Michael Mamas thinks so, and he has published his thesis in that world-class journal, the HuffPo. He claims to have figured out how biology and religion are actually talking about exactly the same thing…which is to say, they should both agree with his New Age bullshit.
You will not be surprised to learn that the underlying secret of all existence is vibrations.
Modern physicists agree that there is a unified field underlying all existence. Everything in the universe originates from the same one thing. The unified field births an infinitely coherent and sustaining matrix.
Imagine a sandbox. Now imagine running a powerful vibration through that sandbox. You will see a pattern emerging on the surface of the sand. The longer you run the vibration, the more refined and precise the pattern becomes.
Whether we believe they are an act of God or science, a similar set of vibrations run through all of existence. Those vibrations are ongoing, continually permeating all levels of existence with unlimited coherence and harmony. Those vibrations sustain all of existence at every point in creation. As those vibrations run through all of existence, they push biological systems to evolve in the direction of that vibration. It is just like grains of sand in a sandbox conforming to the structure in the vibrations being run through the sandbox.
Merging Darwin’s theory of natural selection with the unified field theory accounts for why there have been several examples of accelerated evolution throughout history. Where does that process end? The process culminates in a species that embodies the coherence, intelligence, harmony, and order inherent in the unified field itself. Think of the sandbox. You can keep running that vibration into the sandbox until ultimately a pattern on the surface of the sand becomes a full reflection of the intelligence in the vibration. The same is true for the process of the evolution of species.
One problem: that’s not how evolution works at all. Second problem: he’s also completely ignorant of how creationists think it works. Apparently, we’re all supposed to get together and sing kumbaya in the barren numptiness of Michael Mamas’ field of bullshit.
He’s also the founder of The Center for Rational Spirituality. It seems to be a standard career path: wander around sampling westernized versions of eastern religions, settle down with a pointless “institute” of your own invention, appoint yourself a “thought leader”, and babble stupidly about vibrations. Then, profit!
Damn, that is some world class bullshit. It has words, it has syntax. What it lacks is meaning.
I can see how he got to that conclusion. Vibrations solve all of my problems ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Who’d have thunk it? The universe is really a really, really big sex toy.
Sorry, but I’ll stick with the universe as a singularity, at least that has some evidence behind it.
Besides, Doug Adams got the right of it, “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
Which is far more probable than the universe is a giant vibrator. What worked for the Beach Boys doesn’t work for science.
He forgot to say ‘quantum’.
rq, universe wide vibrations wound’t be quantum, they’d be macro, where all quantum effects have averaged out.
I wonder how many tabs it took for him to come to his insight.
I can’t tell which is worse: this person’s grasp of biology or their grasp of physics.
But what about The Quantum? Quantum Matrix Vibrations! Angels and Chakras! In the 8th dimention!!1
Wzrd1, you’re making the mistake of actually understanding something of quantum phenomena. The trick is to make authoritative statements without understanding jack shit.
And Prae, we do not talk about the 8th dimension. That’s where the Lectroids live!
crystals
we need some crystals
Damn you, rq, for pointing that out! I was so optimistic – we were going to have peace, harmony, sunshine, lollipops … EVERYTHING.
But now I see, he’s a total phony – his theory has no quantum, it’s back to the drawing board.
[*sigh*]
Things move when they vibrate. There are things, and those things move. Okay. It doesn’t sound very new or sophisticated or super duper technical when we put it that way, but I don’t see a big problem so far. What the fuck does that have to do with an “act of God”?
There must be a cosmic bassoonist out there somewhere, vibrating the world just so, or else nothing makes any sense. And other people say there must be a cosmic drummer, perhaps one whose set just exploded. But no matter what bizarre picture you’re imagining, how are claims like that supposed to be reconciled with what we think we know about the world?
Vibes? Really? Gad, takes me back to my early adolescence. They could at least come up with something new. Good vibes, y’all.
OMG!!! We’re sand?
I’ve long suspected that intelligence is a myth. QED.
Tesla said it first: “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” Of course, Tesla was not trying to deify it.
Vibrations? Specify type, origin, and explain how to detect them. Until then, YAWN.
chigau, #10
Here you go
At least he isn’t crediting any of his BS to space aliens.
That would be crazy!
Or to put it more simply:
Things exist.
Which… can be somewhat profound I suppose. There is one thing eternal and constant in the universe: things exist. Okay… but… that’s just too fucking broad to be of any significance and to have any concurrence of opinions be anything but trivial.
Saad
I’m gonna try that!
are these the crystals you were thinking of?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfKUdmTq2MI
uncle frogy
only if they chop onions
nice example of the literal (figurative) meaning of the colloquial use of the phrase “bullshit”. Where the sentences are not necessarily untruths, but meaningful bits of non-nonsense strung together in meaningless ways, to try to justify something completely irrelevant.
Like the beginning is derived from Maxwell’s Eqns; that all electomagnetism is from a universal RM field, with occasional concentrations identifiable as charges. Vibrating a layer of sand on a sheet of metal produces resonant patterns, etc, etc and so on and on etc …
to wrap this all up as a way to resolve creationism and evolution into two results from the same vibration patterns, is the BS, writ large.
Yup, this is cymatics woo. You’ll find lots of amusing videos on youtube of people trying to connect it to “sacred geometry” and god and everything else!
Besides writing in more-or-less parseable sentences, using mostly-reasonable paragraphs and punctuation, and a refreshing lack of CAPS, is there anything that is even broadly plausible or probably correct?
As others have observed, that is quite a world-salad, lacking any meaning.
When I first saw the title, it reminded me of this video:
Potholer and Hovind Come Together (Not like that!)
Aaaaah, this is in the middle between the extremes. His theory takes the best of both views, science and religion. Two sides of the same coin! Everybody gets something they want. How lovely, how open-minded, how clever, how new and modern. How could it not be true????
That was sarcasm.
slithey tove @23:
If by RM you mean EM, the ‘occasional concentrations’ are uncharged excitations, called photons. Charged particles are excitations of certain matter fields, not the EM field.
Vibrations? Don’t scoff. I was just recently watching some of the many science documentaries on Netflix (before they disappear at the end of the month), and ran across one that promised to show how everything was pervaded by vibrations.. and darned if it didn’t do just that! Started out with this guy shouting at a bag of chips, reciting “Mary had a little lamb.” He called it shouting — he really only spoke loudly and distinctly, as Edison did in his famous recording of that same rhyme.
Turned out he had an ordinary high-res video camera recording the scene, and when he put the video file through some analysis software, it came up with a fair audio representation of his shouting match. It won’t work without a pretty loud and distinct voice, and also requires something that’s responsive enough, like a chip bag or a piece of paper, but the software analyzes the individual pixels along the edge of the high-contrast printing on the bag, and reconstructs the vibrations that it then turns into recognizable speech.
He also pointed out that something similar has long been used in espionage with lasers aimed at large panes of glass, and custom analogue light sensors, but this was with off-the-shelf video equipment and digital analysis of the vibrations of an everyday object. Seems to me the guy’s mistake was to present this as physics, instead of starting a metaphysics institute or a religion.
re 28
yes, you caught my typo. (E and R are so close on a QWERTY)
I agree about photons as you describe, but electrons seem to fit also. As they appear to be dimensionless. Whenever their size is measured, it always appears to be at the limit of measurement, and each time the limit is reduced, the electron remains at the lower limit. Also there is Feynman’s (et al) argument that electrons are indistinguishable, that two electrons cannot be individualized; resulting in “exclusion principle” etc.
Then again, charge produces field, and
notes fields can exist without charges at all.
ummm
I recant my typo filled statement earlier and will fully support you rephrasing of my mistake into correctness.
“You can keep running that vibration into the sandbox until ultimately a pattern on the surface of the sand becomes a full reflection of the intelligence in the vibration.”
Wait, so, like, if I make a little sandbox and shake it long enough, eventually the sand will become a complete reflection of my consciousness? Cool! I want a sentient pet sandbox.
This vibration idea seems rather shaky to me….
slithey tove @30: Not sure what the size of electrons, or their statistics (determined by their having half-integer spin), have to do with this. Integer-spin particles (bosons) can also have charge, for example the W bosons.
Of course they can. Light is oscillating electromagnetic fields. And ∇·B=0 is a way of saying there are no magnetic monopoles (the magnetic analogue of electric charge).
But in quantum electrodynamics there’s a clear distinction between matter fields and the EM field. The former (often denoted by ψ) have excitations which are charged particles, the latter (usually denoted by A) has excitations which are photons.
Betcha Mamas is a believer in the idea currently making the rounds that A should be tuned to 432 hertz instead of 440 hertz, because that’s the frequency most in line with the frequency of the Universe. And because Nazis were involved in making 440 hertz the current standard.
(This post was brought to you by Laurie Johnson’s theme for The Professionals.)
Are you sure it shouldn’t be Yakety sax, timgueguen?
Funny, we always tuned to A 444 Hz in High School and at the university (the high school band director followed the university programming and tuning habits).
LOL! I was thinking the same thing, A4 is 444 hz.
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreq444.html
Travis Odom, #31:
You might think differently when the sand golem decides to murder you and take your place.
Yeah, the thing about A that the proponents of 432 hertz don’t get is that its frequency has varied all over the place, and to some extent still does.
If you use a Hitachi Magic Wand® for the vibrations you won’t care about much of anything for a while. Quantum be damned!
Here’s a shorter version of all that: “I saw cools documentary about physics and theory of everything. Then, I saw another about life and Darwin. I puts the two together with God… famous genius now, please!”
consciousnessrazor@12: “There must be a cosmic bassoonist out there somewhere, vibrating the world just so, or else nothing makes any sense.”
Close. It’s actually a cosmic didgeridoo player; ask the next wallaby you meet if you don’t believe me.
So God is cosmic vibration? But…but… How can a vibration tell me what I can/can’t do with my genitals? I must know!
Also, is this in any way related to the estrogen vibe?
Rational spirituality
LOL
Frank Zappa had something to say on this topic (Lumpy Gravy, 1968):
Everything in the universe is… is… is made of one element, which is a note, a single note. Atoms are really vibrations, you know, which are extensions of THE BIG NOTE. Everything’s one note. Everything, even the ponies. The note, however, is the ultimate power, but see, the pigs don’t know that, the ponies don’t know that. Right?
Wouldn’t a giant vibrating sandbox tend to bring all the catshit to its surface?
This could explain the origins of religious belief.
And Brian Wilson wrote “Good Vibrations” with his feet in a sandbox under his piano. I’m sure that means something, too, but I’ll leave exactly what it means as an exercise for the student.
Folks, folks, come on! Imagine a sandbox. Aren’t you convinced now?
…no?
Corey, if a sandbox attains such intelligence, should not a beach have the wisdom of the ages? It’s agitated by nothing less than the interaction of sun, earth and moon, with some minor contribution from jupiter.
That means, by extension, every beach on the planet is an expert in grand unified theory.
Something odd, as the only thing I’ve learned from a beach is, most are good because they’re close to the water. Well, save a few beaches that have absolutely no water in them whatsoever, but we call them deserts. ;)