What would happen if we could feel the void within an atom and about the universe?

Answer 1

According to some enlightened sages, we actually can experience this void – although of course these people typically don't discuss it in modern scientific terms. Some of them (like the Buddha, for example) even give some fairly detailed instructions on how we can achieve this experience. Now of course a lot of people will argue that the void of physics (also called the "vacuum" of space) is not the same as the void of Buddhism, but I would argue that, when all is said and done, they are really talking about the same basic reality of Being. Recently I've been reading a book called "Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space" by physicist Benning Genz. He makes it very clear that he wants nothing whatsoever to do with mysticism. He says:

"The term nothingness invariably evokes mythical psychological connotations. The reader will not find these connotations here, nor will terms such as nirvana…be found here. I hope I have managed to write this book in such a way that these connotations cannot even be read into my text."

And yet, ironically, as I read the book I find numerous statements that seem like they might just as well be direct quotes from Buddhist and Daoist texts. Is this just coincidence? Perhaps. But I suspect not. I think that physics is discovering that the material world is in fact EMPTY in just the way that enlightened meditators have been telling us for at least the past 2,500 years. Obviously science is adding some extremely important rational explanations – fitting everything as best they can into the framework of empirically verifiable theory – but I see no reason why objective theory and subjective experience shouldn’t eventually meet on some common ground. I suspect that "empty space" is where this meeting will take place.

So now, to directly answer your question: What would happen if you felt the void? Answer: you would discover that you are not an isolated, substantial being. You discover that you are intimately connected with everything in the universe. Your actual identity is not what you thought it was – you are not your ego; you are not some essence that bears a collection of memories, hopes, expectations, etc. Rather, what you thought was your self turns out to be a fleeting process. Your basic constituents pop into and out of existence in an instant. But there is, in some sense, a part of you that is "eternal". This part of you is the same part that you share in common with all other beings. This is the emptiness of your being. And when you really understand this in the form an immediate, lived experience, you discover unlimited compassion. Why? Because you realize that you are truly identical with everything, so the love you feel and express for others is, literally, the love you have for yourself. The "golden rule" becomes your literal reality, and you begin to behave accordingly. Believe it or not, this is exactly what would happen if you could "feel the void within an atom."

Answer 2

There is a lot of void within our body and much more in our mind..... we need to train our thoughts inward to feel the void which is omnipresent. Void can be understood and felt only in a metaphysical way and not in any physical sense.

Answer 3

Then you would know the truth.

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

in case you bumped off all the area from a galaxy you have an entity of neutron density remember approximately 500,000 miles in diameter,as apposed to one hundred,000 easy years. count huge style the style of galaxies in a radius of 6 billion easy years,multiply that huge style via the neutron density entity and that must be the size of the universe. The diplaced area might enhance on the brink of 6 billion easy years around the compressed remember

Answer 5

we all are living in the void between "earth" and the " SUN" : or are we living in the void between an atom and it just seems like a universe to us

Answer 6

We'd feel the universe, like the proverbial glass, was half empty instead of half full?

Answer 7

You'd hear the sound of no hands clapping.

Answer 8

Pretty groovy

Answer 9

I think I'll go lie down now.

Answer 10

Science would be king and religion would disappear!!! Yay!!

And our science would be WAY more advanced.