This is a great thread. I too absolutely believe in Intention Manifestation. I saw where someone was asking for any connection with quantum physics, and someone else mentioned Fred Alan Wolf and how he catches some flak for his views. Dr. Wolf is one of my all time favorite physicists.
I am no scientist, but as a layman I have studied QP on my own for some time and how it relates to the nature of reality, and to me there is no better example of how you (an observer/participant) influence reality than the wave-particle duality of light. In fact, I had some doubts about my own understanding of these phenomena so I emailed Dr. Wolf about it. I have posted his answers in my
Quantum Existence blog (the blog is about 1 week old), check it out if you like.
But the basic explanation of this is found in the double slit experiment. It’s a given that light is a wave much like a radio wave or a ripple in a pond, but at a visual wavelength. If light passes through 2 narrow slits to project on a wall you will see a pattern of dark rings indicating wave interference (where the light from the two slits cross each other’s path).
However Max Planck proved that light also behaves as a particle (called a photon), which is a quanta of light, hence the term quantum physics – the study of small particles. He figured out that energy (which all matter really is), comes in discrete amounts, it is not continuous, and came up with Planck’s Constant to solve equations relating to the relationship of the frequency and energy states of elementary particles.
But here’s the key that relates to I M in my opinion, light only manifests as a particle when one is looking for that particle. When there is no observer, there is no particle, it’s only a wave, or more precisely a probability-wave. It does not exist independent of observation. The act of observation by a person is said to collapse the wave function, creating the particle. Even a measuring apparatus will not collapse the wave-function without an observer to read it. No wave interference will show if you see all of the particles as they pass through the slits, but if you don’t watch for particles you get the wave interference pattern. The event is absolutely influenced by the observer. There is no argument on this in quantum physics, it is long accepted.
Another example is the Pauli effect. Wolfgang Pauli was a quantum physicist and he a terrible effect on machinery. It seemed every time he was in the lab the machinery seemed to malfunction, here is an excerpt from
Wikipedia-
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…it was said that he was such a good theorist that any experiments would self-destruct simply due to his presence. For fear of the Pauli effect, the German-American experimental physicist Otto Stern banned Pauli from his laboratory despite their friendship.
A famous incident occurred in a physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working. Obviously, the head of the research group concluded, they had fallen victim to the Pauli effect; but, as someone countered, Pauli was on his way to Zurich, so that was not possible. When this story was related to Pauli, though, Pauli recalled that at that moment he had indeed been in Göttingen — waiting for a connection at the train station.
The Pauli effect, if it were real, would be classified as a "macro-psychokinetic" phenomenon. Wolfgang Pauli, however, was (according to his biographer Enz) convinced that the effect named after him was real — Markus Fierz, a close colleague, says "Pauli himself thoroughly believed in his effect" . As Pauli considered parapsychology as worth serious investigation, this would fit with his scientific thinking.
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If you think about it the implications are astounding. There is NO objective reality – you cannot objectively witness any event because you participate and influence that event - even if you are not aware of it. So maybe this is a little scientific ammo for I M.