premonition
I had a dream last night that I’m still fuzzy about but I know there was 2 solar eclipses in it. My friend says its to fore warn me… and I will take that as a fore warning. So I’m gonna try to not do anything incredibly stupid… but at what point does it become a self fulfilling prophecy? Sometimes the path you take to try to avoid something becomes a direct path to it. The quantum causality of such events are amazing to check and hypothesize about. However, when you become the guini pig it becomes a bit weirder.
In seeing your own future do you then change the future or solidify it? Is time/fate rigid or is it pliable? Is time really linear? or is it how we have learned to perceive it. I ask these questions often. Unfortunately I don’t typically have people to talk it over with. At what point does an over analytical mind become over analytical? And also detrimental to its own being?
What I am looking at is I have 3 definite options and one extra as an extended variable. What if I choose door number 2? Did I ever really have the choice or was it just the perception of free will. Just like… if I was to send a message to myself 6 years ago in the past… would I be in a different place now? would I want to risk changing how I experienced so much? This stuff is pretty heavy…
First quantum jiggles detected in solid object
newscientist.comNOTHING sits still. Even at absolute zero, when the thermal jiggling of matter is frozen, all things must still buzz to the tune of quantum mechanics. Now this subtle jittering has been detected in a small silicon bar, the first solid object ever to reveal its quantum vibrations.
This phenomenon, called zero-point fluctuation, is a consequence of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which says that we can never pin down the precise position and motion of any object. So far zero-point energy has only been seen directly in single atoms or small collections of particles.
The new experiment uses a silicon bar about 12 micrometres long and less than a micrometre across. Oskar Painter at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and colleagues cooled the bar to within half a degree of absolute zero and then used a laser to detect its motion.
Some photons from this laser got a shift in energy when they hit the vibrating bar. Ordinary thermal vibrations can either boost or reduce photon energy, but the zero-point quantum vibration is different. Because it is the lowest energy state possible, it can only absorb energy. Painter’s group detected this bias towards lower-energy scattered light, a clear signature of a quantum twang (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.033602).
“Seeing these effects in large objects can provide us with a way to probe the foundations of quantum mechanics,” says Caltech team member Amir Safavi-Naeini.
“First, the human mind, including consciousness and reflective thought, can be explained by activities of the central nervous system, which, in turn, can be reduced to the biological structure and function of that physiological system. Second, biological phenomena at all levels, can be totally understood in terms of atomic physics, that is, through the action and interaction of the component atoms of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and so forth. Third, and last, atomic physics, which is now understood most fully by means of quantum mechanics, must be formulated with the mind as a primitive component of the system." - Harold J. Morowitz, Rediscovering the Mind (1980)”
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