Abstract
A philosophical
description
is proposed, of the basic mechanisms of physical universe and
especially
of the nature of matter, that is compatible with such phenomena as
instantaneous
action at a distance. It is proposed that material existence in
physical
space is conditioned and indeed dependent upon the existence of energy
patterns necessary for matter to manifest and that interactions occur
not
between the material manifestations but between the primary energy
patterns
themselves.
Philosophies
Action at a
distance would
seem eminently possible if not probable, providing we integrate our
purely
physical picture of the universe with a concept of energies originating
from a non-physical-universe source. As foreign as this may be to
physics, we
may need to start considering the possibility of a "spiritual
ingredient"
or "consciousness ingredient" in all things physical.
Eastern philosophic
concepts
have long held all material things to be filled with or interpenetrated
by a life force (Ki, Prana). It would seem to me that our
"scientific"
denial of those things we are not able to measure is severely limiting
our understanding and our ability to conceptualise existence in the
material
world. To be sure, there is a timid opening of western science to
these
concepts, witness books by Fritjof Capra and others, but by and large,
anything that is not immediately accessible to measurement is still not
welcome.
Shiuji Inomata has
proposed
to integrate the current scientific paradigm with a "consciousness"
parameter.
He outlines the necessary shift of paradigm in a paper entitled
"Science
of Consciousness and new scientific world view - we are in the midst of
the second Copernican revolution"(1). Inomata proposes a triangular
relationship between matter, energy and a consciousness parameter
designated
as "Q".
In line with the
work of
Inomata and others, I would like to propose here a concept by which
instantaneous
action at a distance could be explained and I am asking the reader to
forgive
me if I am requiring you to stretch your imagination into an area that
would seem to lay outside the province of physics. Some may even
experience
the ideas put forth in this paper to be a bit "unsettling" to their
understanding
of universe, based on the conventional scientific view.
Dimensions
Our physical world
is said
to be three-dimensional, with reference to the basic three degrees of
freedom
of movement we find to exist in a right-angle-co-ordinated cube-based
spatial
reference system as first proposed by Descartes (up-down, left-right
and
forward-backward, to express this in simple terms).
Although I assent
to use
the word three-dimensional to indicate physical space, I have shown(2)
that one could with profit describe physical space in a
four-dimensional
tetrahedron-based spatial reference system just by changing from 90
degree
co-ordination to 60 degree co-ordination. The advantage of such a
system
would be an immediate orientability in physical space having to
consider
only four vectors, instead of six vectors (as above) of the Cartesian
system.
The word
three-dimensional,
although in general use, is thus not an indication of any real physical
properties inherent in space. It is merely a conventional way of
looking
at and describing space, based in Euclidean geometry. In fact, Euclid
taught
a progression from point (dimensionless) to line (one-dimensional) to
plane
(two-dimensional) and finally to space (three-dimensional). I propose
that
this system of geometry does not have any real physical significance
and
is merely an abstract way of conceptualising physical space.
We may however use Euclid's
concept of the (two-dimensional) plane and it's relation to
(three-dimensional)
space as an analogy useful to the understanding of what follows here.
As inhabitants of physical ("three-dimensional") space we would have an
inherent advantage over a hypothetical inhabitant of a two-dimensional
universe contained within our universe. We would in fact be able to
observe,
from our vantage point, any point of the plane and thus would be able
to
accede to any point of that universe without having to "travel it's
space"
like the inhabitant of the two-dimensional universe. This, to our
two-dimensional
friend, would be somewhat of a miracle, he would call it "instantaneous
action at a distance" on our part.
In this same way,
we should
imagine a "four-dimensional" entity to exist, which contains within
itself
our "three-dimensional" universe and which has a similar advantage of
being
able to accede to and act at any point in our space, without having to
traverse our space in the way we need to traverse space to arrive at
our
destination. I believe that one could call that "four-dimensional"
entity
hyperspace.
Motion
In an unusually
insightful
manner, Gian Piero Godone(3) has proposed his "Fourth Principle of
Dynamics",
adding to our concepts of motion and dynamics codified in the days of
Newton.
The principle was first presented in Fivizzano, Italy in October 1994
and
reads:
"Motion of bodies
through
space is directly mediated, in a sequential fashion, by all those
particular
basic elements which permit the very existence of the bodies in the
first
place."
Subsequently,
Godone has re-stated
the principle in a more articulated way. The following is the latest
(February
1998) version of Godone's Fourth Principle of Dynamics:
"Any possible
motion of
all bodies is due directly to the natural motion of their basic
elements,
which by their specific sequential behaviour ensure the stable
existence
of the bodies; such sequentiality being the consequence of constant
interaction
with ever new basic elements arriving in an orderly fashion from space
and subsequently returning to it."
We are accustomed
to consider
matter as fundamentally different from space and from what might fill
space.
To some of us, space is empty, except for the matter it contains. Thus,
to an observer within this universe it may appear that motion of
material
bodies is a moving of such bodies from one location to another, through
basically empty space.
But if we reason
with Godone,
and I tend to agree with him on this count, there is really no such
thing
as motion in the way we imagine it, there is only an appearance of
motion.
Each material body consists primarily of a stable energy pattern, which
is the cause of the manifestation we call matter. When in motion,
the physical
manifestation of the body is being successively re-constructed out of
new
"basic particles" each time it changes position.
An excellent
analogy of
this apparent motion would be our familiar TV. We see pictures in
motion,
but what really happens is that an electron beam lights up successive
points
of phosphorescent material on the inside of a glass screen, giving us
the
idea of a picture. By successively lighting up different sets of
points,
that picture on the screen seems to come to life, it seems to move.
Particles of
Matter
As Godone
succinctly implies
with his principle of dynamics, a very similar mechanism is at work in
our physical world. Particles are actually created and constantly
re-created
by an energetic pattern which is maintained and sometimes animated by
what
I would call "life force".
Space is not empty.
It
is a plenum. Matter is a special state of the plenum of space. It has
recently
been proposed by Paul E. Rowe in an interesting series of articles
printed
in 'Infinite Energy' magazine(4), that space is filled by kind of a
Bose-Einstein
condensate of hydrogen, that is, by a close-packed matrix, a "soup" of
electrons and protons.
Rowe bases this
conclusion
on the fact that hydrogen can be created from space under certain
energetic
conditions, as described in his papers. "Rowe's soup", which in
practice
fills all space, supplies the "basic particles" that according to
Godone
are necessary for matter to exist and to move.
Energy
We are using
electric energy
in our daily lives without having a firm understanding of what this
energy
actually is. To be sure, we have a working knowledge of how electricity
behaves, we can engineer applications of it, but ask anyone to explain
the basic principles behind electricity or magnetism - if you dig far
enough
for a basic explanation, you will get an embarrassed silence.
Thomas E. Bearden
explains,
in a recent article,(5) that there is a great disparity between the
energy
that flows from a dipole and that actually captured and put to use in
our
electric or electronic apparatus. The energy flow from a battery or a
generator
is much larger; something on the order of 10^13 times the amount of
conventionally
used energy. According to Bearden, there are some basic flaws in our
way
of explaining and utilising electrodynamics. One might agree with
Bearden
or not, but to be sure, there are fundamental shortcomings in our
theoretic
understanding of energetic processes that are at the basis of what is
generally
called "free energy".
Torsion
fields are another case in point. They are highly penetrative
energies
which have been demonstrated to "propagate" at superluminal velocities.
Our knowledge of these fields is based largely on research done in
Russia(6)
by A. Akimov and G. Shipov. A recent summary of relevant research has
been
published by Donald Reed(7). We are still grappling to find a mechanism
that allows such speeds in physical space and are theorising
"wormholes"
and "time reversal".
There may however
be a
much simpler explanation for these phenomena, if we can take the step
and
open our mind's eye to the possibility that the universe does not only
consist of matter and energy located in and operating through space,
but
that at least part of that energy is resident in and operating out of
what
I described as hyper space.
Life force
I propose that all
matter
is created and continuously re-created by what I would call "life
force".
This force provides patterns of energy which "materialise" parts of the
medium that fills space, coagulating it into what we perceive to be
particles
of matter.
There is a vast
range of
complexity of these particles from hydrogen to the heavy elements.
There
is as well a vast range of extension, from single particles to
planetary
and stellar masses. And there is another distinction, between what we
call
"dead" matter and what we call "animated" or "full-of-life" matter,
such
as plants, animals and human bodies.
The differences
however
are only quantitative, not qualitative. It is the same life force or
life
energy in different quantities and different degrees of mobility and
individual
consciousness that is responsible for the various manifestations of
matter.
Interactions
Electric, magnetic
and
gravitational interactions between matter are mediated by energy.
Patterns
of energy associated with matter are postulated as being provided by
life
force. Consequently, the interactions would appear to be between the
energy
patterns, rather than between the particles of the bodies themselves.
Life force is not
part
of our three-dimensional space but, residing as it were in hyperspace
it
is, as discussed above, one step above the dimensionaltiy of space. It
is not bound to travel "through space" and thus is capable of
manifesting
it's effects in distant and diverse locations at the same instant.
Consequently,
interactions that are energy-pattern interactions are not limited by
speed
of light.
We thus have not
only a
possibility of "instantaneous action at a distance" but also of
particles
disappearing in one spot and reappearing in another, which agrees with
recent experimental evidence. From here it is a simple step to extend
the
concept and include phenomena such as telepathy, telekinesis and
teleportation,
which so far have been relegated to the margins of science. These will,
one day in the not too distant future, become normal occurrences quite
within the province of scientific investigation.
Bibliography:
Shiuji Inomata
"Science
of Consciousness and New Scientific World-View" Journal of New Energy,
Vol. 2, no. 2
Josef
Hasslberger "Tetra
Space Co-ordinates" Proceedings of the International Conference 'New
ideas
in Natural Sciences' St. Petersburg, June 1996 and
"http://www.hasslberger.com/phy/phy_6.htm"
Gian Piero
Godone, private
communication to the author.
See also Godone's
website:
http://users.masterweb.it/fisica-physics
Paul E. Rowe,
"Hydrogen
from Vacuum", "A brief History of the Ether", and "Time, Mass and
Velocity"
talks delivered at a meeting of the NPA (Natural Philosophy Alliance),
printed in Infinite Energy, Vol.3, No.17, pp 80-85.
T. E. Bearden
"Re: Philip
Yam, Exploiting Zero-Point Energy" in Explore! Vol. 8, Number 5, 1998
A. Akimov, G.
Shipov, "Torsion
Fields and Their Experimental Manifestations." Proceedings of the
International
Conference 'New ideas in Natural Sciences' St. Petersburg, June 1996
Donald Reed
"New Concepts
for SpaceTime and Corroborating Evidence from Torsion Field Research"
New
Energy News Vol.6, Number 1, May 1998.
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