Down the Rabbit Hole: Quantum Theory
I rarely recommend any documentaries but here's an interesting one: What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole. It's basically both a drama and documentary of quantum physics with a lot of flashy visulation for the laymen. I once said that this page doesn't even exist until you visit it, and I talked about parallel worlds in time travel. Quantum physics explain all that, and its quite interesting if you've never heard such theories. A simple experiment of demonstrating how light going through a "double slit" experiment, proves that infinite possibilities exist, and nothing is real until we see it. You shoot electron particles through a double slit plate and you end up with an interferance pattern at the other end, which can only be produced by waves, an impossibilty deemed by classical physcis. In order to prove the improbable, probable, scientist sets up a camera in front of the slits trying to film the particle splitting in 2 direction, but when a camera is set up, the particle only goes through one slit and fails to generate a inteference pattern. This phenomenon is called the observer interference. The moral of the story, basically nothing is real when we're not looking at it. We see the world the way it is because that's the way we understand it, the same as if we were pixels living on a flat computer screen, we would not understand when 3D beings tell us they are watching us from above, because to us height is not in our dictionary, same analogy can be pointed to 4D beings who watch us from forward or backward in time, and can our mind understand such impossibilities? There was one experiment that suggested our brain signals actually travel back in time when we feel pain. In the experiment, a patient's brain is opened up and connected to some electronic equipment, a doctor produced a reaction from knockig on the patient's hand and get a instant signal from that part of the brain. Yet if the doctor were to generate that signal from that same part of the brain, the patient's do not feel it until fractions of seconds later, and the show suggested the brain actually anticipated when the moment of the strike occurs, sent the signal of pain back in time so that we can feel it the moment it occurs. Have a headache yet? I know I did. Basically, what quantum theory says is that fundamental particles are empty of inherent existence and exist in an undefined state of potentialities. They have no inherent existence from their own side and do not become 'real' until a mind interacts with them and gives them meaning. Whenever and wherever there is no mind there is no meaning and no reality. I read somewhere that is similar to the teachings of Mahayana Buddhist (or the oracle in Matrix). The ultimate manifestation of quantum sunyata is when quantum theory is applied to the entire universe. According to some cosmologists, the universe began as a quantum fluctuation in the limitless Void (Hartle-Hawking hypothesis). The universe remained as a huge quantum superposition of all possible states until the first primordial mind observed it, causing it to collapse into one actuality (The Particpatory Anthropic Principle).
