The Immaterial Around Us (Part 1)
Pushing Boundaries, Raising Inquiries, and Embracing the Unknown
Hey, I'm excited to share my thoughts with you on a topic that's been consuming my mind lately. It's something that's at the core of everything I do, and I can't wait to dive into it with you. Over the next few weeks, I'll be publishing a series of texts on this topic, so stay tuned!
One thing that does not exist is “nothingness”. More precisely, it is interesting to contemplate empty spaces and try to find emptiness or the absence of any existence and events in them. The level of consciousness and the development of our senses limit us from seeing the broader picture of how things around us function. Such limitations lead to the need to invent various theories and set imaginary boundaries that we cannot cross. "We find ourselves in a situation," as Frank Wilczek explains, "similar to a fish in water, which swims throughout its life in a substance it is not aware of as such because it lacks a broader perspective, or in other words, the fish must swim beyond its limits and see the water beyond it." Perhaps, we are unsuccessfully trying to understand the universe from a perspective that makes it impossible to see beyond what our senses and imagination allow, and since imagination depends on our knowledge, we are quite limited in that segment.
Since ancient Greece, humans have been trying to understand and formulate a theory that best explains the phenomena happening around us, as Aristotle, alongside the basic elements, added the fifth - ether, to justify his idea of the incomprehensible and unattainable at that time. Anyone who has managed to elevate perception to an above-average level has been able to reach new boundaries of the world that surrounds them.
From this perspective, the studies that today's physics engages in still seem as if we are at the very beginning, even though new discoveries are made every day. New findings are slowly starting to lose meaning; everything is happening too fast, and it has become difficult to take them seriously. Despite everything, there comes a moment when we realize that what surrounds us and what we have managed to discover and understand so far is only a fragment that opens new doors and directs us toward a broader understanding of previous knowledge.
Questions I always ask myself are: How to move forward? How to learn? How to see something about which we have no knowledge? The entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves that we can see and feel is very small compared to our capabilities. Does the known spectrum also represent only a fragment of a larger whole, or does it end there? The number of discovered particles around us is greater than a thousand. What functions do undiscovered particles, which have not even been theoretically described, have? In some other dimensions, are there different movements, and are the existing laws of physics applicable there? What does spiritual mean? Is it something intangible, or is it material like everything that surrounds us?
I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on the questions.
Second part is on it’s way…
Thanks for reading!