“Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.” Deepak Chopra Click Deepak’s name above for a...

“Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.” Deepak Chopra

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The Physics of The Quantum Tai Chi

Many interpretations of Quantum Theory have beensuggested, but none of them completely solvesthe major problem with the existing equations:

The collapse of the wave function.

This is well illustrated by Schrődinger’s cat--a mind experiment only!

The equations of quantum theoryas they stand say: at the moment we open the box,two worlds are created: one in which the cat is dead and one in which it is alive.

This is the Many Worlds Interpretation of Hugh Everett.

(1957)

The problem is—what selects the world we end up in?

Though Zeh and Zureck pioneered decoherence,an interaction of the quantum wave function withthe environment…

Zureck

which explained how we never observedthe cat being alive and dead at the same time…

It has never explained the collapse of thewave function, i. e., whywe experience only onepossibility—alive… OR dead.

Philip Pearle (Hamilton College)believed he had an answer in 1976.

To understand Pearle’s idea,we need to learn something about the

quantum wave function,

The wave function, Ψ = Ψr + iΨi , and is a complex function.

P = Ψ*Ψ, where Ψ* is the complex conjugate of Ψ,is the probability a particle will be found in a tiny

region of space in a small interval of time.

Ψ→Ψeiθ (called a gauge transformation) does not change the quantum probability, P = Ψ*Ψ, where Ψ* is the complex conjugate of Ψ.

Chen Ning Yang (like yin and yang) pioneeredThe physics of these transformations.

The phase angle, θ, is called the quantum gauge—it’s the angle the complex vector Ψ is turned through. This is reminiscent of a Tai Chi, and thus I call the gauge the Quantum Tai Chi, which will make more sense later.

What Philip Pearle suggested wasthat an ensemble of random θ’s wasgenerated which converged to a randomly-chosen common angle, and this angle chose the observedQuantum state from the possibilities.

For example, if the quantum phase, θ, isBetween 0 and πchoose alive. Betweenπ and 2π, choose dead.

The question then is: is there some physicalmechanism which can make this work, i. e.generate the random angles and chose one?

?

Landau and Ginzburg came up with an explanationfor how superconductivity works which creates exactly that kind of order out of chaos.

In a superconductor, vast numbers of pairs of electrons--called Cooper pairs—start out at high temperature with random phases, θ.When the temperature is lowered through criticaltemperature the free energy is minimized fora common angle. They suggested that the wave function is the order parameter. It was the first indication that a macroscopic object might obey quantum theory.

Cooper

Cooper pairs

Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer of the famedBCS Theory of Superconductivity…

…where each electron finds a partner and dances.

However, each Cooper pair dances in phase--like Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

This is like non-locally interacting 2-D magnets in random directions lining up in an unpredictable direction when the temperature is lowered.

This is a way of choosing whether the cat isalive or dead.

Where would these little magnets of the quantum possibilities be located?

In the brain? In consciousness?

There are only about 100 billion neurons in the brain. Certainly not enough information can be stored to replicate a field of quantum possibilitymagnets.

However, Stuart Hameroff, MD, began exploringmicrotubules. These are tubes of electrons in thestructure of single neurons which may facilitate consciousness processing.

This would make each neuron like a supercomputer

Capable of being one quantum ‘magnet’ in the fieldof quantum possibilities.

This is speculative—but what if powerful or shared thoughts could overrule quantum probability selection?

In 1970, Helmut Schmidt, a parapsychologist, had his own cat experiment with a real cat.

He hooked up a heater to a radiation counter,and found the heater was on quitesignificantly more than quantum theorywould predict.

Did the cat control the heat with its mind?

If true, this could be like a powerful thought actinglike an external magnet in the field of possibilities.

Or it could be a complex of shared thoughtsor experiences which shapes our world?

“Selective proliferation of "the fittest information" (known as Quantum Darwinism) plays a key role in choosing the preferred, effectively classical observables of macroscopic systems.”

Wojciech H. Zurek

Perhaps quantum magnetism from the fieldof possibilities explains the many studiesshowing good thoughts and prayers aid healing.

Can prayer influence the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryo transfer? The lead article in the September 2001 issue of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine claimed to have demonstrated that it can [1]. The report's authors, two of whom were faculty members at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, claimed to have demonstrated that distant intercessory prayer can double the success rate.

In this study, 219 infertility patients in Seoul, South Korea, apparently required and underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF).. The patients in the prayed-for group were not informed that groups in the United States, Canada, and Australia were praying for them. The pregnancy rate in the prayed-for group (50%) was essentially twice as high as the pregnancy rate in the non-prayed-for group (26%).

Quantum ‘Execution’ experiment:what if death row prisoners underwent Schrődinger’s cat setup when scheduled to be executed? This is ONLY a thought experiment.

Would we find that more prisoners would be executedthan 50%?

If so, what is the explanation?Could it be that retributionor karma is in actionviolating quantum theory?

Also, if there is such a thing as responsibility (accountability for our actions) which we find to occur in a cycle, could we represent this as an amendment to Quantum Theory?

The answer could be to let the gauge angle be a sinusoidal function of time. Θ = sin[(2π/T)t].This would be represented in ordinary quantumtheory by a potential energy which has a period, T.

What a person experiences would be the sum of all cycles of retribution for past acts.

This would be a quantum physics of accountability.

Accountabilitymeans growth.

Conclusions:

1. Mind or consciousness may be able to collapse the wave function.

2. We may be able to do experiments which test this possibility.

3. If we find that a person’s actions return to them, we can represent that as an addendum to quantum theory.