As Above, So Below

is this quantum entanglement too?

I geeked-out when I ran across this flip book decades ago. Fanning one way through the flip book takes the viewer from the picnic on a tablecloth on the lawn of a park way out into outer space. Fanning in the opposite direction burrows down through the skin of hand past the molecular structure of biology to the relative enormous space between atoms. AND it is portrayed as appearing the same as outer space.

Rolling through the decades to 2018, a new body system has been discovered. It is called the interstitium. The story here is of technology aiding in exploration of the living human bodies with scopes that can illuminate the micro-world inside our bodies. And in doing this new things were seen. Apparently, the interstitium had always been present, but it previously had only been seen on cadavers and on microscope slides which in this inert state was categorized as merely more connective tissue.

What is now appreciated is that this 3-dimensional matrix transports all the fluid in our body that lies outside of cells. What I saw in class was a video clip of live tissue transporting drops of water along filaments and these filaments were dynamically forming and deconstructing as needed. It seems this video is not available to the public, but this article explains the significance of the interstitium: Interstitium: A Network of Living Spaces Supports Anatomical Interconnectedness, The Scientist, 2024 April 26, by Iris Kulbatski.

In addition to understanding that the interstitium manages the water in our body, comprehending that the interstitium is one continuous matrix that lies just below the skin, wrapping all our organs, and communing with every cell takes time to develop a mental picture.

In my somatic practice, this has completely changed how I approach therapeutic massage. I am much more focused on fascia than on muscle, and I look at movement as toning fascia as much as toning muscle. In fact, an alternative view for the 600+ muscles is seeing our body as 600x10n pockets of interstitial fascia in which muscle cells reside.

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All named muscles of our body are inside a fascia pocket. But actually, these named muscles are bundles of grouped muscle fibers, which are in their own fascia pocket. Further, each group is also inside a fascia pocket, and these groups are composed of individual muscle fibers. Another name for a muscle fiber is myoctye because each fiber is a single muscle cell. Moreover, every myocyte is inside its own fascia pocket.

And what is one thing all pockets have? It is space. Our bodies have more space than parts. This reiterates the concept that an atom is more space than stuff, which aligns with the Eames flipbook. This is, of course, how we see outer space—more space than planetary bodies, stars, and debris.

—Until the Millennium Simulation Project collected the accumulated data from astrophysicists and astronomers to model ‘empty’ areas.

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And the model interstellar space looks much like the interstitium of human body. It is remarkable how much the film clip of the simulation resembles the interstitium video I saw in class. The biggest difference is that interstellar space is rendered in vibrant color. Scientists envision all that space between planetary and stellar bodies as a mix of primordial material and radiation and the simulation organizes it into a matrix. (Millennium Simulation – the largest ever model of the Universe, innoreports, 2005 June 02) There are nice simulation clips of the Millennium Simulation Project at the Max Planck Institute fur Astrophysik. (Galaxy Formation > Virgo, virgo@mpa-garching.mpg.de)

For a moment I was amazed at the synchronicity between the interstitial space and interstellar space. Then I wasn’t. When nature constructs a model that works, nature tends to scale it up and scale it down, repeating the model in many places. The golden mean is a classic example that is widely recognized.

I am wondering whether the dynamic matrix of the interstitium and interstellar space is the model of quantum entanglement. If so, we have a working concept to employ quantum entanglement into our lives.

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