A (possibly) Helpful Nugget

I'd like to share something from my dilettante-level dabblings in modern physics with the intent of shedding a little light on one aspect of this article. It has to do with Ken hyphenating matter and energy when writing of an individual holon's UR-quadrant gross, subtle and causal bodies. What the great wisdom traditions have known for millennia, and what Scientists are now discovering, is that matter and energy are one-in-the-same.

In 1905, physicist Max Planck said that "Matter is compressed energy". For me, sense is made of this when contemplating the structure of an atom: If an atom were the size of a baseball stadium, then the nucleus would be the size of the baseball, with ants on the field being way too big to represent the electrons. Wow. Another scale example: If an atom were the size of a human body, then the nucleus would be the size of a single red blood cell. Again, wow- the overwhelmingly vast majority of what we perceive as solid is, strictly materialistically-speaking, nothingness. Of course, we are not nothingness, so what does that make our fleshy bodies and everything else in the manifest universe, fundamentally? I prefer 'organized energy', but "compressed energy", "vital energy", "Prana", plus many others work just as well. I find it fun to also think of it in terms of 'tendency' and 'impulse', which leads to contemplation of the divine.  

Ken alludes to this matter-energy relationship (oneness) in mentioning the "quantum vacuum'. A 'quantum' is a discreet bundle of energy, such as an electron, proton, neutron, photon, etc. The vacuum is all that space between these 'quanta' within an atom's structure. (Particle Physics and String Theory go further with this, exploring the parts of the sub-atomic particles, their components, and the space between them.) This space is "empty" from a gross/materialistic perspective and not empty from an energetic one.

As a side-note regarding science and spirituality really beginning to reconcile these days, I recently heard a String Theorist say (paraphrased): 'We have sub-atomic particles, then atoms, then molecules, then up the chain to our selves.' The great chain of being!

Hope this helps a little.

May everyone be well!