{"id":1432,"date":"2023-03-15T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:25:04","slug":"the-science-of-oneness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Oneness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Mike Soika<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science has caught up with what mystics and religions have been saying for hundreds of years: that there is a singular consciousness unifying everything and that death is no more than a transition from one perspective to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Introduction_to_quantum_mechanics\">Quantum theory<\/a> \u2013 through decades of propositions and experiments &#8211; &nbsp;has upended scientific thinking about how the universe operates at both the micro and the macro level.&nbsp; Here are just a few of the revolutionary ideas that have now become accepted fact among many in the world of physics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Matter and Light remain as waves until they are observed, at which point they collapse into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electron\">electrons<\/a> or &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photon\">photons<\/a>.&nbsp; In other words, perception births reality.<\/li><li>Science can only predict the probability of where or how these electrons or photons will show up.&nbsp; Until they are observed they remain in a state of <a href=\"https:\/\/quantumatlas.umd.edu\/entry\/superposition\/\">superposition<\/a>, or said differently \u2013 in a state of multiple probabilities (or multiple universes) where \u201ceverything that can happen actually happens\u201d.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-more-physicists-are-starting-to-think-space-and-time-are-illusions\">Time and Space may not exist<\/a> as an object or thing, and perhaps was conceived in our minds as a way to measure progress.<\/li><li>The Universe is \u201cmonistic\u201d and everything is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/quantum-monism-could-save-the-soul-of-physics\/#:~:text=According%20to%20quantum%20monism%2C%20the,a%20single%2C%20entangled%20quantum%20state.\">unified whole<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the fundamental experiments upon which Quantum Theory rests is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Double-slit_experiment\">double slit experiment<\/a> which comes to the confounding conclusion that waves become electron or photon particles when they are observed and measured. When a light wave passes through the double slits, it continues to act like a wave.&nbsp; However, if there is an attempt to measure the wave, then it somehow turns into matter (a photon particle) and ceases to act like a wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheeler%27s_delayed_choice_experiment\">similar experiment<\/a> split the wave into two pathways, one shorter than the other.&nbsp; At the end of the longer path is a meter to measure the wave.&nbsp; A lab assistant randomly turns the meter on and off.&nbsp; As expected, when the wave that had taken the longer path is measured, it turns into a particle.&nbsp; Amazingly \u2013 the partner wave that split and took the shorter path \u2013 retroactively turned into a particle, as well.&nbsp; The split waves are said to be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_entanglement\">entangled<\/a>\u201d and the two act as one entity \u2013 doing so even when they are hundreds or thousands of miles apart.&nbsp; When one changes, the partner particle matches the change and seems to do so instantaneously, calling into question the actual nature of space and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of quotes from the famous physicist Stephen Hawking may be helpful\u2026or not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201c There is no way to remove the observer \u2013 us \u2013 from our perceptions of the world\u2026the past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201c..One day there may well be proof of multiple universes. It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe\u2026\u201d<\/em><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, here is what we have so far:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/2022\/10\/what-is-quantum-entanglement\">entangled waves in superposition<\/a> wait &#8211; possibly in multiple universes \u2013 for an observer to birth them into existence as matter.&nbsp; One has to remember this isn\u2019t science fiction, but rather it is a set of proposals supported by a growing number of leading physicists, three of whom won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/physics\/2022\/summary\/\">2022 Noble Prize<\/a> for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/uploads\/2022\/10\/popular-physicsprize2022-3.pdf\">experiments<\/a> on this very topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This raises all kinds of vexing questions, not the least of which is: what is the role of consciousness in these developments?&nbsp; And, even more fundamentally \u2013 what is consciousness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertlanzabiocentrism.com\/biocentrism-wikipedia\/\">Dr. Robert Lanza<\/a> \u2013 hailed by Time Magazine as one of the world\u2019s 100 most influential people \u2013 has written several books on <strong>Biocentrism<\/strong> that weaves together the concepts of quantum theory with the idea that it is consciousness that created the universe and not the other way around.&nbsp; And if there is no universe without a conscious presence to perceive it, then the only logical conclusion is that there must be a universal consciousness beyond our individual sense of self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lanza is one of many proponents of the Multiple Universe Interpretation of quantum theory, suggesting &nbsp;&#8211; like Stephen Hawking &#8211; that possible alternatives of life may be occurring now in multiple universes.&nbsp; For example:&nbsp; In one universe Russia succeeded in sweeping through Ukraine in a matter of days, while in another universe there was no war at all and Ukraine won back its occupied territory through diplomatic initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, Lanza speculates that consciousness never ends, and quite possibly we just transfer our conscious self into another alternate universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is so much of quantum theory that I find baffling and have a difficult time to comprehend fully.&nbsp; Kind of like religion or spirituality.&nbsp; There is a great deal that can be read about the individual soul and the Divine, but at some point, belief comes down to a quiet faith.&nbsp; Now that, I think, I can handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science has caught up with what&#8230; religions have been saying for&#8230; years<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Pixabay Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}