This is nothing but pure mindless garbage. I'm quite irritated at myself for even reading this far.
What I do now?
I wish Professor Irwin Corey were still around. He would know.
Maybe we could just change our reality and he will become alive again! Then he could tell us how to change our reality.
First Problem, the universe is finite, 10^89 atomic particles if you include photons. Time is finite 10^61 segments of planck time.
Suggest the author either increase or reduce his medication
For in the last two decades the entire foundation of our understanding of reality has been turned on it’s head. …It really has been turned on it is head?
Put 5 people in isolated boxes with a little window and sound from the exterior.
Tell them to note every detail of what they see and each detail noted is worth $100.
Boxes face a stage. Out comes a clown in an orange suit, juggles 3 balls, a dog comes out and grabs a ball and runs off.
I bet each of the five observers could relate exactly what occurred. Its called reality. At the quantum level I don’t have an opinion.
Anyone else notice that some sentences in this post have no right margin? Reality check. Could be my dying laptop. ;-)
My last class in Thermodynamics was also the Professor's final lecture. He was also an ordained minister. The lecture was a thermodynamic proof of God.
There is, it seems to us,
At best, only a limited value
In the knowledge derived from experience.
The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have been. - T.S.Eliot, “East Coker”
http://www.iam-spirit.com/articles/article/2925041/43156.htm
“Consciousness is the singular for which there is no plural,” wrote the scientist Erwin Schroedinger. Schroedinger, famous for his theoretical disappearing cat, was one of the pioneers of quantum science.
Lately, I’ve been contemplating the idea, if I understand it correctly (I am emphatically NOT a scientist), that things in a quantum Universe are essentially wavicles — potentially, at least, in several places at once, achieving locality only when observed. Only when we focus on them do they show up in a specific place called here.
The essential principle is that there is an observer consciousness that is the overriding force in the world, that we all live in that consciousness and that it reveals itself through each of us. It is only when it acts as us that the quantum wave of all things collapses and it settles into an “objective” reality, all other possibilities being discarded in this experience.
Well, isn’t God like that? God is everywhere. God is Omnipresent. “There is no spot where God is not,” as we often say in New Thought. Yet when we go into treatment and focus on a specific aspect or quality of God, it shows up right here. The nonlocal becomes local, as the scientists say, the only difference being that it is also simultaneously local to everyone else and in different ways.
Ultimately, of course, the observer and the observed are the same thing, but the Universe is set up in such a way as to be able to observe itself. Were it not set up in this way, it could never collapse the wave of potential and nothing would then occur, according to Dr. Amit Goswami, one of the scientists featured in the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?”. There would be no choices made, thus there would be no resulting actions. The continued unfolding of the blessings of God requires an observation and an observed to interact and get the show on the road.
In his book The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, Dr. Goswami produces a scientific case for the idea that consciousness drives what manifests in the world. He makes his case by means of quantum physics, but the ideas he discusses comport closely with New Thought.
Goswami defines consciousness as “the ground of being (original, self-contained, and constitutive of all things) that manifests as the subject that chooses, and experiences what it chooses, as it self-reflectively collapses the quantum wave function in the presence of brain-mind awareness.”
The idea that consciousness is “original, self-contained, and constitutive of all things” and that it “manifests as the subject that chooses and experiences what it chooses” will be quite familiar to New Thoughters. This is quintessential New Thought philosophy.
Goswami discusses the quantum wave — the existence of objects in a field of potentiality — and the experiments that have shown that particles such as photons, even when separated by massive distances, can “communicate” and act in the same way instantly, defying the theorem that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. These particles have been shown to be able to be in more than one place simultaneously, until observed, at which time, a choice having been made, they collapse their quantum wave and concretize into a given state which is perceived.
Does the same thing happen for people? An experiment in which people who had established a mental bond were locked in metal boxes and one was stimulated to test his response showed that the other partner responded in essentially the same way, showing that these quantum properties apply also to macro objects such as people.
This is why that which is known anywhere in consciousness is known everywhere in consciousness. That is why treatment (scientific prayer) said anywhere works right where the person is who is being prayed for.
According to Goswami, Rene Descartes got it slightly wrong when he wrote “Cogito, ergo sum.” (”I think, therefore I am.”) It should be “opto, ergo sum” (”I choose, therefore I am.”)
In New Thought, we say that it is all about choices. We are always at choice, and the choices we make determine what happens in our lives. It’s not what we want, but what we choose. Our choices are revealed by our expectations. When our choices don’t work for us anymore, in the words of A Course in Miracles, we simply “Choose Once Again.” As we make new choices, new circumstances follow. The formless shows up in new forms, the nonlocal takes on new locality.
The process of creation is a quantum event continually unfolding as and through you. Will you choose to direct it and make your life what you desire it to be?
I like how the second paragraph sends you off to learn quantum physics before you move on paragraph 3.
tl;dr
The civilization we enjoy is powered by the scientific method. If it isn’t good enough for you, move to Borneo or come up with something better.
the laws inherent in Newtonian Physics are not imputable
Biggest problem with reality is that so many refuse to accept or see it....