AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
The flow of history is a slog through constant resistance, almost like wading through clingy mud, as it were, with progress measured in excruciatingly slow jumps: dry patches where it is possible to walk briskly a short distance until humankind’s instinctive ability to confuse and confound its direction toward some elevation of living quality or standards. Seventy years ago we dreamed of sleeker automobiles, wrap-around windshields and ever more powerful engines. Tens of thousands of patents have been issued for automotive improvements in the interim, but we still crash into and maim or kill one another by ignoring signals or courtesy or conditions. Fewer and fewer of these “accidents” interfere with trips to church. There is still trash littering our gutters, highway shoulders and median strips. Excruciatingly small jumps of progress.
We celebrate great thinkers like Einstein, Rosen, Bohr and Susskind who seem to leap ahead of contemporary understandings, but their genius takes a long, long time to improve people’s lives, although the atom bomb provides the exception to that rule… so to speak. Many of the “rapid” changes to humanity’s convenience and living standards have derived from weapons development as far back as history has been recorded: even the wheel and domestication of oxen and horses and so forth. But great theoretical, mathematical thinkers don’t concentrate on creating better appliances or roofing materials; they contemplate time and gravity and quantum mechanics and black holes and such, which are all important, too, despite most people caring very little about their progress.
Now and then there is a Nicola Tesla, a Thomas Edison, an Isaac Newton, a Copernicus, a DaVinci or an Elon Musk, and thank God for them. The greatest thinker of all, however, is God, it seems Prudent to accept, even though people are certain they can explain why He is not so. It strikes Prudence, however, that the great theoreticians are edging, bit by bit, toward understanding how God’s creation works – physically, mathematically, honestly. It is a matter of truth, information, reality and pure intersectionality… oh, and black holes.
The latest thinking tends to accept that the “event horizon” of a so-called black hole is nearly a spiritual place. It has to do with quantum mechanics and the preservation of information and the “entanglement” principle that predicts that two related particles or wave-packets or even energy strings, will maintain a status of “truth” between them no matter how far apart they may be. That is, if a quality of one particle varies for whatever reason, its “mate” will exhibit the same variation instantaneously. This can be proven by observation if the two particles are within range of observation, and is so well established that the principle is accepted at essentially all distances. What has this to do with the event horizon?
The “event horizon” marks the last place where light or other radiation can escape the effects of a black hole before “falling” into the black hole. Two particles that interact in this most unusual place might separate, one radiating outward as the other falls in past the event horizon. Current thinking says that the “entanglement” of these two particles, which is to say, the shared truth of these two particles, does not end at the event horizon. The entanglement principle holds true in both realms. Variance in the nature / condition of one particle will be true for the other at the same time regardless of distance. To poor, dense Prudence, this sounds a lot like “As above, so below.”
What is true in Heaven is true on Earth, in so many words. The Newtonian / Einsteinian descriptions of reality: space, time, gravity, electro-magnetism, atoms and sub-atomic particles, can describe many relationships in the observable Universe, but it is quantum mechanics, quantum physics, that explain how the engine runs, including the spontaneous conversion of energy into matter and vice-versa… and entanglement. The truth of quantum entanglement pretty much establishes truth as the heart of the engine. It is also the heart of life, which seems to be everywhere in some form, humans being part of it: love, life, law, truth.
There is something true about how the Universe works and exists as it does. As scientists struggle to think the way God does, for utter lack of a better name, they keep getting closer to fundamental truths. As they attempt to observe with ever-greater clarity, how two particles – or FACTS – are entangled in truth, they realize that with better and better observation the particle or packet being observed – or the fact being observed – expands and expands to fill the known Universe, theoretically. Pretty soon the theoretical master-minds are describing the Universe as holographic: an expression of truth perceived through a filter of observation and, well, meaning.
Is the hologram mere happenstance? Can we ask, whose hologram is it? Not a fair question? Scientists keep sharpening their sense of truth / reality without contemplating the spirituality of truth, but it is lurking everywhere truth is observed, thank God… for utter lack of a better name.