PREFACE

      Everything is vibration. Everything is in motion. In spite of how the physical world may appear to the naked eye, science has proven that all of materiality–consisting of atoms and therefore protons, neutrons, and electrons–is in motion.

      Most of us can probably understand how vibrations might be compared to the ripples that occur when a stone is dropped in a pool of water. The truth, however, is that vibrations are much, much more. Light, for example, is a vibration. The eye is essentially a mechanical device that transforms light waves into electrical impulses which travel to the brain, where they are translated into “images” that give the perception of sight. Similarly, sound is a vibration. The ear, too, is a mechanical device that transforms the vibration of sound into electrical impulses. These impulses further travel through the nerves into the brain. Likewise, the senses of taste and smell entail extracting vibrations and ultimately transforming those vibrations into impulses that are deciphered by the brain. Information from the senses is relayed or transported as energy from one point to another in the form of waves.

      Twentieth-century experiments in physics gave rise to the wave-particle duality, which is simply that light waves of energy in some experiments behave like particles, and particles of matter in some experiments behave like waves of energy. Therefore, quantum theory contends that all matter is in motion because particles of matter fundamentally behave as a wave, and waves are essentially vibrations that repeat continuously. Everything is vibration.

      The importance that vibration plays in our lives cannot be underestimated. According to R.E.D. Bishop, a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering and fellow of the University College London, vibration is all about us:

       After all, our hearts beat, our lungs oscillate, we shiver when we are cold, we sometimes snore, we can hear and speak because our eardrums and our larynges vibrate. The light waves which permit us to see entail vibration. We move by oscillating our legs. We cannot even say “vibration” properly without the tip of the tongue oscillating. And the matter does not end there–far from it. Even the atoms of which we are constituted vibrate. It is not exaggeration to say that it is unlikely that there is any branch of science in which this phenomenon does not play an important role.

       Bishop, pg. 1

      It was the Greeks who first theorized the concept of atoms as the building blocks of all matter, believing that different forms of matter were made up of different types and shapes of atoms. The word atom comes from the Greek word atomos, which means “indivisible.” The Greek philosopher Democritus (ca. fifth century