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Old 12-04-2006, 12:15 PM   #53 (permalink)
Acting Like Godot
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I'm sorry to disappoint you but the man is hardly the only quantum physicist around with those kinds of ideas.

Why don't you try Nobel Prize winning physicist Niel Bohr then? I definitely don't follow his mathematics, but here's a very quick excerpt which you may find interesting:

What is Quantum Physics

"So sometimes a particle acts like a particle and other times it acts like a wave. So which is it? According to Niels Bohr, who worked in Copenhagen when he presented what is now known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, the particle is what you measure it to be. When it looks like a particle, it is a particle. When it looks like a wave, it is a wave.

Furthermore, it is meaningless to ascribe any properties or even existence to anything that has not been measured21. Bohr is basically saying that nothing is real unless it is observed."

I want to emphasise that "nothing" in physics really means absolutely "nothing". Nothing, not a mountain nor a spoon nor a car nor a bird, is real unless it is observed. Observation means that there is consciousness. Consciousness means that there is thought. Therefore nothing exists unless someone or something is thinking about it.

Aha, that makes you want to be careful about what you think, doesn't it. Who knows what you might manifest?

You can try Hugh Everett too (same link), another PhD-in-Physics type:

"One other interpretation, presented first by Hugh Everett III in 1957, is the many worlds or branching universe interpretation. In this theory, whenever a measurement takes place, the entire universe divides as many times as there are possible outcomes of the measurement. All universes are identical except for the outcome of that measurement. Unlike the science fiction view of "parallel universes", it is not possible for any of these worlds to interact with each other."

"Measurement" would include checking the lottery spin machine to see which 5 little numbered balls have fallen out. That act of checking causes the universe to divide, into as many universes as it is possible to have different combinations of 5 little numbered balls.

In other words, it is possible that everyone who wants to win the lottery does win the lottery. But each of them simply wins in a different universe.

Alas, a good part of Hugh's research continues to be unknown to the world. He was hired by the US Department of Defence, and his work in those years remains classified.

I don't think that the Pentagon would normally hire fruitcakes. Do you?

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