Consciousness Physics and the Holographic Paradigm

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subatomic) realms of ultimate reality just-as-it-is.Key points:

Our finite tangible material universe is encompassed by and pervaded withomnipresent, nonmaterial ultrahigh frequency energy and information.

Ultrahigh frequency energy (hyperenergy) and information (hyperinformation)

transfers take place between the intangible nonmaterial (subquantum) realm ofphysical activity and the tangible material realm of particulate matter humanbeings see, hear, touch, taste and smell.

In principle the hyperenergy and hyperinformation transfers at anynonmaterial/material energy interface take place well beyond the scope of specialrelativity, general relativity and quantum mechanics.

The fundamental dimensional symmetry of nonmaterial/material reality includesat least eight dimensions by encompassing three or more dimensions ofnonmaterial space plus one dimension of nonmaterial time and three or moredimensions of material space plus one dimension of material time within thecomprehensive present moment.

Within the all-inclusive nonmaterial/material present moment the arrow of timeinexorably points from past to future for each and every event. (Replacing visiblelight vectors with nonmaterial hyperenergy vectors in the well-known light conediagram may provide a useful analogy.)

Nonmaterial/material hyperenergy and hyperinformation transfers minimize theeffects of entropy within our open local spacetime system.

The energetics in a vacuum encompassed by and pervaded with the omnipresent,prequantum 1 hyperenergy/hyperinformation field significantly affect thedynamic subatomic charged particle activity within that vacuum.

The energetic interactions between the omnipresent, prequantum hyperenergyfield and the subluminal, quantized electromagnetic radiation (EMR) field has a

significant effect on the net energetics implicit in Newton's formula F = maandEinstein'sE = mc. Novel gravitation time dilation agreement with general relativity. Novel agreement with fundamental cosmological energetics.#

# Note: "Energetic(s)" in this essay refers to the ordinary meaning of the word; i.e., to bevigorously active, forceful; having energy or energies; of or relating to energy orenergetic equations (compare with "dynamic(s)" re motion).A novel concept:In the early 1970's, the original holographic paradigm articulated the novel concept thatthe organic human brain in some way functions as a hologram that both perceives andparticipates in a holographic universe.2 Based on experimental evidence and thecontemporary understanding of physics and hologram theory at that time, each organichuman brain appeared to function according to dynamic holographic principles as itreceived and processed information from the synergistic spacetime hologram thatconstitutes our finite sub-light-speed material universe.The 1970's paradigm was the result of the combined hypotheses and conjectures of KarlPribram, David Bohm and others 3 based on the holographic principles discovered byDennis Gabor, recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics . Much of the early effort tosolve the holographic paradigm was directed toward unifying the accumulated body ofobjective knowledge known as physics and the intangible, subjective realm of conscious


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human experience. It is not, therefore, surprising that the effort to unify organic brainphysiology, conscious human experience and objective physical science eventuallyreached an impasse. On the other hand, experiments performed by Paul Pietsch since thattime have advanced the hologramic model 4 of the organic mind/brain complex.Interestingly, the solution of the holographic paradigm and the fundamental principles ofthe nonmaterial/material energy interfaces directly related to it are entirely objective andphysical. And the early theory of dynamic holographic brain processes interacting with aholographic universe, as proposed by Pribram and Bohm, et al., was much too narrow.The all-inclusive Holographic Paradigm described in this essay is an objective physicalmodel within which our finite synergistic material universe, intangible nonmaterialautonomous minds and tangible organic human brains individually and collectivelyemerge as energetic holonomic 5 projections -- energetic holographic reconstructions --within a single all-inclusive hologram wholly encompassed by and permeated with theomnipresent nonmaterial hyperenergy of unconditioned ultimate being itself. In otherwords, unconditioned omnipresent subquantum hyperenergy is the ultimate all-inclusiveontological ground of nonmaterial physical being within which all conditionally relativenonmaterial and material phenomena manifest. This new model extends the scope of

physics beyond the high-energy particle physics of the standard physical model to thepreviously unexplored regions of nonmaterial subquantum ultrahigh frequencyhyperenergy and hyperinformation per se, nonmaterial/material energy interfaces, andnonmaterial/material hyperenergy and hyperinformation transformation.In principle or in practice, where does one start?In the 17th century CE, Ren Descartes(1596-1650) noted that the physical body not onlyaffects mind, mind also affects the physical body. Based on these observations Descarteshypothesized that the tangible human body, which includes the brain, is extended inspace, but intangible mind and thought are not. Descartes' near contemporary, BaruchSpinoza (1632-1677), reasoned that intangible mind and tangible matter are simply twodifferent aspects of the same underlying ground of being, therefore tangible bodies,

intangible minds, and thoughts are all extended in space. Spinoza was indeed correct, butthe physics of his day were insufficient to explain the objective underlying physicalprinciples of his hypothesis. Thus the intangible/tangible, nonmaterial/materialinteractions noted by Descartes remained unsolved until Dennis Gabor's 1947 discoveryof holographic principles opened objective new physical insights into the structure ofultimate reality just-as-it-is.

Extending the limited theory of the original holographic paradigm, i.e., an organichuman brain interacting with our finite local holographic universe, thecomprehensive new model of the all-inclusive Holographic Paradigm (TAHP)postulates that the human mind and brain are an energetic holonomic complexwhich, at the very least, is a composite hologram within a hologram within a

hologram. That is, each human mind/brain holonomic complex is a discretecombination of energetic nonmaterial and material holonomic image events thatemerges (is holographically reconstructed) within our local sub-light-speedholographic universe, our finite material spacetime continuum, which itselfemerges (is holographically reconstructed) within the all-inclusive ontologicalhologram that emerges within the unconditioned nonmaterial hyperenergy ofultimate physical reality just-as-it-is. In principle the ultrahigh frequencyhyperenergy interfaces, hyperenergy and hyperinformation transformations, and


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holographic principles either implicit or explicit in these postulations can bemathematically and scientifically determined.

Researching the literature on consciousness, one immediately notices that theterm "consciousness" means many things to many people. Nevertheless, as ageneral rule, when one currently speaks of "consciousness" one is most often

referring to subjective, conditionally relative human phenomenologicalconsciousness. Given this bias both the objective energy aspect of humanconsciousness and the energetic pre-existing underlying ground of ontologicalconsciousness itself have been essentially ignored. Thus it would seem that beforethe physics or the phenomena of consciousness per se can be properly defined anddescribed, these long-standing lacunae must be investigated, defined anddescribed.

The ultrahigh frequency hyperenergy physics and the concomitant ultrahighenergy hyperinformation spectrum of the nonmaterial subquantum energy domaincomprise the comprehensive continuum or spectrum of phenomenalconsciousness, the investigations of which will undoubtedly have far-reachingeffects on the scope and practice of fundamental physics, on understanding thescope and role of consciousness per se, on the conservation of energy, oncosmology, high-energy particle physics, etc., etc. Indeed, the law of causalitymay be revitalized as the scope of physical science is immeasurably extended.Thus it would seem that the fundamental physics of the omnipresent, prequantumultrahigh frequency hyperenergy domain, the concomitant ultrahigh energyhyperinformation spectrum and phenomenal consciousness itself are three keyissues -- indeed, thekey issues -- of 21st century physics.

Food for thought:

Based on fundamental physics and holographic principles, the all-inclusiveHolographic Paradigm (TAHP) is a comprehensive physical model of ultimatereality just-as-it-is.

The fundamental physics and holographic principles of ultimate reality just-as-it-is are entirely objective.

The underlying ontological hologram that contains and sustains all conditionallyrelative nonmaterial and material phenomenal (holographic) manifestations isimmersed in (encompassed by and permeated with) the unconditionednonmaterial ultrahigh frequency physical energy of ultimate reality just-as-it-is.

Our open subluminal spacetime system -- our local synergistic material universe-- is an energetic experiential hologram that emerges reciprocally (isholographically reconstructed) on some level of conditional activity within an all-inclusive ontological hologram which itself emerges reciprocally (is energeticallyconstructed) within the unconditioned nonmaterial hyperenergy of ultimate

physical reality just-as-it-is.Question: Why do these energetic experiential holograms emerge reciprocally?Answer: There is a 180 degree phase shift between the stored image and thereconstructed image of a hologram. Synergistic conditionally relative holograms interact with each other and with the

comprehensive nonmaterial/material spacetime hologram within which they andour open holographic spacetime system itself are immersed, thus the all-inclusiveenergetic present moment has at least eight dimensions (8-D). That is:


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1. Within the all-inclusive present moment, energetic nonmaterial conditionalrelativity has at least three space dimensions and one time dimension (4-D);2. Within the all-inclusive present moment, energetic/dynamic materialconditional relativity has at least three space dimensions and one time dimension(4-D);3. Thus the fundamental nonmaterial/material dimensional symmetry of the all-inclusive conditionally relative present moment is comprised of at least six spacedimensions and two time dimensions (8-D).

Nonmaterial subquantum hyperenergy and hyperinformation per se are entirelyindependent of particulate matter.

Conditionally relative particulate matter is comprised of discrete aggregations ofnonmaterial physical energy or energies.

Each composite human mind/brain holonomic complex is a synergisticintangible/tangible, nonmaterial/material energetic hologram that emergesreciprocally (is holographically reconstructed) within our finite local holographicuniverse, which itself emerges reciprocally (is holographically reconstructed) onsome conditional level within an all-inclusive ontological hologram which, inturn, is wholly immersed in (encompassed by and permeated with) theunconditioned nonmaterial ultrahigh frequency physical energy of ultimate realityjust-as-it-is.

The fundamental physics of the nonmaterial subquantum continuum ofconditionally relative phenomenal consciousness are entirely objective.

Only nonmaterial/material personal experience is subjective. Our open local spacetime system -- our finite holographic universe -- and each

individual human mind/brain holonomic complex interfaces with, receivesinformation from, and provides feedback to the subquantum hyperenergy domainvia the nonmaterial continuum of conditionally relative phenomenalconsciousness.

In principle all nonmaterial subquantum hyperenergy and hyperinformationactivity lies beyond the scope of special relativity, general relativity and quantummechanics.

Fundamental forces:Each macroscopic, microscopic and subatomic material form is a discrete aggregation ofsubquantum physical energy or combination of energies, the composition of which issustained and maintained by the synergistic conditional activity of the four distinctfundamental forces or interactions that have thus far been discovered in our holographicmaterial universe. The four known fundamental forces are electromagnetism, the strongnuclear force, the weak nuclear force and gravitation. Each of these four knownfundamental forces or interactions is constrained by (limited to acting within) the

conditionally relative phenomenal boundary (or bound) of our synergistic subluminalspacetime continuum.A bold prediction:The all-inclusive Holographic Paradigm (TAHP) postulates that consciousness per se isan objective subquantum nonmaterial physical energy and that the subquantumnonmaterial continuum or spectrum of conditionally relative phenomenal consciousnessmay be the presently unrecognized fifth fundamental force.Indeed, the TAHP model of ultimate reality just-as-it-is postulates that unconditioned


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omnipresent nonmaterial consciousness itself and the pre-existing underlyingunconditioned primordial physical energy within which, without exception, allnonmaterial and material phenomena exist are identical, i.e., they are one and the same.TAHP further postulates that all nonmaterial and material phenomena are holographicallyconstructed and reconstructed via a broad continuum or spectrum of subquantumconditionally relative phenomenal consciousness which organizes and directs theenergetic activity that creates, contains, sustains and maintains each and everyholographic image event within and beyond the bound of our local spacetime continuum.

This view necessarily yields three additional postulates; namely:1. consciousness per se is the inseparable agent of energy;2. subquantum hyperenergy and hyperinformation are the nonmaterial means bywhich coherent particulate matter is organized and directed;3. the objective subquantum continuum or spectrum of conditionally relativephenomenal consciousness is, in principle, amenable to mathematicalquantification and scientific investigation.

Force, agent, or both?Is the objective nonmaterial ultrahigh frequency energy of consciousness a force as well

as an agent? The nonmaterial continuum of phenomenal consciousness exerts only anindirect action on coherent particulate matter through the agency of subquantumhyperenergy and, in principle, is many magnitudes weaker than the approximately 6x10-39 force of gravity, the weakest of the four presently known fundamental forces.Nevertheless, by means of nonmaterial/material energy interfaces and holographictransformation principles (reconstruction, projection), the subquantum activity of thecontinuum of phenomenal consciousness provides the necessary and sufficient physicalforce required of the prequantum agent that organizes and directs the energetic actionswhich create, sustain and maintain coherent conditionally relative particulate matterwithin the bound of our synergistic holographic spacetime continuum.Thus, although Niels Bohr was in the final analysis unable to clearly articulate his

intuitive grasp of the significance, hence the inclusion, of consciousness in theCopenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, the objective subquantum energies ofconditionally relative phenomenal consciousness may indeed constitute the unrecognizedfifth -- or primordial -- fundamental force.Quantum and quanta:British scientist J.J. Thomson's 19th century cathode ray experiments provided anessential precursor for our quantum century and 20th century science. Thomson (1856-1940), recipient of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics , announced the discovery of theelectron -- the first fundamental quantum of subatomic energy to be experimentallyisolated -- during a lecture on April 30, 1897. Just three years later, in 1900, Max Planck(1858-1947), recipient of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics , mathematically determined

and defined the "quantum of action" for the energy of heat radiation now known asPlanck's Constant. And in his 1905 paper, "On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning theProduction and Transformation of Light", 6 Albert Einstein (1879-1955), recipient of the1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, proposed the use of Planck's quantum of action to describethe activity of light:

"According to the assumption to be contemplated here, when a light ray isspreading from a point, the energy is not distributed continuously over ever-increasing spaces, but consists of a finite number of energy quanta that are


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localized in points in space, move without dividing, and can be absorbed orgenerated only as a whole." 7

History amply demonstrates that the cited 1905 paper focused the attention of the early20th century European and American scientific communities on the discrete subatomicaggregations of energy now called photons rather than unbound subquantum energyitself.Subquantum energy:Aware that subquantum hyperenergy has no material mass and focusing on the search forunbound energy itself rather than discrete aggregations of subatomic energy, one canalmost hear Gustav Kirchhoff (1824-1887) say, "it should be obvious to the most casualobserver that the use ofE = mc is inappropriate in this case". Of course, when Kirchhoffdied Einstein was only eight years old and had not yet derived his famous formula. MaxPlanck, Kirchhoff's venerable pupil, succeeded Kirchhoff at the University of Berlin in1889 and announced his opportune discovery of the quantum of action for energy, h, in1900. Nonetheless, Kirchhoff's comment would have been appropriate in thatsubquantum scientific investigation and experimentation will necessarily seek answerswhich lie beyond the scope of previous scientific endeavors and high-energy particle

physics.In principle, all subquantum hyperenergetic activity takes place well beyond thetheoretically absolute barrier represented by the speed of light in Einstein's special theoryof relativity (SR). This implies that omnipresent, pervasive nonmaterial subquantumhyperenergy and hyperinformation not only can be but are transmitted at rates muchfaster than the speed of light both within and beyond the bound of our local spacetimecontinuum; rates that may even be considered instantaneous from a material perspective.Indeed, faster-than-light (FTL) transmission of subquantum hyperenergy andhyperinformation can be seen as significant agreement with the gravitation time dilationdescribed in Einstein's general theory of relativity (GR). That is, compared to the fasterfrequencies (shorter wavelengths) of the nonaccelerated or gravity-free superluminal

hyperenergy and hyperinformation transfer in the omnipresent, pervasive nonmaterialsubquantum spacetime continuum, the slower frequencies (longer wavelengths) of energyand information transfer within the subluminal, quantized electromagnetic radiation(EMR) field of our holographic material universe may be due to gravitation time dilationeffects. 8The scientific and mathematics communities must necessarily overcome multiplechallenges in the revolutionary search for subquantum energy. For example, the conceptsand formulae pertaining to subatomic particulate matter and electromagnetic radiationmust be surpassed. The nonmaterial realm has its own space, time and continua or spectraof consciousness and energy. With no subatomic electrons or photons to detect, electronvolts (eV) cannot be used as a measure of prequantum energy. In addition to the value c,

formulae such asp = hv/c(wherepis momentum, his Planck's Constant, vis wavelengthand cis the speed of light) contain the material concept of particulate matter in motionand are valid only within the bound of our holographic material universe; i.e., only withina material realm which includes electromagnetic radiation and its visible concomitant,light.Is every contemporary physical measure, every contemporary mathematical formula nowcompromised? No, of course not. Classical (Newtonian) physics, special and generalrelativity, and quantum mechanics will continue to apply within their respective limits.


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On the other hand, science and mathematics will undergo an exciting new era of intensiveinvestigation and experimentation. Nonmaterial time, space and energy providetheoretical and mathematical physicists with a more-or-less familiar starting place in theprequantum realm, thus new formulae that describe the subquantum ultrahigh frequencyenergy field and nonmaterial/material interactions will be found. New instrumentationand experiments that test the links between the transcendent (subquantum) and material(macroscopic, microscopic, subatomic) realms of existence and experience will bedesigned and implemented. Eventually the scope of most, if not all, hard and softsciences will be extended beyond contemporary limits.Dark energy may be generated by subquantum energy:Contemporary state-of-the-art cosmological observations of our holographic sub-light-speed spacetime continuum suggest that our finite subluminal material universe has lowmatter density, is inflationary (with an accelerating rate of expansion) and flat (withlarge-scale Euclidean geometry). In the context of the all-inclusive HolographicParadigm, our material universe is an objective energetic/dynamic conditionally relativephenomenal hologram embedded within an all-encompassing field of objectivesubquantum physical energy which is itself an energetic conditionally relative

phenomenal hologram. In other words, our holographic material universe is immersed in(encompassed by and pervaded with) a superluminal subquantum field or domain ofobjective nonmaterial physical energy that extends beyond the boundary of our finitematerial universe; is immersed within a novel quantifiable subquantum physical energythat encompasses, pervades, energizes and informs our open subluminal spacetimesystem. This objective subquantum ultrahigh frequency physical energy may interfacewith, transmit energy to and exchange information with the electromagnetic zero pointfield(ZPF) at thezitterbewegung, the trembling motion of the ZPF. Superluminalhyperenergy and hyperinformation may also interface with quintessence, the massiveamounts of recently discovered cosmic dark energy that pervade the material universe.Indeed, subquantum hyperenergy may generate quintessence (dark energy) via the

nonmaterial/material energy interface(s).In principle the subquantum hyperenergy and hyperinformation received by our openspacetime continuum via the nonmaterial/material energy interface(s) organizes anddirects the synergistic activity of particulate matter (discrete aggregations of energy orenergies) within our subluminal holographic universe. Indeed, subquantum hyperenergyand hyperinformation may also leave our open spacetime system via the zitterbewegung,quintessence and human mind/brain nonmaterial/material energy interfaces, amongpresently unknown others, thus providing feedback for the synergistic cosmogenicactivities encoded (stored) in the transcendent (nonmaterial, subquantum) holomovement10 within which our finite local material universe is holographically reconstructed.Energy interactions and material mass:

Subquantum hyperenergy and hyperinformation per se are entirely independent ofparticulate matter. Subquantum hyperenergy and hyperinformation interact only indirectly with

conditionally relative particulate matter via nonmaterial/material energyinterfaces.

Macroscopic, microscopic and subatomic particulate matter per se is comprised ofdiscrete aggregations of nonmaterial subquantum energy, or energies, which arebound (gebunden) by one or more of the four conditionally relative fundamental


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forces. The known universe contains an immense amount of unbound subquantum energy

(ungebundene Energie).Conservation of energy:The conservation of energy per se essentially means that in a closed system energy can

neither be created nor destroyed, and the sum of all energies in the system underconsideration is a fixed quantity. By definition the material realm begins and ends at thebound of our open local spacetime system; therefore, any physical energy that may enteror leave our open local material universe is necessarily nonmaterial. All energy in everynonmaterial/material interaction is conserved, just as all energy in every matter/energyinteraction is conserved. Total nonmaterial/material physical energy in our localholographic spacetime continuum is conserved in the complex system comprised of thecomingled nonmaterial and material energy domains. The conservation of energy thusextends well beyond the known Laws of Thermodynamics and is necessarily morecomplex and more comprehensive than previously believed.Consciousness and energy:In the context of the Holographic Paradigm, all things other than subjective personalexperience -- including the transcendent (nonmaterial, subquantum) aspects of ultimatereality just-as-it-is -- are entirely physical. Thus consciousness, the inseparable agent ofenergy, is an objective continuum of nonmaterial physical energy. Somewhatcounterintuitively, our finite holographic material universe and the human mind/bodyholonomic complex are open physical systems rather than closed systems. And theconservation of all nonmaterial/material energies, including consciousness itself, must beincorporated in any theory or algorithm that purports to represent any of the following:

the definitive physics of our finite local spacetime continuum (our openholographic material system);

the definitive physics of the nonmaterial continuum of phenomenalconsciousness;

the definitive nonmaterial/material unified theory of everything (TOE). the definitive nonmaterial/material physics of ultimate reality just-as-it-is.

Part 2: Hologram (Information) Theory, Wave/Particle Duality and Quantum Mechanics.Notes:1. Prequantum: coming before or earlier than subluminal quantization.2. Ken Wilbur, editor, The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring theLeading Edge of Science, Shambhala, 1982, 2-3. October 1995 reprint: ISBN0877732388.3. Ibid.4. Paul Pietsch, Shufflebrain, Chapter 1, Footnote 1, 1999.5. Holonomic: having the characteristics of a hologram ("The term 'holonomic' was

introduced by George Leonard to refer to entities 'in the nature of a hologram'; see G.Leonard, The Silent Pulse, Dutton, New York, 1978." Wilber, 153, note 1).6. Albert Einstein, "ber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtesbetreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt",Annalen der Physik17 (1905), 132-148.Translated by Anna Beck.7. Ibid.8. The casual reader will find an excellent nontechnical explanation of Special andGeneral Relativity in Brian Greene's book, The Elegant Universe, W. W. Norton &


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Company, New York - London, 1999: ISBN 0-393-04688-5.9. To view this PostScript (*.ps) file, your browser must have 1) a Ghostscript interpreterand 2) a Ghostscript viewer installed. To obtain FREE Ghostscript and Ghostviewersoftware, please go to . (Note: Ghostview is platformspecific and the Aladdin Ghostscript software MUST be installed first.)10. Holomovement: the energetic phenomenal activity of a comprehensive transcendent(subquantum) or material hologram. For example, the finite totality of our holographicmaterial universe is one comprehensive sub-light-speed holomovement.http://www.cox-internet.com/hermital/index.htmLast update: May 19, 2001.This paper is a work in progress. Please check for the latest update before quoting inother venues the concepts and hypotheses presented here. Thank you.

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Consciousness, Physics and the Holographic Paradigm,Part 2

by Alan T. Williams

I think of my lifetime in physics as divided into three periods. In the first period ...I was in the grip of the idea that Everything is Particles ... I call my second periodEverything is Fields ... Now I am in the grip of a new vision, that Everything isInformation.

- John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life inPhysics11

Until recently, information was regarded as unphysical, a mere record of thetangible, material universe, existing beyond and essentially decoupled from thedomain governed by the laws of physics. This view is no longer tenable.- Wojchiech Zurek,Decoherence and the Transition from Quantum to Classical

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Part 2: Energy, Hologram (Information) Theory, Wave/Particle Duality and

Quantum MechanicsGiven the physical limitations of human sensory perception the macroscopic materialobjects we see, feel, touch, taste and smell seem to have a solid, objective, independentexistence. Using various kinds of instrumentation to extend our human perception intothe microscopic, atomic and subatomic domains counterintuitively reveals thatmacroscopic material objects are comprised of relatively vast energy fields thatencompass surprisingly small amounts of molecular, atomic and/or subatomic mass. Thecoherent pattern of vast energy fields containing low matter density is repeated again andagain as material size increases or decreases in scope on a scale ranging from theundefined bound of our macroscopic subluminal material universe to the subquantumsuperluminal hyperenergy/hyperinformation transition zone that links the nonmaterialand material realms of ultimate reality just-as-it-is.


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Albert Einstein derived the equivalence of energy and mass for a particle in motion,E =mc, as a direct result of the investigation that produced the special theory of relativityand presented the equivalency to the scientific community at large in his 1905 paper,"Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy Content?"13 Note well that energyper se has long been known to be nonmaterial rather than material in nature, but --perhaps as a result of its nonmaterial nature -- for a very long time energy has beentreated as a property of matter and was thought to have no independent existence.Actually, the reverse is true.While energy and matter are indeed interconvertible, energy itself is the irreducible,independent foundation of matter and matter is entirely dependent upon energy. That is:

1) Energy has an objective, independent physical existence and exists in theabsence of matter.2) Matter is entirely dependent upon energy and cannot exist in the absence ofenergy.

Regardless of size, each macroscopic, microscopic, atomic or subatomic material form isa discrete aggregation of nonmaterial physical energy, or combination of energies, andthe composition of specific instances of matter is sustained and maintained by the

synergistic conditional activity of the four known nonmaterial fundamental forces orinteractions (electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force andgravitation) acting in concert with other presently unknown nonmaterial energies, forces,or interactions. Thus, rather than affirming the primacy of matter, Einstein's energy-massequivalency points directly toward the fundamental, irreducible primordial foundation ofindependent, physically real nonmaterial energy itself.Hologram (Information) Theory:In 1947 while working in England to improve the electron microscope, Hungarianelectrical engineer Dennis Gabor, recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics, inventeda method of storing on film a three-dimensional (3-D) image of the information patternencoded in a beam of light (subatomic electromagnetic radiation) and coined the word

hologramto describe his discovery. Combining the Greek words holos(whole, entire)and gramma(anything written or drawn), an energy hologram is defined as the whole (orentire) message compared with the partial message obtained in an ordinary two-dimensional (2-D) photograph. Gabor then chose the existing word "holography" todescribe the information storage and retrieval processes that produce a hologram or areconstructed holographic image event. Reconstructed conventional (fixed, or static)holographic images that remain unchanged in time and space are three-dimensional.Reconstructed energetic holographic image events that reproduce changes in time,through space, are four-dimensional (4-D).In 1948 Gabor performed the basic experiments in optical holography (then called"wavefront reconstruction") using incandescent light, but the results were less than

satisfactory due to the random phase relationships (the "noise") generated byincandescent light. Practical use of Gabor's holographic principles would necessarilyawait the development of a coherent light source. "Coherent" light means that all of thelight emitted by the laser has the same wavelength and is in phase, i.e., there is nodifference in the phase relationships of the emitted light. Happily, the invention of thelaser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) a decade later produced theneeded coherent light source.In 1958 Charles Townes and his co-workers at Columbia University, New York --


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including Arthur Schawlow, a co-recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics -- and aresearch group led by Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr MikhailovichProkhorov at the Lebedev Institute for Physics, Moscow, simultaneously andindependently analyzed the possibilities of applying the maser principle (microwaveamplification by stimulated emission of radiation) to the optical region of the EMRspectrum. The first operating optical maser, now known as the laser, was constructed byTheodore H. Maiman and was demonstrated at the Hughes Research Laboratories inMalibu, California, May, 1960. The laser is the indispensable coherent light source thatmakes contemporary optical holography possible. Among other changes in operatingconditions, the step from microwaves to visible light permitted a 105 increase infrequency. Townes, Basov and Prokhorov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics "forfundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the constructionof oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle".Compared to the long day of Plato and Aristotle that has illuminated Western traditionfor more than two millennia, hologram theory and holographic principles are only a briefflash of lightning in the cosmos of scientific knowledge as humankind enters the 21stcentury CE. Nevertheless, this bright flash of holographic lightning may usher in a new

day that more clearly illuminates ultimate reality just-as-it-is.Conventional optical holograms:Conventional photography and optical holography are light dependent methods of storinginformatiom. Both methods record some of the information contained in the opticalregion -- the visible light region -- of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum.Conventional photography records only the intensity of the incident light waves. Opticalholography records both the intensity and the phase relationships of the incident lightwaves. The reconstructed results of the two processes, i.e., a photograph or a hologram,are significantly different.Light travels through a given medium (air, for example) in a wave-like form. To capturethe information encoded in the incident light waves, photographic film with an

appropriate emulsion speed records the pattern of light obtained from an object or sceneof interest. An ordinary conventional photograph records only the amplitude -- theintensity -- of the incident light waves. When the photograph is developed, a two-dimensional picture (image) of the object consisting of higher (bright) intensities, lowerintensities (shadows) or absence of light can be printed on light-sensitive photographicpaper or projected onto a screen (slides, movies). But intensity is only a small part of theinformation contained in the particular light waves of interest.Using the coherent light of a laser to illuminate the object, a hologram records theintensity plus the phase relationships of the incident light waves -- and perhaps muchmore information of which we are presently unaware. After the film is developed andcoherent laser light is directed through the recorded information at the proper geometric

angle, a reversed three-dimensional image containing all the details of the original objectis reconstructed in open local space. It should be noted, however, that only part of theinformation contained in the message represented by a hologram is presently capable ofbeing deciphered using the most sophisticated methods of contemporary scientificunderstanding.A diffused hologram has the appearance of random noise and is sometimes compared to adistributed memory:

One can call it "ideal Shannon coding" because Claude E. Shannon has shown in


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pass through slitB, or vice versa. But with both slitsAandBopen the device or filmrecords a totally unexpected wave diffraction pattern with bright and dark interferencebands (AB) -- a well-known characteristic of electromagnetic radiation (waves) --rather than the expected sum of the two trials (A+B) through alternate open slits (AorB)which produce particle-like results. This extraordinary wave-like result when both slitsare open at the same time has remained unexplained since Young first performed thedouble-slit experiment in 1820. Indeed, the phenomenon has been called the centralmystery of quantum theory by Richard Feynman, co-recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize inphysics, among others.Quantum mechanics:It would seem that every physicist and every student of light and electromagneticradiation has learned of Young's enigmatic double-slit experiment. Thus the inexplicableinabilility to explain the unexplained double-slit results in the past 180 years is not due tolack of awareness. Unresponsive even to the mathematical subtleties of quantummechanics (QM), the solution would also seem to be beyond the QM scope of action.This implies that the explanation of Young's mysterious results is more complex -- thusmore fundamental -- than previously suspected.

A vast improvement over classical (Newtonian) mechanics, quantum mechanics basicallydescribes probabilistic or statistical particle interactions on the subatomic level of ourfinite local spacetime continuum and predicts experimentally attainable results within thelimits of quantum indeterminancy and uncertainty. Indeed, the validated equations of QMand relativity have been so extraordinarily successful within their scope of action thatsome individuals seem to believe that mathematics per se drive, control, and/or organizephysical reality itself. That is not the case. Mathematics is a science of abstract symbolsand can only describe the laws of nature, not control them. Just as classical physics wassurpassed by relativity and quantum theory, it now seems that the scope of physics itselfmust once again be extended.Hypothesis and experiment:

The unexpected interference pattern obtained from Young's experiment may ultimatelybe described by the holographic principles Dennis Gabor discovered in 1947. 14 Thus themysterious result may be an optics problem rather than a physics problem; an energyproblem rather than a particle physics problem. That is, the observed diffraction patternmay be an in-line transmission hologram of the photon or electron energy rather than themore familiar off-axis hologram.Once one moves beyond the consideration of fixed holograms to the concept of energetic,interactive, relativistic holograms, contemporary electron holography techniques mayprovide the solution to the enigmatic imagery produced by the high-tech double-slitexperiment. A laboratory experiment designed to enhance the in-line hologram wouldresolve the issue, perhaps by increasing the background complexity of the reference beam

through the use of the Mllenstedt biprism used in electron holography. Enhancement ofthe primary image itself may require an optical system that effectively eliminatesunwanted secondary, or ghost, images during holographic reconstruction.If the photon and electron energy hologram hypothesis is confirmed by experiment, it canalso be seen as further confirmation of the uncertainty principle formulated in 1926 byWerner Heisenberg, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics. That is, at the Planckscale the discrete aggregation of material energy comprising a photon or electron losescoherence and can no longer be treated as a particle-like material point either physically


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or mathematically. In other words, the transition zonefroma discrete particle-like pointsource tounbound (ungebunden) material energy has been reached at the Planck scale,thus position and momentum are no longer relevant. New formulae and new physicaltheories are needed to go into and beyond the discrete matter/ungebunden energytransition zone, perhaps by implementing the formulae Dennis Gabor developed anddescribed in his papers on hologram theory (1947-51) or the advanced holonomicformulae others have contributed since that time. Indeed, experimental confirmation ofphoton and electron energy holograms produced by Young's double-slit experiment willimmediately throw open provocative new vistas via the transcendental (subquantum)energy interface(s) connecting the physical nonmaterial and material energy fields ofultimate reality just-as-it-is.Continued in Part 3 (under construction).Notes (continued from Part 1:11. Quoted in The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory -- TheNew Physics of Information, by Tom Siegfried. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York,1999, 1.12. Ibid, 57.

13. Albert Einstein, "Ist die Trgheit eines Krpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhngig?",Annalen der Physik, 18 (1905), 639-641. Translated by Anna Beck.14. Dennis Gabor, "Holography, 1948-1971". Science, 177, 1972, 299ff.Part 1: Energy Interactions and Material Mass.Last update: May 23, 2001.This paper is a work in progress. Please check for the latest update before quoting inother venues the concepts and hypotheses presented here. Thank you.

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