Quantum Living - Part One

The borderline between Science and Religion is becoming paper-thin. This is to the great discomfort of many, on both sides of the divide, and it is to the joy of the few who can grasp the vision of a single unitary mental model of Life and the Universe.

In delving below the surface of the physical world, a seething cauldron of energy is found, where probability rules, and the infinitely large merges with the infinitely tiny, to become one elegant system of particle/waves. At our current stage of knowledge, we now know that the observer and the observed are not separate, but form a single system, centred around a singular event - the observation itself. The Event turns out to be the essence of Reality - and our response to events constitutes our experience.

The wave, now revealed to be the stuff of creation, is half in our Universe and half in some mathematician's no-man's land, oscillating between electrical, magnetic, and some interdimensional potential. This is the energy that Einstein found to be the alter-ego of all matter.

So where does Religion fit in this picture? The starting point of all religion is Creation, and the intelligence behind it. This intelligence, traditionally pictured outside of the stuff of the Universe, has logically been seen to be within it. Whether it is outside as well, we cannot say, since our experience cannot under any circumstances extend outside of the observed Universe. However, it is reasonable to assume that the Creative Power exists independently of the created, but has contributed Its own substance toward Its creation.

With the development of new forms of mathematics, such as chaos and catastrophe theory, there appears to be an argument for the innateness of creative potential in the Universal stuff itself. It has been shown that any random, chaotic mass of matter will inevitably form itself into clumps of material with an ordered pattern, given time. The example applied to the atmosphere is that of a butterfly sneeze causing a tornado. This can be modelled by computer; a screen-based chaos theory model will, given the tiniest of perturbations, resolve itself into a complex pattern over time. It turns out that the quantum fluctuations in space itself are enough to trigger the process, meaning that a fully steady, stable state of randomness cannot be sustained.

This says to us that order is the normal state that all material moves to, and that it is chaos or randomness which is the unstable state which cannot persist. Prior to this, the thermodynamic theory of entropy was used to bolster the assumption that all the Universe must 'run down' like a clock spring, and revert to random chaos, assumed to be the only stable state. There appears to be more to things, to partly borrow a phrase, than is contained in our philosophy.

The suggestion can be made, therefore, that all material (presumably energy as well, since that is the material equivalent) is innately endowed with some form of goal-seeking natural intelligence. This intelligence can be imagined to be the force behind all evolution, whether of galaxies, planetary systems, or eco-systems. If there is an inherent force toward greater complexity, then we are its local culmination, and this force represents the power which we know as God.

Lest this seem impersonal, I hasten to remind the reader that this Power can and has assumed billions of personalities, and can presumably do so at will. It behooves us to use the Power to look both inward and outward from our viewpoint, and learn what we can about the Universal Mind which gave us birth.