Are the bizarre messages about quantum physics really absurd?
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The bizarre findings in quantum physics, such as particle entanglement, actually can actually only be understood when you are able to accept that consciousness is primary. The unavoidable conclusion from this assumption then must be that the brain cannot be the producer of consciousness. And that in turn means that consciousness will not stop existing at brain death. Which is an important but highly controversial insight. To justify such an assumption it is necessary to carry out a thorough investigation in a real scientific way. And that’s what I do and show on this website because I think this insight is of the utmost importance to mankind. This website is therefore intended for anyone who wants to have good arguments for the idea that it is not the brain that produces consciousness. And, as an added bonus, quantum physics becomes much more understandable, even for the layperson.
The idea of stars being suns on great distances was once considered absurd
Why is quantum physics considered bizarre? What makes you think actually that something is weird? Remember Giordano Bruno. His ideas were considered absurd in his time, the 16th century. He suggested that the stars were far away suns surrounded by their own planets, and that on these far away planets live also was thriving. He also insisted that the universe be infinite and could not have a “center’. He was burned at the stake in Rome in 1600 to get rid of him and his strange ideas. The earth was generally thought to be the center of the cosmos and thinking otherwise was weird and undesirable. Today, Giordano’s ideas are no longer strange.
A lot of science was initially considered weird
At the end of the 19th century Max Planck did an absurd suggestion, starting thus the quantum revolution. Physics theories predicted better if you accepted that electromagnetic energy was transferred in little discrete packages he called quanta. This was contrary to the then common understanding that electromagnetic energy transfer was continuous and was done by waves. Nowadays his idea is something every physics student accepts as a fundamental truth, thanks to him and other inspired quantum pioneers of his time like Heisenberg, Schrödinger, De Broglie and Bohr.
At the beginning of the 20th century Rutherford discovered that the atom was 99,999 % empty. Solid matter lost its solidity and became ephemeral, weirdly empty. This soon became an accepted fact.
In the second decade of the 20th century, Albert Einstein published a then utterly weird theory. The speed of light was always the same even if it was coming from lightsources moving towards or away from you. The maximum speed for all objects with mass was the speed of light but would need an infinite amount of energy. Time slowed remarkably and rulers got measurable shorter for objects approaching the speed of light. What one observer saw as time, another observer would regard as space. Space and time fused into a four-dimensional spacetime. Causality could be reversed for different observers. Mass turned out to be extremely concentrated energy. The question of what energy fundamentally was became important again, because energy was previously defined as the ability to accelerate mass, which seemed now to become a circular definition. It took several years of debate, but his theory is now an experimentally confirmed and accepted theory. The weirdness of his theory is still there but as time passes we grow more accustomed to it, so the acute weirdness is gradually diminishing.
Nowadays we are confronted with the absurdity of quantum physics. Objects that seem to alter their property and behavior from particle to wave and back depending on how you set up and alter your way of measuring. Objects getting their properties on measurement but not before. Particles being at different places at the same time.
Particles with a common history staying connected even though they have become galactic distances apart. Particles that seem to travel back in time. Vacuum teeming with energy. Weird, isn’t it?
Beware of your current understanding of Physics
- “Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” — Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer, 1902
- “If God had intended that man should fly, he would have given him wings.” — Attributed to George W. Melville, chief engineer of the U.S. Navy, 1900
- “Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but is is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous.” — Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1939
- “Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.” — Dennis Gabor, British physicist and author of ‘Inventing the Future’, 1962
- “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.” — Lee Deforest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the triode vaccum tube, 1926
Shed accepted ideas about objective reality
In my opinion it is possible in to become familiar with quantum physics in the same way we became familiar with the idea of stars as very distant suns with planets. But we don’t have to wait centuries for such a change of perspective. We can do that by scrutinizing our common understanding of reality and asking ourselves if our ideas are as proven and fundamental as we thought. It won’t be easy for most of you but it’s very much worth the effort. Promise.
You will come to see this:
The quantum world is the real world, the infinite fabric of possibilities from which the mind chooses its experiences in time and space and projects them on and in itself.
The role of consciousness should not be ignored
This site is for all people who have an interest in quantum physics and its connection with consciousness. A great deal of the internet content concerning quantum physics (and there is indeed a lot of it) is often confusing (wave-particle duality), weird (entanglement). A lot of physicists acknowledge the important role of the observer at every experiment, but ignore often the fact that that the information that is available to the observer will effect the outcome of an experiment. Which — in my opinion — says that the observer has to be conscious. We really need a change of perspective.
The analytical approach
It turns out that it is possible to demonstrate analytically that the observer and the information that the experiment can provide cannot be separated from the experiment, which is a particularly strong indication of the role of consciousness in the world.
On this site – quantumphysics-consciousness.eu – I’ll try to fix the materialistic confusion by acknowledging and exploring the all important role of consciousness.
For a introduction into quantum physics I invite you here for a guided exploration. Click the red button below and click the black button on the bottom of every next page. Take your time, you don’t have to do it in one single go.