Energy Quantified

In the quantum realm there is a measurement known as Planck's Length. It is
the smallest measurement of matter known and is realized only mathematically
(imagine a tenth to the twenty-ninth power of a centimeter). What is the
smallest point we can begin to measure something? It is at the point where we
use Planck's Length. Below that we have no capability of conceptualizing how
to measure it. This last measurable point is where we enter the realm of
Newtonian Physics and the realm of physical reality. It is at this location
where we begin to measure, count and quantify the very energetic world in
which we live. By this ability, we depart from the world of " The One" or
complete symmetry to the world of asymmetry---a world physically balanced, but
racked with diversity of all kinds. A very scary place filled with adventure
and uncertainties beginning at the quantum level with Warner Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle, to the realm of probability and Las Vegas. We enter the
physical realm of quantified light divided into small packets of energetic
matter known as quanta whose photons (a type of electron) vibrate and deflect
at various frequencies providing a wonderful world of color.

In this world of quantified energy, we see the quanta at the most microscopic
levels, begin to intelligently organize themselves into organic and inorganic
patterns of matter which take forms of planes, trains and automobiles and
lions, tigers and bears, but most importantly ---- you and me! Consciousness
separated, quantified and vibrated at my own frequency down to the very
smallest physical elements of my SELF. Self , separated from the ONE , the
point that exploded eighteen billion years ago creating the mystery we call
the universe and ultimately you and me.

So, here we are, many of us trying to make sense of it all and hanging onto a
ride that literally takes a lifetime. A lifetime in the physical sense though.
What was our consciousness when matter was reduced to just a very small point
before exploding into the universe we now observe? I surmise that
consciousness is not a what, but a who subjected to the what that seems very
real and tangible. For those who have become familiar with super string
theory, it is understood that the what vibrates at infinite frequencies down
to the smallest most elemental forms. Beyond those forms, other dimensions are
entered where only mathematical equations can make sense of anything.

String theory suggests the existence of up to twenty dimensions including the
three or four if one wants to include time as the fourth with which we
interact. If those other sixteen places exist, and mathematically it appears
they do, then what's going on in those places and what do they have to do with
us or what do we have to do with them? I seriously doubt that they're just
empty places. I certainly don't stand in a place of authority where I could
confidently answer the questions, but logic tells me that if our dimensions
are as active as we observe them to be, then the others must be active also.
If the reason why we do not observe them is because our observability is
limited to just four dimensions, then it appears to me that our minds are
literally being held captive. In other words,
we're in a kind of cosmic prison!

If there is a difference between who and what, then it is the what about our
lives that has pulled the wool over our minds. There must have been a time
when all of us were unrestricted by limited observability. It seems to me
that who we are, belongs to the cosmos at large and each incarnation, whether
they contain one dimension or twenty are only drop off points for
consciousness to be incarcerated .

When science and our government decided to place the Hubbell space telescope
in orbit, we enhanced our ability to observe the cosmos in ways we did not
believe possible. With a little bit of technical know-how, we altered our
observability to see realms we only suspected to exist. Along with that
observability we have increased our understanding of how things are and what
is way out there.

The question that comes to my mind is "Is what's way out there any different
from what's in the smallest regions of our observability or are we as
individuals of consciousness stuck in the middle of stuff that's neither small
nor large?" Maybe this is a question for Dr. Richard Feynman and his
anthropic principle to answer. There are two versions of the anthropic
principle, I'm not sure if either would apply. The basic idea is that if the
universe was physically different in any way, we wouldn't exist. So if nobody
is available to observe or perceive, then the universe has no reason to exist
and in fact may not.

If consciousness is a "what"----a thing in the physical sense, then things
large and small are relative and important. This matters most to people who
need to be resurrected when they die because the body is made of matter and
all things are made of matter. I find it interesting how consciousness hangs
on to the material, especially the material it thinks it is made of --- the
body-- to the point that it often thinks a superior being is going to restore
it some time in the future. We really do live in a material world and
universe!

What if you scrape away the material, the matter? Do you scrape away
consciousness, too? Have you then scraped away everything? Matter is energy
and consciousness is made of energy; therefore, consciousness is matter.
Through experimenting with particle accelerators, matter cannot be
annihilated, it only creates more matter on an atomic level.

We cling to the material because consciousness is made of matter.
Consciousness identifies with the tangible. The question is when a person
dies does consciousness survive intact? Since our bodies are made of atoms
that have always existed, so must consciousness be made of an eternal atomic
structure. When our bodies no longer contain consciousness they return to the
elements of the earth as the scriptures say, dust to dust.

The Double Slit experiment first performed by Thomas Young, showed that when a
beam of light passed through two slits of paper and was separated that they
found each other on the other side and converged into one beam again. This
proved matter or energy at its quantified level had consciousness. It could
think. Consciousness cannot be physically seen or measured currently, but we
can infer its existence. One experiment was carried out on people as they
died and it was shown they lost a very small amount of weight at the time of
death.

Later Einstein showed that light is made of individual particles called
photons. Young asserted that light was a wave that traveled at 182,000 miles
per second. The experiments proved them both correct. Light is a wave and a
particle. Likewise, consciousness is a wave of energy and contains particles.
Does consciousness exist within many particles or can just one particle
contain all the consciousness that is "us?"

And what form does that particle of consciousness take? Does it form itself
another material body as reincarnation suggests or does it meld into one being
as the Catholics assert or does it go on and become something greater like a
God as the Mormons claim?

We can safely say that consciousness survives, but what we cannot say at this
point is how it survives. It is the ultimate question for all religions and
philosophies. For now science has no answers of its own.

Ren Carter