MATERIALISM: THE GRAND ILLUSION,

AND WONDROUS DELUSION

How do we deal with materialism? How do we get to its essence? By studying its science — physics. What does physics reveal about the nature of the “material, physical universe”?

Ready for the bottom line? Physics reveals that what we consider to be solid, material, physical “stuff”, including you and me, is literally nothing, empty, void of tangible substance.

Say what? Hit that wall with your fist, and then tell me it is “nothing, an empty void, and so is your fist, and the nerves in your brain that say ‘ouch’, and even your brain.No thing”.

This is the Grand Illusion. The “stuff” is not out there. It is in our heads. How do I know? Physics has plumed the depths of “matter”.

Atoms and their electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks, etc. are all composed by smaller and smaller “events”, not particles, although for convenience sake we can treat these events as if they were particles, up to a point.

Science has found right down to the Quantum Void that “particles keep getting smaller and smaller, until they are theorized to be composed of energy strings, nothing but energy in the tiniest accumulations, far beyond the capacity of electron microscopes to image.

There is far more space than energy events in our most basic constructs. When “splitting the atom”, we are dealing solely with splitting energy packets, or events. Thus we start energy chain reactions, and blow ourselves up. Well, not quite — yet.