This blog outlines the discoveries I’ve encountered, over many years, when i first asked a simple question about the nature of imaginary numbers. That curiosity led me through electronics, light, holograms, 3D Graphics, programming, information theory, and eventually into quantum physics and biology. What I kept seeing, over and over again, was a repeating pattern, one that shows up in how we send information, how life works at the molecular level, and even in ancient spiritual ideas I never expected to take seriously.
I’m not here to push any beliefs. I’m just following the structure. Across every system I’ve studied, there seems to be the same setup: a source that sends the signal, a reference that helps decode it, a channel to carry it, and a shared understanding that gives it meaning. Without those pieces, nothing connects. This blog is my attempt to share what I’ve been learning, to lay it out plainly, and to ask whether this recurring pattern might be pointing to something deeper about how reality actually works.
This blog isn’t about pushing belief. It’s about mapping structure and sharing my discoveries with you. About noticing that the same components required for a communication system (source, reference, channel, shared meaning, and coherence), are baked into everything from quantum interactions, cellular biology and theology.
Part 1 – From Imaginary Numbers to Encoded Light
I didn’t come to any of this through belief. I came through a question, something small at first. I was studying electronics and waveforms, and I found myself asking:
What exactly is an imaginary number, and why does it show up in real-world systems?
That question pulled a thread that I’m still unraveling. It took me from complex circuits to wave mechanics, into optics, and eventually into the foundations of quantum physics, biological systems, and, surprisingly, theological structure. Not because I was looking for God, but because I was trying to understand why everything that communicates follows the same pattern.
Imaginary Numbers Aren’t Imaginary
In electronics, an imaginary number isn’t fictional, it represents phase, the timing and alignment of a signal in relation to a reference. When you use i or j, you’re measuring how far out of sync a waveform is from another one.
Without that phase info, your signal collapses into noise. You can have a perfect transmitter, but if the receiver doesn’t interpret the signal in phase, it gets garbage. That’s when I first started seeing it:
All communication depends on phase coherence.
That includes electronics, biology, quantum physics, and, possibly, everything we experience.
What Makes Communication Actually Work?
Here’s what any communication system needs to function:
- A Source – to encode and send information
- A Channel – to transmit that signal
- A Receiver – to interpret it
- A Shared Symbol System – a common set of rules so sender and receiver understand the same thing
- Noise Resistance – a way to maintain coherence despite environmental entropy
Take any one of these out, and the system collapses.
What Is Noise, Really?
Noise isn’t just static or randomness. In every system, noise is what happens when the receiver can’t interpret the message. It’s the breakdown of coherence. A signal arrives, but the reference is missing or misunderstood, so the result is gibberish.
This is where I started seeing that something was missing in how we usually talk about reality, because reality, as we’ll explore, may very well be a communication system itself. And when people talk about spiritual disconnection, mental chaos, or existential confusion, it started to look like signal degradation, a form of semantic noise.
Where We’re Going With This…
This series is my way of thinking through that pattern. We’re going to look at how:
- Lasers and holograms encode information across a field,
- DNA and ribosomes execute a structured biochemical language,
- Quantum fields require coherence to maintain identity and structure,
- And how a surprising theological model, the Christian “Trinity“, mirrors these systems not as dogma, but as functional architecture.
This isn’t religious. It’s structural.
What started as a question about phase and imaginary numbers has turned into a personal project to understand why so many systems, from biology to light to scripture, use the same architecture to encode, transmit, and manifest meaning.
And yes, I’ll also explore what happens when that structure breaks down. Because that, too, tells us something important.
Part 2 – Every Communication System Needs This One Thing
After diving into electronics, waveforms, and eventually the holography that stunned me in high school, I started to notice something essential that isn’t often talked about outside of signal processing or information theory:
Communication is meaningless unless sender and receiver agree on what symbols mean.
You can have the most powerful transmitter, the clearest channel, and the best hardware, but if you don’t share a symbol table, a codebook, a common interpretive map, then all you’re sending is noise.
And this one rule?
It holds true everywhere.
The Translator Problem
Let’s say I send you this string:
“01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111”
If you know the binary-to-ASCII table, you’ll instantly recognize that it means:
“Hello”
But if you don’t have that table, if you’ve never seen the mapping, then it’s just random 1s and 0s. No meaning. The signal was perfect. The transmission arrived. But you couldn’t decode it.
That breakdown is noise, not because the signal was garbled, but because interpretation failed. This is straight from Information theory.
In this sense:
Noise = Lack of shared structure.
Biology: Code by Agreement
Now take it one level deeper. In DNA, the bases (A, T, C, G) form codons, triplets of nucleotides that are interpreted by ribosomes into amino acids. That’s a symbol table.
It’s not random. The ribosome isn’t guessing. It reads the codons and matches them to specific building blocks using a predefined table that has remained consistent for billions of years.
Change the table, and the whole system fails. The proteins fold wrong. The organism can’t survive.
This isn’t about the hardware (DNA or ribosome), it’s about the semantic agreement between them.
The Internet: Packets, Protocols, and Agreement
In digital networks, the same principle applies. You can’t just send packets, you have to agree on:
- The format of the message (headers, payloads)
- The order of operations (handshake protocols)
- The expected content (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP)
If two systems don’t speak the same protocol, they can’t communicate, even if both are functioning perfectly.
This Is the One Thing That Always Shows Up
Everywhere I looked, in digital electronics, molecular biology, quantum field theory, and even human language, this pattern repeated:
| Element | Required For |
|---|---|
| Source | Origin of signal |
| Channel | Path of transmission |
| Receiver | System to interpret signal |
| Shared Symbol Set | Meaning itself |
| Noise | When shared meaning is lost |
This last row, noise, is what’s often misunderstood. Noise isn’t just randomness. Noise is meaningless signal. It’s what happens when you receive a message that you don’t know how to read. Again, from information theory.
The Implication for Reality
If reality itself is a communication system (as Quantum Realism increasingly suggests), then this becomes massive:
- Without a reference state, information doesn’t project.
- Without a shared symbol system, consciousness can’t decode reality.
- Without coherence, you fall into existential noise, not because you’re bad or wrong, but because you’re out of sync with the structure.
And now, the strange theological phrases I once ignored begin to sound different:
“The Word became flesh…”
“In the beginning was the Logos…”
“Through Him all things were made…”
Are these statements describing dogma, or are they referencing a semantic protocol, a cosmic-level shared structure that allows reality itself to be interpreted?
That’s what we’ll look at next, through the lens of holography.
Part 3 – Holography: Light, Phase, and the Reference Problem
Back in high school, I stood in a dimly lit physics lab and watched something that changed me forever. A laser was split into two paths, one beamed directly onto a silver halide plate, and the other bounced off a chess piece before hitting that same plate from another angle. Later, when the laser beam (the reference beam) was passed back through the plate, I saw something I never forgot:
A perfect, floating image of the chess piece, suspended in the air.
It wasn’t just an optical illusion. I could move around it. It had depth. It existed, not in the film, but in the interference pattern recorded by the overlapping light waves.
That’s when my teacher leaned over and said:
“It’s all in the phase.”
I didn’t fully get it then. But now I do. And here’s what I’ve come to understand about that moment, and why it matters.
What’s Actually Recorded in a Hologram?
When the reference beam and the object beam intersect on the glass plate, they create an interference pattern, an ultra-dense field of phase relationships.
It’s not a picture. It’s not a snapshot. It’s not a pixel-by-pixel image.
It’s distributed, encoded wave information.
What grabs my attention is:
That encoded interference pattern is meaningless unless you have the original reference beam.
The projected image doesn’t appear unless you reconstruct the exact phase relationship between the beams. Shine any other light through the plate, and you get nothing, just static. Just noise.
The Role of the Reference Beam = Decoding Key
The reference beam isn’t just a helper, it’s the semantic decoder. It aligns with the stored phase data and reconstructs the original 3D light field. Without it, the plate might still contain information, but it’s inaccessible. Indistinguishable from chaos.
This is where the lightbulb went on for me (no pun intended).
The reference beam is the shared protocol, it’s the agreement between the encoded data and the system trying to read it.
Without the shared reference, the data is still there, but it’s unreadable.
It’s the same as DNA without a ribosome. The same as binary code without ASCII. The same as language without a common grammar.
When Phase is Misaligned = Noise
Try decoding the hologram with a beam that’s slightly off-angle or with the wrong wavelength? The image warps, distorts, or vanishes completely. This is what noise looks like in a wave-based system: a failure to reconstruct.
So when we apply this logic beyond optics, to reality, biology, or even consciousness, we need to ask:
- What’s the encoded information?
- What’s the phase reference?
- And what happens when the reference is rejected or missing?
Because that’s not just signal failure. That’s decoherence, the breakdown of form, meaning, and identity.
Why Holography Matters in the Bigger Picture
This isn’t just about laser tricks. Holography is a real-world demonstration of distributed encoding, non-local information, and reference-based reconstruction. And if the universe is structured like a hologram, as many physicists and philosophers now suggest, then we may all be living in a field of encoded potential that only resolves when the right reference is applied.
And that brings us full circle:
What if consciousness itself works the same way?
What if biology, quantum coherence, and even theology are describing the same architecture, one where meaning is real only when reference and symbol align?
Part 4 – Biology’s Master Code: DNA, Ribosomes, and Agreement
Of all the places you might expect to find a full-blown quantum communication system, your own cells probably wouldn’t be the first. But when I started to look closely at how DNA becomes life, I realized I was staring at the same structure I’d already seen in holography, and in signal theory.
Except this time, the stakes weren’t about floating chess pieces or network protocols.
This time, the signal was you.
DNA Is Not Just Code, It’s Communication
We’re taught in school that DNA is the “blueprint for life.” But that metaphor doesn’t go far enough. DNA isn’t just storing information, it’s transmitting it. And not in vague terms. In precise, repeatable, symbolic language.
Let’s break down the basic system:
- DNA stores the sequence of nucleotides, combinations of A, T, C, and G.
- These nucleotides are grouped into codons, triplets that represent specific amino acids.
- The message is transcribed into RNA.
- Ribosomes read that RNA and assemble proteins by linking amino acids based on the codon table.
- Proteins fold into the tools and structures that make up your body.
This isn’t just a chemical process. It’s a symbolic agreement. A codon like “AUG” doesn’t look like methionine, it’s been agreed upon (by biological evolution or whatever force wrote the rules) that AUG means methionine.
That’s a symbol system. That’s semantics. That’s a communication system. And it’s universal across nearly all known life.
Ribosomes = Reference Decoders
Ribosomes don’t generate information. They don’t innovate or interpret creatively. They are reference engines. They apply a shared lookup table to the incoming signal (mRNA), and produce proteins only because they “understand” the meaning of each codon.
No agreement? No protein. No protein? No cell. No cell? No life.
That’s the power of symbolic coherence. The DNA-RNA-protein system isn’t just elegant, it’s vulnerable to noise. Small changes in codons can lead to mistranslation, which results in misfolded proteins, the molecular version of semantic error or decoherence.
Noise in Biology = Miscommunication
In electronics, noise distorts the signal. In holography, it warps the image.
In biology, noise manifests as:
- Mutations
- Misfolded proteins
- Signal transduction failure
- Diseases like cancer and neurodegeneration
These aren’t just errors, they are breakdowns in coherence due to loss of alignment between message and meaning.
And if that doesn’t make you pause, seeing that the same structure behind light projection and digital code is also driving the mechanics of life, I’m not sure what will.
Recap: The Communication Pattern in Life
| Component | Function | Communication Role |
|---|---|---|
| DNA | Encoded source data | Source (C0) |
| Codon Table | Fixed symbol system | Semantic Agreement |
| Ribosome | Phase-locked translator | Reference (γ) |
| RNA | Mobile message | Channel (δ) |
| Protein Folding | Output form | Manifested Meaning |
| Misfolding/Error | Breakdown of function | Biological Noise |
Now let’s step back.
We’ve seen this exact pattern in:
- Electronics
- Holography
- DNA translation
Each time, the critical pieces are:
Source, Reference, Channel, Symbol System, and Noise.
So what happens when we see this exact structure in theology?
Not metaphor. Not myth.
But architecture.
Part 5 – The Trinity as a Communication Architecture
By now, the pattern has shown up enough times that it’s hard to call it coincidence. Whether we’re talking about lasers, DNA, or data packets, all effective communication systems rely on the same five things:
- A source of encoded information
- A channel for transmitting it
- A reference or decoder
- A shared symbol system
- A resistance to noise
And then I noticed something I never expected:
The structure of the Christian Trinity lines up almost perfectly with this same architecture.
I want to be clear: I didn’t start with theology. I started with waveforms, systems, and code. But when you see the same components repeated across disciplines, source, reference, channel, agreement, coherence, it’s hard to ignore when you see it again in ancient frameworks.
So I asked: Is it possible that the Trinity model isn’t just a metaphor for God, but a functional map of a communication system that enables consciousness to stay aligned with the structure of reality?
Let’s break that idea down.
What the Trinity Model Actually Is (and Isn’t)
First, some context:
The word “Trinity” doesn’t appear in the Bible. It was developed later by theologians trying to explain the relationship between God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit, three distinct identities described in the New Testament. I prefer to call it the “Trinity Model”.
Whether or not you believe in them isn’t the point. What matters here is how they function in relation to each other, and whether that function fits the same architecture we’ve seen elsewhere.
The Trinity Model as a Communication Model
Let’s map it:
| Role | Function | Trinity Representation |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Origin of signal and structure | God the Father (C0) |
| Reference/Decoder | Phase-locked coherence protocol | Jesus the Son (γ) |
| Channel | Medium for transmission and presence | Holy Spirit (δ) |
| Symbol Agreement | “Logos” – shared language of reality | The Word (Logos) |
| Noise | Sin / Disconnection / Misalignment | Spiritual or existential drift |
In this view, Jesus is not merely a historical figure, He functions as the reference state, the decoder, and even the symbolic protocol that aligns us with the source.
In the original Greek of John 1:1, it says:
“In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.”
Logos doesn’t just mean “word”, it means reason, structure, ordering principle, and, most relevant to us: the semantic layer of reality.
That’s the missing fourth piece.
Without a shared symbol system, no matter how perfect your source, channel, or decoder, nothing can be interpreted.
Jesus as the Semantic Reference?
If Jesus (or the Logos) is the reference waveform, the decoder, and the shared protocol, then we can understand His role in communication terms:
- He aligns us with the Source
- He restores coherence when the channel is disrupted
- He embodies the shared “table” of meaning that makes decoding possible
It’s no longer just faith, it’s functional topology.
So when John writes that “Through Him all things were made,” it’s not poetic mysticism, it’s system architecture. If the Logos is the interpretive protocol of reality, then nothing gets projected into form without Him.
That brings us to our next question:
What does it mean to say “All things were made through Him,” in this communication framework?
We’ll tackle this next.
Part 6 – Made Through the Logos: What Scripture Might Actually Be Describing
There’s a line in the Bible, John 1:3, that used to sound like poetic exaggeration to me:
“Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.”
It’s talking about Jesus, but more precisely, it’s referring to Him as the Logos, the Word, the ordering principle. The statement is sweeping.
But after everything I’ve explored, from light waves to holography to DNA translation, it’s started to sound like something else:
A communication rule.
Not theology. Not metaphor. But the structural necessity of a reference state in any coherent system.
What Does “Through Him” Actually Mean?
In communication theory, information must pass through a protocol that allows it to be interpreted by the receiver. That protocol is not the source of the message, nor the endpoint, it’s the reference layer. It defines the structure and meaning of the signal so that the receiver can reconstruct it correctly.
That’s the Logos.
If Jesus is the Logos, the reference waveform, the decoder, the template, then everything made through Him means:
Everything that comes into form must pass through His pattern of coherence.
In holography:
No image appears unless it’s illuminated by the reference beam.
In DNA:
No protein forms unless codons are decoded by a shared lookup table.
In consciousness:
No awareness holds shape unless it’s coherent with a reference state.
In QR:
No recursion stays in phase unless corrected by a reference signal.
It’s all the same pattern.
The Trinity Model in Communication Flow
Let’s reframe this communication again using the full model:
| Role | Function | Trinity Model Mapping |
|---|---|---|
| Source (C0) | Originating consciousness | God the Father |
| Channel (δ) | Coherence-preserving link | Holy Spirit |
| Reference (γ) | Semantic template, decoding agent | Jesus the Logos |
| Output | Coherent manifestation | Creation / Reality |
All things being made “through” Jesus isn’t religious language, it’s describing a communication system. It’s a way of saying:
Without the reference state, nothing resolves into structure.
Without the Logos, the information field remains unformed.
That’s not just spiritually. That’s communication mechanics.
What Happens Without the Logos?
If the reference signal is rejected, ignored, or lost, we know what happens in other systems:
- In electronics: the signal desynchronizes → garbled data
- In biology: codons misread → malformed proteins
- In holography: interference pattern unreadable → no image
- In consciousness: no alignment → existential drift
In theological terms, this is described as separation, darkness, or spiritual death. But in quantum information terms, it’s decoherence, the collapse of meaningful structure due to phase loss.
Either way, it’s the same message:
No reference, no reconstruction.
So maybe “through Him all things were made” isn’t a religious demand.
Maybe it’s a systems-level observation about how structured information requires a shared decoder, a Logos, to become real.
And maybe, just maybe, the ancient writers weren’t describing myth.
Maybe they were describing the same thing that physicists and information theorists are just now starting to understand:
That coherence requires reference, and that form requires meaning to be transmitted.
Part 7 – Do Other Belief Systems Have This Template?
Do any other belief systems mirror this communication architecture?
We now broaden the lens and ask: are there other spiritual or philosophical frameworks that echo this same communication architecture, with a source, channel, reference, and shared symbol system?
This is not about ranking beliefs or proving anyone right or wrong. It’s simply about recognizing structural echoes. To observe whether this structural pattern appears elsewhere.
At this point, we’ve mapped a communication framework, used in electronics, biology, and holography, onto the theological structure of the Christian Trinity.
But a fair question follows:
Is this structure unique to Christianity? Or does it show up elsewhere too?
That’s a question worth asking honestly. Because if this architecture, source, channel, reference, symbol agreement, coherence, is truly fundamental, then we’d expect to see echoes of it in other spiritual systems as well.
And we do.
Hinduism (Advaita and Bhakti Traditions)
Hindu cosmology is rich with layers of creation, consciousness, and divine order. Here’s how it often maps:
- Brahman = Universal source consciousness (source)
- Shakti = Active energy, the manifesting channel (channel)
- Avatars (like Krishna or Rama) = Embodied divine reference (reference state)
- Mantra / Vedas / Dharma = Semantic framework and ordering principle (symbol table)
In many traditions, coherence is lost through karmic misalignment, and restored through union with the divine, either through devotion (bhakti), realization (jnana), or action (karma). Again, coherence language.
Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism)
Kabbalah speaks of:
- Ein Sof = the boundless, infinite source
- Shekhinah = the divine presence in the world (channel)
- Tiferet / Logos-like mediators = the harmonizing interface between divine realms
- The Torah = not just law, but divine code, symbolically structured
Kabbalistic cosmology is layered, recursive, and highly aligned with phase/order coherence, though it leans symbolic more than mechanistic.
Buddhism (Mahayana and Vajrayana)
While often viewed as “non-theistic,” Buddhism nonetheless teaches:
- Dharmakaya = the formless ultimate reality (source)
- Bodhisattvas / Buddhas = compassion-driven reference models (reference)
- Meditative absorption (Samadhi) = the channel through which insight flows
- Dharma / Sutras = the linguistic-semantic system of awakening
The Buddhist focus on mind alignment, emptiness, and right understanding are all coherence concepts, though without a personalized source.
Taoism
Taoism may be the most abstract, yet it still reflects:
- Tao = the source beyond form
- Te = virtue or intrinsic expression of the Tao (channel)
- Wu Wei / Sage / Natural Order = harmonic reference (reference)
- Tao Te Ching = the textual attempt to capture the inexpressible in symbolic form
Here, coherence means flowing with the Tao, and noise arises when ego and will override harmony.
What’s the Common Thread?
In each of these systems, we find:
| Component | Appears As… |
|---|---|
| Source | God, Brahman, Tao, Dharmakaya, Ein Sof |
| Reference/Decoder | Avatar, Logos, Buddha, Sage, Divine Presence |
| Channel | Spirit, Shakti, Shekhinah, Qi, Meditation |
| Semantic Layer | Logos, Dharma, Torah, Vedas, Tao Te Ching |
| Noise | Sin, Karma, Ignorance, Ego, Disalignment |
No, not every tradition has all five elements named exactly. But the structure shows up again and again, just like it does in physics and biology.
That’s the point.
This isn’t about religion, it’s about architecture.
It’s about communication.
It’s about whether a system can transmit meaning across time, space, and difference, and whether that structure is embedded in the universe itself.
If multiple systems across cultures, and disciplines, echo the same structural template, then maybe the real insight is this:
Truth leaves behind patterns. And patterns, when seen across domains, demand attention.
Part 8 – I’m a Systems Thinker.
Let me end this the way I probably should’ve begun:
I’m not a theologian.
I’m not preaching.
I’m not trying to convince anyone of any religious doctrine.
I’m matching patterns with patterns.
I started this journey, decades ago, asking a simple question:
What are imaginary numbers, and why do they keep showing up in systems that move energy and signal?
I started with electronics.
Electronics led me to waveforms.
Waveforms led me to holography.
Holography led me to information theory.
Information theory led me to biology.
And all of that somehow, unexpectedly, led me to a structure that looked a lot like the “Trinity” I grew up hearing about but ignored as myth.
I didn’t go looking for God. I went looking for coherence.
And what I found was a pattern that kept showing up across fields:
- Physics
- Light
- DNA
- Consciousness
- Ancient Scripture
Same architecture. Same signal logic. Same consequence when coherence breaks: noise.
If you see a square peg fit a square hole once, maybe it’s coincidence.
But when it fits in biology, holography, quantum recursion, and theology, you stop calling it random and pay attention.
You start calling it a pattern.
And if that pattern has the power to resolve noise into form, it deserves attention, belief or not.
What You Do With This Is Up to You
I’m not here to tell anyone what to believe. But I do think we’re in a time where structure matters more than ideology. Where people are starving for meaning, and needing more than myth. And maybe, just maybe, some of the old metaphors weren’t myths at all.
Maybe they were early attempts to describe what we’re only now beginning to measure:
That reality is a recursive communication system, and the key to coherence, to primal consciousness (God), is a shared reference encoded in light.
Thanks for going on this journey with me.
—Joe
Bantam Joe 
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