Quantum science holds that our universe began with a big bang about 4 billion years ago, and no scientist can yet authoritatively say what existed before the “big bang”. But it is credible speculation that the birth of the universe is part of a cycle of creation and destruction, where an infinitely contracting singularity exploded to form the universe, expanded for billions of years, and then began to contract again, eventually returning to an infinitely contracting singularity. Speculation also suggests that our universe may not be the only universe created by the big bang, or that there may be other big bangs, so we may actually live in a “multiverse”.
The first thing created by the big bang was the “quantum vacuum”, a “potential field” that still exists today, as a force that exists and acts on everything in the universe (including ourselves). The word “vacuum” is misleading, it is not empty like a vacuum flask; instead, it is filled with the infinite potential of everything that has ever been, is, and will be. It is a pure and unexcited energy field, and is called a “vacuum” only because it has no discernible properties or characteristics.
In our quantum universe, properties and characteristics are the result of energy excitation, and “things” with properties or characteristics only appear when the “zero-point” field of the vacuum is excited. The quantum vacuum can therefore be viewed as a still sea, and everything that exists, including ourselves, is a “wave” rising from this sea. In fact, the word “exist” means “to stand out,” just as a “wave” stands out from the sea. Everything that exists, including you, me, and the company, is the result of the excitation of kinetic energy patterns in the quantum vacuum.
The quantum vacuum contains the potential for everything that exists now and will exist in the future, so it contains the potential for you and me to exist. In fact, we have existed in the vacuum as a potential since the moment of the Big Bang. In this way, each of us has experienced the long history of the universe since its creation, so in fact we are all very old, now 4 billion years old. Our existence began with a perturbation that broke the stillness of the vacuum, resulting in the Higgs field and the Higgs boson, which in turn led to the formation of matter (its mass). Matter then formed first into elementary particles, which in turn gave rise to hot gases, stars, planets, and life on Earth. As the Tao Te Ching says, “Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things.” We are all things.
-Zero Distance, A New Paradigm for Living. Working and Leading in the Quantumn Age. Danah Zohar. P82
Danah Zohar
Zohar studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT and did postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University. She is Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Beijing, the China Art Academy in Hanzhou, and an Entrepreneurial Mentor at Haier, China. She was included in the 2002 Financial Times Prentice Hall book Business Minds as one of “the world’s 50 greatest management thinkers”.
丹娜·佐哈尔
毕业于麻省理工学院物理和哲学，研究生在哈佛大学攻读哲学、宗教与心理学。她是北京清华大学经济管理学院、杭州中国艺术学院的客座教授，也是中国海尔的创业导师。2002 年，她被英国《金融时报》普伦蒂斯·霍尔出版的《商业头脑》一书评为“全球 50 位最伟大的管理思想家”之一。
量子科学认为，我们的宇宙始于大约40亿年前的一次大爆炸，尚无科学家能够权威地说出“大爆炸”前存在的事物。但根据可靠推测，宇宙的诞生属于创造与毁灭循环的一部分，无限收缩的奇点爆炸形成宇宙，膨胀数十亿年后再次开始收缩，最终重归于无限收缩状态的奇点。推测也表明，我们的宇宙也许不是大爆炸产生的唯一宇宙，或者可能有其他大爆炸，因此我们可能实际上生活在一个“多元宇宙”中。
大爆炸创造的第一个事物是“量子真空”，即至今仍存在的“潜力场”，作为一种力量，它存在并作用于宇宙中的每个事物中（包括我们自己）。“真空”一词具有误导性，它并不像真空保温瓶那样是空的；相反，它充满着无限的曾经,现在以及将来的一切潜力。它是一个纯粹且未被激发的能量场，之所以被称为“真空”，只是因为它没有可辨别的性质或特征。在我们的量子宇宙中，性质和特性是能量激发后的结果，只有当真空的“零点”场被激发时，才会出现具备性质或特性的“事物”。因此，量子真空可以被视为一片寂静的海，所有存在的事物，包括我们自己都是这片海域上漾起的“波浪”。实际上，“存在”一词意为“脱颖而出”，就像“波浪”从海中脱颖而出一样。存在的一切事物，包括你，我以及公司都是量子真空下动能模式激发的结果。
量子真空包含了现在以及将来存在的一切事物的潜力，因此它包含了你我存在的潜力。事实上，从宇宙大爆炸后的那一刻开始，我们便作为一种潜力存在于真空之中。如此说来，每个人都经历了宇宙自诞生以来的漫长历史，所以实际上我们都已经非常苍老，如今已有40亿岁了。我们的存在始于一阵微扰，它打破了真空的静止，希格斯场和希格斯玻色子由此产生，进而促使 物质（其质量）的形成。之后，物质首先形成了基本粒子，依次产生炽热气体，恒星，行星以及地球上的生命。正如《道德经》中所言：“道生一，一生二，二生三，三生万物。”我们皆为万物。
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