Quantum Experiment Shows How Time Doesn’t Exist As We
Think It Does (Mind-Altering)
by Arjun Walia
“We
choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to
explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum
mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery.”
-
Richard
Feynman, a Nobel laureate of the twentieth century (Radin, Dean. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory
Experiences In A Quantum Reality. New York, Paraview Pocket
Books, 2006)
The
concept of “time” is a weird one, and the world of quantum physics is even
weirder.
There is no shortage of observed phenomena which defy our understanding of
logic, bringing into play thoughts, feelings, emotions – consciousness itself,
and a post-materialist view of the universe. This fact is no
better illustrated than by the classic double slit experiment, which
has been used by physicists (repeatedly) to explore the role of
consciousness and its role in shaping/affecting physical reality. (source) The dominant role of a physical material
(Newtonian) universe was dropped the second quantum mechanics entered into the
equation and shook up the very foundation of science, as it continues to
do today.
“I
regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from
consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk
about, everything that we regard as existing, postulating consciousness.”
– Max
Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him
the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
There
is another groundbreaking, weird experiment that also has tremendous
implications for understanding the nature of our reality, more specifically,
the nature of what we call “time.”
It’s
known as the “delayed-choice” experiment, or “quantum eraser,” and it can be
considered a modified version of the double slit experiment.
To
understand the delayed choice experiment, you have to understand the quantum
double slit experiment.
In
this experiment, tiny bits of matter (photons, electrons, or any atomic-sized object)
are shot towards a screen that has two slits in it. On the other side of the
screen, a high tech video camera records where each photon lands. When
scientists close one slit, the camera will show us an expected pattern, as seen
in the video below. But when both slits are opened, an “interference pattern”
emerges – they begin to act like waves. This doesn’t mean that atomic objects
are observed as a wave (even though it recently has been ovserved as a wave),
they just act that way. It means that each photon individually goes
through both slits at the same time and interferes with itself, but it also
goes through one slit, and it goes through the other. Furthermore, it goes
through neither of them. The single piece of matter becomes a “wave” of potentials,
expressing itself in the form of multiple possibilities, and this is why
we get the interference pattern.
How
can a single piece of matter exist and express itself in multiple states,
without any physical properties, until it is “measured” or “observed?”
Furthermore, how does it choose which path, out of multiple possibilities, it
will take?
Then,
when an “observer” decides to measure and look at which slit the piece of
matter goes through, the “wave” of potential paths collapses into one single
path. The particle goes from becoming, again, a “wave” of potentials into one
particle taking a single route. It’s as if the particle knows it’s being
watched. The observer has some sort of effect on the behavior of the particle.
(You
can view a visual demonstration/explanation of the double slit experiment below.)
This quantum uncertainty
is defined as the ability,
“according to the quantum mechanic laws that govern subatomic affairs, of a
particle like an electron to exist in a murky state of possibility — to be
anywhere, everywhere or nowhere at all — until clicked into substantiality by a
laboratory detector or an eyeball.” (New York Times)
According
to physicist Andrew Truscott, lead researcher from a study published by the Australian National University,
the experiment suggests that
“reality does not exist unless we are looking at it.” It suggests
that we are living in a holographic-type of universe. (source)
Delayed Choice/Quantum Eraser/Time
So,
how is all of this information relevant to the concept of time? Just as the double
slit experiment illustrates how factors associated with consciousness collapse
the quantum wave function (a piece of matter existing in multiple potential
states) into a single piece of matter with defined physical properties (no
longer a wave, all those potential states collapsed into one), the delayed
choice experiment illustrates how what happens in the present can
change what happens(ed) in the past. It also shows how time can go backwards,
how cause and effect can be reversed, and how the future caused the past.
Like
the quantum double slit experiment, the delayed choice/quantum eraser has been
demonstrated and repeated time and time again. For example, Physicists at The
Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler’s
delayed-choice thought experiment, the findings were recently published in the
journal Nature Physics.
(source)
In
2007 (Science 315, 966, 2007),
scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus and showed that their
actions could retroactively change something which had already
happened.
“If
we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the quantum state of a single
system, curious paradoxes appear: quantum effects mimic not only instantaneous
action-at-a-distance, but also, as seen here, influence of future actions on
past events, even after these events have been irrevocably recorded.”
The
list literally goes on and on, and was first brought to the forefront by John
Wheeler, in 1978, which is why I am going to end this article with his
explanation of the delayed choice experiment. He believed that this experiment
was best explained on a cosmic scale.
Cosmic Scale Explanation
He
asks us to imagine a star emitting a photon billions of years ago, heading in the
direction of planet Earth. In between, there is a galaxy. As a result of what’s
known as “gravitational lensing,” the light will have to bend around the galaxy
in order to reach Earth, so it has to take one of two paths, go left or go
right. Billions of years later, if one decides to set up an apparatus to
“catch” the photon, the resulting pattern would be (as explained above in the
double slit experiment) an interference pattern. This demonstrates that the
photon took one way, and it took the other way.
One
could also choose to “peek” at the incoming photon, setting up a telescope on
each side of the galaxy to determine which side the photon took to reach Earth.
The very act of measuring or “watching” which way the photon comes in means it
can only come in from one side. The pattern will no longer be an interference
pattern representing multiple possiblities, but a single clump pattern showing
“one” way.
What
does this mean? It means how we choose to measure “now” affects what direction
the photon took billions of years ago. Our choice in the present moment
affected what had already happened in the past….
This
makes absolutely no sense, which is a common phenomenon when it comes to
quantum physics. Regardless of our ability make sense of it, it’s real.
This
experiment also suggests that quantum entanglement (which has also been
verified, read more about that here) exists regardless of time. Meaning two bits of matter
can actually be entangled, again, in time.
Time
as we measure it and know it, doesn’t really exist.
How Is This Possible? Scientists Observe ONE Particle Exist In MULTIPLE States
“Matter”:
it’s what atoms and molecules are made up of. On the physical material level, it’s
what all physical objects are made up of; it is everything that surrounds us
and anything that has mass and volume. When scientists attempt to gain a better
understanding of the nature of our reality, matter is what they look to.
However, when scientists observe matter at the smallest possible level,
they are left with more questions than answers. This is thanks to the fact
that a tiny piece of matter, like a photon, or an electron, can exist in
multiple possible states (as a “wave”) even though it is one single particle…
which makes absolutely no sense.
In
this experiment, tiny bits of matter (photons, electrons, or any atomic-sized
object) are shot towards a screen that has two slits in it. On the other side
of the screen, a high tech video camera records where each photon lands. When
scientists close one slit, the camera will show us an expected pattern, as seen
in the video below. But when both slits are opened, an “interference pattern”
emerges – they begin to act like waves. This doesn’t mean that atomic objects
are observed as a wave, they just act that way. It means that each photon
individually goes through both slits at the same time and interferes with
itself, but it also goes through one slit, and it goes through the other.
Furthermore, it goes through neither of them. The single piece of matter
becomes a “wave” of potentials, expressing itself in the form of multiple
possibilities, and this is why we get the interference pattern.
How
can a single piece of matter exist and express itself in multiple states?
Furthermore, how does it choose which path, out of multiple possibilities, it
will take?
“Do
not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‘but how can it be
like that?’ Because you will get down the drain into a blind alley from which
nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.”
– (1) Richard Feynman
Here’s Where It Gets More Confusing
When
an observer is added, or when scientists decide to measure and look at which
slit the piece of matter goes through, the “wave” of potential paths collapses
into one single path. The particle goes from becoming, again, a “wave” of
potentials into one particle taking a single route. It’s as if the
particle knows it’s being watched. The observer has some sort of effect on the
behaviour of the particle.
The
quantum double slit experiment is a very popular experiment used to examine how
consciousness and our physical material world are intertwined. Again, just
to reiterate, when scientists decided to observe the tiny piece of matter, that
act of observation alone “collapsed” all those potentials into one state…
“What
I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third
or fourth year of graduate school… It is my task to convince you not to turn
away because you don’t understand it. You see my physics students don’t
understand it, that is because I don’t understand it.” –
(1) Richard
Feynman
This
type of confounding phenomenon has been repeatedly demonstrated, and
examined a number of times by experts from all over the world. For example, one
study published in the journal Physics
Essays explains how factors associated with consciousness
“significantly” correlated in predicted ways with perturbations in the double
slit interference pattern.
“Observation
not only disturbs what has to be measured, they produce it. We compel the
electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the
measurement.”
– Dean
Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (source)
Here is an audio/visual
demonstration of the experiment to get a better understanding of something so
truly incomprehensible.
What Does This Mean For US As Individuals And As One Human Race?
It’s
hard to know what exactly this means, but we are talking about observing what we
are all made up of, matter, at the smallest possible level. If the same rules
apply, then does this mean we ourselves are existing as a wave of possibilities
with regards to the direction we take in our lives? After all, we are all made
up of this “matter.” Are there other versions of our life playing out in
some type of alternate reality? What “collapses” us onto our choice of paths
from a wave of potentials? Is there an observer that does this? Is there
someone watching us? Is it our consciousness that is observing ourselves, and
is that dictating the makeup of our reality? So many questions to be asked, and
so few answers to be found.
One
thing that resonates with me is the idea that quantum physics and other
discoveries in various fields are simply a pre-curser to ancient knowledge. A
step behind, in the discovery of what was already known in our ancient world.
“Broadly
speaking, although there are some differences, I think Buddhist philosophy and
Quantum Mechanics can shake hands on their view of the world. We can see in
these great examples the fruits of human thinking. Regardless of the admiration
we feel for these great thinkers, we should not lose sight of the fact that
they were human beings just as we are.”
– Dalai Lama (source)
If
you factor in these quantum experiments, combined with the multitude of studies
examining parapsychological phenomenon (consciousness, power of the mind,
distant healing, telepathy, and other unexplainable but observable phenomenon),
as well as all of the evidence pointing to the fact that we can even influence
our own biological systems with thoughts alone (read more about that here), the picture (to me) becomes very clear. We
exist in a world that does not yet recognize the importance or the
power of thoughts, feelings, and emotions when it comes to the type of
human experience we create for ourselves and the inner state from which we act
and create it. These things do indeed have the power to change the world, they
are what will lead to the correction action, which is also necessary.
I
will leave you with this quote, as I have before:
“A
fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally
involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to
admit that the universe is a ‘mental’ construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James
Jeans wrote: ‘The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical
reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a
great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the
realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the
realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The
universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.'”
– R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and
Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, “The Mental Universe”; Nature
(436:29,2005) (source)
This definitely
gives you something to think about.
From Collective
Evolution @ http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/07/20/quantum-experiment-shows-how-time-doesnt-exist-as-we-think-it-does-mind-altering/
and http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/06/03/how-is-this-possible-scientists-observe-one-particle-exist-in-multiple-states/
For more information about the strange quantum pixelated surreality
we inhabit see http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/search/label/quantum%20reality
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