What are you worried about right now? Well, it?s an almost
guarantee that you are worried about nothing, for the very reason
that you don?t exist! You have no worries because you have no mind
or body or life to worry with ? it?s all an illusion. No worries,
but more significantly, no worrier. If you think this sounds like
utter nonsense, some of the most brilliant scientists, philosophers
and theological thinkers of our century would disagree with
you.Science and math suggest that we humans dont exist, (even
though there is really no math or science ? more illusions!)The
advent of quantum mechanics and modern physics increasingly imply
that our existence as human beings is a kind of persistent
illusion. We are under the false assumption that we?re people, we
only imagine we have bodies and brains, and minds functioning
inside those brains.
Illusions, all of it. Listen to what one of the greatest physicists
of the century, Authur Eddington said of quantum theories
In the world of
physics?the shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the
shadow ink flows over the shadow paper?the frank realization that
physical science is concerned with a world of shadow is one of the
most significant of recent advances.?
By ?shadow? Eddington meant illusion. More than any other science,
it is particle physics that is confronting the fundamentals of
reality, and more and more, the evidence point to the fact there is
no reality!For the past 300-some years, the world has been under
the impression that everything is made up of atoms, ?the building
blocks of the universe.? It was the great Isaac Newton who
solidified our impression that atoms were like billiard balls. Pile
enough of them on top of each other, set them in motion and you get
rocks, trees, animals and people.But in 1900 Albert Einstein?s
hero, the brilliant Max Planck, revealed some incredibly disturbing
discoveries he made while trying to solve problems concerning the
radiation of energy.To make a long story short, Planck was forced
to conclude that matter at its most fundamental level is not
continuous, not solid. There are no tiny billiard balls. When you
break down an atom, you get an electron, a proton and maybe a
neutron. But it turns out these are not the smallest units either.
You can break things down further to bosons, quarks, W particles,
tachyons and a lot of other shadowy ?things? that just sort of wink
in and out of existence.
Where do things go when they ?wink out?? Nowhere! They
cease to exist! Then they come back again.So what? you might ask.
Well, as you know, the human body is made up from the fundamental
elements of nature. We are mostly water, but we also have iron in
our blood, calcium in our bones, and such. But each of those
substances are made up of individual atoms, which in turn are made
up of ghostly bits of nothing that just sort of come and go, in and
out of reality.Scientists call this blinking process ?quantum
fluctuation.?So when the elements of your body fluctuate, so does
your body, and so do you! So does you brain and the chemicals in
your brain! In fact, you may be in a state of nothingness more
often than you are in a state of somethingness (even though there
really is no somethingness!)As the currently popular medical guru
Depack Chopra points out, all of us our dead (nonexistent) for much
of the time, yet we are all constantly afraid of dying, not
realizing we are dead much of the time!
Even at its most solid state, the atom turns out to be not
very solid at all. Atoms are 99.999999 empty space. If the nucleus
of an atom were the size of a ping-pong ball, and if you were to
place it in the center of a large football stadium, the electrons
that orbit around the nucleus would be at the outer walls of the
stadium.What is between the nucleus and the electron? Nothing! And
what are the nucleus and electron made from? Smaller and smaller
bits of energy which are not solid, but actually whirling fragments
of light.Even a block of solid lead is nothing and light, acting as
?something.? So is your car. So are the chemicals in your brain. So
are you
Language is one of the primary ways in which we become deceived
into believing in solid reality. Once a creature reaches the stage
where it can manipulate symbolic language, you can bet that
creature is deeply buried under many layers of illusion. You see,
the idea that language is all illusion is not a simple belief, but
a fact which has been proved mathematically. Back in the 1920s, a
German math genius by the name of Kurt Godel produced a rigorous
mathematical demonstration which showed that all logic was
ultimately self contradictory.Godel?s proof is known as Godel?s
Theorm, but also as the Incompleteness Theorm. It states
thisIt is impossible to
to establish the logical consistency of any complex deductive
system except by assuming principles of reasoning whose own
internal consistency is an open question as that of the system
itself.
