From Buddha to Einstein; All Matter is Energy

Today I want to discuss the concept: matter is energy, and the universality that this idea has. Matter is energy condensed into a slow vibration; energy that is transmutable. Energy particles don't disappear, they transform, everything is a never ending process of energy transformation. There is the same amount of energy on this earth has there was millions of years ago. All reality exists on a sub-atomic level. Take this quote from Einstein as we explore this idea further.

"Even the Greeks had already conceived the atomistic nature of matter and the concept was raised to a high degree of probability by the scientists of the nineteenth century. But it was Planck's law of radiation that yielded the first exact determination - independent of other assumptions - of the absolute magnitudes of atoms. More than that, he showed convincingly that in addition to the atomistic structure of matter there is a kind of atomistic structure to energy, governed by the universal constant h, which was introduced by Planck." -Albert Einstein

If you're wondering what Planck's constant h is; h = the fundamental physical constant attribute of the mathematical equations of quantum mechanics. Describing the behavior of particles and waves on the atomic scale, including the particle aspect of light. Radiation, as with light, is emitted, transmitted, and absorbed in energy packets, or quanta, determined by the frequency of the radiation and the value of Planck’s constant. The energy of each quanta equals h times the radiation frequency.

We've split the atom for gosh sakes. What more proof do you need than the massively destructive force that results from splitting an atom, to know that at a deep microscopic level that energy is atoms. The more physics looks inside the atom, the seemingly infinitesimally smaller particles we discover. We are everything literally. We all are energy, everything around us is energy, it's all light particles. But as Einstein states above in reference to the Greeks, this idea did not originate in the realm of physics.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” -Aristotle

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion” -Democritus

In the above quote Greek philosopher Democritus says, "empty space". According to Planck and Einstein this is not empty space but extended space. But the point is that the Greeks had a firm grasp of what Einstein calls the atomistic nature of matter. Buddha also had a firm grasp of this:

"We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything." -Gautama Buddha

Equations of quantum physics of the 20th century tells us the same thing that Buddha and Greek philosophers told us thousands of years ago. So the idea that everything is made up of the same basic form of energy is not decades or centuries old, but at least thousands of years old.

The Buddha, Odilon Redon, 1904.

Let's take a closer look at one specific part of the quote from Buddha, "We are the same as plants, as trees...." On a side-note branching from this idea, let me ask the question, who's to say that some plants don't have a kind of consciousness? The oldest living thing is the box huckleberry, the age of one colony found in Pennsylvania is 13,000 years. The redwoods in California are well over 200 ft tall and more than 2,000 years old. Early this decade in Oregon researchers discovered a single organism of the Armillaria ostoyae, (the honey mushroom) whose underground mycalea spans 2,200 acres (890 hectares) and is least 2,400 years old, possibly older. Mycalea are fibers linking the plant together almost like the fiber network of a brain. But this brain spans 2,200 acres and is 2,400 years old.

A living organism that old and that successful has some kind of cognizance. It's been proven in experiments that plants respond directly to the playing of music for example, take a loot at Plants respond to music. In 1966, Cleve Backster performed a series of experiments on the dracena cane plant hooked into a polygraph machine. His results indicated that it responded in a variety of ways that clearly indicated at least primary perception.

I will conclude by giving you Backster's definition of primary perception: "The vehicle of communication, the invisible, unrecognized field that interconnects all species and life forms, whereby biocommunication can occur." One could define biocommunication as: types of communication within and between species of plants and/or animals.

So anyways, I hope all this has given you something to think about, feel free to expand on any of these ideas with a comment. If you enjoy any of my writings and articles, feel free to digg (icon below) them and/or hit the thumbs up icon or the vote for me icon on the bottom right of the sidebar.

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