Time and Space Are Not What You Think
Mind-Altering Quantum Experiment
Shows Time Has Never Existed As We Think It Does
In
2012 US National Medal of Science award winner Yakir Aharonov, who is regarded
as one of the world’s leading quantum theorists published a paper in Nature Physics showing that the present is
constrained by the past and the future. This means that what happens in the present
can depend on what happened in the future, which makes no sense, as quantum
physics rarely does. It also means that what happened in the past can effect
the present. Seems strange, doesn’t it? It’s definitely something hard to
wrap your head around.
“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)
This
isn’t the first time quantum physicists have studied the structure of time.
Below are details of an experiment, the same one mentioned in the paper cited
above.
Delayed Choice/Quantum Eraser/Time
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 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,
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 here.
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.” – Asher Peres,
pioneer in quantum information theory (source)(source)(source)
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.
Reality Doesn’t Exist Until We
Measure it: Quantum Experiment Confirms
Last
year, Australian scientists replicated a classic experiment confirming
that reality doesn’t actually exist until we measure it, that is, at the
quantum level.
“It proves
that measurement is everything. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if
you are not looking at it,” lead researcher and physicist Andrew
Truscott said in a press release.
The
replicated experiment is known John Wheeler’s delayed-choice thought
experiment, the experiment was first proposed back in 1978 using light beams
bounced by mirrors, but back then, the technology needed was pretty much
impossible. Now, almost 40 years later, the Australian team has managed to
recreate the experiment using helium atoms scattered by laser light.
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. We
published an article that goes into detail about it, and you can read that here.
“Quantum physics predictions about interference seem odd enough when
applied to light, which seems more like a wave, but to have done the experiment
with atoms, which are complicated things that have mass and interact with
electric fields and so on, adds to the weirdness,” said Roman
Khakimov, a PhD student who worked on the experiment.
To recreate
the experiment, researchers team trapped a bunch of helium atoms in a
suspended state known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, and then ejected them all
until there was only a single atom left.
The
chosen atom was then dropped through a pair of laser beams, which made a
grating pattern that acted as a crossroads that would scatter the path of the
atom, much like a solid grating would scatter light. After that, researchers randomly
added a second grating that recombined the paths, but only after the atom had
already passed the first grating.
When
this second grating was added, it led to destructive interference, which is
what you’d expect if the atom had travelled both paths, like a wave would. But
when the second grating was not added, no interference was observed, as if the
atom chose only one path.
The
fact that this second grating was only added after the atom passed through the
first crossroads suggests that the atom hadn’t yet determined its nature before
being measured a second time.
So,
if you believe that the atom did take a particular path or paths at the first
crossroad, this means that a future measurement was affecting the atom’s path.
“The
atoms did not travel from A to B. It was only when they were measured at the
end of the journey that their wave-like or particle-like behaviour was brought
into existence,”
– Andrew Truscott
You
can access the publication here.
“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)
Another
potential revelation of this experience is that “the observer creates the
reality.” Because it is a form of measuring, and a factor associated with
consciousness. A paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Essays by
Dean Radin, PhD, explains how this experiment has been used multiple times to
explore the role of consciousness in shaping the nature of physical
reality. (source)
In
this experiment, a double-slit optical system was used to test the possible
role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wave-function. The ratio
of the interference pattern’s double slit spectral power to its single slit
spectral power was predicted to decrease when attention was focused toward the
double slit as compared to away from it. The study found that factors
associated with consciousness “significantly” correlated
in predicted ways with perturbations in the double slit interference
pattern. (source)
I’ll
leave you with this one last quote to give you something to think about
“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)
From Cosmic
Scientist @ http://www.cosmicscientist.com/mind-altering-quantum-experiment-shows-time-has-never-existed-as-we-think-it-does/
and http://www.cosmicscientist.com/reality-doesnt-exist-until-we-measure-it-quantum-experiment-confirms/
For more information about quantum realities see http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/search/label/quantum%20reality
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