Archive for July, 2009

Let’s think for a minute shall we, wake up our little Grey cells and ponder the things that go way beyond our little, over-internalized self-doubt and delve to the outer world, the world of science  and possibility!!  There is so much pressure right now on the day-to-day, minute-to-minute bullshit of emails, and returning calls and following up on leads, I just needed to stop everything for a minute and think really, really deeply about something much bigger then myself, and I think we can all benefit from that.  I love Metaphysics, i.e. the nature of the universe, time travel and the mechanics of the brain – I think Holograms are awe inspiring and thinking about the Universe makes you cry, you will really get your little grey cell’s churning with this “easy read” that breaks down how a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century.  Here is a summary taken from Michael Talbot’s article for those of you who only really have ONE minute:

In 1982 Physicist Alain Aspect led his team of researchers at the University of Paris to discover that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn’t matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing.  This led others to site that Aspect’s findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.

If you don’t know what a Hologram is, you should! Unlike a photograph, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose.  The thought of that is just so… Powerful.  Take a moment today or tomorrow and ponder what this means in terms of the Universe, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.

University of London physicist David Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.

Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram believes memories are encoded in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram.

Chew on that for a while, or read the whole article, The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot – and remember to breath and have a wonderful Fourth of July y’all!