Representatives of various disciplines have come to believe that this world experienced by the senses is only a slice of reality. At the deeper levels, the entire universe can be interconnected and the mind can not only project but also shape reality.
A
special experiment took place in 1982 at the University of Paris. A
research team led by physicist Alain Aspect has made some of the most
important observations of the 20th century, according to some opinions.
The results were not reported in the media, and the name of Alain Aspect
could only be heard by those who were constantly hiding in scientific
journals. Yet there are those who believe that a particular discovery
could overturn science.
The French research team discovered that
under certain conditions, subatomic particles, such as electrons, are
able to communicate with each other instantly, regardless of the
distance between them. So it doesn’t matter if they are 3 meters or 10
billion kilometers apart.
They know about each other
Somehow,
each particle knows what the other is doing. The only problem with this
is that it contradicts Einstein’s thesis that no information can travel
faster than the speed of light.
Since moving faster than the
speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time limit, the staggering
prospects prompted some physicists to attempt to explain what might
actually be behind Aspect’s observations.
Others, however, were
encouraged by the results to conduct even more radical experiments.
David Bohm, a physicist at the University of London, for example, has
come to the conclusion that Alain Aspect’s findings are an indirect
refutation of objective reality. So the tangible solid form of the
universe is merely an apparent, gigantic hologram of reality experienced
by all.
It's all in pieces
To understand Bohm’s
startling conclusion, you need to know what a hologram really is. These
three-dimensional photographs are taken using a laser. The object to be
captured is first scanned with a laser beam. The light from a second
beam creates interference with the reflected pattern, and this pattern
is captured on film. When developed, the film is merely a cavalcade of
bright and dark lines, but when illuminated with laser light, a
three-dimensional image of the original object appears.
Holograms,
on the other hand, are not only special because of the
three-dimensional image. When a hologram of a rose is cut in half and
illuminated with a laser, both halves of the piece contain the entire
image, albeit in a smaller size. If the pieces are further chopped, each
small piece contains the original whole image. Unlike traditional
photographs, each slice of the hologram contains all of the original
information.
The "whole in details" approach opens up completely
new avenues for the natural sciences. Scientists in the Western world
have always tended to lead the way to understanding physical phenomena,
be they frogs or atoms, through fragmentation and the study of details.
The
hologram, on the other hand, shows that in some cases in the world this
approach may be wrong. Fragmentation of holographic structures leads
not to building blocks but to smaller integers. In light of this, Bohm
suggested a different way to interpret Aspect’s discovery.
Fish in the aquarium
According
to Bohm, subatomic particles are not able to stay connected to each
other regardless of distance because some mysterious signal is flowing
between them. Instead, their separation is nothing more than an illusion
that deceives the observer.
The researcher argues that in some
deeper layer of reality, these particles are not separate units but
extensions of an essential whole. For a better understanding, Bohm gives
the following example. Imagine an aquarium in which a fish swims.
We
can't see the aquarium directly, and we only know about the world in it
through TV cameras. One camera takes the front of the aquarium and the
other the other side. By observing the image of the two monitors, the
observer may think that the two fish exist separately, and then,
watching the fish further, discover that there is some connection
between them.
When one fish turns, the other makes a similar turn
at the same moment. In the same way, when the front of one is visible,
the other always shows its side. If the entire assembly remains hidden
from the observer, one can safely assume that the fishes are somehow
talking together and therefore moving at the same time.
The reality is deeper
According
to Bohm, this is exactly what happens with subatomic particles in
Aspect’s experiment. Communication that is faster than apparent light
actually reveals that there are deeper layers of reality than can be
grasped. Complex dimensions invisible to the naked eye are not perceived
in the same way as the observer in the aquarium surrounding the fish.
We
see the particles separated because we perceive only a slice of
reality. Such particles are not separate, but are part of a deeper whole
that behaves as a holographic indivisible. And since in physical
reality all this builds up, the universe is just an illusion.
In
addition to this phantom-like behavior, the universe may have other
shocking qualities. If the subatomic particles are only seemingly
separable, it also means that at the deeper levels of reality the entire
universe is interconnected. The electrons of a carbon atom in the human
brain are connected to the protons of hydrogen atoms on the surface of
the Sun or any distant star.
Everything is connected
As
everything is connected to everything, it becomes meaningless to
classify the phenomena of the universe, as the nature that makes up the
connected network shit on all such divisions.
In the holographic
universe, even time and space cannot be considered basic concepts. All
forms of positioning go bankrupt in an environment where nothing really
separates you from the other. Thus, time and three-dimensional space can
behave like fish-pointing monitors and are only projections of a deeper
order.
Bohm is not the only researcher to prove that the universe is merely a hologram. Working
in the field of brain research, Karl Pribram, a neurophysiologist at
Stanford University, has also come to believe that the reality can be
holographic.
Brain signal recording
Pribram
developed this model when he was looking for a place to store memories
in the brain. Over the decades, many studies have concluded that
memories are preserved without being tied to a specific location,
scattered throughout the brain.
In the 1920s, Karl Lashley
demonstrated in a series of experiments of extraordinary significance
that he removed any detail of the rat’s brain, unable to erase memories
of the complicated sequence of operations learned before surgery. At the
time, however, no one came up with an explanation that could have
described this “whole in detail” phenomenon.
Pribram became
acquainted with the principle of the hologram in the 1960s and realized
that he had found the explanation long sought after by brain
researchers. According to the researcher, memories are not preserved by a
small group of neurons or nerve cells, but are encoded in a pattern of
neural impulses as laser light interference saves the holographic image.
That is, according to Pribram, our brain is a holographic store.
Incidentally, this theory also explains how the brain can store so many memories in such a small space. It is estimated that 10 billion bits of information are saved by the brain during the average human life. This is five times the amount of data in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
A flood of signs
Extraordinary
memory ability is not the only enigmatic brain activity that becomes
more understandable through the holographic brain model. At least as
mysterious is how the brain can cope with the flood of different
frequencies reaching the senses and how it can interpret sensory signals
in real time. According to Pribram, the brain uses a holographic
principle to mathematically transform received frequencies.
This
theory is gaining more and more support. Italian researcher Hugo
Zucarelli of Argentine origin extended the holographic model to the
field of acoustic phenomena. This theory can explain how people are able
to determine the exact source of sound without turning their heads,
even if they only hear with one ear.
Reality disappears
Yet
the most striking aspect of Pribram’s holographic brain model is when
compared to Bohm’s theory of reality. The tangible image of the world
will thus only become a secondary reality, and the actual environment
will be a holographic cavalcade of frequencies. From this, the
holographic brain selects only a few important frequencies and
interprets them as signals from sensory organs.
Meanwhile,
objective reality is completely lost. Eastern religions have long held
that the material world is an illusion, and although we may think that
we can move as a physical being in the physical world, it is also only
an imagination. In fact, we are receivers in a sea of frequencies and
what we filter out of this cavalcade is just a slice of reality.
Telepathy is natural
The
combination of the theories of Bohm and Pribram, the approach referred
to as the holographic paradigm, was skeptical by many researchers, while
others electrified it. Some even think that this model may be able to
solve mysteries that have not been described scientifically so far, and
even that it may make parapsychological phenomena a part of nature.
In
the universe described by the holographic paradigm, every brain is part
of the invisible whole, and telepathy is merely the attainment of the
holographic level. Similarly, telekinesis (the movement of objects by
will) also ceases to be a mystery, since in the intertwined deeper
reality the individual and the object are inherently one.
Both
Bohm and Pribram recall that many religious and mystical experiences,
such as the feeling of transcendent belonging to the universe, can also
reach the holographic level. In the old writings, they could think of
the same thing, the attainment of a deeper reality, when they reported a
sense of cosmic unity.
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