String theory or "M theory" is a developing theory in particle physics which attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity.
String theory proposes that the electrons and quarks within an atom are not 0-dimensional objects, but rather 1-dimensional oscillating lines ("strings"), possessing only the dimension of length, but not height or width.
The theory poses that these strings can vibrate, thus giving the observed particles their flavor, charge, mass and spin. The earliest string model, the bosonic string, incorporated only bosons, although this view evolved to the superstring theory, which posits that a connection (a "supersymmetry") exists between bosons and fermions, two fundamentally different types of particles. String theories also require the existence of several extra, unobservable, dimensions to the universe, in addition to the usual three spatial dimensions (height, width, and length) and the fourth dimension of time. M theory, for example, requires that spacetime have eleven dimensions.
Last month we recommended, in our reading section, a book by Michael Talbot on the subject of the holographic model.
Titled "The Holographic Universe" illustrates Talbot's theory of how the holographic model, an idea pioneered by two of the world's most eminent thinkers, physicist David Bohm, a former protégé of Einstein, and the quantum physicist Karl Pribam, could very well explain an entire range of paranormal and mystical phenomena, as well as controversial psychic experiences.
The holographic model proposes, as simply as we can put it, that our brain works as a hologram.
Talbot uses, very wisely, Karl Pribam's description of this idea, at the start of his remarkable book:
"It isn't that the world of appearances is wrong; it isn't that there aren`t objects out there, at one level of reality. It's that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a holographic system, you arrive at a different view, a different reality. And that other reality can explain things that have hitherto remained inexplicable scietifically: paranormal phenomena synchronicities, the apparently meaningful coincidence of events" ----- Karl Pribam, in an interview in Psychology Today. |
The word hologram is derived from the Greek words "holos" meaning whole or complete and "gram" meaning message.
It is a recording of an interference pattern made by the interaction of two beams of light. The recording is made in the light-sensitive emulsion of a photographic film.
An interference is the crisscrossing pattern that occurs when two or more waves, such as waves of water, ripple through each other. The complex arrangement of crests and throughs that results from these collisions is known as interference pattern.
Taking into consideration that modern quantum physics have demostrated that particles can behave both as particles of matter and as energy waves, and we, and everything that surround us do comply with this fact at a quantum level, the idea that we could be the vehicle through which a true reality is interpretated does not sound at all wild. |
