Day 53: Finding Everything in Nothing

I recently watched a documentary entitled Everything and Nothing: The Amazin Science of Empty Space. It’s a long one, but it is also a concise way to understand what we think we know about the macro and micro universe. Aristotle claimed that it was impossible to have or observe nothing. He said that the universe fought against anything being empty. Since then, many people have tried to disprove that theory.

A long time ago, the Italian scientist, Evangelista Torricelli, attempted to create nothingness by creating a vacuum with mercury in a long tube. The result was nothing until they discovered that it really wasn’t nothing. But we will get to that. The real breakthrough was what they discovered about a vacuum. It led to inventions like light bulbs, water pumps, and computer components.

What people eventually discovered in the nothingness is electrons (the tiny things that whiz around the nucleus of an atom) popping in and out of existence extremely fast and leaving existence the same way. What was happening in the nothingness is that when the electron pops into our world another anti-matter particle pops into our world as well. The two electrons (one matter and the other anti-matter) exist for the briefest of moments and slam back into each other, absolving themselves from this world. So, even in nothingness, something is going on.

Without getting too deep, I will assume that there really isn’t any nothingness and that we all connected. We live in an ocean of air that has weight. Even empty space is full of dark matter and energy. Space-time bends because of giant matter like the Earth and Sun, other stars and galaxies. Think of everything existing in a giant swimming pool. Everything affects everything else, all the way from the cosmos to the carbon particle. In swimming pools, we create waves; some are big and some are small. Our words, our actions, our thoughts are all waves in the universe. We displace the universe with every step we take. We express waves and we receive waves. What waves we decide to expel is our choice. The waves we decide to absorb is our choice. The awareness of these waves is the first step in creating our own bubble of harmony.

I believe that idea will change the way we think about this planet and humanity. I hope that we start teaching it to our children at a young age, even if it is hard to understand. We are all living on one disharmonized planet that is trying desperately to heal itself. I think humanity is at a new beginning of existence. With new scientific findings supporting spiritual beliefs, we are at an age where the cold, metal ways of thinking, building, and consuming without end will lead to a type of humanity that is forced to reassess how we view life.

There is no nothing. There is only everything that is in us and surrounds us. We are everything and everything is us. Let us harmonize.

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Author's Note #1: Deciding to not react is many times the best reaction; we don't know if our reactive waves will harmonize or dissonate with someone else's.