The Incredible Voyage inside a Flower
April 24, 2025 - Reading time: 4 minutes
The incredible voyage inside the flower (YouTube video story).
We find ourselves at a point where many explanations rooted solely in the randomness of the material world no longer suffice.
Imagine we are journeying through the heart of a beautiful flower. At first, we encounter biological cells forming their internal structure. Within these cells, intricate systems emerge - long, specialized molecules working together to carry out complex tasks. They convert chemical elements into energy, defend the organism from external threats, and enable reproduction. In essence, they animate matter.
What compels these molecules to perform such precisely organized operations? Why do they "care" about sustaining the life of an organism composed of otherwise lifeless matter? These questions remain beyond our current understanding.
Then, we descend deeper, to the realm of atoms. We pass through clouds of electrons and enter the nucleus, where protons made of quarks and gluons reside. In this world, quantum impulses flicker on and off.
If you were a tiny traveler, you would witness vast distances between particles, all in ceaseless motion, vibrating at unimaginable frequencies. This is a realm of quantum distortions - of space, time, and energy - where neither speed nor location can be pinned down. Here, particles can exist in more than one place at once, or appear in the past and future depending on how and at what energy they are observed. They can even exchange identities.
Now ask yourself: How does this high-frequency, almost-empty space produce a flower? Why does it "care" to create such living beauty? What force or principle connects these scattered layers of inner reality - from atoms to molecules to cells - into something coherent, beautiful and alive? What holds together this hierarchical system of mostly empty space that forms the flower? Why doesn't it collapse into a void of nothingness as we zoom deeper into its structure?
The laws of physics and chemistry are indifferent to the creation of long molecules, the formation of cells, the emergence of life - and to your very existence. Yet something orchestrates it all with remarkable precision. Such an intricate structure requires not only properties and natural laws, but also deeper principles that hold it together - and a medium capable of transmitting information across multiple levels of complexity.
Now imagine an image of a flower on a computer screen. If you zoom in, you find a pixel. It flickers on and off, embracing the essence of quantum behavior. But for that image to appear, each pixel must flicker in perfect coordination with millions of others, scattered across the screen. This coordination cannot arise from within the screen itself. It requires an external source of information - something outside the space and time of the screen. This external intelligence must guide the entire system using a different kind of space and time, one beyond what you see on this screen.
To sculpt complexity from the chaos of the material field, information must be present - information shaped by conscious design. It must be driven by a vision of purpose and an intention to realize it.
What you see when you journey inside a flower are not merely particles or molecules, but projections from a non-material world. The machinery of matter is animated by something beyond it.
And we, as humans, may have a special role in this design - because we have the capacity to discover it and to comprehend the One who stands behind it all.
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This is a full transcript of the video https://youtu.be/JVCeCCmwQRE?si=rdbNGJ0IbsSSt5tz created by the DesignedWorld YouTube team using the book “The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond”, by Dr. Sergei V. Chekanov, 466 pages, ISBN: 9798990642836; Hardcover 9798990642843, eBook ISBN 9798990642829; Book webpage: https://ermislean.org/designed-world/
