Vibratory States
READ Stalking the Wild Pendulum (StWP) pages 45-46
“You will remember from the previous chapter that our
physical bodies and all matter is made up of interacting electromagnetic fields
vibrating at tremendous frequencies. At room temperature an atom will vibrate
at a rate of 1015 Hz. (That means 1 followed by fifteen zeros.) The nucleus of
an atom will vibrate at about 1022 Hz. These are almost inconceivably fast
rates. In the process of inventing live systems, Nature had to come up with
sensory organs that will allow these living things to interact with their
environment. It had to use available building blocks that, as we have seen, are
very jittery. In order to communicate with a slow mind, Nature has largely
given up the tremendous information handling capacity that is inherent in
matter itself…
Well, after a lot of experimentation, Nature came up with
a reasonable solution. It has bound atoms into molecules, which have much lower
vibratory rates because of their much larger mass. Out of these molecules —
which still vibrate at Gigahertz (109 Hz.) rates — it has made live cells,
which are the building blocks of all organisms. Then came the specialized nerve
cells, or neurons. A rudimentary nervous system resulted that translated
sensory input into a slow Morse code fashion of action and rest. It was a
process of gradually stepping down the high vibratory rates of the atoms, to
the “reasonable” vibratory rates of the molecules, to the “acceptable”
frequency response of the cells (which is in the 103 Hz. range) for an
assembled live cell. In other words, a cell will be able to respond to stimuli
at that rate.”
Why is there a need to “step down” the speed of
vibrations in this creation?
How does Nature “transform” or “step down” vibratory
rates?
READ StWP pages 46-47
“Physiological studies show that when a sensory nerve
cell is not stimulated, the output of that cell will consist of sparse and
unevenly spaced electrical pulses or spikes, as they are called. However, if we
apply pressure or any other stimulus to that nerve cell, its output will become
very lively. With each stimulus the cell will fire off salvos of closely spaced
spikes. Their rate per unit time will depend on the strength of the
stimulus. Our whole sensory system
operates this way, whether it is optical input coming through the eyes,
acoustical through the ears, or tactile through the skin — and the end result
is a series of spikes conducted to the appropriate area in the brain. In short,
our senses translate the surrounding reality to us into a Morse code language
of action and rest. Action comes when the neuron fires its spike, and rest
comes as the cell is regenerating and readying itself for the next firing. Out
of this action-and-rest code our brain constructs for us, for example, the form
of a rose, its texture, its color and smell.”
What does this “Morse code” of electrical pulses from our
senses reveal to us?
What other languages or applications, beside Morse code, use
an “on” or “off” system to communicate sophisticated ideas?
READ StWP pages 49 and 50
“Let us visualize an atom made up of a nucleus and
electron shells. We find the electrons orbiting rapidly about the nucleus while
at the same time rotating about their own axes. If we look now at an aggregate
of atoms in a crystal, we find that they vibrate about their fixed position in
the lattice of this crystal. Thus, the microlevel of Nature is represented by
two kinds of motion: a circular spinlike motion and a reciprocating motion due
to vibration, each about a relatively fixed point…
Throughout the animal kingdom, from plankton to elephant
to humans, we find that reciprocating motion prevails. There is almost no spin
in the living structures. We are confined to a pendulumlike or, if you wish,
oscillating behavior. As we go up the hierarchy of sizes and to heavenly
bodies, orbiting and spin reappear. We know that all planets rotate about their
axes while at the same time they orbit around their respective stars. We know
that galaxies rotate, as do galactic clusters, and so on. In short, we find
that one of the unique characteristics of live creatures is their reciprocating
motion.”
Why might live creatures only display elements of
reciprocating motion and not spin?
READ StWP pages 50-53, 54
Speaking about a grandfather clock: “Let us analyze the
motion of the pendulum. As it approaches its point of rest, it slows down more
and more; eventually, it stops and starts moving in the opposite direction. The
laws of classical mechanics tell us that at the point of rest the acceleration
of the body is maximum; its potential energy is maximum; its velocity is zero;
and the time required for changing the velocity of the pendulum is zero. If we
analyze the events taking place at the zero point from the point of view of
quantum mechanics, we get a different picture. Let us view the pendulum bob as
a mathematical point, that is, a point that is too small to be measured (a
dimensionless point) and follow its progress as it slows down. Clearly, the
point will cover a smaller and smaller distance per unit time as it approaches
its turning point. But quantum mechanics tell us that when distances go below
Planck’s distance, which is 10'33 cm., we enter, in effect, a new world. The
causal relationship between events breaks down; movements become jerky rather
than smooth. Time and space may become ‘grainy’ or ‘chunky.’ Perhaps a piece of
space can be traversed by a particle of matter in any direction without
necessarily being synchronized with a piece of time. In short, a pair of events
would occur in either time or space, the pair not being connected causally but
by a random fluctuation. Suppose, indeed, that a material point can traverse
space without necessarily requiring any chunk of time for the process. Should this
happen, then a chunk of space has been spanned without any time elapsing. If we
divide that tiny piece of distance to zero time, we find that the event
occurred at infinite velocity. In other words, when we move through space
without using up time, no matter over how short a distance, that event occurs
at infinite velocity!
We have heard about Heisenberg’s principle of
uncertainty. This principle states that in trying to measure two parameters of
a particle — for instance, its momentum and its position — we find that the
more accurately we can measure its momentum, the less we can know about its
position, and vice versa. (Momentum simply means: mass x velocity.) If we want
to measure either the momentum or the position of a particle, we can measure
precisely only one of these quantities. If we know the exact momentum of a particle,
then its position is completely indefinite or unknowable, and vice versa. This
is an example of those strange ways in which particles of atomic size or
smaller behave. We know that at rest, when the pendulum is changing direction,
its velocity is zero. But the momentum, at low speeds at least, is equal to
velocity multiplied by mass. However, if we multiply any quantity by a zero, we
get zero. Thus, we have now established that the momentum of the pendulum at
that point is zero, that is, we know its value very precisely: It’s zero. But
we have said before that if we know precisely the momentum of a particle, then
its position becomes diffuse and completely indefinite. That is, the pendulum
can be just about any place, even at the end of the universe. Yes, but it has
very little time to get there because this whole event occurs in zero time. So
there we go again. The pendulum has to disappear in all directions at infinite
velocity. It will have to expand very rapidly into space, like a balloon, and then
collapse just as rapidly. Having done this, it comes back, picks up speed, and
goes about its usual good-natured business as if nothing had happened. None of
us would suspect the leisurely pendulum of doing such a wild thing when no one
is looking! But then again, one cannot rely on appearances...
We have so far been using the pendulum as an example. But
a pendulum represents any system that oscillates or moves back and forth,
whether such an oscillator pulsates concentrically, goes around in orbits, or
turns about itself. From the standpoint of one observer, there are always two
points at which either of these systems appears to be at rest. But to be
completely at rest — that is, being at the point at which movement in one
direction is changing sign or reversing direction — that point of rest implies
somehow a disappearance of matter and a movement at infinite or almost infinite
velocities. Infinite speed and total rest seem some¬ how complementary.”
Since all of the universe, including our bodies, is
created of subatomic particles that demonstrate this oscillating behavior, what
is implied about the physical nature of this world?
How might infinite speed and total rest occur at the same
moment?
Objective and Subjective Reality
READ StWP pages 54-56
“In Chapter 2 we looked through a super microscope and
discovered that our objective reality is made up of void, vacuum which is
filled by pulsating, oscillating electromagnetic fields that in turn move
between two points of rest. Each of the points of rest is reached through a
period of motion. In the beginning of this chapter we tried to analyze the
nature of our subjective reality. We know that it consists of the sum total of
impressions conveyed to us by our senses. Then we found that our nervous
systems translate the objective reality for us in a Morse code of action or
motion and rest, which are oscillating electrical states of the nervous system.
We can thus extract a common denominator of our objective and subjective
realities. We shall find that both realities become ‘real’ only due to the
change or motion occurring between the two states of rest. In other words, if
there is no change, we have a state of perpetual rest, and a state of perpetual
rest means no perceptible reality. It may be useful for us to ponder the possibility
that “tangible reality” exists for us only as long as there is movement; and
when the movement stops, matter and solid reality become diffuse and disappear.
At this point, I can no longer resist the temptation to
quote from a book by Alexandra David-Neel and Luma Yongden entitled The
Secret Oral Teachings In Tibetan Buddhist Sects: ‘The tangible world is
movement, say the Masters, not a collection of moving objects, but movement
itself. There are no objects in movements, it is the movement which constitutes
the objects which appear to us: they are nothing but movement. This movement is
a continued and infinitely rapid succession of flashes of energy (in Tibetan
“tsal” or “shoug”). All objects perceptible to our senses, all phenomena of
whatever kind and whatever aspect they may assume, are constituted by a rapid
succession of instantaneous events. There are two theories and both consider
the world as movement. One states that the course of this movement (which
creates phenomena) is continuous, as the flow of a quiet river seems to us. The
other declares that the movement is intermittent and advances by separate
flashes of energy which follow each other at such small intervals that these
intervals are almost non-existent.’”
What does it mean that in a state of perpetual rest there
is no perceptible reality?
Does “no perceptible reality” mean to actual reality or
existence?
What are the implications from the two theories offered
in The Secret Oral Teachings In Tibetan Buddhist Sects?
