Up, chores, breakfast, Comics in the Sunday paper. Mid-morning in the neighborhood. . . . You were just checking your email and Doug sent you this note:
Dick,
I watched a program the other day where they were picking up the electrical impulses from the brain of a paralyzed fellow so that he could control a computer mouse in all directions including scrolling and entering, just by thinking about what he wanted it to do, allowing him for the first time to communicate, play games and send emails. That means that our thoughts are converted into electromagnetic waves and thus they will travel at the speed of light! ESP now seems more plausible to me, it just means that we need a really good receptor or reception! As for your quantum mechanical thoughts, many physicists have come to the conclusion that the wave function must contain a part of the future. This would mean the future does in fact exist and does play a part in the present when we collapse the wave function. If you were to plot the time elapsed on the vertical axis and the past, present, and future on the horizontal axis you would see that the present lives at the bottom of a very steep bowl or u shaped curve. As time moves on the bowl moves toward the future. We are aware of some of the past but usually none of the future. Wonder why is this so anti-symmetric?
Doug
This gives thought a pause and reinforces your concept of quantum mechanical thought physics. Light and thought are on the same wavelength. In fiction all we need is scientific plausibility not fact. Here though fact presents itself (at least at this point in time).
This is interesting stuff, Amorella. Here is the note I had sent Doug, the one he is responding to.
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Wait, What is that White Light Anyway? The Science Behind Near-Death Experiences - MyDaily
Thanks, Doug. You are right, ESP is certainly plausible -- I do feel that people have, historically, from time to time glimpsed the future. Caesar's assassination being a famous one. Einstein's theory is certainly a re-enforcer. If a thought 'wave' can travel the speed of light in actuality, and if Platonic-like Forms exist in dimensions beyond light, then something might be triggered by the mind in its reception (perhaps a reverberation or echo) of these 'matters'. The brain, meanwhile, being more physical than the mind, must absorb the process at a much slower pace. This is where 'mistakes in translation' of the original conceptual 'matters' may occur. A flash, a slice of the future, open to immediate interpretation. Not much different than, as an ancient Greek, observing an Oracle at Delphi.
I am glad we can throw these things about. I have no one else I can genuinely [as an old friend] do this with.
Ever grateful,
Dick
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Mid-afternoon. I wonder if thoughts are naturally a form of light. If they can be converted to such the natural similarities must be there, or at least I can assume they exist as far as the books are concerned. I need to get back to the story and work on scene four.
Nearing dusk. You went upstairs to take a nap but read more of the March, 2011 Discover magazine and got caught up in an article by Zeeya Merali titled, “Physics of the Divine” on pages 49-52. You circled a variety of paragraphs but here are the ones closest to your heartansoulanmind. The subject centers on how God might work within the laws of physics and a group of scientists are focused on this theme. Here is some quotations from the article on questions and discoveries.
Do any physical theories allow room for God to influence human actions and events? And, more controversially, is there any concrete evidence of God’s hand at work in the physical world? (49)
[John] Polkinghorne [a physicist turned Anglican priest] sees room for God in the deep mysteries of chaos theory and the limits of prediction. A divine intelligence in command of chaos could manipulate a vast number of quantum events with just a few well-chosen controls. The result could then grow large enough to have a meaningful impact on human lives. (51)
Quantum physicist Antoine Suarez of the Center for Quantum Philosophy in Zurich argues that the God seekers are better off pursuing another quantum effect, entanglement. In entanglement, two particles become twinned in such a way that the measurement of one always determines the properties of the other, no matter how far apart they may be. . . . Most physicists accept entanglement as just one more counterintuitive reality of quantum physics. But Suarez claims entanglement tests conducted with real photons in the lab suggest that quantum effects must be caused by “influences that originate from outside of space-time”. . . .
Seeking an explanation, Suarez and his colleague Valerio Scarani . . . proposed a way to modify the basic experiment, which had been carried out by physicists in Geneva. Their intent was not to address theological questions but to challenge quantum theory by testing one of its fundamental predictions: that the timing of quantum events has nothing to do with their outcomes. They proposed instead that the outcome might be influenced by the course of events as the experiment takes place. For instance, if particle A hits the beam splitter even a tiny fraction of a second before particle B, its trajectory and outcome might influence what happens to B in its wake, somehow communicating across time. To test the idea, Suarez and Scarani needed to design an experiment that disrupted the cause-and-effect relationship between the photons by making sure that neither one arrived before the other. . . .
. . . The physicists used acoustic waves that had the effect of altering time for the photons . . .
. . . Suarez was sure that by messing up the time-ordering in this way, it would be impossible for the photons to coordinate their paths. He was proved wrong. On every run, the photons still met the same fate. Whatever causes the twin photons to behave in the same way, it must work independently of time. “There is no story that can be told within the framework of space-time that can explain how these quantum correlations keep occurring,” Suarez says. . . . (51)
. . . Suarez says, “Physics experiments cannot demonstrate the existence of God, but this test shows that today’s physics is compatible with all major religious traditions. There is strong experimental evidence for accepting that nonmaterial beings act in the world.” (52)
. . . Jean Staune, a mathematical physicist and philosopher at the Interdisciplinary University in Paris . . . puts it like this: The before-before experiment shows that “if an intelligence is directing quantum events, then that intelligence exists outside the material universe. But it doesn’t prove that such a mind exists.” (52)
From: “Physics of the Divine", Discover, Zeeya Merali, March, 2011, pp. 49-52.
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You took time out for supper and realized that for this is a major bit of scientific construction. That it is possible, based on the above, that a “Betweener” as described in the Merlyn series, is a real possibility, that experimental evidence shows that nonmaterial beings [may] act in the world.
As I was eating a piece of Papa John’s left over pizza and drinking a Dr. Pepper, it dawned on me that you, as a Betweener in my real life, could possibly be a real nonmaterial being. I have my doubts, of course, but you could actually be ‘real’. Who would have thought?
From in here I am sitting comfortably on a human smile, orndorff. Post. – Amorella.
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