Brief attempt about quantum and wholeness – The great emptiness

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The interaction of the individual fields forms holistic wholeness. From it, all things and life itself arise in a perpetual rhythm of creation and destruction. This equally creative and violent aspect of physics is nowhere more evident than in a place where nothing is – the vacuum.

The vacuum appears empty to us because the processes of creation and destruction take place both temporally and spatially on a scale that is imperceptible to us. On our macroscopic level, everything appears silky smooth and peaceful. Like the sea when we look at it from a high-flying airplane. But if we go to the same height as the water surface in a boat, it appears unpredictable, rough and waves of any size shake the vessel. Exactly such fluctuations between the creation and decay of initially only virtual quantum particles – particles and their oppositely charged antiparticles, which normally immediately annihilate each other – can be detected in vacuum when we move down to the dimension of the very smallest. By measuring atomic energy levels, physicists know that these vacuum fluctuations really exist.

They found the effects in the vast, empty space between the nucleus and the electron orbiting it in a hydrogen atom. From time to time, the electric field that holds the electron in its orbit creates an electron-positron pair from the infinity of the vacuum. They collide and annihilate, and this process, called vacuum polarization, provides a minimal change in the orbit of the real electron. High-precision microwave technology could precisely determine it. – Perhaps the Big Bang, responsible for the creation of space and time, was merely a massive vacuum fluctuation, sufficiently stable to prevent immediate decay. Anyway, the phenomena that physics has demonstrated in the nothingness of the vacuum have already been described in ancient Asian philosophical books.

„Everything that comes into being begins in nothingness and comes from emptiness.“
Laotse

„Brahman is life. Brahman is joy. Brahman is emptiness. … Joy, truly, is the same as emptiness. Emptiness, verily, is the same as joy.“
Chandogya Upanishad

„The great emptiness can only consist of Ch’i; this Ch’i must condense to form all things; and these things must dissolve again to form again the great emptiness.
When the Ch’i condenses, its visibility becomes apparent, so that there are then the forms of things. When it dilutes, its visibility is no longer apparent, and there are no more forms and things. Can anything else be said with its condensation than that this is only temporary? But when it is dispersed, can one say hastily that it then does not exist?“
Taoist Wisdom

„Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. Emptiness is not different from form, form is not different from emptiness. What is form is emptiness, what is emptiness is form.“
Buddhist Sutra

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