For me, THE OM PARTICLE has many meanings on many different levels. In Buddhism and Hinduism, OM or AUM is a sacred sound. It starts with the most open sound (aaah). Notice that your mouth is wide open when you make this sound. It then moves through the half-way point (oooh). Your mouth is now half open and half closed. Finally, there is a move to the closed sound (mmm) followed by silence. A….U…..M (aaah oooh mmm). That is how it is pronounced. Put simply, OM is a sound or a “wave”.
Wave-particle duality in physics is the concept that every elementary particle can be partly described in terms of particles and partly in terms of waves. THE OM PARTICLE is a euphemism for wave-particle duality where OM is the wave. Waves and particles are incommensurate principles. A wave is not a particle and a particle is not a wave. But together, they form a kind of duality. This is the other aspect of the Principle of Incommensurability. In nature, incommensurate principles coexist and work together in a conjugate fashion. {Conjugate: coupled; joined together, especially in pairs; }. Black is not white and white is not black but together, they can form all the levels of grey. One is not zero and zero is not one but together they can be used to represent information in the form of the binary system. Without binary numbers, there would be no computers and without computers, the Mandelbrot Set might never have been discovered. In a similar manner, without wave-particle duality, the Universe might might not even exist.
The OM-Particle is also a play on the phrase “The God Particle” which I thought would capture the attention of the reader. In theoretical physics, “The God Particle” is the nickname for a theoretical particle called the Higgs boson. This is the elementary “particle” that is thought to be responsible for the mass of all other particles. It was allegedly detected by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in July of 2012.
Unlike the God Particle, THE OM PARTICLE is not a particle at all but is a “principle”. It is the concept that encapsulates the Principle of Incommensurability. All “phenomenon” in the universe that embody The Principle of Incommensurability are OM-Particles. For example, the atom is an OM-Particle. Electrons are OM-Particles. Black holes are OM-Particles. A magnet is an OM-Particle. A galaxy is also an OM-Particle. Although all these things seem to be drastically different “phenomenon”, they all have one thing in common, and that is the Principle of Incommensurability. In the theory I am proposing, the “laws of physics” are emergent properties of fractal geometry and fractal geometry is an emergent property of something much simpler, that is, the Principle of Incommensurability.
“The Mandelbrot set broods in silent complexity at the center of a vast two-dimensional sheet of numbers called the complex plane. When a certain operation is applied repeatedly to the numbers, the ones outside the set flee to infinity. The numbers inside remain to drift or dance about. Close to the boundary minutely choreographed wanderings mark the onset of the instability. Here is an infinite regress of detail that astonishes us with its variety, its complexity and its strange beauty.” Kee Deweney, Scientific American,
