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One of the guys who wrote the book I'm reading on coincidences also wrote a series for the radio on the same subject and I take it most of what's written in this book came from what was researched for the radio.
On the fly leaf it asks "Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or, magic? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe whose ubiquitous web-like workings we can only discern? I go for the last of those - it's what I said after I had the experience where I saw colours I couldn't recognise. I said about that that (that, that, that!!!lol) I felt our brains weren't equipped to understand a lot of what could happen.
This is an intereting passage from the book.
"Electrons, those tiny particles that exist in orbits around an atom's nucleus, exhibited the same wave/particle duality as light, suggesting that in a microscopic sense, all matter is wave-like. Electrons were very mysterious: Einstein called them 'spooky'. They appeared to exist in 20 places at once (quantum superposition), they would suddenly change their behaviour for no causal reason, and if a pair of linked particles were separated they exactly mirrored each other thereafter (quantum entanglement), whether they were two feet or a billion miles apart. n experiment which changed the state of one would be instantly reflected by a corresponding change in the state of the other, the information having passed between them cross any distance instantaneously. Each particle eemed to "know" what the other was doing. The phenomenon is very diffiult to explain as it violates Einstein's law that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Scientists have used the word 'telepathy' to describe it and have even speculated that the particles' sepration may be an illusion.
More alarming for traditional scientists was how personal the study of the atoms' interior parts was becoming. As soon as a sub-atomic particle such as an electron was measured (i.e. observed) it changed its behaviour. If you tried to measure a particle you found something that looked like a particle, otherwise it behaved like a wave. Things changed when you looked at them so you never know what they looked like before you looked. Interpretation was neessary. Scientists were forced to be subjective - that intimate adjective that also defines the essence of consciousness and coincidence. Quantum physics seemed to be teaching us that at the microscopic level there may be no objective reality; that what we observe is always affected by the presence of the observer. Wolfgang Pauli, the Nobel-Prize-winning physicist who first postulated the existance of the neutrino in 1931 (and who was also interested in coincidence, as we shall soon see), said: "On the atomic level the objective world ceases to exist."
Well, it's almost time to turn in .. might be a few minutes late tonight I guess .. but not much!!!
On the fly leaf it asks "Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or, magic? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe whose ubiquitous web-like workings we can only discern? I go for the last of those - it's what I said after I had the experience where I saw colours I couldn't recognise. I said about that that (that, that, that!!!lol) I felt our brains weren't equipped to understand a lot of what could happen.
This is an intereting passage from the book.
"Electrons, those tiny particles that exist in orbits around an atom's nucleus, exhibited the same wave/particle duality as light, suggesting that in a microscopic sense, all matter is wave-like. Electrons were very mysterious: Einstein called them 'spooky'. They appeared to exist in 20 places at once (quantum superposition), they would suddenly change their behaviour for no causal reason, and if a pair of linked particles were separated they exactly mirrored each other thereafter (quantum entanglement), whether they were two feet or a billion miles apart. n experiment which changed the state of one would be instantly reflected by a corresponding change in the state of the other, the information having passed between them cross any distance instantaneously. Each particle eemed to "know" what the other was doing. The phenomenon is very diffiult to explain as it violates Einstein's law that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Scientists have used the word 'telepathy' to describe it and have even speculated that the particles' sepration may be an illusion.
More alarming for traditional scientists was how personal the study of the atoms' interior parts was becoming. As soon as a sub-atomic particle such as an electron was measured (i.e. observed) it changed its behaviour. If you tried to measure a particle you found something that looked like a particle, otherwise it behaved like a wave. Things changed when you looked at them so you never know what they looked like before you looked. Interpretation was neessary. Scientists were forced to be subjective - that intimate adjective that also defines the essence of consciousness and coincidence. Quantum physics seemed to be teaching us that at the microscopic level there may be no objective reality; that what we observe is always affected by the presence of the observer. Wolfgang Pauli, the Nobel-Prize-winning physicist who first postulated the existance of the neutrino in 1931 (and who was also interested in coincidence, as we shall soon see), said: "On the atomic level the objective world ceases to exist."
Well, it's almost time to turn in .. might be a few minutes late tonight I guess .. but not much!!!
posted by Zeb at 2:17 PM
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