The "Molecular Age" Marches On
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
- Buddha
In the first 9 chapters of this e-paper we covered how information spreads and how most of us are behind the eight ball when it comes to the extent in which we understand this collection of human knowledge. We looked at Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Holograms, NDE's and more. In this second half we are going to expand upon the newly forming ideas on meditation, geometry, perception, consciousness, and a few other topics. Covering why these things are important to our understanding of existence, and how science is actively testing and getting results that test some of our most fundamental ideas.
This is the paradigm shift. A shift in the way we relate to reality, and how science defines it. Some might see this shift in striking correlation with the Mayan idea of "awakening" that supposedly started in Dec 2012 with our progression into the 'Age of Aquariuses' from the 'Piscean Age.' Some may see it through the lens of religion giving way to a more personable spiritual driven model of existence. Others may see it as simply the next chapter in human understanding; however we may personally view this shift in perspective, it is driven by experimental sciences and an ever evolving understanding of the dynamics of the universe.
To this date there is a large table of evidence for some very strange phenomenon, some of which we examined in previous chapters; that when viewed through the lens of this shift, suddenly become apparent in and reliant on, the process itself. For example, because there was a time when we previously could not witness quantum activity on a macroscopic level we believed that the quantum realm was purely speculative or 'descriptive' and mathematical only; Newtonian Physics was still the rule. Physics and biology at the time were not seen as reliant on quantum physics, tho we speculated that the quantum realm had to be important. Now we know there are many biological process that are reliant on Quantum effects. Processes such as bird migration, and even more importantly photosynthesis. Quantum effects occur in warm, wet, biological processes; something we once thought impossible. This created the brand new science of Quantum Biology. Under a Quantum lens of understanding many of these once unexplainable phenomenon become almost 'mundane.' If nothing else, a shift in understanding our own belief structures about what is possible, what is allowed, who the 'I' is; is worth the effort and slight discomfort of making the rest of the shift. Not to mention a benefit to the whole of humanity. We've even begun to break ground on a quantum idea that might explain 'ghosts:'
This is the paradigm shift. A shift in the way we relate to reality, and how science defines it. Some might see this shift in striking correlation with the Mayan idea of "awakening" that supposedly started in Dec 2012 with our progression into the 'Age of Aquariuses' from the 'Piscean Age.' Some may see it through the lens of religion giving way to a more personable spiritual driven model of existence. Others may see it as simply the next chapter in human understanding; however we may personally view this shift in perspective, it is driven by experimental sciences and an ever evolving understanding of the dynamics of the universe.
To this date there is a large table of evidence for some very strange phenomenon, some of which we examined in previous chapters; that when viewed through the lens of this shift, suddenly become apparent in and reliant on, the process itself. For example, because there was a time when we previously could not witness quantum activity on a macroscopic level we believed that the quantum realm was purely speculative or 'descriptive' and mathematical only; Newtonian Physics was still the rule. Physics and biology at the time were not seen as reliant on quantum physics, tho we speculated that the quantum realm had to be important. Now we know there are many biological process that are reliant on Quantum effects. Processes such as bird migration, and even more importantly photosynthesis. Quantum effects occur in warm, wet, biological processes; something we once thought impossible. This created the brand new science of Quantum Biology. Under a Quantum lens of understanding many of these once unexplainable phenomenon become almost 'mundane.' If nothing else, a shift in understanding our own belief structures about what is possible, what is allowed, who the 'I' is; is worth the effort and slight discomfort of making the rest of the shift. Not to mention a benefit to the whole of humanity. We've even begun to break ground on a quantum idea that might explain 'ghosts:'
"Reports of discernable visual patterns of people and events within a space when they are no longer present days later have intrigued scientists for centuries. Michael Persinger and Blake Dotta from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada exposed two separate spaces to the same rotating magnetic fields with specifically changing angular velocities while photons were elicited from two simultaneous chemoluminescent reactions in those spaces. The photon bursts from different durations between the injections were recorded with a photomultiplier tube. Up to at least three days later the same temporal patterns of photon emissions occurred in those spaces when the same configurations of magnetic fields were applied even without the initiation of the chemical reactions. Convergence of quantitative measurements indicate that photons emitted from a human body could be ‘stored” under specific conditions within the geomagnetic field or the space it occupies for days after the person was no longer present."
http://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/467
http://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/467
Throughout the history of science we have been wrong in a lot of our assumptions more so than we have been right. So it's safe to say that some of the ideas contained within could be wrong, but it's important to take into account the effects of asking questions and drawing conclusions, even if those conclusions turn out to be wrong and how it can still move us forward in understanding. Learning is a process, not a destination. Shifts in our understanding can be difficult for some. Even famous, intelligent and successful people at the head of their fields can find shifting paradigms hard to imagine.
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
-- Orville Wright
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, president, chairman, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented,"
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,"
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
-- Orville Wright
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, president, chairman, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented,"
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,"
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
Sometimes science does not have the proper context, the proper tools, to go about studying the experience we call reality. The more we learn the more we have to update our definitions with our new understandings and sometimes the descriptive languages used during these 'knowledge based shifts' have struggled to keep up. Imagine astronomy without the telescope, or neurology without the MRI. The language at those time periods had to evolve to incorporate new understandings. At the level of understanding we have today we have now begun to use the brain itself as the next tool of science quite literally, to begin to explore the new ideas and knowledge this shift leads us into.
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow the truth and reason to whatever results they led." ~Thomas Jefferson
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ~ Confucius
"The longest journey is the journey inwards of him who has chosen his destiny, who has started upon his quest for the source of his being." - Dag Hammarskjold
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ~ Confucius
"The longest journey is the journey inwards of him who has chosen his destiny, who has started upon his quest for the source of his being." - Dag Hammarskjold
We are here to not only ask questions about these new ideas, but to figure out in what way to best frame those questions within our current language. We are here to explore the idea that science has moved on, much like technology, almost faster then we can keep up with and that the scientific method is the best way to gain knowledge about our existence. When coupled with a skeptical, critical thinking, yet open-mind, we can learn to change our perspective and thus increase our understanding of the reality, and the people around us to the benefit of all.
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." ~ Confucius
The philosopher John Dewey in his Theory of Inquiry said that we understand knowledge as that which is "so settled that it is available as a resource in further inquiry".
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-proof-pseudoscience.html
The philosopher John Dewey in his Theory of Inquiry said that we understand knowledge as that which is "so settled that it is available as a resource in further inquiry".
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-proof-pseudoscience.html
To illustrate just how quickly science is moving on all we have to do is look back over the last few months of 2013 and into 2014. Quantum computers have jumped some nice hurdles and are becoming more of a reality. Our hats off to Tesla as scientists devise a way to allow energy to be teleported over virtually any distance. Some new Quantum Physics experiments have been completed, further solidifying the science as the most precisely tested and most "techo-advancing" theory in science. That, and the NSA thinks it's worth putting $79.7 million of your tax dollars toward playing with it; to forward their plans for world domination no doubt. Oh, and we figured out a way to 'peak' at the Quantum Wave Function without collapsing it; nothing major. Look at how quickly technology and human knowledge have grown in just these past few months. Information moves fast.
Featuring today on the front cover of Nature Photonics, this latest advancement is one of the important pieces in the jigsaw needed in order to realize a quantum computer. While previous attempts have required external light sources to generate the photons, this new chip integrates components that can generate photons inside the chip. "We were surprised by how well the integrated sources performed together," admits Joshua Silverstone, lead author of the paper. "They produced high-quality identical photons in a reproducible way, confirming that we could one day manufacture a silicon chip with hundreds of similar sources on it, all working together. This could eventually lead to an optical quantum computer capable of perform enormously complex calculations."
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-closer.html
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The team now plans to demonstrate that quantum error correction can be used to simultaneously protect quantum states against all types of errors for an extended period. Such long-lived quantum information can enable fundamentally secure communication and extremely fast computations.
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-physicists-quantum-errors.html
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"Quantum mechanics laws limit the ways that values in a system (such as a vacuum) can be measured—physicists have found however, that increasing the uncertainty of one value, decrease the uncertainty of the value of others—a sort of squeezing effect. When applied to light, theory suggests, it leads to more pairs traveling together through a vacuum, which in turn leads to more of them being entanglement, and that the team suggests should allow for teleporting energy over virtually any distance.
The researchers suggest their theory could be put to the test in a lab and Hotta hints that he and another partner are in the process of doing just that."
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-theory-teleport-energy-distances.html
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Quantum physics in 1-D: New experiment supports long-predicted 'Luttinger liquid' model
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-physics-d-long-predicted-luttinger.html
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Quantum key distribution (QKD) is one such technique, which guarantees the security of an encryption key based on fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, whereby the process of trying to measure or access an encryption key made from various quantum states will automatically destroy it.
The latest leaked documents, however, also reveal that the NSA is attempting to exploit practical loops in QKD under a programme known as "Owning the Net".
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-nsa-pursues-quantum-technology.html
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Such direct measurements of the wavefunction might have appeared to be ruled out by the uncertainty principle – the idea that certain properties of a quantum system could be known with precision only if other properties were known poorly. However, direct measurement involves a "trick" that makes it possible.
Direct measurements consists of two types of measurements performed one after the other, first a "weak" measurement followed by a "strong" measurement. In quantum mechanics the act of measuring a quantum state disturbs it irreversibly, a phenomenon referred to as collapse of the wavefunction. The trick lies with the first measurement being so gentle that it only slightly disturbs the system and does not cause the wavefunction to collapse.
"It is sort of like peeking into the box to see if Schrodinger's cat is alive, without fully opening the box,"
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-peeking-schrodinger-potential-quantum.html
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http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-closer.html
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The team now plans to demonstrate that quantum error correction can be used to simultaneously protect quantum states against all types of errors for an extended period. Such long-lived quantum information can enable fundamentally secure communication and extremely fast computations.
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-physicists-quantum-errors.html
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"Quantum mechanics laws limit the ways that values in a system (such as a vacuum) can be measured—physicists have found however, that increasing the uncertainty of one value, decrease the uncertainty of the value of others—a sort of squeezing effect. When applied to light, theory suggests, it leads to more pairs traveling together through a vacuum, which in turn leads to more of them being entanglement, and that the team suggests should allow for teleporting energy over virtually any distance.
The researchers suggest their theory could be put to the test in a lab and Hotta hints that he and another partner are in the process of doing just that."
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-theory-teleport-energy-distances.html
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Quantum physics in 1-D: New experiment supports long-predicted 'Luttinger liquid' model
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-physics-d-long-predicted-luttinger.html
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Quantum key distribution (QKD) is one such technique, which guarantees the security of an encryption key based on fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, whereby the process of trying to measure or access an encryption key made from various quantum states will automatically destroy it.
The latest leaked documents, however, also reveal that the NSA is attempting to exploit practical loops in QKD under a programme known as "Owning the Net".
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-nsa-pursues-quantum-technology.html
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Such direct measurements of the wavefunction might have appeared to be ruled out by the uncertainty principle – the idea that certain properties of a quantum system could be known with precision only if other properties were known poorly. However, direct measurement involves a "trick" that makes it possible.
Direct measurements consists of two types of measurements performed one after the other, first a "weak" measurement followed by a "strong" measurement. In quantum mechanics the act of measuring a quantum state disturbs it irreversibly, a phenomenon referred to as collapse of the wavefunction. The trick lies with the first measurement being so gentle that it only slightly disturbs the system and does not cause the wavefunction to collapse.
"It is sort of like peeking into the box to see if Schrodinger's cat is alive, without fully opening the box,"
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-peeking-schrodinger-potential-quantum.html
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Most of the information found within in the following chapters will be from journals and other literature with only a few video's (unless I can find more) as most of this information is less then 2 years old. Look for the following chapters in the weeks to come.