Sunday, February 4, 2007

The New Quantum World View

Quantum Mechanics/Physics,

for those a bit unfamiliar, is the name given to the revolutionary science that has been shaking up the old guard world view since its' beginning sometime early last century. (Now, we are no scientific genius's here and we don't need you to be either, but fortunately that isn't required in order to see how the possibilities start to get interesting in light of these discoveries.)

So, for the past 80 odd years or so, many of the best minds out there have been working on this quantum business, and one of the best words to describe what they have been finding is - WEIRD!

Now hold on a second, don't jump to the conclusion that means necessarily Flaky and stuff, ok.

Lots of these 'weird' discoveries have been proven to be true by experiments and high mathematics. Richard Feinman has said that "nobody understands Quantum Physics", and he won the Nobel prize for his Quantum work. It's just that

What they are finding out is; that how the universe works is difficult, if not impossible, for our limited minds to 'grok', so to speak.
(by the way, we wouldn't even have the computers we are using right now if it wasn't for quantum science, as many current components rely for their very existence on applied quantum technology!)

Here are some of the interesting things they have discovered about our quantum universe.


- The Uncertainty Principle (nothing can be known for sure, only approximated)

- Simply observing something in any way, directly or indirectly, (and not just visually) changes it, even transforms it!

- Certain 'things' like light and some other sub-atomic 'particles' can be two different things at the same time (waves and particles)

- some particle pairs act in absolute perfect harmony at great distances from one another, with no known means of communication

- conscious observation seems to be required to bring the physical into existence



In addition, various experiments have proved the following:



- the molecular structure of water has been shown by photographs to be dramatically affected merely by placing paper with different words written on it, such as love, hate, beauty, conflict etc. on top of the container. The positive words engendered harmony in the structure, while the negative caused the opposite effect.

- statistical studies have proved various psychic phenomena, such as remote viewing, healing, unacounted for knowledge of ancient history and languages, etc.

- wild animals in different parts of the world will suddenly change the same behavior at exactly the same time.


All this to show that classical mechanics/physics, which has formed the foundational basis of our collective world view for eons, is being proved fallacious in many important areas.



So what, you say? Well, it makes things a bit tricky, (to say the least) when we use our conscious minds to try and 'figure things out' here in this marvelous creation we call 'Life', not to mention getting a handle on finding our way out of our individual and collective predicament. On the other hand, from these discoveries some new approaches are suggesting themselves, as well as unlikely support for some ancient wisdom teachings. More about that in the next post.