Qabiliyat (Receptiveness)



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Analysis of Feynman paper by an unknown author  

Wheeler, Feynman, “Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation”, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol.27 Number 2 and 3, April-July 1945  (courtsy of Dr. Hind Rifai)

Kevin Engel, Peter Kernan Case Western Reserve University Department of Physics, a nice explanation of Feynman's absorber theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorber_theory



Tetrode
“The sun would not radiate if it were alone in space and no other bodies could absorb its radiation.”
Source: H. Tetrode, Zeits, f. Physik 10, 317 (1922)


Wheeler, Feynman
“Tetrode’s idea that the absorber may be an essential element in the mechanism or radiation has been neglected perhaps partly because it appears to conflict with customary notions of causality”
Source: Wheeler, Feynman, “Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation”, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol.27 Number 2 and 3, April-July 1945 


Tetrode
“If for example I observed through my telescope yesterday evening that star which let us say is 100 lights years away, then not only did I know that the light which it allowed to reach my eyes was emitted 100 years ago, but also the star or individual atoms of it knew already 100 years ago that ‘I’, who then did not even exit, would view it yesterday evening at such and such time…”
Source: H. Tetrode, Zeits, f. Physik 10, 317 (1922)



























Thus radiation is not quite an elementary process but rather a consequence of the interaction between a source and absorber.

Definition: Qabil is an absorber of a source’s radiation (Nur).  Or Qabil is receptive to a source’s radiation.

In more technical term: Qabliyat is a complex-quantum, an entanglement comprised of Nur (Light), Qabil (Absorber) and a source.

By complex-quantum we mean an entity with sub-parts that upon any alteration to its sub-parts or even looking at them the entire entity ceases to be irreversibly.



[40:3] The Qabil (Acceptor) of repentance.

َقَابِلِ التَّوْب


In the context of this verse Qabil is the acceptor who is receptive to the repentance emanated from the seeker and seeker being the source of a radiation and absorbed by the Qabil (Allah)!

What Tetrode, Wheeler and Feynman thought about was not just a part of the physics of radiation; they stumbled upon a spiritual entity closely mimicked by the electromagnetic radiation and absorption.

Let’s say the latter in a different way: There is a complex-quantum in Malakut (Realm of Spirits) which has a similar counterpart (as a reflection or projection) within the Mulk (Realm of Corporeality) i.e. there is no radiation source unless there is an absorber!

And this claim of Tetrode can be interpreted from the language of the Qur’an:

[24:35] Allah is the Nur (Light) of the Heavens and the earth: Heavens and earth are the absorbers that are imminently placed on the path the Nur. And the rest of verse talking about the alcove and the lantern is again pushing for the idea that if there is a source of radiation there has to be an absorber for it e.g. the Mishkat (Alcove, Niche).

اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ

39:69 And the Earth will shine with the Nur (Light) of her Lord: Again the earth is the absorber that is placed against the illumination of the Nur (Divine Light).

وَأَشْرَقَتِ الْأَرْضُ بِنُورِ رَبِّهَا


Violation of Causality
As we saw in the above research that for an accelerating charge there are two waves:

1.    Retarded Radiation: Waves propagated forward through time
2.    Advanced Radiation: Waves propagated backwards in time

The Sufis have long claimed that when a Murid (Seeker) recites a Dhikr (Remembrance) e.g. Al-Hamdu (All Perpetual Praise) for Allah, It was all along Allah who remembered ITself and then the person was made to remember Allah i.e. the will to remember Allah in a person traveled backwards from the future to the present, hit the person, and then another wave (remembering Allah) traveled forward in time towards Allah. Or as Tetrode imagined about the far away star: Allah remembered ITself and adored ITself in infinitely past Qidam (Space of all actualities) and knew about the person tonight making Dhikr (Remembrance) i.e. (that knowledge became) a Nur (Light) shone from the infinitely past and altered the future i.e. the person was made to remember Allah.  


Ist’idad
Isti’dad is the measure of the receptivity/absorption of the Qabil (Receptor) i.e. the absorption rate of the accepting what is emanated from the source. It can be translated into English as ‘measure of preparedness to accept’ or ‘Aptitude to accept’ but we see the Whiteheadian term ‘Appetition’ more befitting i.e. ‘measure of appetite for consuming/absorbing the incoming’.  



Ka ('you') The Ain (Source Spring, Essence) of all Causality

Sharh-eh Sathiyat by Baqli
Chapter 464
Shat-h of Husari
“Husari within the state of Shat-h said: Adam (The primordial man) was the place/space for all causality! By means of him (as an instrument) all causality is accessed! As was said: Indeed for you there (Paradise) might not be any hunger or nakedness [20:118]. Otherwise in presence of Allah how could there be any trace of hunger and thirst?” 

َإِنَّ لَكَ أَلَّا تَجُوعَ فِيهَا وَلَا تَعْرَى

In other words Adam was such a terrific force of causality that indeed it required an edict from Allah to prevent his own causality to harm him!

Note: The verse does not say La-Kum (For ‘you’ plural) it says La-Ka (for ‘you’ singular male gender). So the source or the portal for all causality was Ka (‘you’ male single).

Let’s extend the above concept: You-ness to I-ness of human being is the place/portal where all the causality of the cosmos generated and passed through. Let’s examine this claim with what Tetrode said earlier:

Tetrode
“If for example I observed through my telescope yesterday evening that star which let us say is 100 lights years away, then not only did I know that the light which it allowed to reach my eyes was emitted 100 years ago, but also the star or individual atoms of it knew already 100 years ago that ‘I’, who then did not even exit, would view it yesterday evening at such and such time…”
Source: H. Tetrode, Zeits, f. Physik 10, 317 (1922)

What makes the Tetrode’s concept work and at that in such a unique way is not the radiation itself but the I-ness of the observer in this universe. If this I-ness is removed the universe will be stripped of its causality i.e. immediately destroyed.





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