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A Universe from Nothing?

ArtieE

Well-Known Member
Look, I've said this before and now I'll repeat myself, that is the wave-particle duality. It's not that objects don't exist until we observe them, but rather objects have both wave and particle-like properties. I know this goes against our everyday logic, but it could be that quantum entities are really both particle and wave at the same time.
I found a good and simple explanation how this works. https://www.quora.com/If-all-matter...r-why-is-this-not-observable-in-everyday-life
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
ak.yonathan said:
Look, I've said this before and now I'll repeat myself, that is the wave-particle duality. It's not that objects don't exist until we observe them, but rather objects have both wave and particle-like properties. I know this goes against our everyday logic, but it could be that quantum entities are really both particle and wave at the same time.
I found a good and simple explanation how this works. https://www.quora.com/If-all-matter...r-why-is-this-not-observable-in-everyday-life
Fwiw, here is a take that resonates with me...the wave structure of particles...that particles are actually spherical standing waves of the omnipresent zpe....http://mwolff.tripod.com/

Also this site....http://web.archive.org/web/20110711095644/http://www.glafreniere.com/matter.htm
 
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ArtieE

Well-Known Member
The point is that there is no inherent 'apple nature' to what we call 'apple'. We just assume there is based on its characteristics.
Never said there was an inherent "apple nature". Apple is just a name we call a particular configuration of atoms and molecules.
 

godnotgod

Thou art That
Fwiw, here is a take that resonates with me...the wave structure of particles...that particles are actually spherical standing waves of the omnipresent zpe....http://mwolff.tripod.com/

Also this site....http://web.archive.org/web/20110711095644/http://www.glafreniere.com/matter.htm

Not just interesting, but compelling, really:

"It is now seen that the electron consists entirely of a structure of spherical waves whose behavior creates their particle-like appearance.....This type of structure is termed a Space Resonance."


So 'particles' are actually created by the surrounding Field within which they appear. As I understand it, this is similar, if not the same as 'Quantum Field Theory'.(?)

"QFT treats particles as excited states of the underlying physical field, so these are called field quanta. In QFT, quantum mechanical interactions among particles are described by interaction terms among the corresponding underlying quantum fields."

Wikipedia

In terms of how I have been describing it, that the foreground we call the 'material world' is being manifested by the background which I have been calling 'The Absolute', there seems to be agreement. But actually, The Absolute would be even further down than the Field, whether it be Quantum or Unified Field, because ultimately The Absolute is unchanging. So even the Unified Field is illusory in this sense.

Additionally, these ideas point to a reconciliation between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, along with other solutions:

"The discovery of these origins from the work of this article creates a radical new picture of the physical world: quantum mechanics and relativity are in a sense united, origins of forces are understood, puzzles and paradoxes are explained and, most important, relationships between microphysics (electrons and particles) and the universe (cosmology) are seen to be a result of an all-pervading "space" (the vacuum or ether) filled with oscillating quantum (particle) waves."


The wave is all about the ocean from which it arises, and to which it returns.

The 'material world' is all about the background, or field, from which it arises and to which it returns.

Everything comes out of Nothing.

Q: Does ZPE equate to 'no change'?
 
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godnotgod

Thou art That
Never said there was an inherent "apple nature". Apple is just a name we call a particular configuration of atoms and molecules.

Right, so 'apple' is just an idea in the mind. There is no such 'apple', as there is no such 'laptop'. All phenomena co-arise and are interdependent upon all other phenomena in the Universe, rendering what we call 'things' empty of self-nature. Quantum Physics says that, due to Superposition, 'apple' and 'laptop' are 'possibility' prior to their being observed as 'apple' and 'laptop'.

 
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godnotgod

Thou art That

Your source states:

"....you would never actually be able to experience the wave-like properties of macroscopic matter; you will only ever experience its particle-like properties, because that is the only way it interacts with you and you with it."

But that is true only when interacting with the material world via perceptual reality, and not via Ultimate Reality.
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
Not just interesting, but compelling, really:

"It is now seen that the electron consists entirely of a structure of spherical waves whose behavior creates their particle-like appearance.....This type of structure is termed a Space Resonance."


So 'particles' are actually created by the surrounding Field within which they appear. As I understand it, this is similar, if not the same as 'Quantum Field Theory'.(?)

"QFT treats particles as excited states of the underlying physical field, so these are called field quanta. In QFT, quantum mechanical interactions among particles are described by interaction terms among the corresponding underlying quantum fields."

Wikipedia

In terms of how I have been describing it, that the foreground we call the 'material world' is being manifested by the background which I have been calling 'The Absolute', there seems to be agreement. But actually, The Absolute would be even further down than the Field, whether it be Quantum or Unified Field, because ultimately The Absolute is unchanging. So even the Unified Field is illusory in this sense.

Additionally, these ideas point to a reconciliation between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, along with other solutions:

"The discovery of these origins from the work of this article creates a radical new picture of the physical world: quantum mechanics and relativity are in a sense united, origins of forces are understood, puzzles and paradoxes are explained and, most important, relationships between microphysics (electrons and particles) and the universe (cosmology) are seen to be a result of an all-pervading "space" (the vacuum or ether) filled with oscillating quantum (particle) waves."


The wave is all about the ocean from which it arises, and to which it returns.

The 'material world' is all about the background, or field, from which it arises and to which it returns.

Everything comes out of Nothing.

Q: Does ZPE equate to 'no change'?
The ZPE equates with the 'background' omnipresent ocean of universal energy, whose em vibrational wavelengths exist from the microscopic to the macroscopic. According WSM, all so called matter particles are formed of this energy at points where in out wave standing wave resonance occurs. And btw, the same logic applies to the reason for the spherical form that the macroscopic objects of the universe take....ie.planets , suns, galaxies etc.,...but the incoming outgoing wavelengths in this case are measured in thousands of kilometers to hundreds of thousands of light years
 

godnotgod

Thou art That
The ZPE equates with the 'background' omnipresent ocean of universal energy, whose em vibrational wavelengths exist from the microscopic to the macroscopic. According WSM, all so called matter particles are formed of this energy at points where in out wave standing wave resonance occurs. And btw, the same logic applies to the reason for the spherical form that the macroscopic objects of the universe take....ie.planets , suns, galaxies etc.,...but the incoming outgoing wavelengths in this case are measured in thousands of kilometers to hundreds of thousands of light years

So can we say that, at zero point, where incoming and outgoing equalize one another, there is a static condition, or something similar to that, which results in a standing wave?
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
So can we say that, at zero point, where incoming and outgoing equalize one another, there is a static condition, or something similar to that, which results in a standing wave?
Yes, that is correct.....All things being equal, an Electron will endure forever.... But in the zpe 'sea' surrounding say the permanent 'particle', there are ubiquitous virtual particles popping into and out of existence.....and the only difference between these virtual and actual is that wrt the virtual particles, the center where in and out waves begin the resonate as a standing wave is not stable, and soon the in out waves get out of phase and thus the resonance ceases and thus wave collapses...only for another to try and reform in that space...endlessly.. Once you get the 'picture', you will see how Photons form as temporary 'particle' standing waves when a permanent Electron particle gains excess energy and begins to become unstable....thus the temporary Photon moves towards another Electron that in a state appropriate for absorbing the Photon energy..
 

ArtieE

Well-Known Member
Right, so 'apple' is just an idea in the mind. There is no such 'apple', as there is no such 'laptop'.
There are collections we name apples and laptops.
Quantum Physics says that, due to Superposition, 'apple' and 'laptop' are 'possibility' prior to their being observed as 'apple' and 'laptop'.
It says that we see the standing waves the "apple" and "laptop" are ultimately made up of as particles.
 

godnotgod

Thou art That
It says that we see the standing waves the "apple" and "laptop" are ultimately made up of as particles.

No, the opposite; what we call 'particles' are actually point fluctuations in the surrounding energy field. 'Particles' are all about the surrounding field. Because of superposition, we see 'apple' and 'laptop' via perceptual reality.
 

godnotgod

Thou art That
Why would a laptop be an illusion? It's a collection of atoms and atoms are standing waves. Neither the laptop, atoms nor the standing waves are illusions they are perfectly real.

All of the mass of the atom is virtual in nature, being created via energy fluctuations in the Quantum and Higgs Fields.
 
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