enigma from a superficial point of view, but perfectly understandable from a deep point of view. The universe is not comprehensible only by reason, we need intuition as well. We need both modes of consciousness.
Addenda
The Casimir effect
This is a phenomenon that has been observed in the past. When two metal plates are very close to each other, they are attracted by an unknown force. This phenomenon was explained theoretically by the physicist Hendrik Casimir in 1948, and measured for the first time in 1997. When two very smooth plates approach each other, electromagnetic waves of wave amplitude greater than the distance between the plates are dislodged from the space between the plates. As these waves are present on the outside, a pressure difference between the two spaces is produced, and the phenomenon of attraction of the two plates occurs.
This phenomenon is considered the most conclusive proof regarding the existence of the Zero Point Field.
The connection of Eastern philosophy
According to the model of the modes of consciousness, quantum physics is associated with Eastern philosophy, and classical physics is associated with Western philosophy.
The three founders of quantum physics (Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger) were scholars of Eastern philosophy, especially Vedanta (Upanishads, Bahgavad Gita) and noted that their experiments and ideas were consistent with what they had read in the Vedas.
Schrödinger was a member of the Vedanta Society and has left us many sentences in this regard in his works "What is Life?" and "My Life, My Worldview", among them the following:
"Consciousness is a unity."
"Vedant teaches that consciousness is singular."
"The unity and continuity of Vedanta is mirrored in the unity and continuity of quantum mechanics. This is entirely consistent with the Vedanta concept of All-in-One."
"Multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not only of the Upanishads. The mystical experience of union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices intervene."
Heisenberg traveled to India and conversed a great deal with Rabindranath Tagore. As he told Schrödinger, these conversations helped him greatly in his work in physics, for the new ideas he had in quantum physics fitted well with Indian philosophy. "Quantum theory will not seem ridiculous to people who have read Vedanta."
Bohr traveled to China and was very impressed by Taoism, in which he saw a parallel between its concept of complementarity and Chinese philosophy. When he was knighted in Denmark for his achievements in quantum physics, he adopted as his coat of arms the yin-yang symbol with the legend "Contraria sunt complementaria" (Opposites are complementary).
Ether and miracles. The instantaneous physical displacement
Through the deep level, it is possible to move from one point to another in space without passing through the space in between. Some Buddhist lamas have the power to move through space at will, through the mediation of the ether. They do not actually move through space, but descend to the level of the ether (disappearing from the physical plane) and emerge from the ether, appearing at another point in space.
It is said that Apollonius of Tyana − contemporary of Jesus Christ, mystic, philosopher and mathematician of the Pythagorean school − had this power. When the emperor Domitian, placed on his throne in Syracuse, ordered his death, Apollonius said: "You cannot stop my soul, not even my body" and suddenly disappeared in sight of all, to be seen shortly after in Pateoli, near Vesuvius.
Jesus Christ also had this power of transcendence of the physical level. Two examples:
Appearance in the Cenacle, even though the doors were closed. While they were talking about these things, he appeared in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you. Startled and frightened, they thought they saw a spirit." (Luke 24:36-37).
"And all in the synagogue were filled with anger when they heard these things. And they rose up and threw him out of the city and led him to the top of the mountain on which the city was built, intending to throw him down. But he suddenly disappeared among them." (Luke 4:28-30).
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