Monday, July 6, 2009

Entanglement: Thoughts on connectedness and seperation

So many of you know that I love Quantum Physics and I am prone to parallel many of its concepts with spiritual ideas. It's actually amazing how much they conicide. Not surprising to me, actually. Lately, a certain theme has been tugging at me over and over again--Connectedness, seperation and the question if losing something is possible, or if it is in fact lost that easily shouldn't one ask themselves if they ever truly "had" it to begin with? Lost love, lost faith, lost confidence or whatever the thing might be. Or. . .is it that we haven't really lost it at all, despite how it seems. I'm not sure I have all the answers, and different situations are likely to reach their own unique conclusion, but today after being reminded about the physics idea of "Entanglement", the concept shed a lot of light on my questions.

Quantum Entanglement is basically the idea that despite two objects being spatially seperated, they are still connected. For example, two particles could be seperated whether by a few miles or by a whole universe and if one of them is modified, the other one undergoes the same changes. The one object cannot be adaquately described without its counterpart. What effects one, effects the other and no matter how far a part they go, they are not actually seperate. Conventional wisdom, and science tells us that if two entities or particles are in two different places, they are independent of each other, so that means entanglement goes againsts all that we've learned is logical, yet ongoing experiements prove this bizarre occurence to be true again and again. . .

In addition to that idea, quantum physics shows us that once something is joined, it is always connected and that the matrix in which those things are joined is holographic, meaning that any portion of the field contains everything else in the field. Generally, we tend to think of space as an "emptiness", when in fact if space was vacant, then how do the waves of energy allow our cell phones to transmit calls or reflected light to bring these words you are reading to your eyes?? Something must exist that conveys the vibrations of life from one point to another. If we were to imagine space as empty, it would be dark and silent, since there would be nothing for lightwaves to pass through or for sound to be trasmitted by. They need a medium. My point is, in any seeming space between people, objects and universes--there is still a net of sorts holding everything together. It isn't a space in the way we are used to thinking about it, at least. That is why when two particles are truly connected and then seperated, no matter where they each go or what happens to one, the other cannot escape the same experience as its counterpart.

I've been thinking about that verse in the Bible that talks about how nothing can seperate us from the love of God.
"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God. . ."

It has always been a "nice little verse" to me, but it has never been so powerful as it has been when applied to the ideas that Quantum Physics proposes.
Since, QP shows us that we are in an ever-present continuum, where the past, present and future are intimately joined (think of a big, growing circle that encompasses them all), that means "present nor things to come" cannnot seperate us from the truth of the source that beget us, and since it is the "physics of possibility" that means that death and life and height and depth are not gaps, but a string of waves moving from one to another fluidly. It also shows us that as we persist in the assumption that our desires have already been fulfilled, our world inevidably conforms to our assumption. And a created being can never sever what is intrinsically joined by the creator simply because its power is ineffective. If we only believed this and lived by it. . .
Now, it makes sense how something true and intrinsc cannot be seperated by anything.. But how do we know if it was true to begin with? And if someone loses something, lost so easily...one has to wonder if it was ever real, right? Was there ever really a connection? What is the criteria for such a thing? Or do many things come to lie to us to stop us from seeing how real it was/is and we need to believe it is a part of us despite the fact that it only SEEMS far. Maybe the distance is actually the illusion. Maybe that's what the term "Love fights" means. . .it fights the illusions, which ironically are the things we think are real.

The only thing I can come up with for now, is maybe there are better questions to ask. . .
A friend of mine told me that when we ask the right questions, the answers are obvious.
Hmm.

So, those are my thoughts for the day. I was so tempted to entitle this "Enshanglement"... I resisted the temptation, but I just had to make note of it at some point. HAHA.

Less mentally constipating material to come in upcoming blogs. I promise! :)

1 comment:

  1. Very thought provoking post. Personally, I couldn't think of a more interesting topic...probably why we're friends. :-)

    See ya tonight!

    -Once again, I'm glad you're back to blogging...

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