A friend and I were talking about the holographic universe yesterday. I said to her that the earthworm was an example of holography. The earthworm demonstrates the holographic principle of the "whole in every part." When you cut an earthworm into pieces each piece becomes a whole earthworm.
Just in case you need to refresh your concept of a hologram, here’s a quote from Michael Talbot's book The Holographic Universe:
"In the movie Star Wars, Luke Skywalker's adventure begins when a beam of light shoots out of the robot Artoo Detoo and projects a miniature three-dimensional image of Princess Leia. Luke watches spellbound as the ghostly sculpture of light begs for someone named Obi-wan Kenobi to come to her assistance. The image is a hologram, a three-dimensional picture made with the aid of a laser, and the technological magic required to make such images is remarkable. But what is even more astounding is that some scientists are beginning to believe the universe itself is a kind of giant hologram, a splendidly detailed illusion no more or less real than the image of Princess Leia that starts Luke on his quest.
Put another way, there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it -- from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons -- are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time."
When I came back home yesterday, I learned that my fiancée and her eight-year son visited a friend who had a big yard with a stream. The boy found an earthworm which he brought home. They showed me the earthworm in a plastic jar. At first, I was unhappy that he brought the earthworm home because the earthworm was taken from its habitat and it's probably going to die. I hadn't reflected on my day. Also, I was thinking of my good friend who was going through appendicitis that night.
This morning, as I reflected on yesterday's event, I saw the synchronistic link between my observation during the day and the live earthworm at home.
When I was using the earthworm as an example of holography, I was a bit uncomfortable. I didn't know what scientists would say about it. I haven't read anything linking holography to earthworms.
Then I did a search on the Internet. After reading the Norwegian medical doctor Vilhelm Schjelderup's article "ECIWO Biology Institute of Shandong University: The Living Organism as a Biocybernetic Unity," everything made sense to me. ECIWO means Embryo Containing Information in the Whole Organism and is a new branch of biology founded by Professor Yinqing Zhang of Shandong.
The article describes the biological implications of the holographic universe and its application to acupuncture and other complementary alternative medicines.
I feel comfortable now about the analogy and I am grateful to my step-son for bringing home the earthworm to open my mind to the biological and medical applications of holography.
Read the article here: http://www.eciwo.sdu.edu.cn/h01.html
