Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect’s name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn’t matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein’s long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect’s findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.
Quora user Ross Heyman shared the following thought experiment by Neil deGrasse Tyson, famed astrophysicist and host of the TV show “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”:
There’s a worm in the street, you walk by it. Does the worm know that you think you’re smart? The worm has no concept of your smarts. Because you’re that much smarter than the worm. So the worm has no idea that something smart is walking by it. Which makes me wonder whether we have any concept—if a super species walked by us. Maybe they’re uninterested in us because we’re too stupid for them to even imagine having a conversation. You don’t walk by worms and go, “Gee, I wonder what the worm is thinking.” This is just not a thought that you have! So one of the best pieces of evidence for why we haven’t been visited by aliens is that they have actually observed us, and concluded there is no intelligent sign of life on earth.
The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In “Beyond Science” Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide.
Sammy Fernando was a tough, but colorful, character. He could play the Japanese mandolin and the rabana drum as well as sing and dance. He was working on the railways when he fell in love with Maggie Alwis.
He was so in love he wanted to spend all his time with Maggie, and he lost his job for missing work one too many days. At the age of 25, he became a distiller and a bootlegger of arrack, an alcoholic drink consumed in Sri Lanka.
He became an alcoholic, was imprisoned at least 8 times, and came to curse terribly at Maggie in his drunken anger. On the other hand, he was generous with his money, freely giving to poor children and a local temple—so much so that when he died at the age of 50, he had little left aside from a ring and his brass knuckles. He was hit by a truck in a drunken stupor.
About six months later, a little boy was born who would remember with startling clarity details from Fernando’s life—along with the colorful language, much to the chagrin of his prim and proper family.(more…)
Scientists Capture The Sound Of An Atom For The First Time
September 12, 2014 | by Stephen Luntz
Photo credit: Philip Krantz, Krantz NanoArt. An artificial atom (right) generates sound waves consisting of a stream of quantum particles picked up on the left by a “microphone” of metal fingers.Illustration not to scale.
It’s been only a day since an “artificial atom” was used to do extraordinary things with light, but now it’s the turn of sound. In a new paper published in Science, lead author Martin Gustafasson describes how an artificial atom and “the weakest sound that can be detected” form a tool for studying quantum behavior.
An artificial atom is a material made to behave electronically like a single atom. They can be formed from millions of billions of atoms, but share the atomic trait that they absorb certain quantities of energy and may then release this energy as light.
In a preparatory paper published in a July issue of Physical Review A, a sub-group of the Science authors note that an important feature of atoms is that they are much smaller than the wavelength of optical light, making them appear like a point. To achieve the same effect with formations made from multiple atoms, it is necessary to use the longer wavelengths of microwave radiation.(more…)
Photo credit: Princeton University, Engineering School. By creating a “self-trapping regime” scientists have made light behave like a crystal
On a late summer afternoon it can seem like sunlight has turned to honey, but could liquid—or even solid—light be more than a piece of poetry? Princeton University electrical engineers say not only is it possible, they’ve already made it happen.
In Physical Review X, the researchers reveal that they have locked individual photons together so that they become like a solid object.
“It’s something that we have never seen before,” says Dr. Andrew Houck, an associate professor of electrical engineering and one of the researchers. “This is a new behavior for light.”
The researchers constructed what they call an “artificial atom” made of 100 billion atoms engineered to act like a single unit. They then brought this close to a superconducting wire carrying photons. In one of the almost incomprehensible behaviors unique to the quantum world, the atom and the photons became entangled so that properties passed between the “atom” and the photons in the wire. The photons started to behave like atoms, correlating with each other to produce a single oscillating system.(more…)
Astronomer and mathematician Bernard Carr theorizes that many of the phenomena we experience but cannot explain within the physical laws of this dimension actually occur in other dimensions.
Bernard Carr (Wikimedia Commons)
Albert Einstein stated that there are at least four dimensions. The fourth dimension is time, or spacetime, since Einstein said space and time cannot be separated. In modern physics, theories about the existence of up to 11 dimensions and the possibility of more have gained traction.
Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says our consciousness interacts with another dimension. Furthermore, the multi-dimensional universe he envisions has a hierarchical structure. We are at the lowest-level dimension.
“The model resolves well-known philosophical problems concerning the relationship between matter and mind, elucidates the nature of time, and provides an ontological framework for the interpretation of phenomena such as apparitions, OBEs [out-of-body experiences], NDEs [near-death-experiences], and dreams,” he wrote in a conference abstract.
Carr reasons that our physical sensors only show us a 3-dimensional universe, though there are actually at least four dimensions. What exists in the higher dimensions are entities we cannot touch with our physical sensors. He said that such entities must still have a type of space to exist in.(more…)
Stanford University Professor Emeritus William A. Tiller has been researching a level of physical reality hitherto undetectable with conventional measurement instruments.
He says two kinds of substances exist:
1. The electric atom/molecule level: Substances on this level can be measured with traditional instruments. We can measure them because they are electric-charge based.
2. The magnetic information waves level: Tiller explains in an introduction to his research on his website: “This new level of substance, because it appears to function in the physical vacuum (the empty space between the fundamental electric particles that make up our normal electric atoms and molecules), is currently invisible to us and to our traditional measurement instruments.”
This second type of substance has great power, and it is affected by human thought.
Power of the Magnetic Information Waves
Tiller put the energy of the magnetic information waves level into perspective in an interview for the documentary “What the Bleep Do We Know?” (See the interviews below) He compared the latent energy of the entire known universe to the latent energy in the vacuum inside a single hydrogen atom.(more…)
By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times | September 10, 2014A visitor takes a phone photograph of a large back lit image of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the Science Museum’s ‘Collider’ exhibition in London, England, on Nov. 12, 2013. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In “Beyond Science” Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide.
The Large Hadron Collider earned its fame finding the Higgs boson particle, the so-called “God particle,” but it failed to find something very important it was looking for—superpartner particles. The search for superpartner particles has frustrated physicists to the point of figurative nail-biting—the particles aren’t where they were very much expected to be, and if they don’t exist, a paradigm shift could be imminent.
A principle called supersymmetry (casually referred to as “Susy,” pronounced “Suzy”) is supposed to balance the equation of our existence. According to Susy, every particle has a superpartner particle that we haven’t yet been able to detect.
“If superpartners are not found, we face a paradigm rupture in our basic grasp of quantum physics. Already this prospect is inspiring a radical rethinking of basic phenomena that underlie the fabric of the universe,” wrote Maria Spiropulu, an experimental particle physicist who works on the search for Susy using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, in a Scientific American article published May. They continued: “Indeed, results from the first run of the LHC have ruled out almost all the best-studied versions of supersymmetry. The negative results are beginning to produce if not a full-blown crisis in particle physics, then at least a widespread panic.”(more…)
Excerpt from The Voice of Muse, UN.AR.I.U.S., Elysium:
I would point out to the earth scientist, too, that his greatest weapon of defense is not in the powers or solution of chemicals which he has, heretofore, used with only a moderate success against his insect pests, but we will, in the future when the time is most apropos and suitable, give to him radiant energy machines which will enable him to control these insect pests. I would like to say here, incidentally, that while I was upon the earth, I too, tried to give to mankind the theory of the Universal Radiant Energy, and was most unsuccessful. Science would not accept God as coming down through the many different dimensions as whirling Radiant Vortexal Energy. But your whole hypothesis or the structure of your science, as you are expressing it, is based primarily upon these concepts as they were given to you – not only partially by myself, but from many of the other much greater minds than my own. I, too, was an instrument in the service of these great minds when I was upon earth and trying to explain these concepts to man. But do not let that dismay you for one moment because sometimes it takes many years for the little stream of water to wear away a huge granite boulder, but the granite of obstruction which exists in the human mind is purely an element which is existing in its own time and its own cycle and so it, too, shall pass.
The Radiant Energy Vortexal Theory will be very thoroughly understood and accepted; as a matter of fact, part of science in the near future years which are ahead of you, and if you can take any small part of satisfaction in this statement, then rest assured that you will have the ‘last smile’; for I can state with the utmost sincerity and the utmost sense of truth, that what you are teaching, as well as what I’m learning here in these dimensions which are above the earth, as they have been explained to mankind in your writings and in the transmissions, are actual truths and actual facts which so exist. It only remains for the eyes of mankind to be opened inwardly instead of so much outwardly, that he will be able to perceive these things in their entirety.(more…)
Keeping a sense of perspective in these crazy times is imperative, and as astronomy pushes the envelope, seeking an ever greater understanding of our place in the cosmos, we are sometimes rewarded with fascinating new visual interpretations of our universe that have the power to completely re-write our sense of purpose and possibility. Making the struggles we have here on Earth seem small. The following 3 videos are inspiring examples of how technology can assist in our evolution, and help us to keep stay grounded, by providing us renewed perspectives on life here on Gaia.
1. Laniakea – The Immeasurable Universe
Thanks to the recent work of a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii, we now have an even better of idea of just how tiny our little lives are in the big picture of the universe. In fact, as a new model for mapping the movement of galaxies has revealed, the cluster of galaxies that is home to planet earth may be around 100 times bigger than previously thought.
Setting out to answer the question, “where in the universe is the Milky Way?,” the team of scientists has drawn a compelling new map of the super cluster of galaxies which is our home, in relation to neighboring clusters. Gathering data on the positions and relative movements of over 8000 galaxies, while accounting for the effects of the continuous tug of gravity, they have mapped the cosmic flows, or flight paths of these galaxies, which gives the most comprehensive picture we’ve ever had of how the universe organizes itself.(more…)
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer and popular science writer and presenter, revered and loved for his inspired and enlightened perspective and sincere efforts to truly educate. Enjoy these selected quotes. – Zen
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned Dolphinese.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”
“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”(more…)
Some time ago I had a dream of being on this world where everyone was impoverished and everyone barely survived. This world had billions of people on it.
I saw myself as a participant in games, not just one but in as many as there were people and the game was murder, rape, beheadings, cannibalism and whatever you care to imagine took place. (Like The Hunger Games but on steroids and I do believe The Hunger Games is a psychic memory of this past).
This world was used as a reality show for the rest of the Orion systems’ entertainment and the participants were either victors or victims. The victors could kill and kill efficiently enough or graphically enough to make themselves well known throughout the system. Now before you say this sounds like hogwash, look at the present here now with the wrestling federation and the pseudonym’s the participants go by. This was similar to this Orion world only everything was real.
And like in The Hunger Games, the people were kept in a state of depravity and hunger. This was done in order that the depraved acts that were committed for the sake of entertainment could go on. A hungry depraved person is more likely to commit acts of murder and mayhem.
Now these acts of depravity went on for a very long time and this was video-taped and beamed to the masses of the Orion system as entertainment as I mentioned. But as happens with all civilizations, they eventually come to an end. Sometime in that future (our past), the great networks of interlocking computers that controlled and ran everything failed. When this happened there were many kinds of apocalypses that took place such as sheer mayhem, disease, famine, earth changes, etc. The souls that were hooked up to these megalithic computers of control also suddenly found, without the computers directives, they were lost. They became mental derelicts use to lives over and over again completely controlled by these computers now as beings with no direction, no control, no sense of what was right or wrong, up or down.(more…)
Now, it should be very apparent, not only to your students, but speaking generally of the world as a whole, that the earth is going through the change of a great cycle, and this is a very scientific cycle. These sciences will either create and reproduce a new race of people who are more suitably adapted to living with these higher concepts of life, or this science will surely destroy them, so the earth will have to be replanted with the new flora and fauna, new humanity in future ages after the atomic radiation has cooled. There are other numerous factions, or shall I call them more or less fear mongers, who are spreading doctrines which are somewhat falsely related to the astral concepts of some worlds, about so-called space-men who are ready to plunge in and save the world from destruction. Now, there are, of course, many entities who live in the astral worlds who are dominated by a great sense of, shall I say, ‘service to humanity’; but these forces or these entities, as they represent either individuals or large groups, are, sometimes, as you have been told about the Venuseans in the lower orders, not always well-directed nor are they always well ordered. So therefore, many earth people, at your present time, are falling victim to the well-meant but misdirected efforts of these astral forces who are interjecting their philosophies or their doctrines into the minds of the earth people. To clear up this situation before we resume our exploration, I will point out to you, that, as you know, there are great numbers of huge, as well as lesser or smaller astral worlds which exist in dimensional frequencies which are above that of the earth, and hundreds of billions of people are living in these worlds. (more…)
New Experiment Will Answer Some Mind-Bending Questions On Whether We Live In a Hologram
The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is completing a unique experiment called the Holometer which has recently started collecting data to answer some mind-bending questions about our universe–including whether we live in a hologram.
Much like characters on a television show would not know that their seemingly 3-D world exists only on a 2-D screen, we could be clueless that our 3-D space is just an illusion. The information about everything in our universe could actually be encoded in tiny packets in two dimensions.
Take a look around you. The walls, the chair you’re sitting in, your own body – they all seem real and solid. Yet there is a possibility that everything we see in the universe – including you and me – may be nothing more than a hologram.
All physical matter, everything we have around us is the result of a frequency. If the frequency is amplified, the structure of the matter will change. This self-contained system is a hologram. Change any one aspect of the hologram, and you change the entire system. (more…)
by Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan
-August 2014, Scientific American, 38-39, 43
Excerpt per Fair Use:
“IN HIS ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, THE GREEK PHILOSOPHER PLATO DESCRIBED prisoners who have spent their entire lives chained to the wall of a dark cavern. Behind the prisoners lies a flame, and between the flame and prisoners parade objects that cast shadows onto a wall in the prisoners’ field of view. These two-dimensional shadows are the only things that the prisoners have ever seen-their only reality. Their shackles have prevented them form perceiving the true world, a realm with one additional dimension to the world that they know, a dimension rich with complexity and-unbeknownst to the prisoners-capable of explaining all that they see. Plato was on to something.
We may all be living in a giant cosmic cave, created in the very first moments of existence. In the standard telling, the universe came into being during a big bang that started from an infinitely dense point, but according to recent calculations that we have carried out, we may be able to track the start of the universe back to an era before the big bang-an era with an additional dimension of space. This protouniverse may have left visible traces that upcoming astronomical observations could uncover.
The universe appears to us to exist in three dimensions of space and one of time-a geometry that we will refer to as the “three-dimensional universe.” In our scenario, this three-dimensional universe is merely the shadow of a world with four spatial dimensions. Specifically, our entire universe came into being during a stellar implosion in this suprauniverse, an implosion that created a three-dimensional shell around a four-dimensional black hole. Our universe is that shell.
Why would we postulate something that sounds, on the face of it, so absurd? We have two reasons. First, our ideas are not idle speculation-they are firmly grounded in the mathematics that describe space and time.(more…)
Spacetime Odyssey”:
can take any small part of satisfaction in this statement, then rest assured that you will have the ‘last smile’; for I can state with the utmost sincerity and the utmost sense of truth, that what you are teaching, as well as what I’m learning here in these dimensions which are above the earth, as they have been explained to mankind in your writings and in the transmissions, are actual truths and actual facts which so exist. It only remains for the eyes of mankind to be opened inwardly instead of so much outwardly, that he will be able to perceive these things in their entirety. 
Carl Sagan on Life, Learning and the Universe
ger. This was done in order that the depraved acts that were committed for the sake of entertainment could go on. A hungry depraved person is more likely to commit acts of murder and mayhem.
