The Quantum State of Being, Part I: The Granular State

With this series of essays, I'll briefly discuss the implications of the Harmonic sense of Being and the Planetary sense of Being in relationship to the quantum level.  Readers will see that in the context of metaphysical humanism, this presents a comprehensive vision of the division between quantum and classical physics, and an understanding of how it relates to our being.

 Readers are asked to go to and read the following post in order to begin this series. 

Then read on:

 When I wrote about the granular state of reality in my post in 2008, I was referring to the fact that the human being is actually able to sense that which physicists call the quantum level. 

This calls for further context and explanation.

Quantum space time is actually (in the context of quantum theory) a granular entity, because the energy, momentum, and the other properties of particles are confined to discrete bits. The word quanta is derived from the Latin quantus, meaning quantity or amount. Thus, strangely, the theory that tells us things are neither here nor there until we measure them — quantum theory — is actually a theory of measurement, roughly speaking. At least as far as the name implies.

 The contradiction between physical reality and quantum reality has always been that there is no physical reality until that measurement — which determines either velocity or location — takes place. What there is doesn’t look anything like classical reality. It can be in two places at the same time. It can entangle with itself so that two “particles” (we don’t know exactly what they are, except that they are forces, so we call them particles) are able to communicate instantaneously without the interference of limitations such as the speed of light.

 And while quantum theory has been good at explaining many different features of the universe, physicists are still struggling to discover the force that mediates gravity – which is presumed to have a feature, in one way or another, that is particulate in nature. 

Or maybe it isn’t. The problem is that we just don’t know. Physicists certainly want it to be particulate, because if it isn’t, things will be, to put it bluntly, pretty messed up.

 Fortunately, there is an explanation, even though physicists probably won’t like it.  In order to approach it, we’ll need to begin here. There’s a direct relationship between the inward gravity of Being in a human being and gravity across the space time continuum.  The phenomenon of gravity and its physical results as we observe them is a macroscopic and material reflection of the inner process that creates reality in the first place. 

The inner process that creates reality is intrinsic to the inner nature of Being of the cosmos itself, as well as the inner nature of Being of its constituents.

Said inner process is a process of consciousness. Consciousness lies at the root of the universe and all of its manifestations. All material manifestations that we observe originate in the discriminatory action of consciousness, which always and forever resolves the paradox between the quantum state and material reality. 

In other words, every single material thing that ever was, is, or will be arises initially because consciousness discriminates at the level of this “granular” state of proto-Being called the quantum state and places what we call “atomic particles” (in reality, there are no atomic ”particles,“ but just forces in multiple states of relationship) into measurable circumstances whereby they acquire definite characteristics that then form new relationships.

These relationships are mediated by gravity, or attraction. When we see positive and negative charges in atomic theory, what we are actually seeing is polarized states of gravity. Gravity is the initial attraction that arises instantaneously at the moment the quantum level is resolved by consciousness. This innate and inherent (i.e., inborn and permanent) propensity for attraction forms the universe of relationships that we now live in.

 I explained some of the function of this universe of relationship in Novel, Myth, and Cosmos; what I’d like to do this morning is explain the function of quantum versus classical reality and the nature of gravity in relationship to the question of Being.

  The general theory of relativity explains gravity as a distortion of space and time. 

Let us propose, rather:

Gravity is the creation of space and time through Being.  

This is a more precise and accurate statement about the nature of gravity. 

Furthermore:

Without Being, there is no spacetime  continuum.

  

Every instance of existence through the manifestation of consciousness creates a state of gravity, or attraction that forms a collective entity. At the basic level, we call these entities “particles” — and yet even those things are collectives. Physicists have verified this by splitting them over and over, only to discover that there is no bottom.  The creation of collective entities formed through attraction seems to take place directly at the quantum level, where individual quanta are differentiated and, in their infinitesimal wisdom, collectively form relationship based on a discriminative faculty of porto-awareness.  

If we want to look at the bottom of the tree of particle physics to find out just how small particles get, we’ll need to look at the level of three quanta, because each subsequent particle of classical reality will, theoretically, be formed of only three quanta which establish the initial relationship that creates the base particles of the universe.  Positive, negative, and neutralizing forces are required for any positions of relationship; and all of classical reality is formed from these positions of relationship.

All further “atomic particles” acquire their existence and further functions from this basic manifestation, so we have a long way to ”go down” splitting particles before we find the foundation; so far, in fact, that instruments will never be able to measure them. It means that many of the interactions that form the universe are taking place on scales that will remain remain forever out of reach to modern physics—or any kind of physics whatsoever.  I would note, however, that said interactions will also follow the form of law in the same way that macroscopic manifestations do. So nothing is entirely random; there’s a rule and a reason at the base.

 Any given collective entity forms relationships and exerts a characteristic of accretion, that is, an affinity for and attraction to other entities which can in their own right also form a relationship. 

Without Being, there is no gravity. Gravity is the personal force exerted by any cosmic entity on any scale, insofar as it represents a collection of awareness. That force is inevitably attractive, because the natural tendency of the dispersed particles, or quanta, of God’s Being have a wish to recombine.

 Gravity, in other words, exists as a bridge between the unrealized but infinite-potential quantum state of pre-reality and the classical world. Gravity and Being are not separate entities, but rather a single manifestation of force representing consciousness.

Wishing the best for you on this day,

Lee

Lee van Laer is a Senior Editor at Parabola Magazine.