Physics into Zen: The genesis of Voidness

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March 8 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhu Qingshi Academician published a wonderful inverted speech: "Physics into Zen: The origin of the empty." Attracted a great deal of interest from the audience and gave a warm applause for this shocking argument. After the keynote speech, famous historian Xueqin, famous economist Wang Lianzhou, famous esthetics Han Yutao, and Pine Bamboo Academy presided over the Liu Zhengcheng and other scholars to engage in high-end dialogue.
Mr. Zhu Qingshi is a academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Third World Academy, former president of China University of Science and International Calligraphers Association consultant. As a famous international physicist and educator, he based on the latest achievements of modern physics, combined with Buddhist philosophy, explored the essential meaning of material and consciousness. He compares and studies with Einstein's unified field theory and Hawking's string theory and the "Tibetan Sea" in the classical Buddhist classics, which he thinks are interlinked. The material world is the symphony of countless cosmic strings, and the waves of the world are very similar to those arising from the wind. He said humorously: "The scientists have struggled to climb to the top of the mountain, the Buddhist master has been waiting for a long time!" This argument can be said to have completely shaken the foundations of the mainstream epistemological materialism since the 20th century.
Professor Xueqin, a famous historian and director of the Center for liberal Arts, Tsinghua University, gave a high opinion of Zhu Qingshi's lecture. Professor Xueqin said that human beings have become accustomed to a way of thinking to understand the world, and the progress of science today, it is possible for me to use the multi-think of him to know the world. He also said that, in fact, from the mid-20th century scholars have put forward a momentary cut-off understanding, today Mr. Zhu Qingshi let this issue to the height of philosophy.

Famous economist National People's Congress Law Committee "Securities Law" drafting group leader Professor Wang Lianzhou also very much appreciated the Zhu Qingshi academician to the lecture, he combined with the international economic circles "return to Marx" status, talked about the financial tsunami has been far beyond the economic category, it is actually a economic, political, social, philosophical and other interdisciplinary issues.
Xueqin, Han Yutao and scholars who participated in today's Song Bamboo Academy Forum were very appreciative of the new and significant academic significance of this interdisciplinary dialogue and hoped that it would be held on a regular basis in the future.

Physics into Zen: The genesis of Voidness

Academician Zhu Qingshi, former president of China University of Science and Technology

20th century is an interesting period in human history, the human side of this period enjoy the great material wealth created by the natural science: nuclear, laser, electronic technology, and so on, but do not understand or even accept some of its basic concepts. In fact, these ideas have a lot of rigorous scientific basis, but really know them too few people, so not to be recognized and accepted by people.
The following message illustrates the situation:
(Beijing) August 19 News: Hawking in the process of yesterday's Science report won only two or three applause, the audience almost no understanding of the laughter-his theory is too mysterious, so that most of the students from Peking University, Qinghua University said they did not understand. Yesterday afternoon, the Beijing International Conference Center lined up hundreds of meters long, according to the Beijing Morning News. There was a private sale of tickets at the door-at least $500 a piece. There are also a lot of people asking for refunds, and we all look forward to seeing Hawking's demeanor. But the two-hour public science report is not over yet, and someone has been out early--I don't understand.
Hawking's "Origin of the Universe" is based on the latest achievements of modern natural science-string theory. Those who truly understand this theory will have a strong sense of awe, surprise and shock. In this paper, we try to understand the main concepts of string theory in a language that can be understood by everyone, in order to let the reader experience a little awe and shock, and a glimpse into the mysteries of the universe.
We began with a famous Wolfgang Stegmuller, a contemporary philosopher Staigmueller, in the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. "People of future generations will ask: what is the mistake of the 20th century?" he wrote. To this question they will answer: in the 20th century, on the one hand materialistic philosophy (which makes material the only real reality) is not only part of the current official worldview in many countries of the world, but is often dominated even in Western philosophy, such as in the context of so-called physical and mental discourse. But on the other hand, it is precisely this concept of material that has always been the hardest, hardest-to-solve and most difficult to understand science of the century. That is to say, the philosophy of "materialism" is widely popular, on the other hand, what is "matter"? But it's not. It was here that Staigmueller saw the "20th century blunder".
You might ask, what exactly is a substance? Why is it that science feels the hardest, hardest to solve and the hardest to understand?
As early as in the ancient Greek era, the atom theory that the matter is the eternal brick of the universe, everything from it, and finally back to it, it deathless, not increase, is the world process absolutely the same starting point and end point. Matter as ordinary, unchanging thing, must be absolute entity and matrix. Entity, the object of "real" is also. The substance and its nature must exist independently of human consciousness and are objective entities.
Later, classical physics, based on Newton's mechanics, inherited the view of the ancient atom theory and attributed the matter to a set of particles with certain absolute invariant properties. The concept of particle is a kind of abstraction to the solid of the whole movement, but its application in liquid, gas and even heat phenomenon has been successful. For all of these physical forms that can have mechanical motion, physics is called physical. In the natural philosophy of the time, it is also called the entity. It is related to the special position and function of mass in Newton mechanics that the matter is attributed to an object and the matter is regarded as an entity. Newton's definition of quality as a measure of "substance" is because in any mechanical movement, and even in chemical reactions, the quality is consistent. The quality is taken for granted as the absolute intrinsic nature of the material itself, and is regarded as the concrete manifestation of the principle of the matter being immortal or the entity invariable.
The great success of classical physics, which was represented by Newton's mechanics, at the end of the 19th century, made the materialism, regarded as the absolute entity of matter, a dominant philosophy in the 20th century, as quoted by Staigmueller.
However, the theory of relativity invented by Einstein in the 20th century began to reveal the fallacy of physical physical view. First, relativity proves that mass is related to speed, and that the same object, relative to different reference systems, has a different value.
Imagine a scooter without any resistance, as long as it continues to push it, the speed will be faster, but as time goes on, its quality is getting bigger, at first, like a car piled up with firewood, and then it seems to be loaded with steel, and finally it seems to hold a earth ... When the scooter reaches the speed of light, the whole universe seems to be on it-its mass reaches infinity. At this point, no matter how hard it is exerted, it cannot move any faster.
When an object moves near the speed of light and constantly exerts energy on an object, it becomes more and more difficult to increase the speed of the object, where does the applied energy go? In fact, the energy does not disappear, but is converted to quality. In explaining the relationship between mass and energy, Einstein presented a well-known mass energy equation: energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Soon scientists discovered fission and a chain reaction, releasing part of the mass into great energy. People who know the atom bomb now believe that mass can be transformed into energy.

Since quality is no longer a constant attribute, the notion that quality is a measure of how much matter is lost in meaning. Since matter and energy can be transformed from one another, energy is not an "entity", and matter can no longer be regarded as an entity.
At the same time, scientists ' understanding of material structure has developed rapidly. Until the the 1930s, classical physics had always believed that matter was made up of molecules that were made of atoms. Atoms are the smallest "bricks" that make up a substance. In 1932, scientists confirmed that atoms are made up of electrons, neutrons, and protons. Later, scientists see smaller particles than nuclei, such as protons and neutrons, as the third level of the microscopic structure of matter, collectively known as elementary particles. 1964, American physicist Mare & #8226; Gherman boldly proposed a new theory: protons and neutrons are not the most basic particles, they are made up of a smaller thing-quarks. In search of quarks, the world's finest physicists have struggled for 20 of years, and although some experiments have confirmed the existence of quarks, a single quark has not been found yet, and people have never known it. In this, the particle scientists explain that: quarks are extremely unstable, extremely short-lived particles, which can only be stable within the bound state, but not individual existence.
Not only that, but among the more than 300 elementary particles known to the people so far, except for a few stable particles with particularly long life spans, such as photons, neutrinos, electrons, and protons, others are fleeting, that is, they tend to die out in the instant they are born. For example, there are more than 20 species of particles that decay through weak interactions. Among them, the life of π± meson is roughly 2.6x10-8 second, that is, π± meson after One-one hundred millonth seconds to decay into other particles. Two of particles decay through electromagnetic interactions, and their lifespan is much shorter. The life of the π° meson is 0.84x10-16 seconds, and the life of the η meson is 3x10-19 seconds. Compared to the π±, they have a shorter life span of 8~11 orders of magnitude. The shortest life, the "resonant particles" (such as particles, ∑ particles, etc.) that decay through strong interactions. Their partners are particularly numerous, accounting for more than half of the elementary particle family members, a total of more than 200 species. Their lifespan is so short that it is difficult to describe their decay with precise adjectives, and particle physicists cannot measure them directly, even by using the best experimental methods, but only by indirectly calculating their lifetimes. They can only live for about one-seconds, i.e. life expectancy is roughly 10-28 seconds.
Why are most elementary particles so short-lived? How do we understand that the physical world is built on these fleeting "bricks"?
In the late 20th century, a frontier field of physics-the development of string theory-has made our view of matter a step further.
What is string theory? Einstein, in the rest of his life, has been searching for a unified field theory, a powerful one that can describe the natural world in a single, all-encompassing mathematical framework. He longed to reveal the mysteries of cosmic activity in a way that had never been achieved before, and showed the beauty and elegance of nature. Einstein failed to realize his dream, because at that time people did not know many basic characteristics of nature. But in the half century after his death, people have built more and more complete theories about nature. Now, quite a few physicists believe they have finally found a framework that might stitch this knowledge into a seamless whole-a single theory, a theory that describes everything, and that is string theory. It is fulfilling the ideals of the unified theory that Einstein pursued with enthusiasm.
String theory can be used to describe gravity and all elementary particles. A fundamental point of view is that the basic elements of nature, such as electrons, photons, neutrinos, and quarks, look like particles, which are actually different vibrational modes of a small, small, one-dimensional chord. Just as the strings on the violin, the cosmic Strings in string theory (we call the strings in string theory as cosmic strings to avoid confusion with ordinary strings) can vibrate in certain modes. Each mode of vibration should have a special resonant frequency and wavelength. A resonant frequency of a violin string corresponds to a scale, while the vibrations of a cosmic chord correspond to different masses and energies. All elementary particles, such as electrons, photons, neutrinos, and quarks, are all different vibrational modes or excited states of the cosmic chord. The typical scale of each cosmic chord is approximately the basic unit of length, which is the length of Planck (10-33 cm). In short, if the universe is seen as a sea of cosmic strings, then the elementary particles are like bubbles in the water, and they are constantly producing and disappearing. The physical world of our reality is actually a magnificent symphony of cosmic strings playing!
Some would say that to see the physical world is a symphony of cosmic strings playing, not just the opposite of matter--consciousness somewhat the same? Yes. According to the prevailing view, consciousness exists entirely on the basis of the material (our brain), but consciousness is not a concrete substance, because no one has ever found any tangible "consciousness" in the skull during brain surgery. We all know Beethoven's symphony, which can be played with a set of instruments. But the instrument itself is not a symphony. Consciousness is the symphony that the brain plays. This image opens up a new way to understand the unity of mind and matter.
It may also be said that no matter how small the universe is, whether or not people can observe them, the cosmic strings are objective reality, they are the basic elements of the physical world, and therefore the material world should be objective. This remark is inaccurate. The basic unit that makes up the physical world is the various possible vibrational states of the cosmic chord, not the cosmic chord itself, as the basic unit that makes up the symphony is every note on the instrument, not the instrument itself.
Before string theory, the reality of matter is embodied in the fact that the bricks that make up the objective world are hundreds of atoms, all of which are composed of elementary particles, such as protons, neutrons, and electrons. These elementary particles are considered to be physical entities and are "super bricks" that make up the physical world, thus allowing the physical world to be regarded as a physical entity. In string theory, the situation has changed radically. The elementary particles that used to be the bricks that made up the objective world are now all kinds of "notes" on the cosmic strings. A variety of material world, really become "all have the law, such as fleeting dream, such as dew also like electricity, should applied." ("Diamond Sutra") "Physics has entered the" self-nature of the empty "Realm!
Someone will think, oh my God! Matter is not objective reality, then there is something in the world is real? The answer is, yes. The relationship between things is real. According to the progress of natural science in the 20th century, we can replace the absolute physical entity with the relation reality, that is to argue that the thing is not an isolated, intrinsic quality entity, but a result of the origin and manifestation of many latent factors. Each of the beings is based on his things, and is a series of potential factors combined to generate. "Phenomena, reality and beings are confined to a set of essentially inseparable relationships."
The philosophical rhetoric that philosophers use when discussing "relationship reality" may be hard to understand, and we use examples to illustrate.
We see a bunch of red light, this is an event, is a "fruit". This fruit is produced by the aggregation of various causes. The first is the wavelength value of the light, which is the "first nature", which is also like the broad ductility of the object, is inherent in the object itself, it does not depend on the observer, also do not rely on its object, that is, it is not right and self-established. We refer to these first properties as "cause". Second, we also need to have some other conditions, such as the eyes just open, no color blindness, in the right direction, and the eye and the light barrier between the barrier, and so on. We call these conditions "relationship parameters", also known as "margin". These causes of aggregation produce the red light this fruit. The color properties of "red" are "second class properties", whose existence depends at least partially on the observer. "Relationship realism" means that the relationship parameters are not eliminated, without them, there will be no "see red light" this fruit, and thus is real.
Let's give a clearer example. To get an apple tree, first you have to have an apple seed, this is "cause". But this seed alone will not grow into an apple tree, such as the seeds in the warehouse, no matter how long it will not grow out of trees, so the single cause is not fruit. Be sure to put the seeds in the soil, and to have the appropriate water, sunlight, temperature, fertilizer and so on, the seeds will sprout and grow up, and finally grow into an apple tree, the Apple came out. Here the soil, water, sunlight, temperature, fertilizer and so on, is the "edge." Therefore, "because" must cooperate with the appropriate "margin", in the cause and the combination, can produce fruit.
The margin is a number of mating conditions. The Edge has a good edge, there are bad ("bad") edge. So even the same seed, the fruit is very different. For example, put the seeds into the barren soil, or insufficient fertilization, the apple tree must grow small, the apple will not be delicious. If you put the seeds in the fertile soil, plus careful care, the fruit will be sweet and delicious. It can be seen that the same result will be very different for the same reason. At the same time, because the edge is formed by a lot of conditions, so the edge will continue to change. Since the edge will affect the fruit, and the edge in so many conditions with the effect, if a condition has changed, or even disappeared, then the fruit may no longer exist. In Apple's case, if the drought is short of water, the apple tree will wither. So when the karma is scattered, the fruit will be extinguished. In other words: "Karma and co-birth, the cause of the scattered and destroyed." ”
Some readers may have discovered that the above-mentioned words about Apple are the contents of the Genesis law of Prof. Poon's book "Buddhism and Life". The so-called "relationship", "the margin" also, "relationship realism" in fact, and the basic idea of the origin of Buddhism is consistent.
In short, in the beginning of the 21st century, the string theory represented by the physics of real into the origin of the empty Zen. Looking back at the news from the beginning of this article, it is not difficult to understand why it is difficult for people to understand Hawking's so vivid report, the reason is that material is the concept of the entity is too persistent in people's minds!
Buddhism believes that the nature of the material world is the origin of emptiness. The Sea of Knowledge (aka the Sea of Tathagata) is the body of the universe. Everything in the material world is a sea wave caused by the wind, in other words, the material world is the symphony that winds the cosmic body.
"Into the cord" cloud: "such as the giant waves." From the fierce wind. A torrent of drums and valleys. There is no time to sever. A resident of the Tibetan sea. The wind of the realm moves. All kinds of knowledge waves. Prance and Rebirth. ”
This sentence Gatha said: For example, a sea, calm, clear, and when the wind blows, so that the calm sea, a lot of endless waves, since then, such as million Howling, heaven and earth 晦冥, and no time to clarify. The ontology of the universe--the Sea of possession (the Sea of the Buddha) is clear and Cham, the fate of the permanent and unchanging. Because of the internal and external wind blowing, it makes the body of silenced clean, with a wave of ups and downs, followed by the various functions of the previous seven knowledge. The waves collide with each other, and the surging surges, they reincarnate all realms, without end.
"Green and red colors." Ke milk and stone honey. Light flavor of the Chinese fruit. Sun and moon and light.
Non-XOR. The sea waves up. So is the knowledge of seven. The heart and the connate. ”
This sentence Gatha said: The world of all kinds of hue, and even such as the underground mineral, forest plants, and the sky and the sun, and so on, trace back to the root, is also by the Tathagata in the disguise of the unity of knowledge. These objects and knowledge are not dissimilar in nature, but when they are formed into all things, they cannot be said to be the same as the function of the mind. For example, since the sea is transformed into a wave, the form and function of the waves are different from the whole sea, but the fundamental of the waves is the transformation of the sea. From the aspect of the thing, the water difference (differentiation and classification) is also from the whole. From the aspect of the heart, the difference between the seven kinds of knowledge is also incarnated by the Tathagata's knowledge. And because of the heart and the things and the things that happen in the world, so the clear of the sea, then Yongwuningri. (According to: Qingchi and other various search, refers to the eye root color dust object. Cosette is the object of the sound and dust of the ears. Milk and stone honey, refers to the nose root dust object. Light flavor of the Chinese fruit, refers to the object of the flavor of the tongue. The Sun and the moon and the light are the objects that touch the dust of the body. ）。
The relationship between the sea and the waves is precisely the relationship between strings and music. They are also the relationship between the physical world and the Cosmic ontology. When I understand this truth, the heart is full of awe and shock. Read here, you may feel: "The scientists have struggled to climb to the top of the mountain, the Buddhist master has been waiting for a long time!" ”

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Physics into Zen: The genesis of Voidness