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Following the Quantum Drift of Exploration

8/28/2013

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Over the last few days I've been very excited to find new followers arriving from the scientific realms, and want to share this excitement as I believe it consolidates our collective contribution to the dawn of a new age. Physics is engaging with advancements in the thought process, stepping carefully into new waters with a new will to touch minds outside its orthodox fields. We all wondered what the LHC was going to deliver in searching for Higg's 'God Particle', which hesitantly vowed to change everything about everything we know. In some ways, it's done just that, presenting new questions to be answered about the nature of the Universe. Concurrently, we are witnessing frenzied investigations into the nature of Dark Materials, and although the two were at the outset only distantly related, there seems to have been an unexpected convergence of information connecting them.

Joshua Done, a science fiction writer, chose to follow my personal account recently. And today, I'm delighted to say, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory brought Quantumology into its collection! Their profile reads, "scientists and engineers are transforming the world through courageous discovery and innovation" which sounds pretty exciting to me, so I look forward to a fruitful exchange of propositions and ideas which lend weight to the transformations this world so desperately needs.

We are already treading a fine line between science and philosophy, with new challenges arising from questions of sentience. What constitutes an observer in the quantum sense is a pressing issue, and the realism of our being observed closely by the Universe (via the many means available to it!) increases as we delve into quandaries and paradoxes being posed by Dark Matter candidacy and New Physics. Cosmology, too, is pushing the boundaries as it begins to unravel the life cycles of planets and stars, finding symmetries which mirror our own creation and development. There is still a long way to go before we can rest comfortably in our association with the rest of the Universe and accept the small but significant role we play in its evolution and learning process. The more minds open to the possibilities surrounding these questions, the more possibilities will be open to us for exploration.
 

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David Bradley link
8/28/2013 05:46:17 pm

I may have followed your personal account, but that was only because we'd had what was I vaguely recall as a vaguely interesting but random conversation on Twitter, it wasn't meant to be an endorsement for any of your accounts and certainly not of this web site.

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    Kathy Ratcliffe has studied quantum mechanics since 1997, leads a life surrounded by birds and animals, and is a stalwart fan of Stargate SG1.

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