Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Deeper reality

“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.”

source: The Holographic Universe

I recently read an Osho book in which he said something like “"Whenever we say we saw the sea we saw only a part of the sea. The sea is so big that no one has seen the Sea."

This kind of deeper reality (suggested above by Bohm) has been given in our scriptures. Infact, the theory of everything is based on one substratum is the root of all the Hindu philosophy. That substratum is called God or Brahmam.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Hologram

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.

Saturday, January 08, 2005

Wanting to be an Ayonija

A word can mean different things to different people. It was paining for me to read what the word meant to a little girl. How her beautiful world got changed. Please read. Let us help stop the flesh trade.

The cruel story of a Yonija

Human birth by other means

While reading Vishnu Puranam I came across a word.

Ayonija

I can crudely translate that into, a girl not born through the female genital organ (Yoni).

It was startling to read, coz it means several possibilities.

Narration of the birth of a special girl by Soma (the moon god) reads as follows,

"...she sweated a lot and she wiped her sweat drops using the leafs of a plant. The "Garba" (the sperm-ova in her womb) came out through her sweat. She left to Indralokha. The "Garba" stayed in the leaves. The trees protected her. Then aided by Vayu, the trees and by me ( I used my rays to nourish her), she grew up to be a beautiful girl"

Does it refer to pollination, since according to our knowledge that is the nearest thing we can associate with it. Vayu (the wind) transporting pollen grains from one plant to another and the grains growing up to be plants.

Our Indian scriptures recognize even plants have life. This might have meant for them too. I mean the subject of this narration could be plants. But the word Ayonija is quite startling.

The Garba - we can call the combo of sperm and ova - seems to have been swept away by wind, incubated by trees and nourished by the moon light. Is it some kind of technology to produce human beings?

Has the modern science created an 'Ayonija' or an 'Ayonijan'?

Native American Poem

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Mountain dream