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One of the many good things about living in LA is the weather.  This is why I was very annoyed to miss this month’s full lunar eclipse due to a week of nonstop rain.  The last full eclipse I witnessed was in winter 2008, and it showed a completely different perspective on an object I was so used to seeing.  

Most ancient spiritual disciplines claim that everything in the world is connected to each other, and to a higher underlying “source”.  This has been known and accepted in the East for thousands of years.  I used to think this was “soft Kumbaya hippie nonsense”, which sounds really nice but is far from reality, until I started to look into this from the scientific standpoint and found some unbelievable things.  Here’s a very brief history of physics and its understanding of connectedness. The father of western physics was Sir Isaac Newton.  He looked at objects we are used to seeing every day (things like cannon balls and the Earth), and described their behavior in his Laws of Motion which explained explaining inertia, gravity, acceleration, etc.  Everything made sense, was predictable and simple.  The lesser known but fascinating fact about Newton is that he made these discoveries in his twenties.  He dedicated the rest of his life to studying a science which is not even considered “a science” in the West – alchemy.  Alchemy is much more closely related to the Eastern spiritual disciplines, explaining connectedness and “flow”.  But western science is finally catching up. The next breakthrough came with Albert Einstein, who studied objects, forces and speeds infinitely greater than those we are used to seeing (things like galaxies, and the speed of light).  Strange things began to happen: space and time no longer behaved as expected.  Nothing was straight; everything twisted, turned and looped.  This theory (Theory of Relativity) changed the way we view the world and added an aspect of “magic” to science. Around the same time several scientists (mostly Germans: Bohr, Heisenberg, Planck, Schrödinger, Pauli etc) decided to look at objects and forces infinitely smaller than those we can see.  Things got even stranger.  They found that objects weren’t really objects.  They’re energy.  Moreover, they can be particles AND energy at the same time.  The only thing that defined what things actually were was the act of observation.  Until you looked at something, it remained both an object and energy, but once you observed it – it turned into one of the two.  I’m obviously over-simplifying Quantum Mechanics, but this is actual science, discovered 100 years ago. The problem was that when you tried to combine Einstein’s equations with Quantum Mechanics, they didn’t agree.  When you looked at huge things, Einstein’s equations made sense.  When you looked at sub-atomic particles – Quantum Mechanics did.  And of course, Newton’s equations continued to work for our every day world.  But neither theory explained everything. Since then Einstein and other scientists have been looking for the Grand Unified Theory – one that would explain everything in the world, from the smallest to the largest.  In the early 1980s such theory began to take shape.  It was called String Theory, and is currently the one theory that can explain everything.  The good news is String Theory hasn’t been disproven.  The bad news is it hasn’t been proven without a doubt either, but most scientists agree it is correct. According to String Theory, everything in this world – physical objects, light, sound, electricity, gravity and any other forms of energy – is made of tiny vibrating strings.  The frequency of their vibration defines what particle/energy each string creates. The most interesting aspect of these strings is the ONLY way they CAN work mathematically is if they vibrate in 10 (or 11) dimensions.  This means that, according to modern western science, the only way for the world to make sense is if it operates in 10 dimensions.  This is hard to fathom, considering we understand only 4 of them (the 4^th being Time). Many physicists think those extra dimensions are invisible because they are too small, and kind of “stick to” objects we see, and escape our view.  I think this is incredibly arrogant.  Why do we think we have the “largest” point of view in the universe?  This approach seems similar to the geocentric view our ancient ancestors had – thinking the Earth was the center of the universe.  What if those extra dimensions were much bigger than us?  This is something Eastern philosophies have thought to be true for thousands of years. Here’s how you can visualize them.  Think your life from the moment you’re reading this “NOW”, to the moment you’re reading this ……… “NOW”……. as a straight line in one dimension, just like a normal line you would draw with a ruler.  This is the 4^th dimension.  Then try to imagine if you could bend this line - just like you could bend a line drawn on a piece of paper - through the dimension above.  Now we’re in 5^th dimension.  If you follow this logic to the higher dimensions, some unbelievable things happen, which actually make logical sense.  Since I can’t do this explanation justice, you have to see this video to understand it.  It will blow your mind. As you’ll see, by the time you get to the 10^th dimension, EVERYTHING is contained in a single point.  Meaning this point, which vibrates in 10 dimensions, contains in itself EVERYTHING that is, what has possibly ever been and could possible ever be.  Keep in mind, this isn’t religion – this is modern science! This is worth thinking about further.  Science – not religion - suggests (although doesn’t prove yet) that we are all literally connected.  In fact, we are one “thing” on some level.  This drastically changes our relationship with the world and with each other.  I’m certain that future developments in this area will change our world for the better.  Perhaps this could qualify one for the Nobel Prize for Peace as well as for Physics. Let me know what you think, and I’ll be happy to suggest further reading.