Quantum Mechanics and Reality, by Thomas J McFarlane © Thomas J. McFarlane 1995www.integralscience.org Most traditional [spiritual] paths were developed in prescientific cultures. Consequently, many of their teachings are expressed in terms of cosmologies or world views which we no longer find relevant. . .The question then naturally arises: Is it possible to incorporate both science and mysticism into a single, coherent world view? . . .Up until the first quarter of the twentieth century science was wedded to a materialist philosophy which was inherently antagonistic to all forms of religious insight. The primary purpose of this essay is to explain how quantum mechanics shows that the materialistic common sense notion of reality is an illusion, i.e., that the objective existence of the world is an illusion. The appearance of an objective world distinguishable from a subjective self is but the imaginary form in which Consciousness Perfectly Realizes Itself. Now listen to Niels Bohr, the pioneer of 20th century physics:
Quantum physics says goodbye to reality Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra "hidden variables". Now physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not exist when we are not observing it (Nature 446 871). Some 40 years ago the physicist John Bell predicted that many hidden-variables theories would be ruled out if a certain experimental inequality were violated – known as "Bell's inequality". Bell's trick, therefore, was to decide how to orient the polarizers only after the photons have left the source. Many realizations of the thought experiment have indeed verified the violation of Bell's inequality.
Individuation The principle of individuation, or principium individuationis,[1] describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things.[2] The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Carl Jung, Gilbert Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Bohm, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Manuel De Landa. Usage[edit] The word individuation is used differently in philosophy than in Jungian psychology. In philosophy[edit] It expresses the general idea of how a thing is identified as an individual thing that "is not something else." In Jungian psychology[edit] In the media industry[edit] The term "individuation" has begun to be used within the media industry to denote new printing and online technologies that permit mass customization of the contents of a newspaper, a magazine, a broadcast program, or a website so that its contents match each individual user's unique interests. Carl Jung[edit] Gilbert Simondon[edit]
Beauté et esthétique mathématique Simon Diner Il faut se garder du hasard comme du calcul Peter MONDRIAN Deux choses menacent le monde, l’ordre et le désordre. Ce que je cherche avant tout est l’expression Henri MATISSE Le problème des rapports entre beauté, harmonie et propriétés mathématiques a été largement posé et illustré dans l'Antiquité. Le rôle, contesté ou non, du nombre d'or, l'utilisation des tracés régulateurs par les peintres, les problèmes de la perspective, et la pratique et la théorie de l'architecture sont les manifestations les plus connues de recettes mathématiques pour l'obtention de la beauté. Il y a là un immense domaine où l'art et la mathématique se côtoient, s'observent, se fécondent mutuellement. Brillamment illustrée par Albrecht Dürer et Leonardo da Vinci cette synergie entre art et science va souffrir de l'isolement progressif des deux domaines, au point de ne pas constituer aujourd'hui une zone bien explorée et bien intégrée de la culture. L’esthétique n’est pas seulement l’étude de la beauté.
The Search For The History Of The Universe's Light Emission The light emitted from all objects in the Universe during its entire history - stars, galaxies, quasars etc. forms a diffuse sea of photons that permeates intergalactic space, referred to as "diffuse extragalactic background light" (EBL). Scientists have long tried to measure this fossil record of the luminous activity in the Universe in their quest to decipher the history and evolution of the Cosmos, but its direct determination from the diffuse glow of the night sky is very difficult and uncertain. Very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays, some 100,000,000,000 times more energetic than normal light, offer an alternative way to probe this background light, and UK researchers from Durham University in collaboration with international partners used the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) gamma-ray telescopes in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia to observe several quasars (the most luminous VHE gamma-ray sources known) with this goal in mind. Source: PPARC
Shadow (psychology) In Jungian psychology, the shadow or "shadow aspect" may refer to (1) an unconscious aspect of the personality which the conscious ego does not identify in itself. Because one tends to reject or remain ignorant of the least desirable aspects of one's personality, the shadow is largely negative, or (2) the entirety of the unconscious, i.e., everything of which a person is not fully conscious. There are, however, positive aspects which may also remain hidden in one's shadow (especially in people with low self-esteem).[1] Contrary to a Freudian definition of shadow, therefore, the Jungian shadow can include everything outside the light of consciousness, and may be positive or negative. According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to psychological projection, in which a perceived personal inferiority is recognised as a perceived moral deficiency in someone else. Jung also made the suggestion of there being more than one layer making up the shadow.
Figures for "Impossible fractals" Figures for "Impossible fractals" Cameron Browne Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6. Figure 7. Figure 8. Figure 9. Figure 10. Figure 11. Figure 12. Figure 13. 45° Pythagorean tree, balanced 30° Pythagorean tree and extended tri-bar. Figure 14. Figure 15. Figure 16. Dark Matter: The Larger Invisible Universe | Joe Arrigo PERSPECTIVE Normal matter—you, me, oatmeal, mountains, oceans, moons, planets, galaxies—make up about twenty-percent of the universe; the other eighty-percent is dark matter—star-stuff we cannot see or detect…yet. Why are scientists so certain this enigmatic matter exists? Because the evidence permeates the universe, first observed by Fritz Zwicky, when he measured the motions of galaxies and calculated that there wasn’t enough visible matter to affect galaxies to extent they were being pulled around.WWWFirst, there isn’t enough gravitational force within galaxies to bind and hold them in their current formation; then there is an invisible element that keeps them rotating faster than scientists would expect, clusters of galaxies bend and distort light more than they should, and supercomputer simulations exhibit that clouds of ordinary matter in the early universe did not have enough gravity to create the tight formations of galaxies we now see.
Fap Fapp Podcast science 126 – L’Impensable Hasard: la téléportation quantique avec Nicolas Gisin Rating: 4.8/5 (5 votes cast) L’intro de Nicotupe Nicolas Gisin présente dans son livre un concept que je ne connaissais personnellement pas : l’intrication quantique. Bien comprendre ce que c’est et pourquoi c’est révolutionnaire (oui, vous m’avez convaincu M. Gisin) n’est pas chose facile et je vais tenter ici une brève explication. Commençons par quantique : on en a déjà parlé ici. Le concept d’intrication seul va vous paraître simpliste. On en arrive alors au sujet de ce livre, l’intrication quantique. Nicolas Gisin. Le livre de Nicolas Gisin prend un long moment à expliquer ce nouveau concept par le biais d’un jeu, le jeu de Bell, où l’on ne peut pas gagner sans intrication. Tout au long de ce livre est discuté le concept de non-localité. L’interview de la semaine Nous recevons Nicolas Gisin, professeur à l’Université de Genève, auteur de l’excellent livre “L’Impensable Hasard: non-localité, téléportation et autres merveilles quantiques” publié à l’automne 2012 chez Odile Jacob.
The Theory of Everything | Joe Arrigo PERSPECTIVE The above equation was written by Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, who graduated first in his physics class at Harvard, and, when he was in high school built a 2.3 million electron volt atom-smasher in his parents garage. It is an equation for String Field Theory—a theory that may unite The Theory of Relativity with Quantum Theory, into a unified theory called The Theory of Everything. Theoretical physicists are those scientists who work in that twilight zone cutting edge realm between reality and science fiction. For thirty years Einstein sought a unified theory of physics that would integrate all the forces of nature into a single beautiful tapestry. String Theory says that at the subatomic level, there are vibrating strings—that particles like protons, electrons and quarks are nothing but musical notes on a tiny vibrating string, that all the stupendous activities in the universe are born from a sub-atomic loop of energy deep within all matter. © Joe Arrigo