The Science of the Field

Understanding the Implicate Order / Zero Point Field

I first encountered the science of the Field in 1983, when I was 17, in the writings of Marilyn Ferguson. Little did I imagine that five years later I would begin my professional career as a science and psychology journalist working for Ferguson, a bestselling author (her 1980 book on personal and social transformation sold 1.5 million copies worldwide) and the world’s leading writer covering New Paradigm Science.

Einstein’s protege David Bohm called the Field the Implicate Order — which is what I called it for 24 years. Then in 2006, at age 41, I read about the Zero Point Field. All things considered, I was a bit late to the party.

So Bohm heavily influenced my thinking for 24 years, and then the Zero Point Field scientists took over. This is an advantage for me, but there’s also a problem.

Timothy Boyer proposed and named the Zero Point Field in 1969. In 2006, I asked Boyer if anyone had worked on synthesizing Bohm’s Implicate Order with the science of the Zero Point Field (then led primarily by Hal Puthoff). Boyer was unaware of anyone who had done so.

This has put me in a tough spot, because I’ve always worked hard to stick to what the scientists are saying, as accurately as possible. And since 2006 I’ve found myself synthesizing Bohm with Boyer and Puthoff on my own — as a professional but lay writer who is not a scientist. But the alternative, in my view is what Bohm called “sustained incoherence”.

My audacity in tackling this probably comes from watching Marilyn Ferguson when I was in my twenties. At conference after conference, she sat on a five-person panel: with Bohm, neuroscientist Karl Pribram, Nobel chemist Ilya Prigogine, and scientific philosopher Rupert Sheldrake — and Marilyn, as a lay expert and professional writer in the field — would take everything these brilliant scientists were saying and turn the New Science into language every layperson in the room could understand.

And so, doing my best, I will present to you in this piece the most science-respecting view of the Zero Point Field that I am able, after 42 years of thinking about it, to render to you. Then, next week, I’ll present to you two wildly speculative pieces — one about God and the Zero Point Field and one about some of the ways we human beings may experience the Zero Point Field, especially actively and consciously.

Ready? Let’s turn our attention today, in this piece, fully to the science — and stick to the science, as best I can understand it as of this moment.

Thank you for sharing in the New Florence journey,

Mike

THE ZERO POINT FIELD

The Zero Point Field is the natural universe’s inmost field of substance, energy, and information — its intrinsic, essential, and ultimate natural substance, energy, and information.

The Field is a matrix, a meta-field, the implicate order in which the natural universe is embedded. The Field is the primordial natural unity, the all-inclusive and connective oneness of the natural universe. The Field is the natural cause and support from which all natural manifestations emerge.

The Field is a meta-substance — a flowing substance, fine yet powerful, like super-dense active air or a super-fluid. The Field is a cosmic “sea” of primordial material, a great universal “reservoir”, a world of waves. The Field is a spreading, glowing, radiating, magnetizing, transmuting, and absorbing substance.

The Field conserves and conveys zero-point energy -- flowing energy, infinitely abundant and tingling with vitality, like super-warm radiation or super-bright light. Zero-point energy is a form of quantum light.

As much energy as matter has, the Field has exponentially more. The best estimate is that zero-point energy exceeds all the energy in matter by 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times!

The Field conserves and conveys zero-point information — flowing information, subtle yet powerfully effective, like rhythmic and resonating frequencies. Colliding waves in the Field have information about each other — wavelength, frequency, and shape — which make the Field a decentralized but unified recording and communications medium. And so the Field is the natural universe’s infinite memory, with vast super-rich storage capacity for information about everything in the natural universe.

The Field is whole, nonlocal, unbounded, unbroken, undivided, indivisible, and inherently unified. And the Field is a “dance” of energy and information, rich with connections.

MATTER AND THE FIELD

The Field responds universally to the presence of charged particles — in every whole and sub-whole or “holon” — by inducing coherence. All matter is influenced and guided by the Field — and influenced and guided toward coherence.

Each conglomeration of molecules — each physical entity — can collectively sense the Field. And each has quantum communication with the Field.

From atoms to galaxies, all the particles and all the fields in each system are correlated as a whole. They respond to the rest of the universe as a whole, and they act collectively in an organized and purposeful way.

The Field imprints and encodes all wavelengths and frequencies for all waves, matter, and events in the natural universe. Shape and other information about objects are carried in quantum fluctuations in the Field, which encode the collective wave-functions of charged particles and systems of particles.

All nonliving matter — every quark and wave-particle, every particle, every atom and molecule, every planet and star and galaxy — is crystallized Field energy and information. All matter is crystallized zero-point energy and zero-point information.

Matter is grouped charges of energy and information interacting with the Field. All material things are standing waves in the Field.

All matter is energy that has resisted acceleration, slowed down, condensed, gathered mass, and gained substance. All matter is a finite structure, excitation, or rhythmic activity process — bound and patterned within fields and within the Field.

All matter manifests from the Field. The Field generates, forms, shapes, and sustains all matter. Matter dynamically unfolds out of and enfolds back into the Field.

Field information acts as matter’s memory. And Field information resonates to matter, informs matter, organizes matter, builds habits into matter, and shapes the behavior of matter.

LIFE AND THE FIELD

Each living organism is made up of cells (molecules in a membrane), which are made of atoms, which are made of quantum-wave-particles, which are made of Field energy and information.

Each living organism is crystallized and grouped charges of resonating and coherent energy and information from the Field. Field information — which resonates to each living organism — acts as the memory for each species and each organism. And Field energy and information shape the habits and other behavior of each organism.

Each living organism is infused with fields that radiate at specific frequencies. Both anatomy and physiology — both form and function — arise from these fields.

Each organism has quantum communication with the Field. And each organism’s frequency-radiating fields keep its organs, cells, and molecules nearly instantly coherent.

With collective vibrations of frequencies, biophotons get cells and the switches of genes to act in unison in bodily processes. Biophotons organize and assemble genes and cells into organisms and they guide each embryonic cell to become an adult organism.

OUR BODY AND THE FIELD

Each second, there are billions of biochemical reactions in our body — all exquisitely timed. In their dynamic order, our bodies are marvels of coherence.

Our energy fields are real. Electromagnetic energy surrounds our bodies.

Photons arrange into ordered patterns around our body and our DNA. Subtly yet instantly and effectively, biophotons and this e-m energy help orchestrate our body — to get our cells and genes to vibrate and act in unison.

Resonating vibrational fields along our cell’s microtubules — with their electrically coherent water — keep our brain and body in communication, cooperation, and coherence.

Each particle is a crystallized point of energy, information, and potential action in the super-fluid, super-dense matrix of waves we call the Zero Point Field. Each particle in our body unfolds from the Field, refuels from the Field, and is sustained and fundamentally affected by a constant influx from the Field.

And so our body as a whole is condensed Field and e-m energy, information, and potential action. Our body is surrounded, formed, organized, influenced, and guided by the resonating and coherent information and energy of the Field. Each of us is — physically, bodily — steady waves in the Field.

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE FIELD

All matter (even a rock) is in some sense conscious, and plants are sentient. But it is in animals with a brain that we most see consciousness at work.

Brained animals are infused with a will to survive and replicate, which stimulates a drive to grow, adapt, invent, innovate, and become ever-more aware, creative, intelligent, and resourceful.

For physical movement, consciousness works through each animal’s brain and body. More agile and dexterous maneuvers are usually visually guided, so they require a coordination of sense-perceptions and body.

For sense-perception — perceiving sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and tactile events — each animal’s brain resonates with and “reads” (translates from the senses) frequencies of quantum waves. All animals’ brain cells respond to translations of patterns into waves and back into patterns. In each moment of life, each animal translates through its senses and brain a limited range of energy and information from surrounding fields.

Intelligence arises as a combination of sense-perception, memory, and information-processing that is logical or otherwise true to reality. To be more intelligent, an animal must observe more keenly (from accurate sense-perception), learn new knowledge and skills and recall past experiences better (from more active memory), and think more clearly about past, present, and future events and actions (from more active information-processing). All of these activities involve consciousness working through the brain.

Emotional and social activity also involves consciousness working through the brain, including processing one’s feelings, thinking about relationships, communicating and forming bonds with others (kin, friends, and allies), and attuning to and cooperating with others.

In each of these areas of conscious activity, there is also the question of how much energy, purpose, and self-awareness each animal brings to each activity. For each act of consciousness, a field beyond each animal’s brain uses any available neurons in certain parts of the brain.

Consciousness arises from self-organizing ripples from the Field coupled to brain activity. The quantum messaging of the brain takes place through vibrational frequencies along the microtubules: tiny tracks that carry light waves through the brain and body of each animal.

Tubules are exceptional conductors of pulses. Microtubules have a signaling mechanism. Microtubules transfer electrons. And neighboring tubules have coherence. They resonate in unison.

These “light guides” also act as “wave guides” for photons. Brought into coherence and cooperation through quantum communication (mediated by microtubules), photons travel along light paths of each animal’s body as if transparent.

Electrical activity within the microtubules is the primary physical seat of consciousness. At its most basic level, consciousness is coherent quantum light.