Quantum Physics is NOT Weird

Introduction (Quantum Physics in the media)

1. Life on the Edge by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden.
2. Real Quanta by Martijn van Calmthout.
3. 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
4. Physicists Prove Einstein Wrong With ‘Spooky’ Quantum Experiment – NBC News, Jesse Emspak – March 2015
5. Reality does not exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms. Mind = blown. www.sciencealert.com, Fiona McDonald – June 2015
6. ‘Zeno effect’ verified – atoms won’t move while you watch’ – Phys.org – Bill Steele – October 2015

1: Paradoxes – ‘I know how it is’

1. Examples where your visual cortex is leading you astray
2. Ames Room animation

2: The discovery of the solar system

1. Ptolemaic movements: the Teacup carousel
2. YouTube: Ptolemaic System Simulator.
3. Wikipedia: Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
4. Future Learn: Kepler’s harmonic law
5. Wikipedia: Kepler’s equation
6. Wikipedia: Kepler’s three laws
7. Wikipedia: Sir Isaac Newton
8. Amazon: Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
9. Gutenberg.org: Newton: Opticks
10. Science Alert 2016: A black hole in our laboratories?
11. Wikipedia: Laplace’s hypothetical demon
12. Wikipedia: Christiaan Huygens
13. Gutenberg.org: Huygens, Traité de la lumière
14. Wikipedia: Polarization
15. Wikipedia: Snell’s law

3: The clockwork universe and the ether

1. Wikipedia: Coherent
2. Wikipedia: Frequency
3. Wikipedia: Matter waves
4. Wikipedia: Moiré effect
5. YouTube: Moiré animation by Amanita
6. Wikipedia: Peak amplitude
7. Online Tone generator: Free online tone generator program
8. PHET Colorado: Online simulation: electric field vector
9. Physics Classroom: Online simulation: magnetic field vector
10. Wikipedia: Maxwell’s equations
11. Animation: Electromagnetic wave
12. Wikipedia: Michelson Morley: interferometric setup
13. Wikipedia: Serendipity
14. Wikipedia: Kirchhoff laws
15. Wikipedia: Black Body Radiation
16. Wikipedia: Max Planck
17. Wikipedia: Ludwig Boltzmann
18. Wiley.com: Planck, Zur Theorie der Wärmestrahlung

4: The collapse of classical physics

1. H. Bruning: Different types of waves – animation
2. Mediacollege.com: Sound waves – propagation
3. Scienceworld: Einstein: Special relativity
4. Wikipedia: Einstein: Brownian motion
5. Wikipedia: Einstein: Photoelectric effect
6. Faraday Physics: Einstein: Mass-Energy equivalence
7. Wikipedia: A gas of light particles: Bose-Einstein condensate
8. Spiff Rit Edu: Photon gets its name: P. Lenard – Ueber die lichtelektrische Wirkung
9. Nikon: Fixed aperture: DSLR Camera Basics
10. Wikipedia: Millikan: Measuring the charge of the electron
11. Wikipedia: Rutherford: Marsden-Geiger experiment
12. Encyclopedia Britannica: Ernest Rutherford
13. Tutorials Point: Marsden-Geiger experiment
14. Myanmar Arts: Gold Foil Making
15. Physics Open lab: Gold Leaf Thickness with Alpha Spectrometry
16. Wikipedia: Pauli: Exclusion principle
17. E = mc² Explained
18. Wikipedia: Spectral lines of hydrogen
19. Wikipedia: Rydberg formula
20. Encyclopedia Britannica: Niels Bohr
21. Lumen Physics: The momentum of the photon
22. Wikimedia Commons: Circular standing wave: the 7th harmonic or the 7th ‘The Broglie’ orbit
23. Physics Experiments: Diffraction on a CD
24. Hyper Physics: Davisson Germer experiment
25. Nobelprize.org: Nobel Prize Davisson and Thomson
26. Nobelprize.org: First electron microscope by: Ernst Ruska

5: Uncertainty, the quantum collapse

1. Science Alert 2019: Wave behavior of large molecules
2. Wikipedia: Proof by contradiction in logic and mathematics
3. YouTube: One electron at a time double slit experiment by Akira Tonomura
4. Physics Today 2013: Akira Tonomura
5. University of Tennessee: Single slit Fraunhofer diffraction
6. LiveScience 2014: What Are Imaginary Numbers?
7. Math is Fun: What is a vector?
8. Infinite Potential: Bohm’s quantum potential
9. ID Quantique: Implementing Quantum Draws to Secure Lotteries
10. Numericana: The Solway conferences
11. Wikipedia: Gedanken-experiment by Einstein – 1927
12. The Physics Classroom: The Momentum Conservation Principle
13. Physics World 2014: SOLEIL scientists create double-slit thought experiment
14. ToutestQuantique: Wave-Particle Duality animation
15. Wikipedia: Niels Bohr Institute
16. Wikipedia: Atomic physics and quantum physics
17. Wikipedia: The Copenhagen interpretation “is now widely felt to be unacceptable”
18. Wikipedia: Metaphysics
19. The Information Philosopher: The Copenhagen interpretation – lecture by Heisenberg 1955/56 (annotated)
20. Wikipedia: Quantum Decoherence hypothesis
21. LiveScience 2020: Schrödinger’s thought experiment about a sealed box containing a living cat
22. Science Mag 2016: A both dead and living cat experiment
23. Internet Achive: Schrödinger’s What is life?
24. YouTube: The higher electron orbits: these clouds have different bizarre forms
25. Amolf; Aneta Sylwia Stodolna – 2014: Taking snapshots of atomic wave functions with a photoionization microscope
26. NewScientist May 2013: Smile, hydrogen atom, you’re on quantum camera

6: An obscuring forest of hypotheses

1. Wikipedia: The mathematical foundations of relativistic quantum mechanics
2. Los Angeles Times 2016 :The human eye seems to be able to register a single photon
3. Pittsburg University: Einstein’s thought experiment with a photon in a box
4. NASA Science 2017: The holographic principle
5. YouTube: The Cosmic Hologram: Jude Currivan 2017
6. Wikipedia: Bell’s theorem
7. Alien Ryder Flex: Experiment on a sunny day; Third-Polarizing-Filter Experiment Demystified
8. QuTech 2015: A loophole-free Bell test
9. Alain Aspect 2000: Bell’s Theorem : The naive view of an experimentalist
10. Eurekalert! 2018: The BIG Bell Test
11. TheBigBellTest.org: The meaning and the history of the Bell test
12. Wikipedia: Alternative quantum physics hypotheses
13. QuantaMagazine 2017: Quantum hypotheses criticized
14. Physical Review 2011: Testing the unresolved uncertainty concerning the interpretation of quantum physics
15. Wikipedia: The “fuga vacui” hypothesis
16. IMDb: The Matrix
17. Andrei Khrennikov 2008: Did EPR make a Mistake? The role of von Neumann’s and Lüders postulate in the EPR-Bohm-Bell considerations
18. University of Vienna: Anton Zeilinger 1999; interference of macroscopic particles
19. Nature Communications 2011: Quantum interference of large organic molecules
20. FourmiLab: Helmut Schmidt 1993; pk experiments
21. Wikipedia: Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist)
22. Craig Weiler 2013: Psi Wars -TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet
23. YouTube 2017: The quantum Zeno effect
24. Cornell University 2015: ‘Zeno effect’ verified: Atoms won’t move while you watch
25. Physics Essays 25 – 2012: Radin, Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments
26. Physics Essays 26 -2013: Radin, Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern
27. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2005: psi entanglement
28. Wikipedia: fMRI
29. PhysicsWorld 2018: chlorophyll chooses the most efficient quantum option
30. Wikipedia: simple fluorescence experiment
31. PhysicsWorld 2007: Quantum processes in biological systems were considered impossible
32. Futurism.com 2014: John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe
33. Physical Review 2006: Populating the Landscape: A Top-Down Approach
34. Los Angeles Times 2016: The human eye is sensitive enough to detect a single photon
35. Nature Communications 2015: Simultaneous observation of the quantization and the interference pattern
36. Wikimedia Commons: Standing wave vibration

7: The delayed choice experiments

1. Wikipedia: John Wheeler – his delayed choice experiments
2. Wikipedia: Phase (waves)
3. Wikipedia: Light waves reflecting on mirrors – whether full or semi-silvered – experience a phase shift of π (180^o) or none at all
4. Wikipedia: Occam’s razor
5. Nature Physics 2015: Wheeler’s delayed-choice Gedanken experiment with a single atom
6. University of Wien 1999: Zeilinger’s fullerene experiment
7. Corgier et al. 2020: Non-linear Bragg trap interferometer
8. Wikipedia: The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester should blow your mind
9. University of Maryland, Scarcelli et al 2007: Two photon imaging delayed choice experiment conducted
10. Wikipedia: Delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment performed in 1999 at the University of Maryland
11. YouTube: Video describing and explaining the (flawed) 1999 experiment
12. Quora, Mark Fernee 2017: Delayed choice experiment 1999 flawed
13. NewLight Photonics: Nonlinear BBO crystal
14. Wikipedia: Fourier analysis has many scientific applications
15. China Science 2016: A chinese quantum radar prototype

8: Information, Communication, Entropy

1. Wikipedia: A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Claude Shannon
2. Mapping Ignorance 2020: Maxwell’s demon dethroned by information theory
3. Wikipedia: The definition of entropy
4. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam:The fight against entropy; Operation Nightwatch
5. Machine Learning Mastery 2019: Information theory and entropy
6. Cliffs Notes: Work and energy
7. Wikipedia: The information theory definition of entropy
8. Quae.nl: Time as astronomical calculation
9. Wikipedia: Memento the movie
10. University of Maryland 1999: The delayed choice quantum eraser experiment by Yoon-Ho Kim, R. Yu, S.P. Kulik, and Y.H. Shih
11. Quora 2017, Mark John Fernee: Is the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment flawed?

9: The dubious existence of the photon

1. Wikipedia: The standard model of elementary particles

10: Retrocausality in physical reality

1. Daryl Bem, Cornell University 2011): Feeling The Future: Is Precognition Possible?
2. Akhila Raman 2018: On Daryl Bem’s Feeling the Future Paper
3. Daryl Bem, Cornell University 2016: Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events
4. University of Sydney 2018: Quantum ‘hack’ to unleash computing power
5. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Radin 2004: Electrodermal Presentiments of Future Emotions
6. Wikipedia: The Monte Carlo Fallacy

11: Quantum biology

1. YouTube 2013: William Stranger interview Dr. Mae-Wan Ho in London
2. Science in Society Archive 1999: Quantitative Image Analysis of Birefringent Biological Materials
3. Wikipedia: Quantum tunneling – history
4. YouTube 2020: How Plants Use Quantum Mechanics
5. Wikipedia: Hartmann effect
6. Quanta Magazine 2020: Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
7. Nature 2020: Measurement of the time spent by a tunnelling atom within the barrier region
8. Nobelprize.org: Brian David Josephson – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973
9. [Wikipedia: Voodoo Science
10. Homolog.us 2013: Did Josephson Lose His Mind or Was He Ahead of His Time?
11. Wikipedia: Exciton
12. PNAS 1974: Electron Transfer Between Biological Molecules by Thermally Activated Tunneling
13. ScienceDirect 1966: De Vault & chance, Studies of Photosynthesis using a pulsed LASER
14. Wikipedia: Light-harvesting complexes of green plants
15. Wikipedia: 3D random walk
16. Nemosciencemuseum.nl: Module photosynthesis
17. Graham Fleming in Nature in 2017: Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems
18. Wikipedia: The Avogrado Constant
19. Wikipedia: Quantum decoherence – Criticism
20. Wikipedia: Anthony James Legget
21. University of Illinois 2002: A.J. Legget – Probing quantum mechanics towards the everyday world: where do we stand?
22. Science Cha, Murray, Klinman 1989 : Hydrogen Tunneling in Enzyme Reactions
23. Wikipedia: Enzyme
24. University of Illinois 2004, Solov’yov, Schulten: Cryptochrome and Magnetic Sensing
25. Science in Society 1997, Mae Wan Ho Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience
26. 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”
27. PNAS 2011: Molecular vibration-sensing component in Drosophila melanogaster olfaction
28. Wikipedia: Limonene and dipentene
29. Genetics 1991, J. Cairns and P. L. Foster: Adaptive Reversion of a Frameshift Mutation in Escherichia Coli
30. Nature 1988, John Cairns, Julie Overbaugh and Stephan Miller: The Origin of Mutants
31. Physics World 2007: Photosynthesis takes a leaf out of the quantum book
32. Genetics 1988, P.L. Foster: Adaptive mutation: has the unicorn landed?
33. P. Marshall: Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design
34. S. Ohno 1970 : Evolution by Gene Duplication (Free pdf download)
35. Evolution News 2017: Convergent Evolution Is Even More Improbable than Evolution Itself
36. Casey Blood: Implications of Quantum Physics
37. W. Gitt: In The Beginning Was Information
38. Stillness Speaks: Stanley Sobottka A Course in Consciousness
39. YouTube: Winter in Holland, bird Swarm at sundown
40. Wikipedia: Cyanobacteria
41. Wikipedia: Symbiogenesis

12: A possible model. Descartes and the illusion of the world

1. Thomas Campbell : My Big TOE
2. B. Whitworth: The Physical World as Virtual Reality (Free pdf download)
3. Wikipedia: Bhagavad Gita
4. Wikipedia: René Descartes
5. Wikipedia: Non-overlapping magisteria
6. Wikipedia: The Cartesian theater
7. CNN 2018: How close are we to video-recording our dreams?
8. LiveScience 2013: Even Non-Amputees Can Feel a Phantom Limb
9. YouTube 2019: Julie Beischel – You’re Not Even in There Now
10. Quantum Physics & Consciousness, April 2020 : the SSE consilience conference
11. Meme Guy: Rubber Hand Illusion
12. Science Direct 2012, Guterstam, Ehrsson: Disowning one’s seen real body during an out-of-body illusion
13. Wikipedia: Proprioception
14. Frontiers in Psychology 2015, Tajima, Mizuno, Kume, Yoshida: The mirror illusion: does proprioceptive drift go hand in hand with sense of agency?
15. EurekAlert! 2007: First out-of-body experience induced in laboratory setting
16. Near Death Experience Research Foundation
17. YouTube: The out-of-body and body-swap illusions featured in documentary
18. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm: Henrik Ehrsson ranked top 10 in Medicine & Life Science according to magazine Fokus
19. PEAR (1979-2007): research into psychokinesis, started in 1978 by Robert Jahn
20. Science Advances 2019, Projetti et. al.: Wigner’s friend experiments in the laboratory, in 2019
21. A. Gefter: Cosmic Solipsism
22. Wikipedia: Upanishads
23. Subtle Energy – Jude Currivan: The Cosmic Hologram
24. SymbolDictionary.net: Om (Aum, Omkar, Seed syllable, Pranhava)
25. YouTube: Fay Dowker Public Lecture – Spacetime Atoms and the Unity of Physics
26. Welcome to Julian Barbour’s web site
27. VideoSift: “Killing Time: Nature and Illusions of time” Julian Barbour
28. Vimeo: Julian Barbour’s COLLEGE FARM | The Mystery of the Arrow of Time
29. Victor Zammit: Respected scientists who investigated open-minded
30. Robert Lanza – BIOCENTRISM

13: Falsifiability of the consciousness hypothesis

1. Wikipedia: Quantum Zeno effect
2. IAEA & UNESCO 1974 – Degasperis et al : Does the lifetime of an unstable system depend on the measuring apparatus?
3. Phys.org 2015: Zeno effect’ verified—atoms won’t move while you watch
4. Φsi Encyclopedia: Animals in Psi Research – René Peoc’h
5. YouTube: L’esprit peut-il influencer la matière? – Physique Quantique-Spiritualité
6. Journal of Scientific Exploration 1995, Peoc’h: Psychokinetic Action of Young Chicks on the Path of An Illuminated Source
7. BBC 2016: China launches quantum-enabled satellite Micius
8. Wikipedia: Factorization
9. Phys.org 2014: Largest number factored on a quantum device is 56,153
10. Phys.org 2010: Chinese photonic quantum computer demonstrates quantum supremacy
11. Wikipedia: Boson sampling – complexity of the problem

14 Consilience

1. Ask a parapsychologist 2015 – John Kruth: The Survival Hypothesis: A Very Brief Discussion
2. 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
3. NDERF: Near Death Experience Research Foundation
4. NDERF: NDE’s like the ones described by Anita Moorjani or Pam Reynolds
5. ADCRF.org: Introduction to After Death Communication
6. ADCRF.org: the story of Lynn S
7. Reincarnation Research: Authenticated Memories of Past Lives
8. Tom Shroder: Old Souls – Synopsis
9. Leslie Kean: Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife
10. Reincarnation Research: The Case of James Leininger
11. Φsi Encyclopedia: Drop-In Communicators
12. Φsi Encyclopedia: Runolfur Runolfsson
13. Fourmilab: RetroPsychoKinesis & Experiments Online

Appendices

A: Observers in physics

1. Experimental test of local observer independence

B: Faster than light communication with the quantum eraser?

C: Waves, phases and frequency

1. Wikipedia: Phase of a sine wave is a modulo 360 function
2. Sine wave: An animation

D: Locality and fields

1. Wikipedia: Fermions
2. Wikipedia: Pauli exclusion principle
3. Wikipedia: Mesons

E: A short introduction to complex numbers

F: Multiversa, what it means in numbers

• Space.com 2015: Forget Space-Time: Information May Create the Cosmos

Glossary

1. Amplitude: Wikipedia
2. Nancy Danison: Backwards
3. John Campbell on delayed choice experiments.
4. Bragg’s law.
5. Electron spin discovered by Goudsmit en Ühlenbeck
6. Emergence: Wikipedia
7. The varying electric field generates a varying magnetic field
8. Quora: ‘Is entanglement real?’
9. Watch the EPR-paradox on YouTube
10. SI-Unit: Hertz
11. Holography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
12. Mach-Zehnder optical device
13. Momentum: the amount of movement.
14. There is only one mind
15. Pk seriously investigated
16. An absorptive polarizer
17. John Wheeler and a DIY quantum eraser slideshow
18. Solipsism: the belief or the philosophy
19. The Guardian – What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?