Universal connectivity makes reality unitary but
it does not make it uniform: it can be
analytically segmented into two principal
domains. One is the manifest domain of (directly
or instrumentally) observable particles and
systems of particles; the other the virtual
domain of the cosmic plenum, the energy sea from
which the particles arise, with which they
interact, and into which they ultimately fall
back. The latter domain is intrinsically
unobservable, but it is inferable through its
effects on the observable domain....The
interaction of these two domains generates the
observable entities--the particles and systems
of particles--of the universe. The virtual
energy-domain is both the generative ground of
these entities and the medium that correlated
their state and informs their evolution.
[Laszlo, pp.
103-104]
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Quantized particles and the systems
constituted of them are force-like, light-like, or (if
endowed with rest-mass) matter-like, but in their
ontological reality they are vibrating nodal
points (distillations or crystallizations) of
the energies of the virtual domain. Virtual
energies become manifest from the virtual into
the manifest domain--upon the "excitation" of
the virtual domain by an intrinsic instability
(as in the universe-creating explosion known as
the Big Bang) or by the influx of a significant
level of energy (as in ordinary pair-creation).
They are sustained in the manifest domain by
interaction with each other. In the absence of
interaction, the particles do not exhibit the
corpuscular properties that hallmark the
manifest domain: they remain part of the
underlying [virtual] domain without unique location in
space and time.
[Laszlo, p. 104 ]
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