Articles on Quantum Physics
Quantum Physics - It's a Quantum Thing.
Written by: Maya Talisman Frost
We don't need to understand quantum physics entirely in order to appreciate it. Even those who have devoted their lives to the study of the universe and its atomic structure will admit that many mysteries remain. Well, I love mysteries, so let's set the scene for this one...
There's a Big Bang. "Whoosh!" go all the molecules. Much swirling commences. Fast forward 12 billion years (give or take a billion) to present day. People all over the world watch sci-fi movies, read physics texts, attend harmonic convergence gatherings, study nanotechnology, and gaze at the stars. Our questions: How did we get here? Who are we? Where is here? Why? What next?
If you’re expecting quantum theory to answer those questions, you’re going to be disappointed. However, it does give us some heady new ways to anticipate those answers.
Let’s take a look at some terms. Back in the fifth century BC, our Greek friend Democritus had the idea that all matter is ultimately made up of tiny grains that cannot be divided into smaller pieces. He called these little pieces “atoms” for the Greek phrase “a-tomos” which means “uncuttable”. Poor Democritus didn’t have the advantage of sophisticated microscopes, so it’s not surprising that, centuries later, it was discovered that atoms are actually cuttable. In fact, atoms are themselves made up of tiny particles we’ve dubbed neutrons, protons, electrons and neutrinos.
But it doesn’t stop there. Now we’re thinking that leptons, along with quarks, are the tiniest of particles of all and currently considered the ultimate building blocks of nature. Since we keep finding particles inside particles and adding new names to pieces of atoms, it’s easier to refer to the smallest chunks into which something can be divided as quanta. The German physicist Max Planck first proposed that energy might come in little pieces called quanta back in the early 1900s. So when we talk about quantum theory, we’re just referring to the whole set of ideas surrounding the microscopic world of atoms.
Along comes Albert Einstein, who recognizes that this whole idea of quantum physics turns classical physics on its head and spins it around. Here all these scientists had developed theories and precise formulas for calculating predictably and consistently the ways in which bodies move. Now there’s this idea that little particles actually behave in ways we can’t predict with certainty. These tiny quanta are mysterious. They respond sometimes as particles, and sometimes as waves, and we can’t always tell which way they’re going to go. If a particle is traveling from point A to point B, we can guess its path, but the tinier the particle, the less sure we are that that exact path is the one taken. In fact—hold on to your hat here—we’ve come to understand that not only do we not know the exact path, but that the particles may actually be in two places at once.
Think that’s radical? Back in 1957, a Princeton graduate student named Hugh Everett proposed what is called the “Many Worlds” interpretation. According to his dissertation, quantum theory (the variable behavior of atoms) is true not just for atoms but for everything—like tables, flower pots, SUVs, and even people. Everett was actually stating that these big things could, like tiny pieces of atoms, be in many places at once.
It gets wilder. Everett hypothesized that if you observe a sports utility vehicle (SUV) which is in two places at once, your mind will also end up in two states at once—one which perceives that SUV in one place, and another which perceives it in another place! So, really, there would be two versions of you and each one would perceive a world in which there is a different version of the SUV. Not only that, but these two selves and these two SUVs don’t exist in a vacuum. They actually interact with each other!
This whole concept of multiple realities was a big boon for science fiction writers. The truth is that these ideas are generally considered plausible but not in relation to the large-scale world. We don’t have a way of manifesting alternate universes full of multiple SUVs (thankfully) so we can’t really test it.
But there is one area of the Big World (that which we can see without microscopes) that will be completely revolutionized by quantum theory, and that’s the development of quantum computers. In quantum computers, experimenters are taking advantage of the ability of particles such as atoms to be in many places at once to do many calculations simultaneously.
Talk about high-speed connections. Quantum computers could solve in seconds problems that would take conventional computers millions of years to decipher.
We’re talking WAY beyond quickly downloading your email, obviously. What does this mean for the world? What will these quantum computers do? The staggering truth is that a quantum computer will actually perform in different realities—it will be engaging huge numbers of versions of other computers in alternate universes.
Freaky, huh? But real, and coming soon—or at least, eventually.
Next time you find yourself daydreaming about how your life could be different, ramp it up a notch. Think about quantum physics and the Many Worlds theory. Consider that your life might already be different in some other reality! If it’s possible that it exists exactly as you dream it, there’s no reason you can’t create it here. And heck, you only have to do it in one universe. Piece of cake!
Make that multiple pieces.
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How Quantum Physics Reveals Life's Biggest Mystery
Do you do this?
What leads to disappointing experiences in your life? Probably when things didn't work out the way you wanted them to. Since the sixties we know already that we are our own creators. If we are - why don't all our creations manifest? How come there is still a tremendous amount of suffering in the world? How is it possible that people can't get rid of illness and diseases. Why would someone create a divorce or a bankruptcy or just being depressed?
Questions most of us have asked more than once...I guess.
Just look in your favorite bookstore and see how many books are written about topics similar to 'how to get rich quick', 'getting things done my way' and 'you can do it'. I have even seen a bookstore that covers nothing else than self improvement books!
Can Quantum Physics shine some light on this precious topic?
Let start with the premise that we have free will. If we have free will then we can manifest whatever we want. It would only be limited by our own thoughts, beliefs, and concepts.
If you made a broad study on how successful people are with their manifestations, you may find out that people tend to rate their successes by more than 50% and their failures by less than 50%. Now, if you take in consideration that most people are more identified with their successes then with their failures, the reality of the outcome is probably close to 50/50. That seems almost random to me!
On a personal level, we can almost say instantly why some things worked out and others did not. We are pretty good in 'making up' reasons for the outcome of our actions.
Now, what if I am telling you that the reasons you made up are just illusions!
If you investigate deep enough you will never know why things work out or not. Reasons lead to your own concepts about the world. If you go far enough backward you end up with blaming the 'Big Bang' for the ultimate reason. You think this is exaggerated - try it!
However, we like illusions so much that we believe in them as they satisfy our minds.
What Exactly Happens on a Quantum Level?
Fascinating studies have been conducted by Benjamin Libet. Libet's experiments reveal a substantial delay - the "mind time" - before any awareness affects how we view our mental activities. The conclusion of his work is that unconscious processes initiate our conscious experiences. Freely voluntary acts are found to be initiated unconsciously before an awareness of wanting to act - a discovery with profound ramifications for our understanding of free will.
You may want to read this last paragraph again...
I like the example of how Fred Alan Wolf explains this study further. Just imagine, you are sitting on top of an elephant. The elephant is your subconscious and you are sitting on top (that's your ego). Now, you want the elephant to go left? You touch the left ear and the elephant goes left. It would be great if it works like this every time... but it doesn't. Sometimes, the elephant just goes in the other direction and thats what we call a failure!
Welcome to the World of Illusion!
In reality your subconscious is constantly collapsing wave functions. Waves are simply random possibilities of what can happen. The moment a wave is collapsed, it is no longer a wave, it then becomes a particle. Particles are what we call reality in space & time. This is the famous wave particle problem that gave most scientists grey hairs.
The amount of randomness is determined by your concepts. The concepts are setting the borders of your play field. Are you playing with one dice? Then the number can only be between 1 and 6. Are you playing on a larger scale with two dices then the number can be between 36 possibilities.
Here is a more practical example. You want a new car, it should be red, under $20,000 including a 6 year guarantee. These are the concepts and the possibilities you make up with your mind (ego). However, there are additional concepts in your subconscious. For example, your neighbor drives a new Mercedes and somehow that information sinks deep in your subconscious. Your subconscious has also stored the experience of all the other cars you previously owned. You see that the possibilities of what can manifest in reality is getting more complex.
Back to our example and what happens on a quantum level. The elephant gives you a 'telepathic' sign that it wants to go left. Because of that 'you decide' that you want to go left and therefore tap the left ear... VWOLA! The elephant goes left.
So where does this all leaves us with our free will?
It is very simple, but also very challenging to put this knowledge into our 'daily' lives. Quantum physics and science finally proves what most religious people since hundreds of years have already told us. The ego is an illusion and only through practicing silence can you expand beyond the daily illusions and experience where your true power is and comes from.
Speaking of power - this is unlimited power versus force, which you need constantly to keep the illusion of your ego alive. That's why a lot of people are constantly in stress and have no energy.
At one point in your life you are faced with an experience over which you have no control. Maybe an accident, a disease or a bankruptcy. You can resist this experience or you can surrender to it. Resisting means denying your own creation. Surrendering means you are finally listening to your true self instead of some beliefs or concepts you have adapted from society or someone else.
At this point, decide if you want to 'improve' your ego or if you want to connect with your true power. From my experience this is the only decision you can make and the only instance were you have free will.
Quantum physics is... in its core foundation... so simple that even most scientist cannot grasp its implications yet (myself included).
Thomas Herold
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Quantum Physics - Quantum Success Thinking
It sounds simple- right? You are where you THINK you are! And it is simple but do we practice it? Of course we are where we think we are! The question is where do YOU think you are?
It’s a principle I talk about all the time. Everything we do, we create in our minds before we do anything. The cars we drive, the house we live in all began as a thought in someone’s mind. Our minds are incredible tools, machines that are efficient and creative. But did you know that all the things we do, even things as simple as tying our shoes, our brain completes before we do them. It may be as simple as your brain replaying the tape that tells you how to tie your shoe, that we do not notice playing in the background of our consciousness. It is simple. We manifest what we think.
How often have you struggled on your journey to reach a goal or a dream? Many of us spend time planning how we will achieve our ‘success’. And we trudge on, keeping our eye on the goal, or the reward of reaching the goal. We make progress, year after year we get closer and closer. However, what we do not realize is that instead of spending so much time concentrating on what is going on around us in each small situation, we need to realize and see that what we want to become we already are. And wherever we want to go, we are already there.
“I want to open a chapel where I can perform marriage ceremonies in a non-denominational setting that is serene and beautiful, and reminds people of their creator”, is what my friend told me. We talked for a while about where she wanted to be. Then I looked her right in the eye and told her, “You are already there.” She looked at me at first in disbelief. She told me she could see the place in her mind, she could smell it, feel the breeze outside the chapel. There was no doubt she had achieved the visualization part. However, visualization is only part of it. What she needed to do, was to involve her belief.
And so I repeated to her, “You are already there.” We are where we believe we are. She continued to look at me and I could see her eyes well up with tears. She was quiet. She looked at me with the amazement and finally said, “I am! You are right I am already there.” It is her belief that she is already there that will set into motion all the things that need to happen for her to ‘be there’.
In reality what happens here, is we place ourselves in our minds somewhere ahead of ourselves in reality. The universe will provide for us. And it will. However if we are already there- the universe needs to catch up. If we are there in our minds, and we have completed the journey, then the present time has to catch up with us. Things begin to fall into place that got us to where we already believe we are. In a way it is like time travel, or quantum physics. But don’t let those thoughts complicate things.
It really is simple. We manifest what we think. If you think and believe you have reached your destination, you will be amazed to see how you really have. Don’t let yourself get caught up in the daily trials and tribulations and the struggles of the journey. They have already been taken care of. Begin to see what you are in the future, and you cannot help but manifest the behaviours that got you there! Now that is quantum success thinking!
Written by: Mandie Crawford
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NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming - A Path to Health, Wealth and Self-fulfilment
As a professional hypnotherapist with a strong interest in personal development it always amazes me when I suggest self-hypnosis techniques to a client and they respond with "what, you mean I could hypnotise myself?"
There is a truism in hypnosis circles... all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. By this we mean that the hypnotist simply acts as a guide, leading the client into trance by going first and assisting the client by directing the client's attention in specific ways.
Hypnosis is many things... in many ways it similar to the photon in quantum physics... what it is and how it behaves depends on how one views it and the preconceptions one brings to it.
Hypnosis is communication... all communication directs attention in one way or another. With language and non-verbal communication we shape events in another human being's mind. We cannot NOT communicate. Self-hypnosis is a process of communicating with oneself, directing one's own attention in specific ways in order to produce states that are commonly recognised as trance states.
Trance states are nothing special, we go in and out of these states all the time. There is a mystique built up around this term trance, but a trance state can be characterised by the direction of attention being inwardly focussed. This focus can be very intense, as in deep meditation, or broad and unspecified as in daydreaming states. If you have ever driven a car and realised that you have no recollection of the last three miles, or if you have ever been so absorbed in a book or a film that you've failed to hear someone calling your name, then you have been in a trance state.
In hypnosis we use those trance states to positive effect, through a combination of any or all of techniques such as suggestion, mental rehearsal, guided imagery/visualisation and more. In self-hypnosis you can do exactly the same.
I am going to share a very simply yet profoundly effective method of inducing such a trance state with you right now. Although it can help to speak out loud while learning the technique, once you are comfortable with this approach you can practice in silence, which makes it ideal for all sorts of circumstances.
This technique is a variation of that developed by Elizabeth (Betty) Erickson, wife of the late Milton Erickson. Dr Erickson is recognised by many as one of the greatest clinical hypnotherapists of the 20th century and founded an approach to therapy that bears his name, Ericksonian Hypnosis. However, his wife Betty was no mean hypnotist herself and had a deep understanding of the relationship between perception and mental state, as experience with this technique will show.
There are a number of ways in which you can use this technique... you could use it to enter into a state in which you then carry out a guided visualisation using symbols or visual metaphors or a mental rehearsal of yourself performing with excellence in some future activity. You could give yourself positive suggestions prior to the induction, saying something like "and as I enter a state of deep relaxation, I become increasingly (positive quality one wishes to acquire)..." The possibilities are limited only by your imagination, and will be explored in a future article.
Now to the technique, the Betty Erickson Self Hypnotic Induction. First, ensure you are sat somewhere comfortable. Somewhere with some external activity is useful but not too stimulating, and that has some visual variation (you will understand why in a moment). Take a few deep, slow breaths (always a good precursor to relaxation, and with practice will give you a head start in entering that trance state).
So, now you are sat comfortably, notice, and make comment about, something you see (e.g. I see the shadows formed by irregularities on the wall). Do this three times with three different observations. Do this slowly and give yourself plenty of time.
Notice, and make comment about, something you hear (e.g. I hear the sound of my own breathing). Do this three times with three different observations.
Notice, and make comment about, something you feel (e.g. I feel the temperature of the air on my skin). Do this three times with three different observations.
Repeat the cycle (I see... I hear... I feel...) twice for each sense (sight, sound and sensation) with two different observations, and then again once for each sense.
You may wish at this point to close your eyes if you haven't done so already, and repeat the whole process from within an imagined scene, or using internal images and external sounds and sensation. The trick with this technique is not to be too rigid, but to go with what works for you. After some practice I find myself in trance quite rapidly and usually close my eyes around the point at which I repeat the visual observation twice. If your mind wanders, that's OK, just relax into the state. This is a method of entering deep states of relaxation, not a competitive sport!
That really is it. As I said, a profoundly simple yet effective technique. Use it to relax, use it to install positive suggestion or use it to simply enter a calm still space within. With practice you can enter deeply relaxing trance states very quickly, in all sorts of situations, at work, travelling, at home, and use this states to boost productivity, explore your own personal/spiritual development and step up to excellence in all aspects of performance. Enjoy!
Adam Sargant
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