Conscious reality: Seizing the future – The Himalayan Times

It is a fact that mind and matter, energy and human consciousness are intimately intertwined. Add to it the simple idea of vacuum, or empty space, as the real energy field, out of which all perceivable matter is formed, apart from various levels of manifestation, and you enter into the 'get-up-and-go' fields in which all human thought and instinct exist. The idea holds a remarkable premise for the unifying concept of the formative human mind as the universe's hidden creation mechanism a sublime strategy that links energy, mind and consciousness.

It goes without saying that Albert Einstein's landmark theory of relativity forms the two major branches of physics. However, the portrait of physical reality that they offer appears ironic, despite the fact that both modern physics and cosmology perceive physical reality and the universe in a frame as relevant and contextual as any that science espouses.

Picture this: the wave-particle duality, a paradox that is central to either fold. Besides, one could relate to experiments on neutrons aimed at a target via a 'pair of slits' in a screen. They show definitive interference patterns, even when individual neutrons are bombarded sparingly.

Some physicists have produced counter-interpretations, too the spacetime description of micro-events, including the possibility of a deeper understanding of physical reality.

In other words, the motion of a particle is affected, not only by the usual classical potential, but also by quantum potential having dramatic effects for extremely small particles.

Advances in cosmology now explain gravitation, for instance, in the context of time-space continuum.

They also provide for the possibility of a universe rapidly expanding from the initial big bang billions of years ago, to be followed by the big crunch. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, stars apparently disintegrate back into their own gravitational fields a black hole, or small area, of extremely high density, while incorporating a singularity with zero volume, where gravitation is so intense that no light can escape from a black hole. Today, there's definitive, or quantified, evidence for the existence of black holes.

Not long ago, it was fanciful to surmise what had precisely happened before the big bang. Today,

we are linking ideas from relativity and quantum theory.

This has led to a new possibility, too postulating theories like inflationary cosmology, which provide fairly plausible pictures of possible events that may have happened before the big bang. Yet, a huge challenge remains of finding the true unification of general relativity and quantum theory.

The celebrated thinker and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe put it aptly, "Everything factual is already theory". It is ditto for our scientific advances, including the emergence of the hologram, a laser-produced picture, in its all new avatar. All the same, we have got to keep our fingers crossed and look excitedly at 'science-in-waiting'.

This is simply because we are quickly moving into a different epoch the 'age of new technology', whose origins already exist. This is yet again not scientific dazzle, but a realistic metaphor that bids fair to a primal, also resourceful, embodiment of possibility.

It would be interesting to highlight that the hologram of the future may not be just about patterns though one which we perceive as the configuration of wholes, or elements, that compose them. "It will be recognised," as complexity specialists Howard Sherman and Ron Schultz explain, "that within every level of synthesis the patterns are the same."

In other words, the hologram will not be as composite with all its shades of commonplace essentialities.

Because, we are all aware of one inescapable fact. Anything that is new, in our rapidly changing world, is often thought to be immeasurable a 'fantasy' without well-defined constructs. Yet, the fact is you were, for instance, not a computer geek when you started using the gadget on your own. Now, you can't do without it.

There's more to our whole, new world of thoughtful advance than what meets the eye. Because, we are on the verge of breaking major scientific stories howsoever clouded they may seem. We have zeroed-in onto a timeframe where information can be stored within and distributed by light. We call it the photon age, the charge of the information-bearing 'light brigade', to be precise.

As Sherman and Schultz, again, observe, there's yet another dimension to it one that can be simulated by waves of gravity, thanks to Einstein, who bequeathed to us explicitly decipherable components vis--vis the dispersal of electromagnetic waves.

The only deviation is that they have not as yet been 'strapped and buckled', because such waves have ironically not been used.

They have only been considered in 'relative' terms by quantum physicists who, however, can't do without them in their own calculations.

This, as you'd deduce, calls for nothing short of a 'quantum' leap in seizing our future. Of a future which is in conformity with the nature of an emergent universe and the laws of the cosmos. The inference is simple: Einstein's mighty theory reduces uncertainty and ambiguity. More importantly, its whole genesis makes new observations possible.

Now, you know its import how the philosophy of ideas and the technological essence of science have constituted what we take pride in calling our epoch the Information Age.Its net result has been more than remarkable, also incredible a reduction in uncertainty.

Yet, a logical fact of life hangs in balance, despite our glorious appointment with history. There are simply no shortcuts, or huge leaps, in the mind-boggling world of science, howsoever great our technological advance. Call it science's own limiting dynamics, or what you may.

Nidamboor is a wellness physician, independent researcher and author

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Conscious reality: Seizing the future - The Himalayan Times