Quantum Teleportation to Quantum Thought: Psychism is now real Science

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"Quantum Teleportation to Quantum Thought:
Psychism is now real Science"

by Ray White

Something very exciting has happened for the future of the unification of science and metaphysics. This new evidence I think is the greatest step forward towards a scientific realization that there might be some possibility for the existence of psychism, magic and miracles. That neat little thing, which hasn't gotten nearly enough fanfares in the press, is Quantum Teleportation.

Quantum Teleportation is a somewhat mindboggling concept, but it's really not all that hard to explain philosophically. The mathematics is mind-bendingly complex and I certainly don't fully understand it myself. However I have been doing much armchair physics research myself in the topic of quantum physics lately, and I would like to share some of that with you.

I will go into much more detail on this issue of Quantum Teleportation, and also several other physics theories that lead up to it and also strengthen the footing of metaphysics, magic, and miracles. Although for now let me just tantalize you.

Quantum Teleportation does something very unique in the annals of science. It shows that it is possible for one thing to effect another without any intervening mechanism involved.

This has been the one gauntlet that has always been tossed by scientists towards believers in things like psychism, magic, miracles, astrology, etc. Scientists have always pointed to their scientific theories on action and reaction, cause and effect, particles and waves. They say things such as, 'If psychism exists - then show me the mechanism involved. Show me the particles or waves or signals that cause this communication across vast distances at nearly infinite speed!'

Well, the times they have now changed. Scientists at IBM and in Europe have shown that action at a distance can happen with no mechanism at all! Hard as it may be to believe. This is true science! In fact, the implication is - that this action may happen at infinite speed!

This field of Quantum Teleportation is also spoken about under the topic headings 'Quantum Computing' and 'Action at a distance.' There is a very good article on the subject in a June 98 article from Scientific American found here.

In a few moments I will talk more about the quantum physics history that builds up to this point, and tell you about a few of the brave individuals who bucked the system long ago and foresaw these holistic ramifications to quantum theory. But for now, more about Quantum Teleportation.

You see this all has to do with photons - AKA light beams. Photons have a property called polarity. As you probably know photons can be imagined as wiggling up and down, as if they were bits of flotsam bobbing on an ocean current. That, in a nutshell, is the idea of polarity. It's the direction that the photons are bobbing in. It could be vertical, or horizontal, or at any angle really. Indeed, it's quite easy for us to control this angle of vibration. In fact, that's what polarized sunglasses do. When light bounces off of a shiny surface, it has a tendency to be polarized in a certain direction. Imagine a cue ball bouncing off the side of a pool table, it usually bounces a certain way. Polarized sunglasses take advantage of this fact, and simply filter out the light that bounces off of shiny objects - saving your eyesight from the ravages of a bright summer's day. Photons are not nearly as predictable as cue balls. However they can be controlled to a certain point.

As you probably know, nuclear reactions have a tendency of giving off lots of light and other energies. When light is given off by a nuclear reaction it has a tendency to be polarized in certain directions. This is a consequence of the orbital type mechanics inside of an atom, and it depends on what kind of reaction is going on. What's even more interesting, there are some kinds of nuclear reactions, should I say explosions, that give off pairs of photons traveling in a mirror image type trajectory in completely opposite 180 degree directions. Not only are these photons traveling in opposite directions, but they also have the opposite polarity. Nature is fond of symmetry.

There's another interesting thing about these mirror image pairs of photons that emerge from certain kinds of nuclear reactions. They are what is known as 'entangled'. This is the really weird part. You see, whenever certain things happen to one of these entangled photons it also happens to the other photon involved. Even though that photon might be very far away (perhaps light-years away) at the time.

Does this sound unbelievable yet? It ought too! Heck, if you don't believe me, I urge you to check out the MSNBC article about Quantum Teleportation.

How does this entanglement work? Truth is, nobody knows. In fact, quantum theory basically implies that it just happens because the very fabric of the universe mandates it! The researchers who just proved this effect and published their findings in the journal Nature say - "it's as if the two photons were actually one" -. This is a very important statement, because an important physicist and visionary David Bohm has already predicted it to be that way decades ago. We will get back to him shortly.

How exactly did they prove this entanglement? Well, that's reasonably straightforward. What they did is, they created a nuclear reaction that produced some "entangled" pairs of photons. These photons were going in exactly opposite directions. On one end of the room they had a sensor that detected the polarity of those photons. On the other end of the room, they zapped these photons, completely reversing their polarity and destroying them in the process. But - NOT before changing their polarity. Now, what do you suppose happened to the untouched photons on the other end of the room? Well, their polarity was changed also, precisely and only because the original pair of photons were 'entangled' with the photons on the other end of the room. There was no kind of signal that went from one end of the room back and forth between these different streams of photons. They were entirely unconnected, except for the all-important fact that they were eternally connected at their moment of birth, in the tiny nuclear explosion that created them… Allow me to wax poetic, when I say that these photons were connected, just as we were all connected at the moment that everything was first forged in the divine fires of creation, which science calls the big bang.

The researchers who first demonstrated this Quantum Teleportation effect are associated with IBM and they intend to use this as a new form of communication in order to build super powerful quantum computers. If you ask me there might also be immediate applications for something similar to star trek style subspace radio.

This idea would create faster than light communication, but it would be like the old telegraph systems, not like modern radio which can broadcast between any two arbitrary points. With this faster than light quantum system you must have the infrastructure already in place. You have to set up a communication line between two distinct places, A and B and then set up the transmitting station half way in between A and B. You would need a nuclear source that emits a constant stream of particles all the time 24 hours a day. You would have to situate this emitting source half way in between the two places that you are communicating with. This communication link would be your virtual telegraph wire. It has to remain running all the time. this is not the signal it's self, but it's the carrier for the signal. It's like the river upon which the waves travel.

I believe you could use this method to instantly communicate between two stars. If the stars were 10 light years apart, then you would have to set up an emitter station half way in between - 5 light years away. The one drawback, you would have to turn on this central transmitting station, and then wait for 5 years until the photon stream reaches both of the destinations on either end of the line. We could probably also use this type of system to set up an instantaneous internet link between the Earth and other planets.

There's a possibility even more wild than that. Imagine, it could be possible to modulate the already existing high energy photons that are coming from stars in space. The stars have been emitting nuclear radiation for billions of years. Using this method, if you situated transmitters and relay stations properly you could set up an intra and inter galactic communication net. No wonder we can't detect any alien radio signals coming from space. Ordinary radio waves are much too slow when compared to quantum communication. Perhaps we have not found a signal from far away alien civilizations because we have not been looking for the right thing. Perhaps we should be looking for fluctuations in the polarization of light streaming at us all the time from stellar nuclear reactions.

I should note that this Quantum Teleportation principle doesn't apply just to photons, but other particles as well, even entire atoms. This technology might even be used some day for something like Star Trek style transporters, although that would almost have to be in the very far future. Even if the transmission problem were solved tomorrow, the big problems of sub-atomic computer scanning and reassembling of molecules are nowhere near being solved.

How could this idea of photon entanglement possibly be true? I'm sure that millions of scientists are scratching their heads in wonderment right now and still asking the same question.

Assuming that this finding fits your world view you might already be seeing scientific implications to this new phenomenon. I will try to enumerate more of them later on. But for now, examine one of the most obvious.

Living bodies are the most extraordinarily sensitive detectors of electromagnetic energy that we know. Sharks and other fish can navigate solely by the electric fields given off by other living things and inanimate objects. It is believed birds and maybe even common animals like house cats can also find their way across vast distances using this technique. Faint electromagnetic energy has always been suspected as being a conveyor of psychic information, but no signals were ever found. Now it has been shown that instantaneous point to point electromagnetic communication is possible, even with no intervening signal! This seemingly small scientific advance has infinitely vast implications, especially in areas of 'paranormal' research.

Perhaps there is a reason why psychic communication seems to be possible, especially between people who's lives are 'entangled' such as husband and wife, or identical twins.

A Historical Perspective:

"How in the world did scientists (of all people) ever postulate the existence of such a metaphysical type connection between separate and independent particles?" you might ask.

Well, it wasn't and isn't an easy paradigm shift for science to digest. Ain't that the truth! But It is an idea that has existed for 50-100 years. It was quietly ignored by most, and held in utter disbelief by others, and propounded by just a few. In fact, the possibility of Quantum Teleportation is one of the big reasons why Einstein himself had ideological problems with quantum theory.

Lets teleport back to Einstein's time and introduce a very overlooked and underrated character in the world of physics, David Bohm.

Bohm is a physicist who studied under Neils Bohr and has written many renowned books on the subject of quantum mechanics. He also taught at Princeton where he had much discussion with Einstein. Like Einstein he wasn't very happy with some of the implications of quantum mechanics. For instance the idea that particles have no existence until they are observed by someone.

Einstein originally proposed the possibility of Quantum Teleportation. However he presented it as a paradox that was meant to disprove quantum mechanics. This supposed paradox was called "The Einstein-Podlosky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox." However that paradox has now been proven to be a reality, and it's clearly time for some different thinking.

Bohm's answer to these problems was to come up with a new theory that postulated something called a 'Quantum potential' which is a kind of weak type nuclear force which does not diminish with distance. Using this model he was able to explain all of the unusual effects of quantum mechanics and Einsteinian theory. Eventually it occurred to him that what he was proposing was that on the sub nuclear level of existence, there is NO such thing as distance or space. It's all here and now. This is one of the only ways that Bohm could explain such seeming paradoxes as single electrons which can exist in several locations at the same time, or particles that can split into two negative and positive particles and still have the proper polarity when viewed simultaneously by two different people (IE: Quantum Teleportation).

Other quantum physicists have tried to explain such things by saying that there are multiple dimensions which only appear on a sub nuclear level, or by postulating such things as 'superstrings.' However, after looking over the evidence I think you would probably agree that the more sensible explanation is that (at least on a sub nuclear level) space does not exist. Everything is immediately interconnected. It's all one big thing.

In this model of reality, space and the dimensions are not much more than an illusion of perspective created in the mind. It is created in the same way that a three dimensional illusion is created by a hologram. (A hologram is composed of Fourier interference patterns on a mere two dimensional piece of photographic film, and yet a hologram still reproduces a completely realistic three dimensional image.) When we look at the universe we only see what looks like three dimensional space, perhaps because our perspective is too limited to see the actual reality.

In other words Bohm's theories more or less state that the universe is a big hologram. There is a very good book on this subject called "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot, which I highly recommend. Now that Quantum Teleportation has been proven to be a reality Bohm's theories require another look by everyone.

"The Holographic Universe" also talks about research on the human brain by Carl Pribram and others. This research indicates a holographic functioning of the brain. It talks about how memories have been proven to be stored in a distributed non localized manner in the brain (giving many examples of research.) He has also show that certain neurons respond to certain frequencies of stimuli, so that they are capable of trapping and responding to certain wave patterns. The holographic theory of the brain has been much researched and well documented for decades now (and it's how I first encountered the ideas of holographic theory). The book gives many examples.

The Holographic Universe book also mentioned Bohm's research into the nature of randomness and order and how he has proven that hidden order can exist in the universe (giving experimental examples). In other words he delves into the manifest and unmanifest which he calls enfolded (or implicit) and unfolded (or explicit) order.

David Bohm's own book "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" also gives his theories in a more technical way and details some of the mathematics involved.

Bohm also points to an idea that is derived from quantum equations that every square inch of vacuum contains more energy than is know in the entire universe. This Theory is called "Zero Point Energy" and it has also been proven recently. He says that this is an example of the enfolded (hidden) order in the universe (which some people might also call the underworld, or the dreamland). In other worlds our manifest reality is more like the whitecaps on the surface of a vast sea.

This Zero point energy may very well be the unknown force that is causing an extra drag on our deep space spacecraft, slowing them down unexpectedly. Pioneer 10 was meant to leave the solar system and explore interstellar space. But for some reason it is slowing down too much, and it will not be able to escape our solar system after all. There is a recent article about this effect on MSNBC.

Bohm sees the movement of particles and their collisions and transmutions between energy and different kinds of matter as a contiguous series of enfoldments and unfoldments. In other words, a series of destructions and recreations which are invisible to our perception. Sounds kind of magical doesn't it?

Bohm prefers that individual aspects of the universe not be viewed as 'things' but rather as 'relatively independent subtotalities.' By my own analysis of Bohm's terminology people don't die they are 'enfolded back into the implicit order of the holomotion.'

Suppose psychic energy is caused when your mind energy vibrates at a certain level causing a resonant vibration in the zero point energy all around us? And perhaps that resonance is transmitted by Quantum Teleportation? Or perhaps neutrinos are also involved? Recent measurements of neutrinos have revealed a mass that is measured in imaginary numbers. Something that should be impossible. Unless maybe neutrinos are also tachyons, and are capable of time travel.

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