The Subatomic Viewpoint... 
Two Chinese-born Nobel-Prize physicists, T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang, working
with a third Chinese, Madam Wu, proved that consciousness exists in matter.
In an experiment testing the general principle known as Conservation of
Parity, this exceptional team showed that radio active cobalt can distinguish
right from left, or, in the emission of its electrons, appears to be able
to make a choice between the two directions.
Without delving into the highly technical equations needed to explain this
complex Nobel Prize winning experiment, Madam Wu announced the results to
a scientific world:
"Cobalt in its observed radio activity can tell
the difference between its future and its past and utilises this fact in making a spatial
distinction between its right from its left"
It is able to choose what direction it takes!
The mind altering conclusion is...there appears to be a rudimentary intelligence or universal
mind permeating and pervading the sub-atomic particles from deep within all matter.
This is wonderful support for the Gaia hypothesis, that our planet with all "her"
myriad forms is a conscious living self sustaining entity.
Physicists Observations of Yesterday,
Lord Rutherford made his first inroads into the atom in the early 1900s. Upon bombarding
atoms with certain alpha waves he obtained sensational and totally unexpected results:
Far from being the hard and solid particles they were believed to be since antiquity and the
times of Greece, the atoms turned out to consist of vast regions of space in which very
small particles - the electrons - moved around the nucleus, bound to it by electric forces.
Be it a rock, tree, car, planet or a cup of tea - essentially everything appearing
solid consists almost entirely of empty space. It is the extremely small particles
whizzing at stupendous speeds around the nucleus of the atom that gives atoms their
solid appearance.
The diameter of an atom is about one hundred millionth of a centimetre.
For us to visualise this minuscule size, imagine an orange blown up to the size of the
Earth. The atoms of the orange will then be the size of cherries. Myriads of cherries
tightly packed into a globe the size of the Earth - that's a magnified picture of the
atoms of an orange.
The atom is extremely small compared to universal objects, but it is positively huge
compared to the nucleus contained in its centre.
In our picture of the cherry-sized atom, the nucleus would be too small to be seen. Even if we
enlarged the atom to the size of a football, even room size, the nucleus would be still
too small to be seen by the naked eye. It is about 100,000 times smaller than an atom
so we would have to magnify the atom to the size of St Peter's Cathedral in Rome, one
of the biggest domes on Earth. In an atom of that size, the nucleus would be the size
of a grain of salt! A grain of salt in the middle of of the dome of St Peter's with
minute specks of dust whirling around (at speeds over 300,000 km/hr!) in the vast
space of the dome - this is how we can picture the nucleus and electrons, and the
vast space inside an atom that is 99.9999% empty.
This basic analogy of an atom is similar in some ways to a mini Solar System, it's
planets emulating electrons by swirling around the Sun (the nucleus) with the addition
of comets and asteroids whizzing in from all directions from space - swinging around our Sun
to whip back into outer space to return again at varying times.
With exploration further and deeper into the atom and its nucleus (beyond the classical
planetary subatomic analogy mentioned above), scientists have discovered even smaller
particles and given them names such as protons, gluons, positrons,
quarks, etc.
As we zero down further we have found that they seem to change form, from particles (
Simply put (without delving into the deeper qualities and complexities of the sub
atomic world), scientists have to date discovered over 200 particles that are so
profound in their expression that they are now perceived as energy bundles
or dynamic patterns that have no mass as such yet are all inter-connected
and appear to reveal a basic oneness with the universe.
When doing certain 'super-finite' experiments at this microcosmic level, scientists have
found that 'just their thoughts and presence in the laboratory' influences the
experiment, such that statistically, if you are 'hoping' for a negative result from
an experiment, and you are present doing that experiment, this is usually what you end up
getting and if in another experiment you are looking for a positive result then that
usually happens too!
Consequently science is coming to the conclusion that 'our thoughts'
at the subatomic level 'can' influence the workings of the 'stuff' of the
universe.
Many great scientists such as Albert Einstein were united by a mystical reverence for their
discoveries. Niels Bohr compared the wave aspect of matter to cosmic mind. Erwin Schrodinger
died believing that the universe itself was a 'living mind' and even Isaac Newton maintained
that gravity and all other forces were 'thoughts in the mind of God'.
Naturally, of the up and coming mathematical theoretical physicists of today more and more
are increasingly aware that the universe is intelligent.. supremely so!
Physicist Professor Paul Davies of Adelaide University, Australia, a scientist with
a deep grasp of this change, in 1995 won the prestigious million dollar
Templeton Prize for 'progress in religion'.
This is our planet's biggest award for intellectual endeavour and is akin
to a Nobel award for his work in bringing science and religion closer together.
He stated that qualities such as natural laws, universal principles and
a rational order in nature points forcefully to a deeper underlying meaning
to existence.
He claims "There is a strong holistic flavour to the quantum aspects of
the nature of matter: interlocking levels of description with everything
somehow made up of everything else and yet displaying a hierarchy of structure".
Some call it purpose some call it design.
The new avant garde scientists are realising that we are not all
here by chance, fluke or accident.. That there is a magnificent intelligence
and mind overseeing and interpenetrating all of existence. (Even prior
to the big bang!)
Many enlightened scientists are beginning to see 'every thing' as being
interconnected and being alive.. from a bacterium to a galaxy and beyond! Sir James Jeans many years ago went as far as to say:
"The Universe is one great thought".
Whilst Sir Arthur Eddington said,
"The stuff of the Universe is mind stuff".
The Australian Aboriginals who have a history
"Dreamtime"
Whilst the North American Indians were "Great Spirit"
Captain Edgar Mitchell Astronaut from the
"God sleeps in the minerals What of the next natural step?
Today & The 21st Century
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, physicists were finally able to zero down into
the finite and gaze deep into the heart of the atom to observe that all matter is just a
whirling mass of particles and waves.
markings recorded when atoms collide in a "bubble chamber"
Scientists have recently detected subatomic neutrinos. These infintesimally minute
particles from interstellar-space travel at the speed of light, continually passing
through our bodies and planet and beyond to disappear again into space in a micro-second,
thus giving rise to the idea that nothing in the universe is solid and contrary to what
we see and feel, we are a "mass of energy that just appears
solid".) into
waves () and visa versa and without apparent rhyme or reason.
that stretches back to 80,000 years have aptly named it the
equally expansive and called it the
Apollo 14 Moon mission says:
Awakens in plants
walks in the animals
and thinks in man."
