NON-DUALITY
Immediacy - No separation from Ultimate Reality.
Simple Immediacy of Being
Intimate, nothing is closer
No separation, closer than close, right under our noses. Just This. What Arises.
Clap your hands, snap your fingers, hear the birds sing, Just This!
Eternal Now / Timeless!
Right Here, Right Now, there is Only What is Happening, Just This!
Psychological Memory vs Functional Memory
Pschological Memory is the Grand Illusion that holds the illusion of a separate self.
Holographic Time - Past , Present and Future Coexist in Timeless Now.
Timeless now is not the Present Moment, for that hints at an instant in time itself. Now now now now, keep checking your watch.
Simple Immediacy of Being
Intimate, nothing is closer
No separation, closer than close, right under our noses. Just This. What Arises.
Clap your hands, snap your fingers, hear the birds sing, Just This!
Eternal Now / Timeless!
Right Here, Right Now, there is Only What is Happening, Just This!
Psychological Memory vs Functional Memory
Pschological Memory is the Grand Illusion that holds the illusion of a separate self.
Holographic Time - Past , Present and Future Coexist in Timeless Now.
Timeless now is not the Present Moment, for that hints at an instant in time itself. Now now now now, keep checking your watch.
"The Treasure that we seek is to be discovered not in where we are going, but within the simple nature of the very footsteps that we take. In our rush to find a better situation in time, we trample over the flower of Beingness that presents itself in every moment."
- Tony Parsons
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
― Wittgenstein Ludwig
"From wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of Space - Out of Time"
― Edgar Allen Poe, "Dreamland"
"Time is only an idea. There is only Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into years, months, days and nights, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge."
―Ramana Maharshi
"Eternity is in love with the productions of time"
―William Blake
"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
― Albert Einstein
Time: Past - [The Now] - Future
Space: Inside/Subject - [Boundary] - Outside/Object
Delayed Choice: Present influences the past
Entangled pairs: measure one and the others future is determined. Present Determines Future
Like Spatial duality Subject(inside)-[boundary]-Object(outside), time itself is temporally duality with the present moment acting as the temporal boundary between past and future. Nondual time , you could say is Timeless, as nondual space is nonlocal potentia beyond space.
- Tony Parsons
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
― Wittgenstein Ludwig
"From wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of Space - Out of Time"
― Edgar Allen Poe, "Dreamland"
"Time is only an idea. There is only Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into years, months, days and nights, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge."
―Ramana Maharshi
"Eternity is in love with the productions of time"
―William Blake
"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
― Albert Einstein
Time: Past - [The Now] - Future
Space: Inside/Subject - [Boundary] - Outside/Object
Delayed Choice: Present influences the past
Entangled pairs: measure one and the others future is determined. Present Determines Future
Like Spatial duality Subject(inside)-[boundary]-Object(outside), time itself is temporally duality with the present moment acting as the temporal boundary between past and future. Nondual time , you could say is Timeless, as nondual space is nonlocal potentia beyond space.
Science and Spirituality both agree that time is relative. It is not fixed. We don't need Einstein to confirm this, because everyday life does. Depending on your state of consciousness you are in, the flow of time changes. In deep sleep there is no experience of time. In dreams, time is completely fluid: an epoch can pass in a moment, or a passing moment can last an epoch. A story of the Buddha has it that he shut his eyes for a few moments, and yet inside he was experiencing thousands of years past.
Also timeless moments are ubiquitous, we have all had them. Professional athletes like Joe Namath have reported being 'in the zone' where time seemed to literally stand still. The ball left the his hand in slow motion, while at the same time the roar of the crowd disappeared, and he knew, with certainty where the ball would go; he even knew it would be caught. So time cannot be detached from personal experience, which in turn means no two people experience time in exactly the same way.
Time depends on
0) Most powerful conditioning of Time is Birth - Life - Death
1) Observer to a physicist (motion/gravity) - rate at which times passes
2) Entropy Heat - The direction of Times Arrow.
3) String Theorist/Delayed Choice - Past can be changed.
4) Biologist (circadian rhythms/heartbeat/brainwaves)
5) Evolution - Biological order of time - Increase in complexity species
5) Neuroscientist (perception and memory clocks)
6) Mystic - Timelessness (past , present and future can coexist).
Samadhi - where mind enters pure consciousness, and it is an experience of the Timeless Now. Here time does not exist as a measurable event (think of Samadhi as entering deep dreamless sleep consciously - Nirvikalpa (Causal Mysticism), Sabikalpa would be to enter a dream state of sorts consciously (Deity Mysticism).
7) Non-dualist - Time apparently happens but for no one. Sahaj Samadhi.
Only after pure consciousness (or emptiness) splits into subject and object do we experience the flow of time.
Illusion of Time:
Relativity and Time Dilation
If a space traveler's starship begins traveling near the speed of light, his time, as observed by someone standing back on earth, slows down. This is a basic principle of relativity.
Likewise, since the gravitational field gets more and more powerful in the vicinity of a black hole, a faraway observer would see a space traveler's time seem to slow down until it virtually stopped as the traveler approach the black hole's horizon - he would appear to take an infinite amount of time to cross that horizon and enter the hole.
But here on earth we all have about the same speed (no one is going anywhere near the speed of light), and we share a common gravitational field. So regardless of relativity, the consensus time on earth can still subjectively slow down, morph like in dreams or disappear like in deep sleep, regardless of how the clock on our wall is ticking.
Entropy and Heat Directionality Illusion
Laws of Physics work both forwards and backwards in Time. According to physics, even macroscopic physics, time is only statistical and not real based on Heat and Entropy.
Also timeless moments are ubiquitous, we have all had them. Professional athletes like Joe Namath have reported being 'in the zone' where time seemed to literally stand still. The ball left the his hand in slow motion, while at the same time the roar of the crowd disappeared, and he knew, with certainty where the ball would go; he even knew it would be caught. So time cannot be detached from personal experience, which in turn means no two people experience time in exactly the same way.
Time depends on
0) Most powerful conditioning of Time is Birth - Life - Death
1) Observer to a physicist (motion/gravity) - rate at which times passes
2) Entropy Heat - The direction of Times Arrow.
3) String Theorist/Delayed Choice - Past can be changed.
4) Biologist (circadian rhythms/heartbeat/brainwaves)
5) Evolution - Biological order of time - Increase in complexity species
5) Neuroscientist (perception and memory clocks)
6) Mystic - Timelessness (past , present and future can coexist).
Samadhi - where mind enters pure consciousness, and it is an experience of the Timeless Now. Here time does not exist as a measurable event (think of Samadhi as entering deep dreamless sleep consciously - Nirvikalpa (Causal Mysticism), Sabikalpa would be to enter a dream state of sorts consciously (Deity Mysticism).
7) Non-dualist - Time apparently happens but for no one. Sahaj Samadhi.
Only after pure consciousness (or emptiness) splits into subject and object do we experience the flow of time.
Illusion of Time:
Relativity and Time Dilation
If a space traveler's starship begins traveling near the speed of light, his time, as observed by someone standing back on earth, slows down. This is a basic principle of relativity.
Likewise, since the gravitational field gets more and more powerful in the vicinity of a black hole, a faraway observer would see a space traveler's time seem to slow down until it virtually stopped as the traveler approach the black hole's horizon - he would appear to take an infinite amount of time to cross that horizon and enter the hole.
But here on earth we all have about the same speed (no one is going anywhere near the speed of light), and we share a common gravitational field. So regardless of relativity, the consensus time on earth can still subjectively slow down, morph like in dreams or disappear like in deep sleep, regardless of how the clock on our wall is ticking.
Entropy and Heat Directionality Illusion
Laws of Physics work both forwards and backwards in Time. According to physics, even macroscopic physics, time is only statistical and not real based on Heat and Entropy.
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Riding Zeno's Arrow: Motionlessness In Motion
Imagine you are riding a bike along a road with a twenty mile per hour wind blowing directly at your back. When you are pedaling slower than twenty miles per hour you feel the wind pushing from behind. When you are pedaling faster than twenty miles per hour, you feel the wind pushing from the front. But at perfect speed—when the speed of your bike matches the speed of the wind—the world suddenly becomes very still and your movement along the road becomes nearly effortless. In a similar way, when our flow of awareness comes into precise synchronization with the arising of the cosmos, then, the world suddenly becomes very quiet and our passage through life becomes calm and easeful.
Imagine you are riding a bike along a road with a twenty mile per hour wind blowing directly at your back. When you are pedaling slower than twenty miles per hour you feel the wind pushing from behind. When you are pedaling faster than twenty miles per hour, you feel the wind pushing from the front. But at perfect speed—when the speed of your bike matches the speed of the wind—the world suddenly becomes very still and your movement along the road becomes nearly effortless. In a similar way, when our flow of awareness comes into precise synchronization with the arising of the cosmos, then, the world suddenly becomes very quiet and our passage through life becomes calm and easeful.
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This problem - known as the von Neumann chain – is a regression of measuring devices, whose stopping point is presumed to be the conscious mind (i.e. not a purely physical measurement device, but a conscious entity who actually reads said measurement, effectively stopping the chain).
Time is NOT continuous in your brain. Flicker Fusion or refresh rate.
The flicker fusion frequency is the point at which the eye sees an increasingly rapid flashing light as a continuous beam. Put another way, flicker fusion frequency, also known as flicker merging frequency or flicker fusion rate) is the number of frames per second required to reproduce motion in movie film or video. Early movies were typically shot at 16 frames per second (16 Hz), and the flicker was very noticeable. Today’s movies are typically shot at 24 frames per second (24 Hz) and high definition television (HDTV) is shot at 60 full frames per second (60 Hz).
Humans have a maximum flicker fusion frequency of 14-60 Hz (or 60 “pictures per second” seen by the eye,) (Winkler 2005/34) and a minimum flicker fusion frequency just above 14 Hz (or 14 frames per second). In other words, at frequencies of 14 Hz, most people can detect flicker. It gets more difficult to detect flicker at higher frequencies. For example, TV is broadcast at 60 half frames per second in the United States.
We are much like a living computer. Our brains or RAM help us process data from our environment. We have several intake sources for data, such as our skin, eyes and eyes which vision dominating our input. So how does this work?
Step 1: We open our eyes, our input devices, and light then passes through the cornea onto the lens.
Step 2: The lens works much like a mirror focusing the light onto the back of the eye, our internal monitor, or screen. This area is called the retina.
Step 3: The photoreceptor cells in the back of your eye convert the light energy into electrical signals. This is similar to data being converted to 1s and 0s in your computer system. Other cells, called rods and cones, pick up motion or movement.
The optic nerve carries the electrical signals to your brain feeding it information; you can compare this to being connected to the internet and your cable providing 1s and 0s of data to your computer, which is interpreted then displayed on your monitor.
The visual cues in the world around us move at a particular rate, and our eyes can take in this information at a specific pace of perception. Most experts have a tough time agreeing on an exact number, but the conclusion is that most humans can see at a rate of 30 to 60 frames per second.
Refresh Rate:
You can check your monitor’s label to get a precise number, but it might say something like 60 Hz. What does this mean? It refers to the refresh rate of your screen. We all know what it is like to hit refresh and wait for a web page to load; now imagine the screen you are viewing online or any video you are watching is actually ‘refreshing’ 60 times per second as you watch the linear played video images. It’s mind-blowing!
This speed of your screen refreshing allows your eyes to perceive the information as a continual stream instead of flashes of light. The higher the frequency, the less ability for humans to detect this ‘flicker’ or refreshing of the screen.
Our brains too, have a 'refresh rate' when view outer reality of around 60 Hz. So Time is really just an internal process of combining 30-60 still images to the movie of our life.
The flicker fusion frequency is the point at which the eye sees an increasingly rapid flashing light as a continuous beam. Put another way, flicker fusion frequency, also known as flicker merging frequency or flicker fusion rate) is the number of frames per second required to reproduce motion in movie film or video. Early movies were typically shot at 16 frames per second (16 Hz), and the flicker was very noticeable. Today’s movies are typically shot at 24 frames per second (24 Hz) and high definition television (HDTV) is shot at 60 full frames per second (60 Hz).
Humans have a maximum flicker fusion frequency of 14-60 Hz (or 60 “pictures per second” seen by the eye,) (Winkler 2005/34) and a minimum flicker fusion frequency just above 14 Hz (or 14 frames per second). In other words, at frequencies of 14 Hz, most people can detect flicker. It gets more difficult to detect flicker at higher frequencies. For example, TV is broadcast at 60 half frames per second in the United States.
We are much like a living computer. Our brains or RAM help us process data from our environment. We have several intake sources for data, such as our skin, eyes and eyes which vision dominating our input. So how does this work?
Step 1: We open our eyes, our input devices, and light then passes through the cornea onto the lens.
Step 2: The lens works much like a mirror focusing the light onto the back of the eye, our internal monitor, or screen. This area is called the retina.
Step 3: The photoreceptor cells in the back of your eye convert the light energy into electrical signals. This is similar to data being converted to 1s and 0s in your computer system. Other cells, called rods and cones, pick up motion or movement.
The optic nerve carries the electrical signals to your brain feeding it information; you can compare this to being connected to the internet and your cable providing 1s and 0s of data to your computer, which is interpreted then displayed on your monitor.
The visual cues in the world around us move at a particular rate, and our eyes can take in this information at a specific pace of perception. Most experts have a tough time agreeing on an exact number, but the conclusion is that most humans can see at a rate of 30 to 60 frames per second.
Refresh Rate:
You can check your monitor’s label to get a precise number, but it might say something like 60 Hz. What does this mean? It refers to the refresh rate of your screen. We all know what it is like to hit refresh and wait for a web page to load; now imagine the screen you are viewing online or any video you are watching is actually ‘refreshing’ 60 times per second as you watch the linear played video images. It’s mind-blowing!
This speed of your screen refreshing allows your eyes to perceive the information as a continual stream instead of flashes of light. The higher the frequency, the less ability for humans to detect this ‘flicker’ or refreshing of the screen.
Our brains too, have a 'refresh rate' when view outer reality of around 60 Hz. So Time is really just an internal process of combining 30-60 still images to the movie of our life.
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Quantum Time - Regeneration or Revival Time
Ψ(x,T) = Ψ(x,O)
Time it takes for wavefunction to return to its original form .. aka go backwards in time.
Schrodingers equation is time reversible. Time can be a minus sign and it still works.
This means because the macro world is fundamentally based on quantum mechanics, it too is reversible. There is a proof by Mathematician Jules-Henri Poincare which demonstrates this. The apparent irreversibility that we see in Nature has to do with the small probability that exists for a complex macrobody to retrace its path of evolution back to an initial configuration that has more relative order [This is exactly what Boltzmanns entropy says but here is the quantum mechanical roots]. So there is an apparent and approximate reversibility, but not an absolute one.
The apparent irreversibility of some macroscopic objects enables us to distinguish approximately between classical and quantum. We can say that a quantum object is one that regenerates, while a classical object has a long, long regeneration time. In other words, while quantum objects have no discernible retainment of their history - no memory - classical objects such as detecting devices can be said to have a memory in the sense of requiring a long time to erase the memory.
So while in the quantum realm of pure potential and superposition states, time is a two way street, the apparent one-wayness of time emerges only approximately due to the very long regeneration times of more and more complex objects. When consciousness collapses the wavefunction of the brain-mind, it manifests a subject one-way time that we observe. Irreversibility and times arrow enter nature in the process of collapse itself, in quantum measurement, but this cannot happen with the measuring apparatus alone as we'll see next.
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The problem of measurement is the termination of the Von Neumann Chain. If irreversibility of the measuring device is absolute, if it never returns to its initial state, even in principle, then the measurement process, as we saw above, terminates with the apparatus.
Consider that one way to distinguish quantum from classical is the quantum's ability of regeneration. A quantum interaction, if we don't measure it, leaves no record at all that it ever took place. But it is the job of the measuring apparatus to record the event, to make a memory. Anytime a measurement apparatus detects a quantum event, if the detection process produces perfect memory, we can never regenerate the event. Then the event can be said to have been measured (not in superposition).
But is a detector (ie Stern-Gerlach device) enough to measure a quantum system? From the argument that leads to the von Neumann chain, the answer is no. The detector becomes a coherent superposition of point readings. And the same is true for any subsequent measurement apparatus, giving rise to the von Neumann chain.
Since these apparatuses have now taken on quantum behavior, it is in principle always possible to regenerate the original quantum event so that one cannot tell if it was ever measured. It may take a a very very long time to return all these macroapparatuses to their original situations because they have large regeneration times, but time is not of the essence here.
Because of the time reversal dynamics of the schrodinger equation, absolute irreversibility is impossible, the irreversibility we see in Nature has to do with the small probabilities that exist for retracing the path of evolution of a complex macrobody back to the initial configuration that has more relative order.
That is decoherence argu. ments also fail to explain the collapse. Decoherence is only statistical like entropy. Decoherence arguments fail in large time scales.
Only Consciousness can collapse the wavefunction!!
The Key point is quantum systems and their superposition states are timeless, and it is only consciousness that collapses the wavefunction. But what if we choose NOT to collapse it? Actually that is impossible because the separate self is collapsed.
Nondual self is rides the wave. Complexity makes the world 'seem' solid with time moving forward, but that is ONLY AN ILLUSION!
2 Quantum reasons Macro world 'seems' solid and real with time moving forward
1) Debroglie wavelength large masses incredibly small - superposition states negligible but present
2) Regeneration time incredibly slow but present
Memories in brain are complex but CAN BE REVERSED! Aging in the body is complex, but CAN BE REVERSED. Everything is quantum, only large complex things like the brain and body approximate classical (no superpositions), and one way time (long
Living more quantum mechanically quickens regeneration time, and reverses psychological memories and aging!!
Nature of Time - 20 participants dropped. Mental experience of others and actual experience shorter than recalled experience of time. Brief Dangerous Event .. Occur in Slow motion. Perception and Memory clocks of time. Also Environment --> Circadian Rhythms. Biological rhythm of one day - sleep and rest. Hypothamlamus - Sleep / Wake 25 hours in total darks. Built in
In and out of respiration, pumping of hearts, brainwaves…
Physicists what we mean by time. Time is hard to define, distilled by experience. Immaterial. Think of it as a coordinate like in 4D space-time. Time assigns events a duration. Cesium 133 Atom - since 1967. Definition of time as a duration. Only an approximation for slow speeds and weak gravity. State of observer, relativity. Different observers moving relative to each other can disagree on length and time. Clock like an odometer for time (distance measured).
1971 atomic clock flown around world compared to an earthbound clock. But difference in only billionth of a second
Time itself bends due to differences in gravity or velocity (each affects time in different ways).
But if the flow of space moves faster in a higher gravitational field, results similar to object moving through flat space.
Physicist time depends on motion and gravity - formulas that transfer back and forth from observers clocks (proper time).
Time Slowing Down, Speeding Up and Stopping! (pg 162)
With flow consciousness, we engage the natural time of continuous creation. Natural time has its own pacing and can be experienced as moving either faster or slower than mechanical or clock time. For example, it is not unusual for top athletes to report that, with intense concentration, time slows down considerably. Former pro football quarterback, John Brodie, described how in the most intense moments of a football game, “time seems to slow way down, in an uncanny way, as if everyone were moving in slow motion. It seems as if I had all the time in the world to watch the receivers run their patterns.”150 Time can also seem to move along more quickly than clock time, particularly when an activity loses any sense of drudgery and becomes an engaging and satisfying experience. A chess master described his experience of play as almost dreamlike because, “Time passes a hundred times faster.”151 With flow consciousness, the experience of time can also seem to stop. Practitioners of the Chinese art of Tai Chi—a form of moving meditation—report there is a common experience, “...of seemingly falling through a hole in time. Awareness of the passage of time completely stops, and only when you catch yourself, after five or ten minutes, or five or ten seconds is there the realization that for that period of time the world stopped.”152 Immersion in the moment-to-moment flow opens a window onto new dimensions of time experience.
With flow consciousness, we engage the natural time of continuous creation. Natural time has its own pacing and can be experienced as moving either faster or slower than mechanical or clock time. For example, it is not unusual for top athletes to report that, with intense concentration, time slows down considerably. Former pro football quarterback, John Brodie, described how in the most intense moments of a football game, “time seems to slow way down, in an uncanny way, as if everyone were moving in slow motion. It seems as if I had all the time in the world to watch the receivers run their patterns.”150 Time can also seem to move along more quickly than clock time, particularly when an activity loses any sense of drudgery and becomes an engaging and satisfying experience. A chess master described his experience of play as almost dreamlike because, “Time passes a hundred times faster.”151 With flow consciousness, the experience of time can also seem to stop. Practitioners of the Chinese art of Tai Chi—a form of moving meditation—report there is a common experience, “...of seemingly falling through a hole in time. Awareness of the passage of time completely stops, and only when you catch yourself, after five or ten minutes, or five or ten seconds is there the realization that for that period of time the world stopped.”152 Immersion in the moment-to-moment flow opens a window onto new dimensions of time experience.
Time and Memory
What is time? Time is a concept of man. Extra dimension.
Spacetime - vectors in space. Time is not some cartesian vector.
Time is more changing and evolution. Memory… Time to Memory.
Entropy / Information/ Memory
Without memory there is no time. So not space-time ---> Space-memory (morphogenetic field).
There is memory in the universe.
Information on the structure of space. Space with information in it. Information is the evolution of space.
Time is information on the structure of space.
Best way to think of information. Information is the relationship between things.
Patterns of information is memory. Memory is a property of information. Information is a property of matter and energy.
Matter and energy evolves because of memory. There is a feedback between memory and matter and energy.
Universe is self organizing. Matter--> Energy ---> Information ---> Memory ---> Feedback to Matter/Energy
If you have no memory, you have no awareness of time.
The function of memory to the production of awareness. Complex enough to have Self Awareness. Influencing.
Your awareness is an amount of space-time around you. Your feedback loop to the entire planet.
If your awareness is local to home than there is little feedback. Expand feedback loops…
Info
Planck field of information holding the data of the universe.
How does space store information?
Maybe black holes are information reservoirs.
Theory based on information in space-time.
Everything is talking, exchanging information. Interacts with itself in a continuous.
Universe becoming aware of itself.
What is time? Time is a concept of man. Extra dimension.
Spacetime - vectors in space. Time is not some cartesian vector.
Time is more changing and evolution. Memory… Time to Memory.
Entropy / Information/ Memory
Without memory there is no time. So not space-time ---> Space-memory (morphogenetic field).
There is memory in the universe.
Information on the structure of space. Space with information in it. Information is the evolution of space.
Time is information on the structure of space.
Best way to think of information. Information is the relationship between things.
Patterns of information is memory. Memory is a property of information. Information is a property of matter and energy.
Matter and energy evolves because of memory. There is a feedback between memory and matter and energy.
Universe is self organizing. Matter--> Energy ---> Information ---> Memory ---> Feedback to Matter/Energy
If you have no memory, you have no awareness of time.
The function of memory to the production of awareness. Complex enough to have Self Awareness. Influencing.
Your awareness is an amount of space-time around you. Your feedback loop to the entire planet.
If your awareness is local to home than there is little feedback. Expand feedback loops…
Info
Planck field of information holding the data of the universe.
How does space store information?
Maybe black holes are information reservoirs.
Theory based on information in space-time.
Everything is talking, exchanging information. Interacts with itself in a continuous.
Universe becoming aware of itself.
Delayed choice experiment is like a double slit experiment in which you have the option of observing the path that a particle takes EXCEPT you postpone your decision about whether or not to observe the path until just before the particle hits the detection screen.
More rigorous version done in 2007 when reliable single photon pulses could be generated, and fast enough electronics available.
The result was that quantum theory predictions were confirmed. Observation creates a relevant history.
Hawking - The probability of any observation is constructed from all possible histories that could have led to that observation. Top Down Approach.
Wheeler and the cosmic version of this experiment - photons from very powerful quasars billions of light years away. Since light could be split and refocused to earth via gravitational lensing of an intervening galaxy.
Beyond reach of current technology, if we could collect enough photons from this light, there should be an interference pattern. If we place a device to measure "which path" information shortly before detection, that pattern should disappear. The choice to take one or both paths in this case would be made billions of years ago!
Hawking says the Universe, like a particle doesn't have a single history, but every possible history, each with its own probability; and our observations of its current state affect its past and determine the different histories in the universe, just as the observations of the particles of the double slit experiment affect the particles past.
8) Weak, Strong and Participatory Anthropic Principle
a. The strong anthropic principle (SAP) the Universe is compelled, in some sense, for conscious life to eventually emerge.
Strong - The universe MUST have those properties which allow life to develop within it at some stage in history.
b. Weak anthropic principle (WAP) states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i.e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld. Like Law of Natural Selection. Our existence guarantees that the laws of physics and the fundamental constants are compatible with organic chemistry and biology, but it also guarantees that our universe was lucky enough to draw the winning peptide (that became a self replicator). Mutation and Natural Selection only begins after the cell is created.
c. PAP - Participatory Anthropic Principle - Observers are required to bring the universe into existence. Any pre-life earth would exist in an indeterminate state, like Schrondingers Cat.
Could this mean that the pre-life universe can only exist retroactively after the fact of consciousness?
If the universe is in a non-determined state until forced to resolve by an observer, and this non-determined state included the determination of all the fundamental constants, that means the constants would have to resolve in such a way as to allow life.
Are we a pocket universe/Multiverse
9) Fine Tuning and Specialness of the laws of physics
Laws of Physics are very special.
Throw away electrons
No atoms, no chemistry, no biology
Gravity is very very weak, compared to atom. Gravitational force completely neglible.
If Gravity were just a hair stronger, stars would burn out too quickly, they would not live long enough for life to evolve, black holes would form. Universe would expand and contract too rapidly. Everything things to be on a knife-edge.
electric charge of electron, mass of particles.
Cosmological constant - really on a knifeedge... Such a narrow knife-edge... We would not be here.
It's anti-gravity and causes everything to expand. Magnitude is incredibly small. Only felt on the largest scales of the universe. Not because the mathematics tells us, whoever made the universe made it with
.0000--123 zeros than a 2. 10^-123.
If it were much greater, counteracting antigravity could have prevented the forming of planets, suns solar systems and galaxies. Physicsist never understood why its soo small.
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Strong, Weak, and Participatory Anthropic Principle
•a. The strong anthropic principle (SAP) the Universe is compelled (out of necessity), in some sense, for conscious life to eventually emerge. The universe MUST have those properties which allow life to develop within it at some stage in history.
•b. Weak anthropic principle (WAP) states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i.e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unseen.
•PAP - Participatory Anthropic Principle - Observers are required to bring the universe into existence. Any pre-life earth would exist in an indeterminate state. Solipcism - God as cosmic quantum consciousness.
•Could this mean that the pre-life universe can only exist retroactively after the fact of consciousness.
Delayed Choice experiments say yes.
•If the universe is in a non-determined state until forced to resolve by an observer, and this non-determined state included the determination of all the fundamental constants, that means the constants would have to resolve in such a way as to allow life.
•Most often such arguments draw upon some notion of the multiverse for there to be a statistical population of universes to select from. M-theory 10^500.
More rigorous version done in 2007 when reliable single photon pulses could be generated, and fast enough electronics available.
The result was that quantum theory predictions were confirmed. Observation creates a relevant history.
Hawking - The probability of any observation is constructed from all possible histories that could have led to that observation. Top Down Approach.
Wheeler and the cosmic version of this experiment - photons from very powerful quasars billions of light years away. Since light could be split and refocused to earth via gravitational lensing of an intervening galaxy.
Beyond reach of current technology, if we could collect enough photons from this light, there should be an interference pattern. If we place a device to measure "which path" information shortly before detection, that pattern should disappear. The choice to take one or both paths in this case would be made billions of years ago!
Hawking says the Universe, like a particle doesn't have a single history, but every possible history, each with its own probability; and our observations of its current state affect its past and determine the different histories in the universe, just as the observations of the particles of the double slit experiment affect the particles past.
8) Weak, Strong and Participatory Anthropic Principle
a. The strong anthropic principle (SAP) the Universe is compelled, in some sense, for conscious life to eventually emerge.
Strong - The universe MUST have those properties which allow life to develop within it at some stage in history.
b. Weak anthropic principle (WAP) states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i.e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld. Like Law of Natural Selection. Our existence guarantees that the laws of physics and the fundamental constants are compatible with organic chemistry and biology, but it also guarantees that our universe was lucky enough to draw the winning peptide (that became a self replicator). Mutation and Natural Selection only begins after the cell is created.
c. PAP - Participatory Anthropic Principle - Observers are required to bring the universe into existence. Any pre-life earth would exist in an indeterminate state, like Schrondingers Cat.
Could this mean that the pre-life universe can only exist retroactively after the fact of consciousness?
If the universe is in a non-determined state until forced to resolve by an observer, and this non-determined state included the determination of all the fundamental constants, that means the constants would have to resolve in such a way as to allow life.
Are we a pocket universe/Multiverse
9) Fine Tuning and Specialness of the laws of physics
Laws of Physics are very special.
Throw away electrons
No atoms, no chemistry, no biology
Gravity is very very weak, compared to atom. Gravitational force completely neglible.
If Gravity were just a hair stronger, stars would burn out too quickly, they would not live long enough for life to evolve, black holes would form. Universe would expand and contract too rapidly. Everything things to be on a knife-edge.
electric charge of electron, mass of particles.
Cosmological constant - really on a knifeedge... Such a narrow knife-edge... We would not be here.
It's anti-gravity and causes everything to expand. Magnitude is incredibly small. Only felt on the largest scales of the universe. Not because the mathematics tells us, whoever made the universe made it with
.0000--123 zeros than a 2. 10^-123.
If it were much greater, counteracting antigravity could have prevented the forming of planets, suns solar systems and galaxies. Physicsist never understood why its soo small.
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Strong, Weak, and Participatory Anthropic Principle
•a. The strong anthropic principle (SAP) the Universe is compelled (out of necessity), in some sense, for conscious life to eventually emerge. The universe MUST have those properties which allow life to develop within it at some stage in history.
•b. Weak anthropic principle (WAP) states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i.e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unseen.
•PAP - Participatory Anthropic Principle - Observers are required to bring the universe into existence. Any pre-life earth would exist in an indeterminate state. Solipcism - God as cosmic quantum consciousness.
•Could this mean that the pre-life universe can only exist retroactively after the fact of consciousness.
Delayed Choice experiments say yes.
•If the universe is in a non-determined state until forced to resolve by an observer, and this non-determined state included the determination of all the fundamental constants, that means the constants would have to resolve in such a way as to allow life.
•Most often such arguments draw upon some notion of the multiverse for there to be a statistical population of universes to select from. M-theory 10^500.
There are two kinds of causality:
One is the traditional kind, which links objects and events across time and space and allows us to make sense of what goes on in time and space. It is part of the world drama, but it does not take part in setting the stage for it.
The other is the causality of the process of manifestation — the process by which Pure Being enters into reflexive spatial relations and subjects them to the laws of physics. Because this process is responsible for the creation of time and space, it obviously isn’t a process that takes place in time. As prisoners of time we keep looking for the origin of the universe at the beginning of time, but this is an error of perspective, and quantum physics tells us so.
One is the traditional kind, which links objects and events across time and space and allows us to make sense of what goes on in time and space. It is part of the world drama, but it does not take part in setting the stage for it.
The other is the causality of the process of manifestation — the process by which Pure Being enters into reflexive spatial relations and subjects them to the laws of physics. Because this process is responsible for the creation of time and space, it obviously isn’t a process that takes place in time. As prisoners of time we keep looking for the origin of the universe at the beginning of time, but this is an error of perspective, and quantum physics tells us so.