The Dot Net site is reserved for the purest kind of science I can possibly deliver, but in this case the membrane between science and esoterics has to be stretched for reasons of - well, becoming apparent.
Non-locality, the phenomenon Einstein famously dubbed "spooky action at a distance", is a proven reality for particles. For people, there's no such research even if there should be so the likes of you and me aren't included in the positivist pot. Which is a bit of a shame, and something perhaps to be worked on soon, for it seems that when you believe something, its reality becomes that much more, well, realistic.
When my quantum quest was in its early stages at the onset of the Millennium, I knew non-locality existed as a quantum phenomenon. What was missing, at the time, was infallible personal experience of it. Then in 2015, personal experience arrived in droves. Like a swarm of bees settling on a chosen spot, my world was filled with communicative instances that can only be explained by the non-locality principality. Without detailing those experiences here (you can find enough reference on the other Quantumology sites), the point would be that I'm not alone. Many millions of other people will have been experiencing similar things, just as millions of other people were inexplicably waking up to "Quantum" implications just before the turn of the century.
Non-locality, the phenomenon Einstein famously dubbed "spooky action at a distance", is a proven reality for particles. For people, there's no such research even if there should be so the likes of you and me aren't included in the positivist pot. Which is a bit of a shame, and something perhaps to be worked on soon, for it seems that when you believe something, its reality becomes that much more, well, realistic.
When my quantum quest was in its early stages at the onset of the Millennium, I knew non-locality existed as a quantum phenomenon. What was missing, at the time, was infallible personal experience of it. Then in 2015, personal experience arrived in droves. Like a swarm of bees settling on a chosen spot, my world was filled with communicative instances that can only be explained by the non-locality principality. Without detailing those experiences here (you can find enough reference on the other Quantumology sites), the point would be that I'm not alone. Many millions of other people will have been experiencing similar things, just as millions of other people were inexplicably waking up to "Quantum" implications just before the turn of the century.
Scientifically, there's a tendency to stick tightly to the experimental rules of focussing on particle behaviour and neglecting the wider implications. In this sense, there is ground to be covered which hasn't even been looked at yet, and as signs become more strident that quantum principles apply to us, research programmes will hopefully take us into proven territory where we can find the confidence to live and work with these principles in mind, and find our physical reality evolving accordingly. Recently, Symmetry Magazine published an article which shines an optimistic light on this version of the future.
The only barrier to this bridge being built is attitude. At the Paris Cosmology Colloquium in 2012, I approached the problem of Standard Model reversion to infinity in the dinner queue, where Hector de Vega refused to answer it, saying, "Different science, different science," subsequently moving swiftly down the line to join more intelligent members of his party. The lady standing next to me vindicated my questionable IQ by saying she thought it was a pretty good question, and George Smoot deigned to afford ten minutes of his time to discussing the presence of neutrinos in the early Universe with me, but aside from these two positive interactions, my time at the conference was spent in virtual isolation. In looking for a link today, it appears the 2015 Colloquium was in Hector's honour, indicating his move into other dimensions, where the science he studied over his lifetime surely takes a different form. My experiences since then, at Lambda and most recently at NNN17, demonstrate a growing warmth towards the unknown, and a freshlly open mindset cannot help but create a wellspring for new, innovative forms of experimentation.
The only barrier to this bridge being built is attitude. At the Paris Cosmology Colloquium in 2012, I approached the problem of Standard Model reversion to infinity in the dinner queue, where Hector de Vega refused to answer it, saying, "Different science, different science," subsequently moving swiftly down the line to join more intelligent members of his party. The lady standing next to me vindicated my questionable IQ by saying she thought it was a pretty good question, and George Smoot deigned to afford ten minutes of his time to discussing the presence of neutrinos in the early Universe with me, but aside from these two positive interactions, my time at the conference was spent in virtual isolation. In looking for a link today, it appears the 2015 Colloquium was in Hector's honour, indicating his move into other dimensions, where the science he studied over his lifetime surely takes a different form. My experiences since then, at Lambda and most recently at NNN17, demonstrate a growing warmth towards the unknown, and a freshlly open mindset cannot help but create a wellspring for new, innovative forms of experimentation.
The virtual is indeed real, as explained here in Scientific American. So it would seem that our virtual sense of attachment to other souls, to our dreams, to the ways in which we would wish to live, teeter on the point of a paradox yet to be fully understood, one which many people have come to dub "The Law of Attraction" to the annoyance of others (including myself) who veer towards the paradox more than any secret solution for making things happen. The paradox, in effect, is whether we have control over the events of our experience, or whether we are given to flow along with our particle mass on a wave form of pre-destined parameters. What has this to do with non-locality? Well, whichever is the case, we seem to carry others along with us, for it has to be said that the effects of conscious exchange (even when unconsciously executed) have in influential impact over the course of personal and social histories.
Whether your own experience causes you to question this paradox or not, you will have had experiences of an inexplicable nature. If you haven't, you can safely place yourself next to the nearest positivist and share the denial of evidence which refuses to present itself along with an explanatory guidebook. While esoteric experiences continue to be shared by ever-increasing numbers of people in increasingly diverse ways, the tide will sweep a turn in favour of ground breaking exploration, and we are part of that swell, of the building tsunami waiting to hit the small town of Traditionalism - we are part of something we can't explain, but the thing we are part of is part of the Universe, and it has to be said that the bigger picture demonstrates the truth of its own diversity, even if the devil is inevitably in the detail.
When you feel connected with someone, or you sense a direction that feels right to take, or you're partaking in a game show that requires of you to account for gut instinct in answering a question you don't know, just trust. That's all we can do right now, it's all we may ever be able to do for this lifetime, despite hopes (mine or anyone else's) that the quantum conundrum of how subatomic mechanics relates to us will be revealed while we are still here in this dimension to appreciate the revelation. In trusting, we forge a link to that part of the Universe wanting to divulge this information, and we have a duty to protect it against the ravages of positivists who will insist on its inaccuracy until such time as evidence secures a reason to prove otherwise. As has happened with many scientific suggestions throughout the eons of time.
Whether your own experience causes you to question this paradox or not, you will have had experiences of an inexplicable nature. If you haven't, you can safely place yourself next to the nearest positivist and share the denial of evidence which refuses to present itself along with an explanatory guidebook. While esoteric experiences continue to be shared by ever-increasing numbers of people in increasingly diverse ways, the tide will sweep a turn in favour of ground breaking exploration, and we are part of that swell, of the building tsunami waiting to hit the small town of Traditionalism - we are part of something we can't explain, but the thing we are part of is part of the Universe, and it has to be said that the bigger picture demonstrates the truth of its own diversity, even if the devil is inevitably in the detail.
When you feel connected with someone, or you sense a direction that feels right to take, or you're partaking in a game show that requires of you to account for gut instinct in answering a question you don't know, just trust. That's all we can do right now, it's all we may ever be able to do for this lifetime, despite hopes (mine or anyone else's) that the quantum conundrum of how subatomic mechanics relates to us will be revealed while we are still here in this dimension to appreciate the revelation. In trusting, we forge a link to that part of the Universe wanting to divulge this information, and we have a duty to protect it against the ravages of positivists who will insist on its inaccuracy until such time as evidence secures a reason to prove otherwise. As has happened with many scientific suggestions throughout the eons of time.
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