Everything is Love

I was reading one of Eckhart Tolle’s books (either The Power of Now or A New Earth, I can’t remember which) and he described a simple meditation exercise, involving looking into the sky and focussing on the space in front of the clouds.

I did that for a moment, and my mind cleared. I felt much more peaceful than I had beforehand. For whatever reason, concentrating on empty space shifted my perceptions and allowed my stress to fall away.

It took me aback. Why would I feel such peace by looking at space?

Quantum Physics

Quantum physics suggests that, when we get to a certain miniscule level, we can no longer be certain about where something is, or how fast it is moving. (We can determine one, but not the other, at the same time.) At that level things are described in terms of the probability that a given particle is where it is.

Not only can we only guess where or how fast a particle is, but the simple fact that we are attempting to measure these things changes our measurements. The Observer Effect can be found in something as simple as measuring a tire’s air pressure. A little air leaks when we measure it, changing the value. But at the quantum level, the impact of our observation is immense.

So, when we get to the fundamental building blocks of matter, we cannot know how they can be arranged. We can guess the probability that a certain subatomic particle will manifest as an electron, but we cannot know. On top of that, just by looking at it, we might shift it to become a neutron instead.

But everything is built from a single fundamental unit. In particle physics, the Higgs boson is the particle that all other particles are created from. In string theory, everything is made from multidimensional strings. These fundamental units then transform and collect to become the larger particles of matter that we can measure more definitively.

The Physics of Love

So here I am, staring at nothing, feeling immense peace. Here physics states that everything starts as a single particle/string that we can only guess at its existence – we can’t measure it directly, but only by its effect on the universe. It then manifests as something we can measure.

So as I stare at nothing, could I be staring at these fundamental particles? If staring at these fundamental particles gives me such peace, could what we call superstrings and Higgs bosons also be called Love?

What if Love is the fundamental particle of the Universe? What if, when we see something material – a chair, a car, a cloud – we are looking at Love as it has coalesced into electrons, neutrons, protons, atoms, molecules, and so on?

What if everything is Love?