All the Colors of Quantum Entanglement. From the Myth of Plato's Cave, to the Synchronicity of Carl Jung, to the Holographic Universe

Summary

Summary

Introduction

First part. Insights

Unexplained phenomena

Quantum-related twins

The twins Ross and Norris McWhirter

Viscountess Thelma Furness

Matter, only matter, nothing but matter

Monism and materialistic reductionism

Determinism and causality

The continuity and the arrow of time

The concept of non-locality

Objectivity.

Illusory symptoms

Yes, however, the Gödel completeness theorem ...

Mind and brain

The myth of the cave

How is a chair made?

Plato and the search for knowledge

Platonic philosophy

The myth of the cave

From Plato to vitalism

From Hans Driesch to Carl Jung

Ernst Schumacher's degrees of being.

Dreams that suggest inventions and successes.

Mendeleev's Periodic Table.

From Plato to Berkeley.

The Berkeley tree.

The universe exists because we look at it.

The evolutionary contradictions of the eye.

When things are not what they seem.

The strange case of the two presidents.

The explanations of the skeptics.

The deception of the senses.

Objectivity and subjectivity.

Psychology of the form.

Coincidences, collective unconscious, synchronicity.

More powerful than the most powerful computers.

Does it only work with simple stimuli?

Carl Gustav Jung

Dissension and break with Sigmund Freud.

Libido and symbols.

The symbol.

Archetypes, ideas, concepts.

The fourth excluded.

Archetypes as primordial images.

The collective unconscious.

The identification process.

First stop: the archetype of the Shadow.

Second stage: the archetype of the Anima or the Animus.

Third stage: the archetype of the Old Sage.

Fourth stage: the archetype of the Self.

Jung and alchemy: individuation and Opus alchemicum.

Synchronicity.

Birth of a synchronicity.

Philip and his marriage.

Matthew and the frequency of the number 31.

The number, the archetype of the order.

Numbers and synchronicity.

The Tetraktys of the Pythagoreans.

The golden section.

The curse of the ninth symphony.

The Club of 27.

Wolfgang Pauli and the number 137.

The number 108 in oriental culture.

The number 666.

The determinism of death and the resurrection.

Divine justice in Drynor Township.

Does divine justice exist?

Randomness and the supernatural sign.

Can we believe in the resurrection?

The problem of entropy.

Reincarnation in Eastern Religions.

Reincarnation in Hinduism.

Reincarnation in the Upanishads.

Reincarnation in Buddhism.

Reincarnation in Taoism.

The resurrection in Christianity.

The resurrection in the New Testament.

The dualism. Entropy and synchronicity.

The dualism.

The entropic man.

Entropy is not what it appears.

Synchronicity as an intelligent evolutionary project.

Cultural synchronicity.

The anthropic principle.

The role of man in the universe.

The anthropic principle.

Brandon Carter.

The weak anthropic principle.

The strong anthropic principle.

John David Barrow and Frank Tipler.

The ultimate anthropic principle.

The Participatory Anthropic Principle.

Missionaries of Conscience

The anthropic principle and time.

The Omega Point by Frank Tipler,

At the spiritual center of the universe.

Second part. The confirmations.

But what is matter?

Looking for evidence.

Philosophy and mysticism of physics.

The chariot of King Milinda.

The separation of Descartes.

Why is there something instead of nothing?

It all starts with the Big Bang.

The atom and its classical representation.

Quantum physics.

The quantized atom.

The quantum leap.

The wave-particle duality.

The double slit experiment.

Thomas Young

Evolution of the double slit experiment.

Modern version of the double slit experiment.

Description of the experiment with the launch of a photon.

Does bilocation become plausible?

The precognitive abilities of particles.

The atom and its most current representation.

Orbit and orbital.

Dynamic view of the atom.

Things or events?

Locality and non-locality.

Entanglement.

The superposition principle.

The correlation.

Superposition of two particles.

Non-locality and extrasensory phenomena.

An entangled universe.

Confirmations of entanglement.

God doesn't play dice

The EPR paradox.

chrödinger's cat paradox.

John Stewart Bell's inequality.

The experiments confirming non-locality.

Part Three. The prospects.

Everything is one thing.

David Bohm

The quantum potential.

The role of the observer.

No fragmentation.

Implied Order and Explicit Order.

A giant cosmic hologram.

The holographic universe.

Karl Pribram

Doesn't reality exist?

Where are we going.

The study of the soul becomes part of physics.

Henry Stapp. Quantum theory and free will.

The energy of the Spirit.

Bibliography.

Introduction

The book is divided into three parts. In the first part (The intuitions) the author deals with the most relevant hypotheses on the illusory reality of the perceptible world. The existence of a level of consciousness that transcends matter has been envisaged by the great thinkers. We find this idea in Plato's Myth of the Cave, in Berkeley's Immaterialistic Theory, in the Psychology of Form. The most authoritative source lies in the works on the collective unconscious and on the theory of synchronicity by Carl Jung.

In the second part (Confirmations) the author describes in an elementary but detailed way the path of quantum physics, from Thomas Young's double slit experiment to the phenomena of the superposition of states and quantum correlation. Through these privileged keys it is possible to understand quantum entanglement. In the third part (Perspectives) the author describes the theories developed by David Bohm on the quantum potential on the implicated universe. and on the holographic vision of the cosmos. Everything is explained with absolute simplicity, without the use of mathematical formulas and with the help of many illustrations.

Humanity, from its very beginnings, wanted to investigate the origin and composition of things, to discover their functioning and their intimate purpose.

The universally used method is to break down objects into smaller and smaller parts, then analyzing them with every possible technique, from visual investigation to chemical reactions. This still happens today. For example, if a scientist wants to discover the chemical and physical structure of a cube of granite, he will break it into smaller and smaller pieces until it is divided into individual atoms.

However, if the scientist himself wants to investigate the individual particles that make up the atom, he receives an incredible surprise. The granite cube behaves like an ice cube would. The scientist sees the matter that becomes fog, evaporates, disappears between his fingers. Solid matter becomes energy that vibrates.

The single particles are transformed into fluctuating waves without any solid corporeality.

At the subatomic level, matter is no longer solid matter, it becomes something different.

Elementary particles deceive us. They look like solid specks if someone observes them, but they behave like vibrating waves when they are not observed.

Atoms practically only contain vacuum.

On the surface, we believe we can touch, weigh, manipulate and measure matter. But, in its most intimate composition, matter becomes a ripple of emptiness, energy, information, wave or vibration. What seems to us solid material, in its most intimate essence is no longer solid material.

At this point, it is clear that we can no longer speak of a single reality. Depending on the levels of observation, from the extremely small to the infinitely large, there are many realities, all different but all absolutely true.

Or, perhaps, there are many aspects of a higher reality, still unknown. All philosophies and religions have always hypothesized a zone of the spirit transcending matter; no one, however, has ever been able to provide proof of its existence. Today quantum physics is opening a huge window on horizons that, until the last century, we could not have imagined. The confirmations come from the experiments carried out successfully, especially those relating to the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.

Today we know that there is a level of reality that is no longer subject to the constraints of Newtonian physics. The physics of matter is no longer sufficient to describe the universe.

Quantum physics demonstrates the existence of a level in which energy and information take over matter. This is the so-called non-local level. We could define it a psychic or spiritual level. At this level, a universal Intelligence interacts with humanity. The paths of communication with the intelligent universe pass through the collective unconscious that was theorized by Carl Jung.

Jungian synchronicities guide us in a cultural evolutionary project. It is a project that we are beginning to become aware of.

First part. Insights

Unexplained phenomena

According to some renowned aeronautical texts,

the hornet cannot fly due to the shape

and weight of its body

in relation to the surface of its wings.

But the hornet does not know,

and therefore continues to fly.

(Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, Russian aviation pioneer)

The Guinness Book of Records contains many oddities. Among these unusual news there is a really special one. This is the ranking relative to pairs of twins born at different times. Guiness signals which couples are born at a greater distance of time.

Contrary to what one might imagine, this interval does not consist of hours or days, but even months. For example, in 2000 Sandra Beveridge of West Lothian, a Scottish county, gave birth to twins 28 days apart. Peggy Lynn, a lady from Pennsylvania, did even better. In 1995 Peggy gave birth to twins born at 84 days apart. However, the current record belongs to Maria Jones-Elliot who in 2013, in Ireland, gave birth to Amy and only after 87 days gave birth to the twin Katie.

The doctors specify that these are very rare cases. These cases occur only when the twins are raised in separate placental sacs.

Quantum-related twins

There is an interesting aspect, which convinced me to mention the primacy of delayed twin births. It is the fact that the book The Guinness Book of Recods was born from the pen of two authors. Their names were Ross and Norris McWhirter, and they too were twins. These two twins, in addition to being the authors of the book, were the protagonists of an impossible event.

Currently Guinness is the third best-selling book in the world, after the Bible and the Koran. This book represents the practical development of an idea born in a completely random way, during a hunt that took place on May 4th 1951.

One of the participants in the hunt was Sir Hugh Beaver, managing director of the Guinness breweries in Dublin.

He could not hit some golden plovers. The birds were faster than his rifle and fled with great speed as soon as they felt the presence of the hunter.

This inconvenience gave rise to a debate between Sir Beaver and the other hunters, to establish which was the fastest bird.

In the following days Sir Beaver, who evidently was not very busy with the role of administrator, continued to brood over the problem. In the end he came to the conclusion that many, like himself, would be interested in knowing not only which was the fastest bird, but every other type of excellence in different performances. He therefore decided to create a book where everyone could access this type of information.

The content of the book was to be a collection of records in the various activities. As a result Sir Beaver asked for help from two athletics specialists, the brothers Ross and Norris McWhirter and commissioned them to write the book.

Figure 1 - The twins Norris (left) and Ross McWhirter (right) authors of the first edition of The Guinness Book of Recods. The two were protagonists of an incredible case of extra-sensory communication

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The book was published for the first time on 27 August 1955 with the signature of the two brothers. The title was The Guinness Book of Recods. The book immediately had that resounding success that continues today. (Fig.1).

Obviously, the authors became well known, so the events of their lives are very well documented and witnessed.

The twins Ross and Norris McWhirter

Ross and Norris were born on 12 August 1925 by William McWhirter, editor of Sunda Pictorial, and by Margaret Williamson. In 1950 they both became sports journalists. A friend of theirs, the runner Christopher Chataway, was employed at the Guinness brewery.

When Christopher learned that administrator Hugh Beaver was looking for competent people to make a book on records, he recommended the twins. The two immediately received the assignment.

In the 1960s Ross became a political activist for the Conservative Party. Regardless of difficult times, he supported many restrictive laws promulgated by Britain against the Irish population.

He even promoted a reward of £ 50,000 to anyone who had provided useful information for the arrest of an IRA (Irish Republican Army) cell. At that time the IRA was committing many attacks in London. The IRA considered Ross McWhirter as a direct enemy.

On November 27, 1975, two members of the IRA ambushed the journalist. They waited for him as he returned home, at 6.45 pm, and fired two shots at him with a .357 revolver.

At the same time that Ross was killed, twin Norris was about 30 miles away and was talking to some people. Suddenly, at 6.45 pm, he grabbed his head in his hands, as if it were bursting. To the astonishment of those present, he almost lost his senses.

The people present witnessed the fact. The testimony is documented by the scholar Guy Lyon Playfair in his book Twin Telepathy:

At the beginning of the evening of November 27, 1975, the writer and television personality Ross McWhirter was shot in the head and chest by two armed men while he was standing at the door of his house in north London. He was hospitalized, but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. I got an account from an eyewitness who was with Norris McWhirter. Norris had a dramatic reaction, almost as if an invisible bullet had hit him.

This is not the only case of a twin who, being at a great distance, reacts to events involving the other twin.

Viscountess Thelma Furness

Thelma Morgan, born in Switzerland on August 23, 1904, was the daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, an American diplomat who served as US consul in Buenos Aires and Brussels. She was brought into the world by Laura Delphine Kilpatrick along with her twin sister Gloria. (Fig.2).

Laura Delphine was the nephew of a Union general and, through her maternal grandmother, was a descendant of the Spanish royal house of Navarre.

Therefore, the twin sisters had all the credentials to attend the best society of the time. Thelma became the lover of the Prince of Wales, the future king Edward VIII. Therefore, he preceded Wallis Simpson in the graces of the king. Later, for Wallis's sake, Edward abdicated and became Duke of Windsor.

During his relationship with Prince Edward in 1929, Thelma married Viscount Marmaduke Furness. The marriage did not last long but allowed her to boast life naturally during the title of Viscountess Furness. During the short marriage Thelma gave birth to William Anthony.

Thelma's twin sister, Gloria, married Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt.

Despite the diverse and eventful lives, the two sisters maintained a strong psychic bond. This bond manifested itself blatantly when Thelma, pregnant with William, had to face premature birth while at Melton Mowbray, in the United Kingdom.

At that time his sister Gloria was at the other end of the ocean, in New York, so she was completely unaware of the premature birth. However, simultaneously with what was happening to her twin, Gloria experienced severe abdominal pain, just as if she herself was giving birth. Gloria was promptly rescued but it was never possible to establish the origin of her pains. Only later was it possible to link the pains of Gloria to the contemporary childbirth of Thelma. Gloria mysteriously perceived the difficulty that Thelma was going through and participated as if she had been one with her. The union was not only psychic but also physical.

I wanted to mention two well-known cases, on which there are abundant and sure testimonies. These cases confirm that some pairs of twins, by virtue of a mysterious bond established by common birth, can share physical sensations in a way that contradicts every elementary law of physics. This is more evident if we consider the distance of the twins when the facts occur.

Figure 2 - Thelma Morgan, Viscountess Furness (right) with her twin sister Gloria. While Thelma, in the United Kingdom, was suffering from the pain of a premature birth, her sister Gloria, in New York, experienced the same pains.

The notoriety and the testimonies of these cases make it difficult to maintain that these are invented stories. These episodes are so well documented that they are also mentioned on the CICAP website (Italian Committee for the Control of Claims on Pseudo-sciences).

This association has taken on the mission of challenging any claim relating to extrasensory phenomena. However, the CICAP catalogs the cases described as sensory coincidences and defines them decidedly sensational cases.

In reality, the stories of these twins show a great correspondence with some typical aspects of the subatomic particles. Quantum physics has shown that two correlated particles, that is joined by particular conditions (typically, the birth from a common event) acquire the ability to remain consciously connected at any distance, as if they were a single particle. We will talk about it in the second part of the book.

Matter, only matter, nothing but matter

Materialists and fools never have doubts.

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

According to current science, there are things that can be, and others that cannot be.

The first are all those things that can be weighed, measured and reproduced in the laboratory. Among these things we also understand the related effects, such as magnetism and gravity.

All other instances, starting with extrasensory phenomena, are the result of illusion or superstition, and their supporters are cheaters or, at best, suffer from mental disorders and should be subjected to medical treatment. To support this thesis, absurd explanations are sought that border on the ridiculous. In any case, the existence of these phenomena is denied in advance.

It must be said that the scientific forum rests this attitude on apparently solid bases, that is, on the known physical laws. These laws have been affirmed and consolidated for some centuries. These are the laws that we ourselves can verify by observing the world around us with our deceptive senses. I will try to summarize briefly the materialistic theories.

Monism and materialistic reductionism

The concept of monism is very ancient, dating back to the 5th century BC, specifically to the philosophy of Parmenides. The real term of monism was used in 1734 by the German philosopher Christian Wolff who, in his work Rational psychology, defines monists as those who admit a single kind of substance.

Monism is distinguished from dualism or pluralism, according to which the whole is attributable to two or more kinds of substances. Some typical dualisms are mind / matter, or mind / body.

Materialist science reduces all reality to a single kind of substance, matter. At the same time materialism excludes any psychic or spiritual presence. Only everything that is physical is real. The mind, the thought, the consciousness are only the residue of chemical processes that take place in the brain.

Incidentally, we specify that there is not only materialistic monism; for example, there is also a monism called an idealist. This is called mentalism, and it states exactly the opposite: only the mental aspect is real.

Both of these positions are not corrected in light of recent discoveries in quantum physics, as we will see later in the book. In fact, both deny that a universe can exist in which matter and psyche (or spirit) collaborate harmoniously in a great creative project.

Determinism and causality

According to these principles the universe is a machine that works like a clock. Everything is established, everything is determined. Each event, each change of an object is functional to its position, its initial speed and the material forces present.

A seed absorbs nutrients from the soil and produces a seedling. The seed pushes the shoot upwards with a certain force. If the force is sufficient, the shoot breaks the crust of the soil and emerges, otherwise it dies underground. As soon as a sprout emerges, the force coming from the roots pushes it upwards.

At that point he can compete with the surrounding plants in absorbing sunlight and rain. Everything works like a clock, the plant grows by a series of mechanisms, of which the plant is not absolutely aware.

If I throw a stone, this will take a path determined by its weight and the force with which I threw it. If the stone hits an object, it gives the affected object a boost proportional to the energy possessed. It will never happen that a stone throws itself from itself, or that an object moves, if it is not solicited by another object.

Therefore, every action is caused by another action. Every action inherits strength from the action that caused it and distributes strength to the subsequent actions.

This is very useful to current science because it allows us to determine the position of each object in the universe at any time, and to predict the behavior of machines and industrial equipment. The machines, if they receive the appropriate energies, can perform precise functions up to the thousandth of a millimeter to obtain the desired results.

René Descartes split reality into mind-matter dualism, thus anticipating the concept of determinism, which excludes the need for a mind. The concept of exclusion of the mind in favor of the uniqueness of matter was then developed by Isaac Newton and Pierre Laplace, in his book on celestial mechanics. (Mécanique céleste, 1805).

This was the first book not to mention God as the cause of creation. The emperor Napoleon himself was astonished and asked Laplace: Why did you not mention God in your work?

Laplace replied It's a hypothesis I didn't need.

Causality absolutely denies the possibility of a creative project in which man participates. Human intelligence is a useless by-product of matter. Everything works very well without the need for any kind of intelligence.

The continuity and the arrow of time

The statement of science is that every event is caused by another event. In turn, every event causes others. This implies the concept that all the changes and all the dynamics of the universe follow each other continuously, without any pause, in a carousel that began with the Big Bang and will never end. Moreover, all this continuous evolution takes place in only one direction, according to the arrow of time that proceeds only forward.

We call time arrow a phenomenon such that a physical system can evolve from an initial state to a later state, in a given time, but it can never return to the initial state.