particles – TheCommonAtheist

Before it is observed, matter is formless in the quantum fields as potential. When it is observed it becomes physical, collapsing into its particle forms. But it does come out from nothing, or no-thing

But really there are no particles—just excitations in the field. I am the field, you are the field, like ripples on a pond.

Take a box and eliminate everything that exists from inside the box—all the atoms and what your left with is a pure vacuum filled with absolutely nothing. But inside the box the quantum field still exist. This is about what absolutely nothing looks like.

The field is still in the box, even though it’s empty—and when we animate this we see it is all in flux, fluidly shifting and flowing to the edges of the vacuum—all 12 fields intersecting and interacting—and out of this nothing comes every thing.

This is the simplest thing we can imagine in the entire universe—and it’s complicated. It’s astonishingly complicated. It doesn’t get easier than this. Now if you want to understand not nothing but a single particle, that’s much more complicated. What we are made of is substantially more complicated than the field, which is nothing. —David Tong

The periodic table of all the elements. This is what every-thing is made from—

Everything that exists emerges from this field of no-thing. Every thing that is a thing has emerged from the 12 quantum fields where nothing exists. Scientists know this exists but you can’t get there because it is un-manifest. You can’t walk into this field because nothing and nowhere exists in it, but every thing emerges from it.

The universe is expanding—as we looked deeper into the cosmos we found it expanding faster than we imagined, faster even than the speed of light. As we determined to look even deeper than that with the James Webb telescope, it expands even faster than we thought faster meant. We are doing this.

Referring back to my first paragraph, we are doing this. We are looking, we are collapsing the fields into forms with our instruments and conscious attention. The field requires an observer for things to manifest, or to exist as things. The farther we look the faster of manifests, expanding at the speed of thought.

I am an atheist. There is little to convince me the natural order of things needs guidance to align itself with compatible attractions. I do not naturally concur or conclude any god or gods, but only by desperate, impatient persuaders and force-fed answers are we convinced—surrender to its message or be damned.

However, I do not discount the fact that some people are attuned differently to the universe and take advantage of its properties. We are all part of this electric, energy-field of space, full of Planck waves and particles, entangled one with another and everything in between. We are made of energy. It would make sense that we should be able to interact in these fields to our benefit—to use them in the understanding of humanity. We are a part of it, comprised of the same waves that surround us. There is no empty space.

—Enter Religion

They have all attended the same schools of thought for the past 3000 years. They debate every friggin word of the Bible (literally) and are a constant dead-weight dragging on the conscious fabric of space. We’re dragging an anchor around with us. Can we imagine for a moment—everyone engaged in real solutions developing human potential celebrating their individual abilities, versus pigeon-holing humanity into a self deprecating belief and abandoning the natural connections and abilities?

There are merely a handful of very smart people plowing on to advance the human cause. How do we escape the numbing stupor of religious beliefs? Humans have the capacity to be outstanding!

“For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself“—Galatians 6:3

I could not disagree more. Seeing what we have to work with I’d say we have much more capacity than the “unworthy servant”.

We start with an insufficient premise of defeat, the worthless sinner, the holes of indoctrination offer an ongoing climb that only gets deeper. We can do more! Much, much more when we realize we’ve got this way beyond “glory to god” for allowing one damn problem free day. The bar is low—way too low.

“Whereas all rivers flow to the sea, carving, meandering ways, changing course, moving mountains and civilizations—so it is in the whole universe”

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