Buddhist Physics, Part Two
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With palms together,
Good Morning Everyone,
Albert Einstein pointed out that the speed of light was constant for all observers regardless of their own particular speed.. He theorized that time and space were related, much like "I-You" above, he called it "space-time". For each of us, space-time is relative; the faster we move through space, the slower time passes for us in relation to someone stationary or traveling at a slower speed, regardless of direction. So, if I travel to you at near the speed of light, I will age less than you in the same elapsed time. Time, for me, slowed relative to your experience of time. Yet, notice, perceptually this only makes sense as an I-It. Travel itself is a I-It perceptual phenomonon. Speed is the same. When is it not? As an I-You, the perception/experience is of a universal wholeness, a non-bounded infinity.
At the quantum level a particle can be unpredictable because we can only measure place and momentum with varying degrees of probability. It can, for example, be in two places at the same time, Life at this level is uncertain, as Heisenberg points out.
What does this all mean to us? On the one hand, not much: On the other hand, everything.
Buddhism holds that there are two truths, the relative and the absolute. In the relative truth, the world of Newtonian mechanics, certain logical and physical rules apply. I cannot be in two places at the same time, I am I and you are you. There can be no violation of the "exclusion of the middle" rule. There is a degree of predictability because I can measure position and momentum, for example, with 100% accuracy. . In this understanding, the world makes perfect sense, more or less.
Whereas in the absolute world, everything is one, there is no you, no beginning, no end or I. There is no time because there is no observer, no subject in relation to object. There can be no absolute predictability only probability. This is the level of quantum mechanics. This is the world of Zazen, of practice realization. As our body and mind fall away, we reside outside and inside, simultaneously, the touch of time and space. The world is timeless and space-less. We are, in effect, only the neural networks aware of itself.
(Put forth by the great Nagaruna, translated by HHDL as 'conventional' and 'ultimate', please see a discussion of these Two Truths in Buddhism as applied to our topic,The Universe in a Single Atom, the Dalai Lama, pp.66-69).
Good Morning Everyone,
Albert Einstein pointed out that the speed of light was constant for all observers regardless of their own particular speed.. He theorized that time and space were related, much like "I-You" above, he called it "space-time". For each of us, space-time is relative; the faster we move through space, the slower time passes for us in relation to someone stationary or traveling at a slower speed, regardless of direction. So, if I travel to you at near the speed of light, I will age less than you in the same elapsed time. Time, for me, slowed relative to your experience of time. Yet, notice, perceptually this only makes sense as an I-It. Travel itself is a I-It perceptual phenomonon. Speed is the same. When is it not? As an I-You, the perception/experience is of a universal wholeness, a non-bounded infinity.
At the quantum level a particle can be unpredictable because we can only measure place and momentum with varying degrees of probability. It can, for example, be in two places at the same time, Life at this level is uncertain, as Heisenberg points out.
What does this all mean to us? On the one hand, not much: On the other hand, everything.
Buddhism holds that there are two truths, the relative and the absolute. In the relative truth, the world of Newtonian mechanics, certain logical and physical rules apply. I cannot be in two places at the same time, I am I and you are you. There can be no violation of the "exclusion of the middle" rule. There is a degree of predictability because I can measure position and momentum, for example, with 100% accuracy. . In this understanding, the world makes perfect sense, more or less.
Whereas in the absolute world, everything is one, there is no you, no beginning, no end or I. There is no time because there is no observer, no subject in relation to object. There can be no absolute predictability only probability. This is the level of quantum mechanics. This is the world of Zazen, of practice realization. As our body and mind fall away, we reside outside and inside, simultaneously, the touch of time and space. The world is timeless and space-less. We are, in effect, only the neural networks aware of itself.
(Put forth by the great Nagaruna, translated by HHDL as 'conventional' and 'ultimate', please see a discussion of these Two Truths in Buddhism as applied to our topic,The Universe in a Single Atom, the Dalai Lama, pp.66-69).