cookyy2k said:
Snippedy
Well I hope that helped, it's certainly an interesting field and I've done quite a bit of quantum mechanics thought this is not exhaustive and I'm no expert.
Thank you so much. It's certainly done more than helped. As I said, when I read the original article, I was a little suspicious, simply because the idea seemed so 'out there', psychedelic, and illogical that I doubted it had much acceptance amongst the 'real' scientists who seem to value 'logic' as the be all and end all. You've not just explained it to me, but shown that it's an actual hypothesis with real study behind it. Having such a trippy idea confirmed as a real scientific hypothesis has only confirmed to me that the Universe we live in is a magical (descriptively, not literally) construction that operates on principles so vast and mind-bending we can barely even comprehend them (though that doesn't mean we shouldn't try).
You may have guessed that I have a fondness for some of the...
more colourful explanations of how and why we're here. I'm certainly no luddite (without advancements in birthing technologies, I likely wouldn't have survived being born), but I despair at how people who proclaim science as the answer and people who proclaim spirituality as the answer often fail to see the common ground in-between. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm putting words in your mouth, but for me this theory (along with others) shows that there are aspects of our existence which we cannot even begin to fathom yet.
As a quick addition to my orginal question: I remember this article briefly going off on the tangent that quantum entanglement may mean there is at least a little scientific truth to such esoteric ideas as the "one-consciousness" concept, or ideas of animism. Would it be correct, therefore, that the idea of quantum entanglement could hypothetically be used to re-evaluate ideas that previosusly were dismissed for having little scientic grounding. To use one example I brought up: the one consciousness idea. If particles can have an effect on each other after being scrambled, does that mean it's
theoretically possible for human minds (specifically brains, I suppose, because after all, it is the
brain which is made up of particles) to affect each other despite the lack of a physical connection? The article I read (it was in the London Metro, by the by) suggested that because all particles were bunched together at the start of the universe, theoretically all the particles that make up every human brain were scrambled together at the point of singularity.
It's quite a weird sounding idea, I know, and you may simply think it's nothing more than takign a perfectly good idea and using it to support crackpot new-age nonsense.
Also, light. Is it particle or wave? And is it true that actually observing experiments on the subject has profoundly affected the results?