Was on the section call quantum entanglement. Feel that its kinda link to cause and effect of buddism. When 2 atoms are entangle, even lightyears away, any changes to one atom will have effect on the another.
Am a physics student in nus fyi. Was reading it for next sem quantum mechanics module.
Totally.
Transcript of the Lankavatara Sutra sharing by Thusness
Thusness (2007):
...So the teaching is consistent in
terms of philosophy, in terms of meditation
practice, and in terms
of the truths that is being preached.
And also in terms of spiritual powers. When I
say something like
Clairvoyance... I can see, not bounded by
distance. I can hear, not
bounded by distance. How come? Why? If we were
to take other
religions, they canÂ’t explain. But if you were
to take Buddhism,
Buddha had never told you, has never taught,
something of an Ego,
something of a Where, something of a When. It is
not bounded by
Time and Space at all in the entire philosophy.
Never has he taught
anything like that. And therefore, when we talk
about spiritual
powers, it is consistent. It is knowing without
the need for a
Space and Time, not bounded by Space and Time,
because the entire
teaching is so. And what is being said about
this? It is the
Nature. This is your nature. Reality is like
that, it is so.
Therefore, when we understand the teachings, we
understand that
yes, it is not right to be attached, therefore
we cannot say we
want to seek spiritual powers, like Nub. But we
have to understand,
this is our Nature, this is our Reality. Because
the teaching has
never contradicted itself. If you want to know
about your reality,
you have to practise. That is the teaching. And
the practise has
always been telling you to observe these 3
universal
characteristics. So when we see the link between
the practise, the
philosophy, even something spiritual and
something that is not
scientific. This is important.
.................
When I say that things happen, it is not
like those people that subscribe to think that
anything is just
taking by itself, itÂ’s nature. Mainly what is
important is
conditions. You must have the conditions, then
things can surface.
When the conditions is there, they just
surfaces, and manifest. If
there is cause in ten million miles away or ten
million light years
away, or whatever it is, or in other realms, as
long as there is
conditions, it WILL surface, it is not
travelling {inaudible}. Can
you understand this part? Condition is there,
they just manifest.
This is one thing.
The second thing, to break the view of an
entity, when we say that,
where? Why must we keep of asking where? Why
must we keep on asking
who? Where does the seed of propensity reside?
It doesnÂ’t reside
anywhere. DonÂ’t ask where. ItÂ’s just the way it
is. Because
whenever you ask where, who, and when, it is
because you are very
accustomed to our way of inquiry. The way we
enquire. It is an
inquiry system only. It is not reality. It is
just the way you ask
things only. It is just the way we are molded,
and therefore we ask
things this way. If we ask things this way, then
the idea of God is
more {inaudible} You see, the idea of God is
based on the first
cause, right? What is God? God is the first
cause. But why must
there be a first cause? There is a first cause
because there is a
limit to the way we think. It is due to the
poverty of our own
thinking mechanism. The mind requires a base to
start. So it is for
the thinking mind to understand. It is not
reality. Only the mind
needs to understand this way. Reality doesnÂ’t
behave that way. Can
you see? So we are trying to fit reality into a
model of concept.
Correct?
The Holographic Universe
Michael Talbot
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the
University of Paris 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. You did not hear about it on the
evening news. In fact,
unless you are in the habit of reading
scientific journals you
probably have never even heard Aspect's name,
though there are some
who believe his discovery may change the face of
science.
Aspect and his team discovered 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.
The problem with this feat is that it violates
Einstein's long-held
tenet that no communication can travel faster
than the speed of
light. Since traveling faster than the speed of
light is tantamount
to breaking the time barrier, this daunting
prospect has caused
some physicists to try to come up with elaborate
ways to explain
away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired
others to offer even
more radical explanations.
University of London physicist David Bohm, for
example, believes
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.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling
assertion, one must
first understand a little about holograms. A
hologram is a three-
dimensional photograph made with the aid of a
laser.
To make a hologram, the object to be
photographed is first bathed
in the light of a laser beam. Then a second
laser beam is bounced
off the reflected light of the first and the
resulting interference
pattern (the area where the two laser beams
commingle) is captured
on film.
When the film is developed, it looks like a
meaningless swirl of
light and dark lines. But as soon as the
developed film is
illuminated by another laser beam, a
three-dimensional image of the
original object appears.
The three-dimensionality of such images is not
the only remarkable
characteristic of holograms. 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.
Indeed, even if the halves are divided again,
each snippet of film
will always be found to contain a smaller but
intact version of the
original image. Unlike normal photographs, every
part of a hologram
contains all the information possessed by the
whole.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram
provides us with an
entirely new way of understanding organization
and order. For most
of its history, 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.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of
understanding
Aspect's discovery. 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.
To enable people to better visualize what he
means, Bohm offers the
following illustration.
Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine
also that you are
unable to see the aquarium directly and your
knowledge about it and
what it contains comes from two television
cameras, one directed at
the aquarium's front and the other directed at
its side.
As you stare at the two television monitors, you
might assume that
the fish on each of the screens are separate
entities. After all,
because the cameras are set at different angles,
each of the images
will be slightly different. But as you continue
to watch the two
fish, you will eventually become aware that
there is a certain
relationship between them.
When one turns, the other also makes a slightly
different but
corresponding turn; when one faces the front,
the other always
faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of
the full scope of
the situation, you might even conclude that the
fish must be
instantaneously communicating with one another,
but this is clearly
not the case.
This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on
between the
subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment.
According to Bohm, the apparent
faster-than-light connection
between subatomic particles is really telling us
that there is a
deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a
more complex
dimension beyond our own that is analogous to
the aquarium. And, he
adds, we view objects such as subatomic
particles as separate from
one another because we are seeing only a portion
of their
reality.
Such particles are not separate "parts", but
facets of a deeper and
more underlying unity that is ultimately as
holographic and
indivisible as the previously mentioned rose.
And since everything
in physical reality is comprised of these
"eidolons", the universe
is itself a projection, a hologram.
In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a
universe would
possess other rather startling features. If the
apparent
separateness of subatomic particles is illusory,
it means that at a
deeper level of reality all things in the
universe are infinitely
interconnected.
The electrons in a carbon atom in the human
brain are connected to
the subatomic particles that comprise every
salmon that swims,
every heart that beats, and every star that
shimmers in the
sky.
Everything interpenetrates everything, and
although human nature
may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and
subdivide, the various
phenomena of the universe, all apportionments
are of necessity
artificial and all of nature is ultimately a
seamless web.
In a holographic universe, even time and space
could no longer be
viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as
location break
down in a universe in which nothing is truly
separate from anything
else, time and three-dimensional space, like the
images of the fish
on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed
as projections of
this deeper order.
At its deeper level reality is a sort of
superhologram in which the
past, present, and future all exist
simultaneously. This suggests
that given the proper tools it might even be
possible to someday
reach into the superholographic level of reality
and pluck out
scenes from the long-forgotten past.
What else the superhologram contains is an
open-ended question.
Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the
superhologram is the
matrix that has given birth to everything in our
universe, at the
very least it contains every subatomic particle
that has been or
will be -- every configuration of matter and
energy that is
possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from bluü
whales to gamma
rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic
storehouse of "All That
Is."
Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else
might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does
venture to say that
we have no reason to assume it does not contain
more. Or as he puts
it, perhaps the superholographic level of
reality is a "mere stage"
beyond which lies "an infinity of further
development".
Bohm is not the only researcher who has found
evidence that the
universe is a hologram. Working independently in
the field of brain
research, Standford neurophysiologist Karl
Pribram has also become
persuaded of the holographic nature of reality.
Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by
the puzzle of how and
where memories are stored in the brain. For
decades numerous
studies have shown that rather than being
confined to a specific
location, memories are dispersed throughout the
brain.
In a series of landmark experiments in the
1920s, brain scientist
Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion
of a rat's brain he
removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of
how to perform
complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery.
The only problem was
that no one was able to come up with a mechanism
that might explain
this curious "whole in every part" nature of
memory storage.
Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the
concept of holography and
realized he had found the explanation brain
scientists had been
looking for. Pribram believes memories are
encoded not in neurons,
or small groupings of neurons, but 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.
Pribram's theory also explains how the human
brain can store so
many memories in so little space. It has been
estimated that the
human brain has the capacity to memorize
something on the order of
10 billion bits of information during the
average human lifetime
(or roughly the same amount of information
contained in five sets
of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Similarly, it has been discovered that in
addition to their other
capabilities, holograms possess an astounding
capacity for
information storage--simply by changing the
angle at which the two
lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it
is possible to
record many different images on the same
surface. It has been
demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film
can hold as many as
10 billion bits of information.
Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever
information we
need from the enormous store of our memories
becomes more
understandable if the brain functions according
to holographic
principles. If a friend asks you to tell him
what comes to mind
when he says the word "zebra", you do not have
to clumsily sort
back through ome gigantic and cerebral
alphabetic file to arrive at
an answer. Instead, associations like "striped",
"horselike", and
"animal native to Africa" all pop into your head
instantly.
Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the
human thinking
process is that every piece of information seems
instantly cross-
correlated with every other piece of
information--another feature
intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion
of a hologram is
infinitely interconnected with ever other
portion, it is perhaps
nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated
system.
The storage of memory is not the only
neurophysiological puzzle
that becomes more tractable in light of
Pribram's holographic model
of the brain. Another is how the brain is able
to translate the
avalanche of frequencies it receives via the
senses (light
frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into
the concrete world
of our perceptions. Encoding and decoding
frequencies is precisely
what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram
functions as a sort
of lens, a translating device able to convert an
apparently
meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent
image, Pribram
believes the brain also comprises a lens and
uses holographic
principles to mathematically convert the
frequencies it receives
through he senses into the inner world of our
perceptions.
An impressive body of evidence suggests that the
brain uses
holographic principles to perform its
operations. Pribram's theory,
in fact, has gained increasing support among
neurophysiologists.
Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli
recently extended the
holographic model into the world of acoustic
phenomena. Puzzled by
the fact that humans can locate the source of
sounds without moving
their heads, even if they only possess hearing
in one ear,
Zucarelli discovered that holographic principles
can explain this
ability.
Zucarelli has also developed the technology of
holophonic sound, a
recording technique able to reproduce acoustic
situations with an
almost uncanny realism.
Pribram's belief that our brains mathematically
construct "hard"
reality by relying on input from a frequency
domain has also
received a good deal of experimental support.
It has been found that each of our senses is
sensitive to a much
broader range of frequencies than was previously
suspected.
Researchers have discovered, for instance, that
our visual systems
are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our
sense of smell is in
part dependent on what are now called "osmic
frequencies", and that
even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a
broad range of
frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is
only in the
holographic domain of consciousness that such
frequencies are
sorted out and divided up into conventional
perceptions.
But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's
holographic model of
the brain is what happens when it is put
together with Bohm's
theory. For if the concreteness of the world is
but a secondary
reality and what is "there" is actually a
holographic blur of
frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram
and only selects
some of the frequencies out of this blur and
mathematically
transforms them into sensory perceptions, what
becomes of objective
reality?
Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the
religions of the East
have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an
illusion, and
although we may think we are physical beings
moving through a
physical world, this too is an illusion.
We are really "receivers" floating through a
kaleidoscopic sea of
frequency, and what we extract from this sea and
transmogrify into
physical reality is but one channel from many
extracted out of the
superhologram.
This striking new picture of reality, the
synthesis of Bohm and
Pribram's views, has come to be called the
holographic paradigm,
and although many scientists have greeted it
with skepticism, it
has galvanized others. A small but growing group
of researchers
believe it may be the most accurate model of
reality science has
arrived at thus far. More than that, some
believe it may solve some
mysteries that have never before been
explainable by science and
even establish the paranormal as a part of
nature.
Numerous researchers, including Bohm and
Pribram, have noted that
many para-psychological phenomena become much
more understandable
in terms of the holographic paradigm.
In a universe in which individual brains are
actually indivisible
portions of the greater hologram and everything
is infinitely
interconnected, telepathy may merely be the
accessing of the
holographic level.
It is obviously much easier to understand how
information can
travel from the mind of individual 'A' to that
of individual 'B' at
a far distance point and helps to understand a
number of unsolved
puzzles in psychology. In particular, Grof feels
the holographic
paradigm offers a model for understanding many
of the baffling
phenomena experienced by individuals during
altered states of
consciousness.
Einstein sums it up to say everything is relative, just like dependent origination. hence the existence of god by itself is a fallacy ie how can god exists by itself without depending on causes and conditions?
Originally posted by suikoden:Was on the section call quantum entanglement. Feel that its kinda link to cause and effect of buddism. When 2 atoms are entangle, even lightyears away, any changes to one atom will have effect on the another.
Am a physics student in nus fyi. Was reading it for next sem quantum mechanics module.
Food for thought, and perhaps the favor of reply.
‘The ultimate nature of phenomena is emptiness and that emptiness carries with it the infinite potential of manifestations.’
The Buddha formulated this premonitory, which was then compiled and commented in several treatises by two Buddhist philosophers, Nagarjuna (around the second century A.D.) and Chandrakirti (in the eighth century). One is also reminded of the philosophical contributions of Democritus and Epicurus, and the extraordinary theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg and his enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, amongst others…
From a Buddhist’s perspective, in part, this is how an atom is analyzed...
Take an ordinary, gross phenomenon like a table. If you separate its constituent parts, it’s already no longer a table. You will have the legs, the table top, and so on. If you then reduce them all to sawdust, these constituent parts in turn lose their identity. If you now examine one grain of the sawdust, you find molecules, and then atoms. (Curiously the Greek word atom or ‘atomos’ means ‘uncuttable’.)
Buddhism uses the same word, in general, and speaks of particles that ‘have no parts’, which cannot be subdivided. These are therefore supposed to be the ultimate constituents of matter. Now take one of these particles, considered as an autonomous entity. How could it combine with other particles to constitute matter? If these particles were to touch each other, the left-hand side of one particle, for example, would touch the right-hand side of another. But if they have left and right-hand sides, they can be divided, and thus lose their characteristic of being ‘indivisible’. If they have neither sides nor directions, they must by like points in mathematics, without dimension, thickness, or substance. If you tried to put together two dimensionless particles, either they wouldn’t touch and cannot therefore be put together, or they do make contact with one another, in which case they merge with one another. A whole mountain of indivisible particles could then dissolve into a single one of them.
The conclusion is, therefore, that indivisible, discontinuous particles with an intrinsic existence as the constituents of matter simply cannot exist. Even more, if an atom had mass, a dimension, and a charge would it be identical to the whole set of its attributes? Would it exist outside its attributes? An atom is not identical to its mass, nor to its size. But nor is it other than its mass and its size. So an atom has a set of characteristics, but is none of them.
As such, an atom is just a concept, a label that doesn't cover any entity that exists in an autonomous and absolute way. It exists only as a convention,in a relative way.
Is there any buddism explaination on einstein 's special relativity revolunationary discovery that shock the science world? Time is not a constant,light is. As you travel near to the speed of light.,Time will be slower and your length will became shorter.
Originally posted by suikoden:Time is not a constant,light is. As you travel near to the speed of light.,Time will be slower and your length will became shorter.
i think oneday light is constant may also be over turn. In the Abhidharma, Buddha already talk about the speed of mind. The mind beats 3, 000, 000, 000, 000 times in a flash of lightning, about 17 times faster than the beats of matter.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/buddhism/articles/cosmos1.htm
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change is constant, i can agree. :)
Amituofo,
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