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Quantum Physics is NOT Weird
Introduction (Quantum Physics in the media)
- Life on the Edge by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden.
- Real Quanta by Martijn van Calmthout.
- Loophole-free Bell test TU Delft crowns 80-years-old debate on nature of reality: Einsteins “spooky action” is real. – Delft University of Technology – October 2015
- Physicists Prove Einstein Wrong With ‘Spooky’ Quantum Experiment – NBC News, Jesse Emspak – March 2015
- Reality does not exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms. Mind = blown. www.sciencealert.com, Fiona McDonald – June 2015
- ‘Zeno effect’ verified – atoms won’t move while you watch’ – Phys.org – Bill Steele – October 2015
1: Paradoxes – ‘I know how it is’
- Examples where your visual cortex is leading you astray
- Ames Room animation
2: The discovery of the solar system
- Ptolemaic movements: the Teacup carousel
- YouTube: Ptolemaic System Simulator.
- Wikipedia: Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
- Future Learn: Kepler’s harmonic law
- Wikipedia: Kepler’s equation
- Wikipedia: Kepler’s three laws
- Wikipedia: Sir Isaac Newton
- Amazon: Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- Gutenberg.org: Newton: Opticks
- Science Alert 2016: A black hole in our laboratories?
- Wikipedia: Laplace’s hypothetical demon
- Wikipedia: Christiaan Huygens
- Gutenberg.org: Huygens, Traité de la lumière
- Wikipedia: Polarization
- Wikipedia: Snell’s law
3: The clockwork universe and the ether
- Wikipedia: Coherent
- Wikipedia: Frequency
- Wikipedia: Matter waves
- Wikipedia: Moiré effect
- YouTube: Moiré animation by Amanita
- Wikipedia: Peak amplitude
- Online Tone generator: Free online tone generator program
- PHET Colorado: Online simulation: electric field vector
- Physics Classroom: Online simulation: magnetic field vector
- Wikipedia: Maxwell’s equations
- Animation: Electromagnetic wave
- Wikipedia: Michelson Morley: interferometric setup
- Wikipedia: Serendipity
- Wikipedia: Kirchhoff laws
- Wikipedia: Black Body Radiation
- Wikipedia: Max Planck
- Wikipedia: Ludwig Boltzmann
- Wiley.com: Planck, Zur Theorie der Wärmestrahlung
4: The collapse of classical physics
- H. Bruning: Different types of waves – animation
- Mediacollege.com: Sound waves – propagation
- Scienceworld: Einstein: Special relativity
- Wikipedia: Einstein: Brownian motion
- Wikipedia: Einstein: Photoelectric effect
- Faraday Physics: Einstein: Mass-Energy equivalence
- Wikipedia: A gas of light particles: Bose-Einstein condensate
- Spiff Rit Edu: Photon gets its name: P. Lenard – Ueber die lichtelektrische Wirkung
- Nikon: Fixed aperture: DSLR Camera Basics
- Wikipedia: Millikan: Measuring the charge of the electron
- Wikipedia: Rutherford: Marsden-Geiger experiment
- Encyclopedia Britannica: Ernest Rutherford
- Tutorials Point: Marsden-Geiger experiment
- Myanmar Arts: Gold Foil Making
- Physics Open lab: Gold Leaf Thickness with Alpha Spectrometry
- Wikipedia: Pauli: Exclusion principle
- E = mc2 Explained
- Wikipedia: Spectral lines of hydrogen
- Wikipedia: Rydberg formula
- Encyclopedia Britannica: Niels Bohr
- Lumen Physics: The momentum of the photon
- Wikimedia Commons: Circular standing wave: the 7th harmonic or the 7th ‘The Broglie’ orbit
- Physics Experiments: Diffraction on a CD
- Hyper Physics: Davisson Germer experiment
- Nobelprize.org: Nobel Prize Davisson and Thomson
- Nobelprize.org: First electron microscope by: Ernst Ruska
5: Uncertainty, the quantum collapse
- Science Alert 2019: Wave behavior of large molecules
- Wikipedia: Proof by contradiction in logic and mathematics
- YouTube: One electron at a time double slit experiment by Akira Tonomura
- Physics Today 2013: Akira Tonomura
- University of Tennessee: Single slit Fraunhofer diffraction
- LiveScience 2014: What Are Imaginary Numbers?
- Math is Fun: What is a vector?
- Infinite Potential: Bohm’s quantum potential
- ID Quantique: Implementing Quantum Draws to Secure Lotteries
- Numericana: The Solway conferences
- Wikipedia: Gedanken-experiment by Einstein – 1927
- The Physics Classroom: The Momentum Conservation Principle
- Physics World 2014: SOLEIL scientists create double-slit thought experiment
- ToutestQuantique: Wave-Particle Duality animation
- Wikipedia: Niels Bohr Institute
- Wikipedia: Atomic physics and quantum physics
- Wikipedia: The Copenhagen interpretation “is now widely felt to be unacceptable”
- Wikipedia: Metaphysics
- The Information Philosopher: The Copenhagen interpretation – lecture by Heisenberg 1955/56 (annotated)
- Wikipedia: Quantum Decoherence hypothesis
- LiveScience 2020: Schrödinger’s thought experiment about a sealed box containing a living cat
- Science Mag 2016: A both dead and living cat experiment
- Internet Achive: Schrödinger’s What is life?
- YouTube: The higher electron orbits: these clouds have different bizarre forms
- Amolf; Aneta Sylwia Stodolna – 2014: Taking snapshots of atomic wave functions with a photoionization microscope
- NewScientist May 2013: Smile, hydrogen atom, you’re on quantum camera
6: An obscuring forest of hypotheses
- Wikipedia: The mathematical foundations of relativistic quantum mechanics
- Los Angeles Times 2016 :The human eye seems to be able to register a single photon
- Pittsburg University: Einstein’s thought experiment with a photon in a box
- NASA Science 2017: The holographic principle
- YouTube: The Cosmic Hologram: Jude Currivan 2017
- Wikipedia: Bell’s theorem
- Alien Ryder Flex: Experiment on a sunny day; Third-Polarizing-Filter Experiment Demystified
- QuTech 2015: A loophole-free Bell test
- Alain Aspect 2000: Bell’s Theorem : The naive view of an experimentalist
- Eurekalert! 2018: The BIG Bell Test
- TheBigBellTest.org: The meaning and the history of the Bell test
- Wikipedia: Alternative quantum physics hypotheses
- QuantaMagazine 2017: Quantum hypotheses criticized
- Physical Review 2011: Testing the unresolved uncertainty concerning the interpretation of quantum physics
- Wikipedia: The “fuga vacui” hypothesis
- IMDb: The Matrix
- Andrei Khrennikov 2008: Did EPR make a Mistake? The role of von Neumann’s and Lüders postulate in the EPR-Bohm-Bell considerations
- University of Vienna: Anton Zeilinger 1999; interference of macroscopic particles
- Nature Communications 2011: Quantum interference of large organic molecules
- FourmiLab: Helmut Schmidt 1993; pk experiments
- Wikipedia: Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist)
- Craig Weiler 2013: Psi Wars -TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet
- YouTube 2017: The quantum Zeno effect
- Cornell University 2015: ‘Zeno effect’ verified: Atoms won’t move while you watch
- Physics Essays 25 – 2012: Radin, Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments
- Physics Essays 26 -2013: Radin, Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern
- The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2005: psi entanglement
- Wikipedia: fMRI
- PhysicsWorld 2018: chlorophyll chooses the most efficient quantum option
- Wikipedia: simple fluorescence experiment
- PhysicsWorld 2007: Quantum processes in biological systems were considered impossible
- Futurism.com 2014: John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe
- Physical Review 2006: Populating the Landscape: A Top-Down Approach
- Los Angeles Times 2016: The human eye is sensitive enough to detect a single photon
- Nature Communications 2015: Simultaneous observation of the quantization and the interference pattern
- Wikimedia Commons: Standing wave vibration
7: The delayed choice experiments
- Wikipedia: John Wheeler – his delayed choice experiments
- Wikipedia: Phase (waves)
- Wikipedia: Light waves reflecting on mirrors – whether full or semi-silvered – experience a phase shift of π (180o) or none at all
- Wikipedia: Occam’s razor
- Nature Physics 2015: Wheeler’s delayed-choice Gedanken experiment with a single atom
- University of Wien 1999: Zeilinger’s fullerene experiment
- Corgier et al. 2020: Non-linear Bragg trap interferometer
- Wikipedia: The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester should blow your mind
- University of Maryland, Scarcelli et al 2007: Two photon imaging delayed choice experiment conducted
- Wikipedia: Delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment performed in 1999 at the University of Maryland
- YouTube: Video describing and explaining the (flawed) 1999 experiment
- Quora, Mark Fernee 2017: Delayed choice experiment 1999 flawed
- NewLight Photonics: Nonlinear BBO crystal
- Wikipedia: Fourier analysis has many scientific applications
- China Science 2016: A chinese quantum radar prototype
8: Information, Communication, Entropy
- Wikipedia: A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Claude Shannon
- Mapping Ignorance 2020: Maxwell’s demon dethroned by information theory
- Wikipedia: The definition of entropy
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam:The fight against entropy; Operation Nightwatch
- Machine Learning Mastery 2019: Information theory and entropy
- Cliffs Notes: Work and energy
- Wikipedia: The information theory definition of entropy
- Quae.nl: Time as astronomical calculation
- Wikipedia: Memento the movie
- University of Maryland 1999: The delayed choice quantum eraser experiment by Yoon-Ho Kim, R. Yu, S.P. Kulik, and Y.H. Shih
- Quora 2017, Mark John Fernee: Is the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment flawed?
9: The dubious existence of the photon
- Wikipedia: The standard model of elementary particles
10: Retrocausality in physical reality
- Daryl Bem, Cornell University 2011): Feeling The Future: Is Precognition Possible?
- Akhila Raman 2018: On Daryl Bem’s Feeling the Future Paper
- Daryl Bem, Cornell University 2016: Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events
- University of Sydney 2018: Quantum ‘hack’ to unleash computing power
- Journal of Scientific Exploration, Radin 2004: Electrodermal Presentiments of Future Emotions
- Wikipedia: The Monte Carlo Fallacy
11: Quantum biology
- YouTube 2013: William Stranger interview Dr. Mae-Wan Ho in London
- Science in Society Archive 1999: Quantitative Image Analysis of Birefringent Biological Materials
- Wikipedia: Quantum tunneling – history
- YouTube 2020: How Plants Use Quantum Mechanics
- Wikipedia: Hartmann effect
- Quanta Magazine 2020: Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
- Nature 2020: Measurement of the time spent by a tunnelling atom within the barrier region
- Nobelprize.org: Brian David Josephson – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973
- [Wikipedia: Voodoo Science
- Homolog.us 2013: Did Josephson Lose His Mind or Was He Ahead of His Time?
- Wikipedia: Exciton
- PNAS 1974: Electron Transfer Between Biological Molecules by Thermally Activated Tunneling
- ScienceDirect 1966: De Vault & chance, Studies of Photosynthesis using a pulsed LASER
- Wikipedia: Light-harvesting complexes of green plants
- Wikipedia: 3D random walk
- Nemosciencemuseum.nl: Module photosynthesis
- Graham Fleming in Nature in 2017: Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems
- Wikipedia: The Avogrado Constant
- Wikipedia: Quantum decoherence – Criticism
- Wikipedia: Anthony James Legget
- University of Illinois 2002: A.J. Legget – Probing quantum mechanics towards the everyday world: where do we stand?
- Science Cha, Murray, Klinman 1989 : Hydrogen Tunneling in Enzyme Reactions
- Wikipedia: Enzyme
- University of Illinois 2004, Solov’yov, Schulten: Cryptochrome and Magnetic Sensing
- Science in Society 1997, Mae Wan Ho Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience
- Nobelprize.org: In 2004, Richard Axal and Linda Buck received the Nobel Prize for their research on “Odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”
- PNAS 2011: Molecular vibration-sensing component in Drosophila melanogaster olfaction
- Wikipedia: Limonene and dipentene
- Genetics 1991, J. Cairns and P. L. Foster: Adaptive Reversion of a Frameshift Mutation in Escherichia Coli
- Nature 1988, John Cairns, Julie Overbaugh and Stephan Miller: The Origin of Mutants
- Physics World 2007: Photosynthesis takes a leaf out of the quantum book
- Genetics 1988, P.L. Foster: Adaptive mutation: has the unicorn landed?
- P. Marshall: Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design
- S. Ohno 1970 : Evolution by Gene Duplication (Free pdf download)
- Evolution News 2017: Convergent Evolution Is Even More Improbable than Evolution Itself
- Casey Blood: Implications of Quantum Physics
- W. Gitt: In The Beginning Was Information
- Stillness Speaks: Stanley Sobottka A Course in Consciousness
- YouTube: Winter in Holland, bird Swarm at sundown
- Wikipedia: Cyanobacteria
- Wikipedia: Symbiogenesis
12: A possible model. Descartes and the illusion of the world
- Thomas Campbell : My Big TOE
- B. Whitworth: The Physical World as Virtual Reality (Free pdf download)
- Wikipedia: Bhagavad Gita
- Wikipedia: René Descartes
- Wikipedia: Non-overlapping magisteria
- Wikipedia: The Cartesian theater
- CNN 2018: How close are we to video-recording our dreams?
- LiveScience 2013: Even Non-Amputees Can Feel a Phantom Limb
- YouTube 2019: Julie Beischel – You’re Not Even in There Now
- Quantum Physics & Consciousness, April 2020 : the SSE consilience conference
- Meme Guy: Rubber Hand Illusion
- Science Direct 2012, Guterstam, Ehrsson: Disowning one’s seen real body during an out-of-body illusion
- Wikipedia: Proprioception
- Frontiers in Psychology 2015, Tajima, Mizuno, Kume, Yoshida: The mirror illusion: does proprioceptive drift go hand in hand with sense of agency?
- EurekAlert! 2007: First out-of-body experience induced in laboratory setting
- Near Death Experience Research Foundation
- YouTube: The out-of-body and body-swap illusions featured in documentary
- Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm: Henrik Ehrsson ranked top 10 in Medicine & Life Science according to magazine Fokus
- PEAR (1979-2007): research into psychokinesis, started in 1978 by Robert Jahn
- Science Advances 2019, Projetti et. al.: Wigner’s friend experiments in the laboratory, in 2019
- A. Gefter: Cosmic Solipsism
- Wikipedia: Upanishads
- Subtle Energy – Jude Currivan: The Cosmic Hologram
- SymbolDictionary.net: Om (Aum, Omkar, Seed syllable, Pranhava)
- YouTube: Fay Dowker Public Lecture – Spacetime Atoms and the Unity of Physics
- Welcome to Julian Barbour’s web site
- VideoSift: “Killing Time: Nature and Illusions of time” Julian Barbour
- Vimeo: Julian Barbour’s COLLEGE FARM | The Mystery of the Arrow of Time
- Victor Zammit: Respected scientists who investigated open-minded
- Robert Lanza – BIOCENTRISM
13: Falsifiability of the consciousness hypothesis
- Wikipedia: Quantum Zeno effect
- IAEA & UNESCO 1974 – Degasperis et al : Does the lifetime of an unstable system depend on the measuring apparatus?
- Phys.org 2015: Zeno effect’ verified—atoms won’t move while you watch
- Φsi Encyclopedia: Animals in Psi Research – René Peoc’h
- YouTube: L’esprit peut-il influencer la matière? – Physique Quantique-Spiritualité
- Journal of Scientific Exploration 1995, Peoc’h: Psychokinetic Action of Young Chicks on the Path of An Illuminated Source
- BBC 2016: China launches quantum-enabled satellite Micius
- Wikipedia: Factorization
- Phys.org 2014: Largest number factored on a quantum device is 56,153
- Phys.org 2010: Chinese photonic quantum computer demonstrates quantum supremacy
- Wikipedia: Boson sampling – complexity of the problem
14 Consilience
- Ask a parapsychologist 2015 – John Kruth: The Survival Hypothesis: A Very Brief Discussion
- Journal of Near-Death Studies 2001, Knoblauch, Schmidt, Schnettler 2001: Different Kinds of Near-Death Experience: A Report on a Survey of Near-Death Experiences in Germany
- NDERF: Near Death Experience Research Foundation
- NDERF: NDE’s like the ones described by Anita Moorjani or Pam Reynolds
- ADCRF.org: Introduction to After Death Communication
- ADCRF.org: the story of Lynn S
- Reincarnation Research: Authenticated Memories of Past Lives
- Tom Shroder: Old Souls – Synopsis
- Leslie Kean: Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife
- Reincarnation Research: The Case of James Leininger
- Φsi Encyclopedia: Drop-In Communicators
- Φsi Encyclopedia: Runolfur Runolfsson
- Fourmilab: RetroPsychoKinesis & Experiments Online
Appendices
A: Observers in physics
- Experimental test of local observer independence
B: Faster than light communication with the quantum eraser?
C: Waves, phases and frequency
- Wikipedia: Phase of a sine wave is a modulo 360 function
- Sine wave: An animation
D: Locality and fields
- Wikipedia: Fermions
- Wikipedia: Pauli exclusion principle
- Wikipedia: Mesons
E: A short introduction to complex numbers
F: Multiversa, what it means in numbers
Glossary
- Amplitude: Wikipedia
- Nancy Danison: Backwards
- John Campbell on delayed choice experiments.
- Bragg’s law.
- Electron spin discovered by Goudsmit en Ühlenbeck
- Emergence: Wikipedia
- The varying electric field generates a varying magnetic field
- Quora: ‘Is entanglement real?’
- Watch the EPR-paradox on YouTube
- SI-Unit: Hertz
- Holography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
- Mach-Zehnder optical device
- Momentum: the amount of movement.
- There is only one mind
- Pk seriously investigated
- An absorptive polarizer
- John Wheeler and a DIY quantum eraser slideshow
- Solipsism: the belief or the philosophy
- The Guardian – What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?