Even gurus have bad days!

Yes, even those that profess to 'know it all' have bad days. It's all part of the purpose of life. You see, if it weren't for challenge, then there would be no point to life.

Star Trek (the original) did a wonderful episode on what life would be like in Utopia. In the episode, Captain Kirk visits a beautiful Utopian society, which had enjoyed peace and plenty for centuries, all thanks to a plant. Yes, a plant!

You see, the plant gave off spores that interacted with the body to create a feeling of peace and joy. Suddenly everything was wonderful, and magical. Even Spock, the intellectual and emotionless Vulcan, was skipping and laughing and enjoying life as never before. So infectious was this plant-induced euphoria, soon every member of the Enterprise was on the planet, 'enjoying' paradise while the Enterprise slowly fell toward the planet below. But as Kirk dug deeper into the culture, what he found was that, while they had enjoyed peace and joy for centuries, not one advancement in this civilization had occurred. The entire planet had become stagnant, never growing, and never developing.

The point that Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek) was making is that Utopia is not an emotion or a feeling, but a place of freedom to be who we really are. It's a place to experience and be challenged, a place to grow and develop, unfettered by restraints.

Unfortunately, too many 'quick fix' schemes today promise just the Utopia shown in that Star Trek episode, an induced and artificial Utopia that dulls the mind and forces the individual to adapt to the expected norm, abandoning their true self.

I've seen many examples of this. Things like subliminal messages to 'control' the subconscious. Mental programming techniques and guides to altering your 'bad' behaviors and thoughts.
I'm going to let you in on a secret: YOU ARE PERFECT THE WAY YOU ARE!

Got that? Good!

Yes, even gurus have bad days, but the difference is they understand that the 'bad' day is not a 'bad' thing. It is only a lesson they need to learn. So, instead of running around shouting that the sky is falling, they examine the cause of that 'bad' day and find the lesson that it holds. In finding that lesson, they advance and become better for it. For you see, Utopia is not a physical place, it is a space within the heart and mind. It is a place that allows you to learn and grow and develop. Utopia is all about the 'U'.

Utopia comes from Greek roots. It derives its meaning from the words outopia, meaning "no place" and eutopia, meaning "a place where everything is right." So, Utopia is really not a place (it is internal), but a state in which everything is right and in balance. In other words, Utopia is the internal harmony of the focused mind which is in balance with the world around it.

Does that mean that you need to feel terrible to be happy? No! What it means is that you need to feel ALIVE! You are here to be challenged and to learn. Utopia is in your grasp, and in your heart. Stop looking anywhere else - it's right there inside of you, just itching to come out and be experienced. As James Allen once said:

"What you are, so is your world. Everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience. It matters little what is without, for it is all a reflection of your own state of consciousness. It matters everything what you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly."

It is from these principles, with support from science, that the Universe Of Power has been formed. As written in our E-course:

You are where you are, and you are seeing what you are seeing because of what you have thought and believed in the past. You may be in a place where the information in this course seems strange and even ridiculous. Or, perhaps you've been studying these principles for some time, "getting it" at an intellectual level, but not seeing the kind of results you expected.

Our invitation is for you to progressively realize these principles at the deepest part of your soul, so that they are not merely intellectual ideas, but become how you live your life. Life then becomes a mystery not to be solved, but to be experienced with the utmost joy and exhilaration.

You will soon find that you are less bothered by trivial matters, and suffer from fewer emotional highs and lows. Certainly, there is grief, loss, and pain. But, you see these situations as part of the miracle of life because you know they are fleeting, and with your mind and your heart you soon find yourself in a better situation.

And if the "elixir of life" you're being offered sounds too good to be true then just maybe it is. For no potion, no 'exercise', no new method can change your life for the better. Only you can do that. All you need is the desire to be the U that U were meant to be. Then you will find U-topia.

Knowing Less Than Nothing

The lack of knowledge is something we can understand, but we have a hard time grasping the concept of negative knowledge. How can anyone know less than nothing? But negative knowledge does exist in the world of quantum physics.

Three researchers, Dr. Michal Horodecki (University of Gdansk), Dr. Jonathan Oppenheim (Cambridge University), and Dr. Andreas Winter (Bristol University) discovered this amazing fact, publishing their work in the August edition of the journal Nature.

What could negative knowledge possibly mean? "If I tell it to you, you will know less," explained Dr. Winter.

In the quantum world, knowledge behaves quite differently than it does in our world, or so it seems. As stated in the Heisenberg Uncertainty principal (named after its creator Werner Heisenberg), there are things in the quantum world that we cannot know, such as both the position and the momentum of a quantum particle. So, in the quantum world it is also possible to know more than everything, since in Quantum Entanglement, each particle knows BOTH the position and momentum of its paired particle. To counter this ‘knowing more than everything’, negative knowledge is used to ‘balance’ the equation. Dr. Horodecki also points out, "We can quantify information in terms of how much stuff I need to send you before you get to know something. In the case of negative quantum information, you can get to know something without me sending you any quantum particles. In fact, you will gain the potential to learn more quantum information in the future." No wonder Einstein called this ‘spooky science’.

This is all part of the quantum information theory that is lending itself to the fields of quantum teleportation and quantum computing. In quantum computing, the ‘bits’ in traditional computers are replaced by quantum ‘qubits’ which are quantum particles like electrons or atoms. While classical bits can only be in the state 0 or 1, qubits can be both in the 0 or 1 state at the same time. Let’s see Microsoft handle that!

Negative knowledge brings a new meaning to the phrase, “You don’t know nothin’!”

In short, it IS possible to know something without being told. Just as it is to NOT know something after it's been learned.

The Wave-Particle Duality of Quanta

The exact nature of matter has puzzled scientists for centuries. We have discovered the building blocks of matter, but what is the nature of these blocks? How do they behave? The ultimate question boils down to whether these ‘blocks’ behave as waves, or as particles.
The quest for the answer to this question first focused on light. We now know that light is composed of the boson named the photon, but what is its nature? Greek scientists from the ancient Pythagorean discipline postulated that every visible object emits a steady stream of particles, while Aristotle determined that light travels in a manner similar to waves in the ocean.

Throughout the eighteenth century, two theories about the nature of light were in strong competition for acceptance. One theory, proposed by Dutch physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens during the seventeenth century (which was also held by a English contemporary of Newton’s named Robert Hooke), asserted that light traveled as small waves (wave theory). Although the wave theory successfully accounted for many of the observed properties of light such as interference and diffraction, it required a medium (like the water in which ocean waves move through). This medium, given the name ether or Æther, continued to elude physicists.




Around the same time, a second theory emerged, put forth by English physicist Sir Isaac Newton. In 1672, Newton published his first scientific paper on light and color in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The paper was generally well received but Hooke and Huygens objected to Newton's attempt to prove, by experiment alone, that light consists of the motion of small particles rather than waves. And in his 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). Newton continued to show that light consisted of a series of tiny particles or "corpuscles". This corpuscular, or particle, theory explained why light traveled in straight lines and why it did not need a medium to travel through. But several problems remained with this particle theory, including trying to explain why light was able to cross paths without being deflected (surely the particles would collide with each other like cars running a red light). The two theories vied for acceptance for more than two centuries and many prominent scientists took opposing views and argued their positions with great conviction.

Proof I dare say?

Proponents of the particle nature of light pointed towards the Photoelectric Effect as one experiment that required light to behave as a particle. In this experiment, when light shines on a metal surface, the surface emits electrons. If light were indeed a wave, its energy would be a measure of its amplitude (the taller the ocean wave, the more power it has). Thus, if the light intensity striking the metal plate was increased, the electrons emitted should have more energy. However, the experiment showed that this is NOT the case. Increasing the intensity of the light only increases the number of electrons, not the energy of the electrons released. Thus, light behaves as a particle, where increasing the intensity of the light only sends more particles to hit the metal atoms, but each particle has the same energy as in the less intense light. This is like using a machine gun and increasing the rate of fire to increase the intensity. In fact, the only way to change the energy of the electrons emitted is to change the wavelength of the light (use bigger bullets). Higher-frequency photons have more energy, so they make the electrons come flying out faster; thus, switching to light with the same intensity but a higher frequency increases the maximum energy of the emitted electrons. If you leave the frequency the same but crank up the intensity, more electrons come out (because there are more photons to hit them), but they don't come out any faster, because each individual photon still has the same energy. Einstein would later win the Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect (not for his more famous theory of relativity).

By the start of the 19^th century, Newton’s corpuscular theory of light was widely accepted, albeit not universally.

Thomas Young’s double-slit experiment

In 1801, a British scientist named Thomas Young performed an experiment using a double slit apparatus to test the nature of light. He reasoned that if light consisted of particles, it would travel in straight lines from a source, through two slits in a barrier, and on to a screen placed at the back of the apparatus; at the screen, it would appear as two stripes of light. If, on the other hand, light consisted of waves, it would radiate outward from the source toward the two slits, pass through the two slits, and begin radiating anew from each of the two slits as it traveled toward the back screen. Where the path of the light from the two slits overlaps, the waves would interfere with each other. On the screen, it would appear as a series of stripes of light, representing the interference pattern typical of overlapping, symmetrical waves.

For example, when two water waves intersect, a new wave pattern is set up. Two wave peaks can coincide and form an amplified peak. Likewise, two wave troughs can coincide to form a deeper trough in a relationship known as constructive interference. Where a peak and trough coincide, however, they cancel each other out in a phenomenon known as destructive interference. On Young's screen, bright bands or lines would evidence constructive interference; dark lines or bands would evidence destructive interference.

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The Nature of Quantum Physics

The famous quantum physicist Richard Feynman once said that anyone who thought he understood quantum physics, did not understand it enough to understand that he did not actually understand it. Quantum theory is the theoretical basis in modern physics that attempts to explain the nature of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic levels. As one moves from the macroscopic world towards the quantum world, the laws that govern matter and energy begin to fail. Thus classical physics falls short of actually being able to describe particles and their interactions at the quantum level. But what are these particles?

The Building Blocks of Matter

All matter consists of molecules made up of atoms. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons and electrons. Until the 1960’s, science considered these to be the smallest indivisible particles that made up the universe. However, in the 1960’s and 1970’s, quarks were first discovered at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. These represented yet smaller subcomponents of matter.

If we look at a simple drop of water, we see that it is composed of molecules consisting of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

Taking a closer look at the Hydrogen atoms, we see they are composed of one proton, surrounded by an electron (a lepton).

The proton is composed of yet smaller particles, or quarks. These are the up and down quarks, held together by gluons.

The Standard Model

Physicists created the Standard Model to describe the interactions between elementary building blocks (quarks and leptons) and the force carriers (bosons). Gravity is not yet part of this framework, and a central question of 21st century particle physics is the search for a quantum formulation of gravity that could be included in the Standard Model.

Though still called a model, the Standard Model is a fundamental and well-tested physics theory. Physicists use it to explain and calculate a vast variety of particle interactions and quantum phenomena. High-precision experiments have repeatedly verified subtle effects predicted by the Standard Model.

The model consists of six quarks and six leptons, together with four bosons. One essential ingredient of the Standard Model, however, still eludes experimental verification: the Higgs field. It interacts with other particles to give them mass. The Higgs field gives rise to a new force carrier, called the Higgs boson, which has not yet been observed.

The Particles

The model consists of two groups of particles, the quarks and the leptons.

Quarks are the only particles that interact through all four fundamental forces.

Leptons possess a spin of ½ and do not experience strong nuclear force.

As an aside, Mesons (middleweight particles) are made of two quarks. Baryons (heavyweights, including protons and neutrons in the nuclei of atoms) are made of three quarks.

What is spin? Quantum spin is a quantum mechanical state. It has nothing to do with the spin in the real macroscopic world. For instance an electron has two spin states (+1/2 and -1/2), but that doesn't mean that the electron is rotating with different Angular Momentum directions. Spin is how you determine the quantum state of a particle. An interesting fact is that particles that have spins like 1/2, and which rotate through 360 degrees have a quantum state that is measurably different than when it started. If it rotates another 360 degrees its quantum state returns to where it started. So particles must 'rotate' a total of 720 degrees to make it back to the state they started in. The angular momentum and the spin concept in quantum mechanics are abstract. The name 'spin' was given to this quantum mechanical state during the development of Quantum Mechanics.

To date, physicists have identified a total of 12 building blocks that are the fundamental constituents of matter. Our everyday world is made of just three of these building blocks: the up quark, the down quark and the electron. This set of particles is all that's needed to make protons and neutrons and to thus form atoms and molecules, giving rise to all the matter that surrounds us. The electron neutrino, observed in the decay of other particles, completes this first set of four building blocks. These four building blocks, (the first column in the diagram), form what is known in the model as Generation I.

This first generation of quarks and leptons is replicated in nature to create the second and third generations to produce a total of six quarks and six leptons, with increasing mass. Like all quarks, the sixth quark, named top, is much smaller than a proton (in fact, no one knows how small quarks are), but the top is as heavy as a gold atom.

Although there are reasons to believe that there are no other quarks and leptons, theorists speculate that there may be other types of building blocks, which may partly account for the dark matter implied by astrophysical observations. This poorly understood matter exerts gravitational forces and manipulates galaxies.

The Fundamental Forces

The above particles transmit forces among each other by exchanging force-carrying particles called bosons. These force mediators carry discrete amounts of energy, called quanta, from one particle to another. This is sort of like passing a ball back and forth between two people.

The Standard model describes three of the four elementary types of forces in physics:

• Electromagnetic interactions, which cause all phenomena associated with electric and magnetic fields and the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. The photon carries the electromagnetic force; it also transmits light.
  
• Strong interactions, which bind atomic nuclei. The gluon mediates the strong force; it “glues” quarks together.
  
• Weak nuclear force, which governs beta decay - a form of natural radioactivity - and hydrogen fusion, the source of the sun's energy. The W and Z bosons represent the weak force; they introduce different types of decays.
  

(The Standard Model does not describe the fourth fundamental force, gravity. The gravitational force acts between massive macroscopic objects. Although it plays no role at the microscopic level, (its influence is so small as to be negligible), it is the dominant force in our everyday life and throughout the universe. Physicists expect that the gravitational force may also be associated with a boson particle. Named the graviton, this hypothetical boson is extremely hard to observe since, at the subatomic level, the gravitational force is many orders of magnitude weaker than the other three elementary forces.)

Antimatter

Although it is a staple of science fiction, antimatter is as real as matter. For every particle, physicists have discovered a corresponding antiparticle, which looks and behaves in almost the same way. Antiparticles, though, have the opposite properties of their corresponding particles. An antiproton, for example, has a negative electric charge while a proton is positively charged.

Less than 10 years ago, physicists at CERN (1995) and Fermi lab (1996) created the first anti-atoms. They carefully added a positron (the antiparticle of an electron) to an antiproton. The result: anti-hydrogen.

Storing antimatter is a difficult task. As soon as an antiparticle and a particle meet, they annihilate, disappearing in a flash of energy. Using electromagnetic force fields, physicists are able to store antimatter inside vacuum vessels for a limited amount of time.

From Simplicity All Things Form

While there is a vast array of mathematical formulas and computational rules not covered here, this view of matter is a testament to the simplicity that scientists insist is at the heart of nature: a compact and precise mathematical description of our universe. Like DNA, from four simple particles give rise to all that is.

What is Quantum Entanglement?

Quantum Entanglement is an interesting concept that basically throws the proverbial monkey-wrench into basic physics.

It occurs when two particles are created from a single source. For example, a photon pair can be created in the laboratory by 'shooting a photon through a specially designed crystal. This results in some of the photons 'splitting' into two photons. However, each photon has a lower energy (or energy frequency). In fact, the total energy of both new photons when summed, equals the total energy of the original.

What's more interesting though is that these two photons will be exact opposites of each other. If we look at their 'polarity' and 'spin' (a non-scientific analogy for their quantum state) they will be perfectly mirror images of each other. But it doesn't end there, once created, they will ALWAYS be the mirror of each other.

If we now allow these photons to separate and expose one to say a magnetic field to say increase its spin, when we observe the other particle, its spin also changes (albeit in the direct opposite direction). The other particle INSTANTLY acquires the opposite quantum state of the particle that we passed through the magnetic field.

But how is this possible? Einstein also wondered about that, calling it "Spooky action at a distance." He refused to believe that it was possible since it violated the theory of special relativity by implying that a communication was occurring between the two particles that was FASTER than the speed of light.

The EPR Paradox that was created in 1935, (EPR standing for the creators - Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen) was a thought experiment that demonstrated that quantum mechanics violated special relativity.

However strange, this occurs and has been demonstrated in many experiments. In fact, it has spawned off numerous research areas, including Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing. In the computing world, this 'parallelism' is being studied the for parallel computing systems that surpass the performance of current systems, as they leverage this 'instantaneous communication.'

So what does this all mean? For the particles to instantly communicate over a distance they must be either communicating faster than the speed of light (which most scientists believe to be impossible) or they are communicating in a dimension in which distance does not apply. In this 'dimension' all objects are connected and communicate freely with each other.

It is in this 'dimension' or field that all things exist and are connected as one. It is through this that the holodynamic universe communicates and its in this field that the intelligence of creation exists. We will look more into that in a future post.

Lynne McTaggart, in her book The Field, defines this field as the 'Zero Point Field" in which everything is connected at the most fundamental of levels.

For a very nice visual representation of Quantum Entanglement, visit: Quantum Entanglement Illustrated

Welcome to the world of Holodynamics

This is the beginning of a discussion of the area of Holodynamics, the quantum field, and the latest understandings in this new and amazing area of science.

While the area of quantum mechanics is a new and constantly evolving area of science, the implications of what has been discovered to date are tremendous.

In our new site, www.UniverseOfPower.com, there is a lot on information that defines these incredible scientific discoveries. So, to start this discussion, I'm going to first outline the information found there. This will help set the background for the discussions to follow.

Holodynamics discusses the concept of the mind and how thoughts, or consciousness can form entities within each of us. These entities, or Holodynes, are like sub-processes that together contribute to who we are and how we react to the world around us.

Quantum Physics discusses the science behind holodynamics. In a non-technical discussion, the concept of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is discussed as it relates to the real-world.

Manifesting Desires speaks to the ability to manipulate the uncertainty of the universe through conscious thought to 'create' in your world those things important to you.

Success - Whats keeping you from yours? Its a plain, matter-of-fact discussion on what typically prevents us from reaching a state of being successful, be it in our lives, carreers, etc. It is through this discussion of limiting beliefs, that we explore why we actually prevent ourselves from being successful.

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So, before we go on, take a moment to open your eyes to the new information on the above site as you prepare yourself to begin your own Journey to Success.