ZERO POINT
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 Microcosm/MacrocosmScientific and Mystical View on the Origin of the Universe, |
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A Scientific Approach to the Mysteries of Creation as Ultimate Solutions As scientists peeled back the layers of material
nature, they first developed an understanding of atoms. In the eighteenth
century, John Newlands applied the ‘law of the octave’ to understanding
the repetition of properties among different atomic substances found in
the familiar world. These elements appeared to fall naturally into
an octave, or eightfold pattern. Eventually, atoms were arranged
into seven rows of elements in the periodic tables, which further embody
different ‘inner octaves’ patterns.
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| The newer theories to be offered as the ultimate
theories concerning the nature of matter are superstring theory and its
extension into M-Theory. These theories propose that what used
to be conceived as ‘point particles’ really have an inner extension as
‘strings,' even with membranes, and that it is the different modes of vibration
of these strings which produces all of the varied elements of nature.
In this view, everything at the most microscopic level consists of combinations
of vibrating strands, or strings. The mass and force charges of the
particles are due to the string’s oscillatory pattern. Greene (1999)
notes: “... each particle contains a vibrating, oscillating, dancing filament
what physicists ... have named a string.” (p. 14)
Once again, another layer of material nature, or onion, is being peeled away. What were once conceived of as point particles are now determined to constitute a whole inner world on a different inner order of scale. These strings exist down at the level of the Plankian units and are many orders of magnitude beyond anything which can be investigated directly with modern technology. |
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| In string theory, the “ultimate building block of
nature” are these small strings with diameters at the level of the Planckian
units–with a size around 10-37 centimeters. This is inconceivably
small. Each different mode of vibrations of these strings correspond
to different fundamental particles. These modes of vibration are
referred to as the ‘zero point vibrations’ of the string. Atkins
(2003) depicts these: “Just think of the string as pulsing away quietly,
like a human heart, each mode of its pulsing corresponding to a different
particle.” (p. 197) Of course, Atkins does not conceive that
a human being might have such a zero point center, pulsing away like a
human heart.
If point particles can be replaced by vibrating strings, then this may resolve the inconsistencies between quantum theory and the general theory of relativity, and provide that elusive ‘theory of everything’–the holy grail of modern science. The string concept allows scientists to weld together an understanding of quanta with a new understanding of higher space-time dimensions. Although the earlier versions of string theory predicted a twenty-six dimensional space-time, and then a ten dimensional one, the most advanced model is eleven dimensional, with a seven dimensional hyperspace existing at every point within the four large space-time dimensions of the everyday world. The 11-dimensional K.K. theory regards any such quanta as the result of ‘broken symmetries’ in the underlying seven dimensional hyperspace. The latest version of string theory is called M-theory. The ‘M’ is related to ‘membrane,’ although Atkins suggests that it might be also in reference to ‘the mother of all theories,’ while Greene suggests that it might be related to ‘mysterious.’ Anyway, M-theory talks of two-dimensional ‘membranes’ instead of one-dimensional strings wrapped up in these hyperspaces. M-theorists attempt to understand “the dimensionality of the holes in these spaces ... through which the stings are threaded.” (Atkins, p.199) M-theory, according to Atkins, is trying to answer the question of why there are ‘three families of particles’ in nature. The answer from the perspective of M-theory suggests that the number of particle families is interrelated to how spacetime is compactified, all of which has to do with higher-dimensional symmetries, and the dimensionality of the holes in these spaces. Atkins notes, criptically, that somehow “the number three is emerging as possibly significant.” (p. 199) Atkins writes:
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| The world is certainly nothing like what manifests
to the senses, which is only an illusory projection from these deep realms
of being. In 1986, a Scientific American article by Freedman and
Nieuwenhuizen, on the The Hidden Dimensions of Spacetime, used the
next illustration, on the left--of seven dimensional hyperspheres existent
at every point within the universe--to depict 11 dimensional K. K. theory.
Within the newer supestring-M-theory, it is seven-dimensional Calabi-Yau Space that exist at every point within the four dimensional world of the 'large dimensions.' The illustration on the right from B. Greene's book The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory. (1999) uses a similar image to portray this profound concept of such a Calabi-Yau Spaces at every point underlying the three dimensional space. They remind one of the ultimate 'space particles' of the Dalai Lama, and the Monads of Blavatsky. |
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Of course, the little-bit scientists imagine that such concepts only have to do with the theoretical nature of sub-atomic quanta, and that all of these ideas have nothing to do with what we as humans experience on our levels of being. What could theoretical physics have to do with the psychology of consciousness or the heart, or with the idea that human beings are such multidimensional beings themselves–with zero point origins! Perhaps the number three is inherent to the geometization of the world, like the number seven –with the underlying seven dimensional strings and seven dimensional hyperspace! Certainly, if we consider the newest advances in modern physics as to the ultimate nature and constitution of quanta, and the universe, we are led to utterly awesome and inspired concepts–all related to what can be described as ‘zero point dynamics.’ It seems that, as Blavatsky says, the Gods and other invisible bodies clothed themselves in bodies, founded upon “material points without extension"–or zero points. These newest ideas in superstring and M-theory are indeed most in keeping with the ancient wisdom teaching of Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine. Quanta, like the universe, have zero point foundations. back to table of
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