Yesterday I picked up a brand new copy of The Holographic Universe
that I’d ordered from my friendly local library. Read a bit yesterday and by breakfast had reached page 50 and this book is blowing my mind. There are hints at implications for Paranormal research that make me think, even this early into it, that this is a must read for every Paranormal Investigator who is genuinely interested in understanding paranormal phenomena.

Anyway, by page 50 I was bursting to share a little of what I’d come across. I’ll post a full review when I’ve finished the whole book.

First a taster from the back cover

“Despite its apparent materiality the universe is actually a kind of 3-D projection and is ultimately no more real than a hologram.

This astonishing idea was pioneered by two of the world’s most eminent thinkers, physicist David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein, and the quantum physicist Karl Pribram. The holographic theory of the world encompasses not only reality as we know it, including hitherto unexplained phenomena, but is capable of explaining such occurrences as telepathy, paranormal and out-of-body experiences, synchronicity, ‘lucid’ dreaming and even mystical and religious traditions such as cosmic unity and miraculous healings.

Now, in The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot reveals the extraordinary depth and power of this radical theory. He explains the theory behind a holograph and how it provides a model for aspects of brain function and for whole areas of quantum physics. Illustrating the paranormic way in which the the holographic model makes sense of the entire range of mystical, spiritual, and psychic experiences, Talbot pushes the barriers to explore the implications for other universes beyond our own. Daring and ground-breaking, The Holographic Universe
is a classic in the vein of Friijof Capra’s The Tao of Physics.”

Here’s one of the things that grabbed my attention in a discussion about Bohm’s ideas that the Universe is a continuum with no separation, other than the illusory one, between any of its parts. “…every cubic centimetre of empty space contains more energy than the total energy of ALL (my caps) the matter in the known Universe” and just to put that in perspective, Michael Talbot explains that that’s the energy of a trillion atomic bombs in every cubic centimetre of empty space.

Earlier in the book there was discussion about memory and how, apart from a few unreproducible experiments with epileptics by Wilder Penfield in the 1920’s, the brain seems to store memories in much the same way that a holographic image is stored on a piece of film. Every part of the film contains all of the image. It’s just that the more of the film you use the clearer and more detailed the hologram becomes. The brain seems to work like this. But, and this is where it starts to get weird, all of our senses seem to operate holographically too.

A chap called Fourier found a mathematical way to store patterns (Fourier patterns) and then reproduce them. Then he looked at the patterns on holographic film and discovered they were Fourier patterns. Then a few experiments later it seems it seems our brains store and interpret all of our sensory input the same way. Now if you’ve seen a holographic image you will know it’s 3D and sort of hangs in the air and you can look around it. But it isn’t real. No instrument can detect anything different in the air where the holograph appears to be, from the air anywhere else. The image is an illusion. The image is actually the pattern on the film and that looks like a series of dots or random patterns.

Now since your external sensory world is a similar pattern of dots held spread throughout the whole of you brain, this is quite powerful evidence to suggest that external reality is an illusion in the same way that a hologram is an illusion.

One final exert before I return to these fascinating pages.
“The idea that consciousness and life (and indeed all things) are ensembles enfolded throughout the universe has an equally dazzling flip side. Just as every portion of a hologram contains the image of the whole, every portion of the universe enfolds the whole. This means that if we knew how to access it we could find the Andromeda Galaxy in the thumb nail of our left hand. We could also find Cleopatra meeting Caesar for the first time, for in principle the whole past and implications for the whole future are also enfolded in each small region of space and time. Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, every raindrop, and every dust mote, which gives new meaning to William Blake’s famous poem:
To see a World in a Grain of sand
And a heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Powerful stuff and raises the whole question of pre-destiny without even trying.

Michael Hadfield

I’m writing this post because so many well-meaning, conscious, spiritual people are missing some significant information and tools when it comes to Law of Attraction and being a conscious cocreator of your life with Spirit.

One of my wonderful Facebook friends recently wrote a post:

“If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so:

‘Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.’ — Abraham”

This sparked a controversy with 19 people weighing in, many fully agreeing and many others, myself included, objecting to this as an oversimplification and stating that, even though it is true that our focus does permeate our vibration and thus create, it is actually NECESSARY to understand and heal our past in order to learn what we need to from it and be able to truly free ourselves from its hold on us and move on into something even better.

We have to put our attention on our intention BUT if we are not aligned strongly and consistently enough with our intention, if we are trying really hard to make it happen but it’s just not working, that’s a sure sign we need to do some inner healing work before we do any more manifesting and attracting and creating. It’s inner, not, outer time, first.

I feel so strongly that so many New Age, metaphysical folks are so hyped up about positive thinking and “just focus on what you want,” they are missing something vital:

For most people, with most long-term issues, simply striving to be positive and focus on their intentions is NOT enough to bring about the desired results. We need to learn from our past, and use that wisdom to create our best future, while living in and enjoying the present.

So here I go on my soap box again.

The Abraham work and all the other good Law of Attraction stuff out there is not intended to be interpreted as “Ladeeda, we can just be positive 100% of the time and only good things will come to us. All that yucky stuff from the past – I’m done with that now and all I have to do is think good thoughts and I will attract all my desires. Abracadabra!”

So allow me to bust that myth and empower you with a much more in-depth and practical approach:

1- Our past is important. Just as our current emotions are indicators of the distance between where we are at and where we want to be, our past is one of our teachers as well. We can – and indeed need to – turn our wounds into wisdom. Some of our life experiences we may label “good” or “positive,” we feel we were successful and these we can apply to continue to utilize and build upon what worked for us, while the so-called “negative” experiences or failures are also useful in several ways.

For one thing, we can clarify more clearly what, exactly we DO want by contrasting it with what we do NOT want anymore. This applies equally well to health and lifestyle choices, work, home, community, as well as relationships.

Secondly, we can learn psychologically and spiritually: What was my lesson in this?

Thirdly,we can discover, with proper reflection, which may include prayer, meditation, journaling, counseling, or even insightful conversations, that there was truly a silver lining, a gift in every experience we have had. Sometimes we don’t see it at the time, it feels horrible, we may even be devastated that that relationship or career didn’t work out, that we had that disability or lost our house, but ultimately, when we see through the eyes of Spirit and Love, we will always find that everything happened for a reason and we can find something to be grateful for, even if it’s just the ability to make a different choice next time.

2- Until we learn our lessons from the past, we are going to UNCONSCIOUSLY repeat them. This is true of humanity when we look at larger societal choices as well as on the personal level. Ignoring our past and zapping it like it didn’t even happen is not the solution. In fact, ignoring our past and stuffing it over there, oh, that’s too messy, I don’t want to deal with that right now, does not free us from it, it actually dooms us to repeat it.

3- The Abraham work says that our DOMINANT thought is the one that runs the show, and I agree with this. The catch is: Our dominant thought is seldom a conscious thought, so we cannot expect to simply push a button and “There, I’m only going to think good thoughts, feel good feelings and make good choices from now on.”

We have to heal all those billions of subconscious beliefs that we are carrying around which arose out – what? Our past experiences and programming, of course.

I do agree that many people spend far too much time simply repeating their “story,” which actually keeps them stuck in it and keeps giving it energy. There is a big difference between looping an old version of a reality we no longer want, whining about it, being a drama king/queen, vs. actually being willing to visit the past (with support if necessary) with the intention of looking in the mirror, releasing what no longer serves, with forgiveness, finding the lesson and gift in it, and moving confidently forward into a better life we are creating for ourselves, from the inside out.

Do we need to look at our past? Absolutely.Do we need to keep telling it over and over? Absolutely not.

4- We need to process stuck emotions. Sometimes we need to move some rage. Shake off some old energy. Sometimes we need to express ourselves to someone, forgive, be forgiven, and it doesn’t matter if they’re alive or dead or whether their human self is willing to hear a word we are saying. We just talk to their Higher Self, soul to soul. We look in the mirror and show them a mirror as well. I have an extensive guided meditation and energy healing journey that I guide people through called the Healing Past Relationships Journey (soon to be available as a CD/MP3 audio) which facilitates this soul-to-soul communication, energy exchange, forgiveness and healing. Or you may be able to do it for yourself, perhaps by writing a letter or through ceremony. We need to visit our past just enough to learn from it and to heal it, not rehash it or keep talking about it for decades.

We also need to forgive ourselves. And forgive God!

The work I do as an energy healer, intuitive, hypnotherapist and life coach focuses on identifying the current condition of your Body, Mind, Heart and Soul and creating a complete, intuitively guided healing program that empowers you to remember who you really are, to love and heal yourself completely, and to clarify your vision and reawaken your passion, power and life purpose — to create the life and love of your dreams. I am a Law of Attraction coach, and people often begin working with me when they realize (see with Real Eyes) that they are working so dang hard on themselves, have been for years, yet something is still stuck. They are willing, finally, to do what it takes to really succeed, so we go places, often in the first session, that completely amazes them.

5- We need to heal core issues and heal on all levels.

For example, some of my recent clients have improved their relationships, found lasting love, launched their heart-centered business, created more harmony in their parenting or other family relationships…..In every case, we needed to do some deep CORE ISSUE healing at the level of the SOUL and the ENERGY FIELD, the kind of healing that is more difficult to do by one’s self when we are emotionally caught up in our “stuff,” scared, frustrated and depleted.

I do sometimes have clients who try to turn the sessions into talk therapy and keep going on and on about their problems. They are stuck in their story. So I ask them, “Do you want to talk about it or do you want to heal it?” If they keep wanting to talk about it, they are not ready for the kind of healing I do. If they want to heal it, I can help them heal themselves but we have to go much deeper than just talking. Deep omnidimensional energy healing at the soul level i.e. soul retrieval, regression, rebirthing, hypnotherapy/NLP, ceremony, forgiveness work, can be extremely helpful, especially if a person is unable to break free of an old belief/energy. We shift the energy & belief at the original cause and core. I channel empowering self-healing techniques they can do on their own to continue the healing and keep building the positive energy.

We don’t ever have to be 100% healed, nor is that even possible so long as we are human. But we need to be healed enough to be free to focus on what we do want, move forward and create from an aligned, clear, positive state of being and love.

6- ALIGN, ATTRACT, ACT.

People so caught up in the Law of Attraction who simply read a few books, go to a few workshops, watch a couple of movies, often fail to understand that trying to get into ACTION mode before you are ALIGNED does not work. Law of Attraction works – once we are aligned with our desires. If some part of our subconscious mind or energy field is still playing the tape of a limiting, negative belief, we are not going to be able to just attract what we want, no matter how many affirmations we say or vision boards we make!

7 – I want to make one more point about the past and this concept of time. We can only live in one time: the present. We need to heal and learn from our past and draw upon its power, we need to envision and align with our best future, and yet we can only live right here, right now. All times exist in this moment of choice: now.

I personally feel we need to spend MOST of our attention right here, where we live. In this body. On this planet. Enjoying this life to the fullest. Mindful. Heartful. Soulful. Bodyful. Beautiful! When we work with the concept of time as fluid and simultaneous and quantum rather than linear, we find that every moment is a portal home.

We can also change our past shamanically, redream it. This helps us create our best future as well. This can be done through shamanic trance healing and/or conscious dreaming.

We each have the power to facilitate miraculous healing and success beyond our wildest imagination. We don’t have to spend years healing the past. We can heal it in an instant, or it may take several months or longer, but if we go deep enough and work at the level of the soul, core beliefs and original causes, the quantum and cosmic fields and on all levels, if we do this work with a vibration of love for ourselves and all beings, we will grow into being who we came here to be.

I love the Abraham work but sometimes a phrase taken by itself does not present the complexities of the spiritual nature of the Universe. True healing and conscious creation of our lives will always involve navigating the territory of our past with loving kindness and forgivness, with an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow so we can create an even better future. And we can do this today.

If you would like more information about Omnidimensional Healing of Core Issues blended with intuitive life coaching, and a free Special Report on Law of Attraction Graduate School – Abundance Affirmations with Ooompf!, please visit my main website at:

www.LoveandSpirit.org.

Sculptor/physicist Julian Voss-Andreae works at the intersection of science and art. His latest work is a series of sculptures designed to help us better understand quantum physics. Above is “Father” from the series “Spin Family (Bosons and Fermions)” 2009, steel and silk, 7″ x 6″ x 6″. The big idea:

After struggling with quantum physics for the last hundred years we cannot escape the fact that there simply are no consistent mental images we can create to understand the world as it is portrayed in quantum physics, because our brains are exquisitely adapted to making sense of the world on our scale, as perceived through our unaided senses. My hope is that the unique ability of art to transcend the confines of logic and literal representation and to offer glimpses of something beyond can help us open up to a deeper understanding of the world and to wean ourselves from the powerful grip classical physics has had over the last centuries on our every perception of reality.

That one is “Night Path” (detail), 2009, painted steel and gold thread, 18″ x 19″ x 6″. There’s some more of his art here.

[via BoingBoing]

Because of the generosity of Fyxation Tires, Leader Bikes and Volume Bike Co we will now be having a Quantum Trick comp after the grand opening series finale race this Saturday. Some of the best tarck stars from the left coast will be in attendance. You shouldn’t miss this.

Well it’s not a Zombie cat - both dead and alive. But it’s uncertain if it’s dead or alive. It’s funny but it may be the starkest truth known to our species.

Since I started reading (and probably understanding) eastern philosophy I figured out two things clearly. It’s more like intuitively knowing than logically knowing (remember axioms and theorems back from school days). First thing is the concept of Advaitism. (Non Duality, Monoism, Unified Energy Field, the Infinite, Brahman, the Source, Etc. Etc.) It’s funny how many different names we have to describe something which is One. Second concept is that – though I know this concept of advaitism is true, it’s damn difficult to realise it. Now wait a minute – I am no where claiming that I am on the path of illumination or nirvana or anywhere near that. But I definitely consider myself initiated seeker (I am serious so please don’t laugh at me).

So I started reading here and there and bumped into The Law of Attraction. This again has got the Unified energy field theory at it’s nucleus. It cites basic tenets of quantum physics to make the case and then builds upon logically. If it sounds logical or not? Yes it does. At least to me. This again got me into reading basics of quantum physics. Initially I dreaded the subject as it has an air esoteric erudite arrogance around it. And also I never liked Shrodinger wave equation (the O in Schrödinger has 2 dots on top of it – it’s a German word which is Romanized based on phonetics). Also, though I did fairly well in integral calculus I didn’t like the Integral signs. They looked like snakes standing on their tale. But because the seeker I am, I went on to read the basics of Quantum Physics. As a habit I like to find the pure – the essence of a concept. So what I understood from Quantum Physics is this that – there is no absolute existence of anything/being in isolation of an observer. A slightly different version is that everything thing is an infinite but single field of energy and the point existence of anything/being is just not absolute but it is a probability of existence.

Whoa! Probably I didn’t articulate the best but given the abstractness of the concept I can grant myself a little blabbering here. Anyways, if one reads the Bohr’s concept of complimentarity, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and Einstein’s theory of relativity – they all basically point to the same stuff, probably in different ways. That’s the reason though got their Nobel prizes for something basic (Einstein for photo-electric effect, Physics 1921, Bohr for structure of atom in 1922 and Heisenberg for uncertainty principle in 1932), their important works are around relativity, uncertainty, unified energy field.

So I thought of playing with this idea practically. It’s like the computer in which you are hopefully reading my post – actually doesn’t exist. It’s just a probability. It will exist only when you observe it. Or if you are driving on a road with your eyes closed, the speeding truck coming from the front actually doesn’t exist – till you actually see it (observe it). I wouldn’t try that however.

But then again this got me thinking. With internet this concept looks more applicable and practical. Different websites exist in space. They exist as bits or magnetic fields in remote servers at many places in the world. But they appear materially only when someone tunes into them or observes them. Else they are just a field of probability. Same is the funda with phone. It also resonates with the Vedic knowledge – which says it’s a continuous stream of knowledge, it has got no beginning and no end. (It’s not exactly continuous knowledge – because continuity is with respect to time and there is no time actually – there’s just NOW) WOW! Before Newton discovered gravity, the actual force of gravity did exist. It existed always. But it was realised or known only when Newton observed it. This argument is true for all the scientific discoveries.

Whatever is true to naked eyes may not be always the truth. However, knowing that it’s true how to actually realise it is the big question. One thing is sure though – the more we know the closer we get to the past and our actual selves (actually there’s no past or present and also no ourselves as al time is NOW and everyone is ONE).

PS: By the way..sorry for the title. I am a consultant and titles have to be buzz-words, are done at last moment, relevance is neither intended nor guaranteed.

Prologue

This story deals with a seeming paradox in the world of quantum physics. That is, that light can be proven to be both a particle and a wave, depending on how you look at it. It stems from theories and experiments from the mid-twentieth century; Einstein and all that.

Story

It was the big day for this photon – there he sits, snugly, in the particle accelerator, waiting for the green light.

For months he has been preparing for this moment; hanging out with the larger electrons, learning ow they came to be as big as they are, while he was still barely a nucleus.

To the mesons and bosons he had spoken, whilst they raced along backwards and forwards, (and sometimes both!). From them he learned the order of things, the ‘elimentariness’ of the world.

And now he was ready, sitting there, waiting for the electromagnets to warm up. Soon he would be journeying, at the speed of light, towards the most important event of his life!

Soon it came – the hum in the background, the green light came on – he was off! Out through the barrel of the gun he went, out into the unknown, out into the world!

And there it was – the famous dark screen that his contemporaries had whispered about. ‘Be careful,’ they had said, ‘for a choice awaits you there. Beware of That Which Watches.’

Onwards he hurtled, and then he saw them – two there were, many many orders of magnitude larger than himself – looming, gaping holes in the screen. He knew his purpose then, he knew what he was here to do. He braced himself,preparing for that most sacred act that a photon can perform.

He concentrated and, slowly but surely, as he sped along, his whole being stretched, blurred, smoothed and spread. He was going for it! He was now truly a wave, spreading though the ether, a movement of energy, not of particles; propagating himself towards the voids in the screen.

But wait! What is this? As he approaches the screen he can see, concealed behind each hole – particle detectors!

‘Oh no!’ he thought – ‘if That Which Watches’ is expecting a particle, how will It notice me, if am but a wave?’ Losing his concentration completely, the photon collapses back into a single particle, and just scrapes through one of the holes in the screen…

And there he is picked up by one of the detectors, like an all-seeing orb, as passes on to the sensitive plate beyond.

the photon hits this new plate and comes to rest, the agony of the journey and the energy expended in collapsing from wave to particle finally spent, all remaining of him a single spot on a photographic plate.

Epilogue

In another world a human being looks up from a small photographic plate and turns to another human, saying ‘You see, Albert, I told you light was a particle…’

Thanks to Sarah de Nordwall and the Scanners crew for inspiration and support.

Disclaimer: I know the physics isn’t bang on; it’s just a story x

“Experiments are as good as your instruments and simulations are as good as your assumptions” – Prof. D. K. Ferry, Arizona State University

This post will discuss the basics of simulation (done by writing a code in any of the many programming languages). There are numerous tutorials on the web and there is no dearth of good books on this subject hence I will keep it very simple. The following figure will help in the discussion.

Imagine you have a rectangular surface of length ‘L’ (along x-axis) and width ‘W’ (y-axis) and you need to model some physical process in that region. The idea is to divide the region of interest into many points (grid) and solve equations describing the physical process at each grid point and this would tell us how the physical process would behave within the rectangle.Now one of the first things to do is to decide on a suitable grid size, i.e. the distance between two grid points (indicated by ‘a’ in the above diagram). The grid size should be small enough to capture the intricacies of the process, i.e. smaller than the characteristic distances within which interesting phenomenon occur but it should not be too small (more on it in the next paragraph). In this case a grid size of ‘a’ divides the width into ‘k’ points (k-1=W/a) and length into ‘m’ points (m-1=L/a). Thus any point in the rectangle can be represented by a 2 element co-ordinate system. For example the red dot is (3,4), i.e. 3rd row and 4th column. Sometimes it would be convenient/efficient to use a radial co-ordinate system (r,θ).

Now comes the computation: the above paragraph indicates that in total we have ‘m × k’ points and the equations describing the physical process must be solved at each of these points. This leads to the lower limit of the grid size. If it is too small then the number of points where one must perform computation increases hyperbolically; very soon your code’s run time will get increasingly uncomfortable and your program/computer may run out of memory. The initial tests of your simulation should be aimed at determining an optimum grid size. Note: In some cases the grid size may have one value for the horizontal axis and a different value for the vertical axis, in this case the grid size will be ‘a× b’ where ‘a’ is the grid size along length and ‘b’ is the grid size along width. And there are cases where the grid size may be variable, i.e. small in areas of interest and large in nonessential areas.

As some of you may have noticed this is a 2 dimensional (2D) simulation since there are two length based attributes in our region of interest, namely the length and the width. This can be expanded to perform a 3 dimensional (3D) simulation by solving the equations along the z-axis also but be prepared to compute in at least ‘m × k × p’ points! and not to mention the visualization problems while handling a quantity in 3D space. Note: In 3D, there are at least 4 entities to handle out of which three are the distances (dimensions). Also note that this type of grid is also known as mesh or lattice system and this type of simulation is also known as discretization.

In my case I am interested in solving the Schrodinger equation in a 2D system whose size is typically in the order of few 100 nm by few tens of nm with a grid size of about 1 nm (nm = nanometer). This will allow me to see quantum effects that happen in the scale of few nm.

In the end one has to remember that in any simulation you get what you put in. If you ever feel you are seeing new phenomenon then all it means is that either you did not completely understand your system dynamics/equations or there is an error in the code or data. In most cases it will be the latter

Everyone has been asking what’s Neo Quantum Retro Music….what does Rebel Starr sound like…who is Rebel Starr??? Everyone wants to know. Well, the time has finally arrived.

It has been rumored that the airbending trio has been seen making aye okay strides by assembling beautiful creations with x-men and a host of musicians. Not to mention they’ve fumble through the good book a few times, because the road has been a rocky journey. You can’t ig‘ them, they’ve bounce back several times like spalding. Reigning supreme like queens and kings…the Starrlem representatives are finally have made leeway, and are ready to leak a couple tracks and lyrics right in time for their upcoming stage date with Talib Kweli’s Idle Warship.

Be sure to get the full single release on November 28, 2009 @ South Paw….

Check out the leak of their lead off single “About Ta Monkey” featuring Lyric Jones on Rise Up Radio tonight on WBAI Radio.

I recently came across a requirement to start to track my inventory and bookkeeping needs a little more advanced than a basic spreadsheet and Quicken.  As such, I started the arduous task of looking into accounting applications that could fit the bill.  First and foremost, I laid out my requirements as follows:

1. Online Reconciliation W/ My Existing Bank Account
2. Flexibility Within the Chart of Accounts Feature
3. Support of Both Cash/Accrual Methodologies for Accounting (I Use a Cash Basis for Priority Supplements)
4. Employee Tracking W/ Integrated Payroll
5. Detailed Inventory Management
6. Account/Contact Mgmt. (Basic)
7. Integration to 3rd Party Add Ons Such As CRM, E-Commerce, Payment Processing (Visa, MC, AMEX, Discover).

With these requirements laid out I began a comparison of all the features within the marketplace.  A natural first selection to review were QuickBooks and PeachTree.  These applications lend nicely to a small business budget while offering a strong set of features.  Sage’s PeachTree offers a more robust feature set with their Quantum Edition and QuickBooks does the same with their Enterprise Solutions.  Both products work well within in a standard PC, peer to peer and Windows server network.  The difference that I noticed in the applications were small but somewhat noticeable.  I found QuickBooks to be far more discoverable than PeachTree.  I also found the third party add-ons to be phenomenal (http://marketplace.intuit.com).

In doing some further research I also found web based applications that do a great job in fitting the bill.  For example, there is a product called Less Accounting that offers a phenomenal feature set for a modest monthly fee.  There is no physical installation of software on my Mac or PC.  I looked at the QuickBooks Online Edition as well which left me wanting.  Without some of the required inventory/payroll features that I require, I simple couldn’t use it.  Another crucial instrument for me was to have an interface available via my IPhone.  As I am consistently away from the office, I need to have real-time access to critical expense/revenue information to make concise business decision.  As such, I am currently using the Less Accounting IPhone interface and have been pleased.  It does lack some required features such as contact/customer information availability but it is overall a nice feature set to enter expenses in quickly and see real-time balance info.

With the above review being finalized, I have decided to go with Less Accounting for the time being.  This product offers the features I require at a cost savings premium ($24 per month for their premium service).  I will offer a follow up review in thirty days which will provide a more thorough update.  Let me know your thoughts.

420321     กลศาสตร์ควอนตัม I     Quantum Mechanics I

การเปลี่ยนจากกลศาสตร์คลาสสิกเป็นกลศาสตร์ควอนตัม ฟังก์ชันคลื่น สมการของชเรอดิงเงอร์ ฮาร์มอนิก ออสซิลเลเตอร์ อะตอมแบบไฮโดรเจน โมเมนตัมเชิงมุม และ สปิน

(Transition from classical to quantum mechanics, the wave functions, the Schrdinger equations, harmonic oscillator, hydrogenic atoms, angular momentum and spin.)

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420421     กลศาสตร์ควอนตัม II     Quantum Mechanics II

การประมาณค่าแบบกึ่งคลาสสิก หลักการแปรค่า ทฤษฎีของเพอร์เทอร์เบชันแบบไม่ขึ้นและขึ้นกับเวลา ทฤษฎีการกระเจิง ระบบหลายอนุภาค

(Semi-classical approximation, variational principles, time independent and time dependent perturbation theory, scattering theory systems of identical particles.)

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In my last blog, I wrote about biorhythms and how they can affect your health.  (Just scroll down if you want to read it.)  Today I discuss the Master cycles that occur in nature and how they influence your health and well being.   There are numerous cycles that affect us, most of which we are unaware. They are wheels within wheels, as it were.

The master cycles are governed by your internal or spiritual senses, or as Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Ayurvedic Teacher would say, your quantum body.  There are three phases that occur from sunrise to sunset and then three more from sunset to sunrise.

The times are as follows:

                6 A.M. – 10 A.M.  Kapha                                                6 P.M. – 10 P.M. Kapha

                10 A.M. – 2 P.M.  Pita                                                    10 P.M. – 2 A.M.  Pita

                2 P.M.  – 6 P.M. Vata                                                       2 A.M. – 6 A.M.  Vata

If you are not familiar with the Ayurvedic doshas, I will give you a brief explanation. Doshas are the Ayurvedic body type categories and attributes that apply to your body and the master cycles.  Everything is related and connected. 

A Vata is enthusiastic and vivacious by nature. Thin physique. May have difficulty falling asleep and sleeps lightly.  Has an active and imaginative mind. Learns quickly, but also forgets quickly.

A Pita is precise and orderly. Can anger easily.  Is uncomfortable if a meal is skipped or late. Fond of cold foods and drinks – loves ice cream.  Has a sharp intellect and articulate in speech.

A Kapha gains weight easily and loses it more slowly. Is calm, not easily ruffled. Must get at least eight hours of sleep at night. Is uncomfortable in cool and damp climates. Has very good stamina and physical endurance. Has a steady energy.

Now you can take a written quiz to determine which is your dominate doshas. I administer these in my healing practice. (www.deborahmdiamond.com) 

These same attributes are attributed to the cycles of the day. So, 6 – 10 both A.M. and P.M. are slower rhythms. That is why you are slower, calmer and more relaxed when you first get up in the morning and start to wind down naturally in the evening.

The Pita cycle is when you are naturally most physically active. Hunger comes in the middle of the Pita cycle around noon. As Pita is responsible for metabolizing food, it is good to eat your largest meal (if they vary) at noon.  At night Pita appetite’s is not as strong, but it will digest your dinner and keeps you warm at night as you sleep and helps regenerate your tissues. Pita is the fire element.

The first Vata period begins at 2 P.M. and it controls the nervous system. Research shows that people do best on tests in the Vata period, and can add fastest than, also.  Interesting isn’t it?  Now at night during your Vata sleep cycle instead of “thinking” it assists in a deep dream cycle REM (rapid eye movement).

So, in Ayurveda the perfect day to correspond with nature’s cycles looks like this.           

                Rising: 6-8 A.M. Best to rise one hour before the sun comes up so that you have time to meditate, do some Yoga postures, and deep breathing. Dawn is a very receptive time of day to connect with the natural rhythms and open your psyche to higher levels.  During this Kapha period your body and mind is also calm and relaxed.  It is my favorite time a day. Eat breakfast.  Sit quietly for five minutes and walk lightly five to fifteen minutes to aid digestion.

                Lunch:  12 – 1 P.M. when the digestive fires are burning their hottest and not coincidently the sun is the highest in the sky!  Sit quietly for five minutes after lunch  and walk lightly five to fifteen minutes to aid the digestion. Later in the afternoon, take some time to sit quietly and/or meditate. 

                Dinner:  6 – 7 P.M.   Eat a moderate meal.  Sit quietly for five minutes after lunch and walk lightly five to fifteen minutes to aid the digestion. Dusk is another very powerful time of day. I like to sit and watch or feel the sun set. It is very calming and connecting for your body, mind and spirit.

                Bedtime:  9:30 – 10:30 P.M.  Light activity in the evening and to bed at least three hours after your dinner.

Now, I imagine you are thinking. “That’s not my schedule!”  And I can relate.  I have an 8:00 P.M. dance class on Wednesday nights!  One of the reason’s I bring this up is that our society is suffering from an all time high of insomnia, stress, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Humans are the only species, a famous drummer once said, that can intentionally get out of rhythm with the greater cycles.  Ever notice how crickets chirp in harmony at night?   They synchronize.  Ever notice how birds and other insects do a call and response.  One bird will do a call and another will respond.  If you are good at bird calls, you can mimic a call to a particular bird in your area and listen closely, sooner or later, you will hear a response!  This is all part of the synchronization of life cycles. 

People today are more out of balance than ever before! Once you begin to re-entrain with the natural rhythms, you will start to have more energy, be calmer, and therefore happier and healthier.   And consequently, learn your dance steps easier!  You will be riding the current instead of paddling against it.  If you have ever fought a head wind, or paddled up stream, you know how exhausting it is and how little progress you make! The exact same principle is applied here.

So, how to do it in a modern world? I have found for myself that the morning time is the most important.  Set the tone of the day with the meditation, yoga, or your own form of stretching, or exercise, and breathe work.  And, yes, I don’t always want to get up at 5 or even 6 A.M., but I am always grateful when I do.  Honestly, I am just more cheerful!

Now, you gotta plan for the meals and with our insane schedules, meals are falling low on the priority list. Fresh organic vegetables, grains and meats is the best. Pick more conscious restaurants. Prepare several meals on Sundays to get you through the first part of the week, then, take another evening or morning to prepare for the rest of the week. Best not to eat food more than three days old, as it loses too much nutrition the older it gets.  In other words, the food’s life force diminishes and therefore yours also.  Imagine how much life force is lost in packaged and caned foods that are months on shelves before they even reach the grocery store!

How to begin?  First step is becoming conscious of the cycles. So, that one is out of the way.  Second step is to commit to do something to improve your connection to the master rhythms, and the third step is to do it!  You will be very grateful once your body readjusts.  A good reference is Deepak Chopra’s book, Perfect Health.  Give it a try. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.  Please write me on how you are doing.

Make me sweet again

fragrant and fresh and wild

and thankful for any small event.

- Rumi

This month we all come together with loved ones and devote our awareness for a few hours to thankfulness. Perhaps your family, like mine, will join hands and take turns sharing what each one is grateful for, today and over the past year. And whether you have a formal or informal practice of expressing gratitude at your Thanksgiving table, I’m sure you feel the energy of gratitude throughout your celebration.

But why do we reserve a mere one day a year for this? I propose we make every day a day of giving thanks. Oh, we don’t have to stuff ourselves with stuffing and gobble down turkey…Somehow I think the original intention of the holiday, gratitude for the Earth’s bounty, for peaceful, harmonious coexistence, for life itself, has gotten lost in all the gluttony and football games.

Let’s remember the true spirit of Thanksgiving, not only on the holiday, but throughout our lives. To be full of greatness, we must be grateful.

We must laugh and

We must sing.

We are blest by everything.

Everything we look upon is blest.

- William Butler Yeats

So why should we practice gratitude more often? Here are 5 good reasons:

1. You will feel happier.

When we focus on how full our cups already are, we experience life in a much more positive way. Most of us in this country do not have cups that are half full, half empty, as the saying goes. Our cups are 90% full! Look around you. Look within you. How full is your cup? The Universe is showering blessings upon you each and every day, each and every moment, and we can choose to see and appreciate these gifts or remain unconscious, cranky and unfulfilled. Enough cvetching already! Do you want to be (more) happy? Gratitude is the fastest, most effective way to increase your personal sense of joy about the life you are already living.

2. Gratitude facilitates more harmony in relationships.

Expressing gratitude and appreciation to the people in our lives, of course in a sincere way, from the heart, improves our relationships. As a relationship coach, I have seen that the simple practice of focusing on the positive and expressing true appreciation can dramatically improve marriages, friendships and even work relationships.

This doesn’t mean you have to “suck it up” and put up with being disrespected or abused. If your relationship brings you more pain than joy, you will need in-depth counseling and much more than just a “focus on the positive” bandaid. But for most generally healthy relationships, sprinkling more “Thank you so much for doing that!”s and “I really appreciate…”s, expressing the love in your heart can do wonders.

Many of us take so much for granted, particularly from the people we love the most. Everyone needs to feel seen, heard and valued and this enhances intimacy and emotional safety, bringing you closer.

3. God/The Universe will bestow more blessings upon you. I don’t claim to be in charge of the Universe, but it is a universal spiritual law that the more thankful we are, the more blessings we receive! It’s as if remembering to say “Thank you!” opens the faucet of life’s blessings. I truly have noticed that it’s more than just being more aware of what is already present; there is, over time, an actual increase in things to be thankful FOR.

What you think about, and thank about, you bring about. – Dr. John Demartini

Perhaps our Creator appreciates being appreciated, just as we do, and is more inclined to give more of the good stuff to us when we really appreciate what we get. As Neal Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, says, the correct prayer is one of gratitude.

There is an old Jewish proverb that goes like this. Two men, equally poor (or equally rich, depending on your perspective) meet in the village. The first man says, “So how is it going with you?”

The second man replies, “Oy! Life is terrible. My wife is sick, my cow won’t give milk, and business is lousy.”

God, hearing his response, thinks “Why you ingrate! I just gave you a new house, healed your ulcer, and found the best husband for your daughter. So you think things are bad now? I’ll give you something to complain about!”

Finally, the second man stops his kvetching and asks the other fellow, “What about you?”

“Well, I tell you, life is so good.  We fixed the leak in my pipes so now my house is dry again. I had a nice Sabbath with my wife and children, a humble meal, but we are together. My horse, well, his leg is still broken but he’s such a good friend to me, and I know business will pick up soon,” his neighbor replies.

God smiles and thinks, “So you think things are good now? I’ll give you something to be thankful for!”

So whether you think of the source of blessings as God, the Universe, or your own intention, gratitude is an essential key to loving your life, and it opens the door to greater and greater blessings, creating a positive spiral that continues to build.

Here is a wonderful message I channeled for you from Archangel Michael:

G O D =   Gratitude Opening Doors!

As William Blake said, “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

4. You will also receive more of what you want from the people in your life.

Of course, this applies on the human level as well as the spiritual level. Have you ever had a friend of family member that you gave gifts to, but who never remembered to thank you? Didn’t you feel after a while, “Hey, why should I bother giving them anything? They never even appreciate it.” And after a while, you feel resentful and stop giving them gifts, am I right? I thought so. Therefore, when we appreciate what we receive, whether tangible or intangible, from others, we actually receive more because we are give-to-able. We receive with an open heart and open hands, with a smile. People love to give, and there is a great gift in being a giver, but only when we sense that the gift is truly received and appreciated.

It’s important to receive graciously, compliments and favors as well as physical presents.

How well you receive compliments symbolizes how well you receive love.

Practice being a wide receiver. – Alan Cohen

If you tend to argue or inwardly doubt it when people praise you, you have some deep self-love work to do. If you have been a “giveaholic” your whole life, or if you have a hard time believing in your own worthiness,or just feel disconnected from your joy, I suggest you get The Radical Self-Love Workbook, a complete course in deepening unconditional self-love, deservingness and creating the life of your dreams, from the inside out! (It also makes a wonderful holiday gift for someone you love who needs to love themselves and their lives more.)

http://www.loveandspirit.org/book1.html

5. It’s just plain polite. Courtesy. Etiquette. Manners. It’s the right thing to do. It also sets a good example for others, of all ages. ‘Nuf said.

So join me this month and always in cocreating a more positive life experience for yourself and our community by making every day thanks-giving!

In my next post, I will share 8 Great Ways to Boost Your Gratitude Attitude! (I guarantee there will be several you have never heard of before, new inspirational ideas for really living gratitude as a daily practice.)

If this piece inspired you in some way, or you have your own gratitude stories to share, please comment below. You can also share this on your social media pages, with your list, and sign up for the RSS feed for my blog.

THANK YOU for reading my blog today!

Blessings & blissings to you!

Love,

Sage

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. – Evelyn Underhill

Excerpted largely from The Radical Self-Love Workbook, copyright 2008

http://www.loveandspirit.org/book1.html

By Sage Taylor Kingsley-Goddard

Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman Ph.D.—Like The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol, is creating controversy. This time it’s about what’s real and what’s not in his interpretations of the many mysterious symbols that are in our nation’s capitol. Were our founding fathers, who carefully designed and placed these mystical symbols, trying to tell us something? (They were Freemasons whose motto is ordo ab chao or “order out of chaos“.) Are Brown’s descriptions of noetic science (exploring the nature and potentials of consciousness) and quantum-indeterminate electronic noise REGS (Random Event Generators) fact or fiction? Are his assertions true that existing organizations had “categorically proven that human thought, if properly focused had the ability to affect and change physical mass” and that “our thoughts actually interacted with the physical world, whether or not we knew it, effecting change all the way down to the subatomic realm?“

Brown states in The Lost Symbol that in the hours following the horrifying events of September 11, 2001 the field of noetic science made a quantum leap forward in proving a connection between science and mysticism and bringing order out of chaos. “Four scientists discovered that as the frightened world came together and focused in shared grief on this single tragedy, the outputs of thirty-seven different Random Event Generators around the world suddenly became significantly less random. Somehow, the oneness of this shared experience, the coalescing of millions of minds, had affected the randomizing function of these machines, organizing their outputs and bringing order form chaos.” His fictional character Trish talks about “software that quantifies the nation’s emotional state.” Brown goes on. His fictional scientist Katherine “created beautifully symmetrical ice crystals by sending loving thoughts to a glass of water as it froze. Incredibly the converse was also true: when she sent negative, polluting thoughts to the water, the ice crystals froze in chaotic, fractured forms.” What is Dan Brown trying to tell us?

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This post deals with a Matlab simulation showing the formation of a quantum wire, i.e. a parabolic potential well.

Such potential profiles can be easily realized by negatively biasing 2 metallic plates (also known as gates) separated by a short distance as shown in the figure below. Split-gate technique is one method used to form (fabricate) such structures.

2 plates (on top) with negative charge

In the following movie, the potential starts with a flat profile (at zero/ground potential) when there is no charge on the plates. As the negative potential is increased the potential under the plates rises and the fringing field (field that is not directly under the plates) pulls the neighboring potential along with it – almost like lifting the ends of a bed sheet. The title calls it the ‘Parabolic potential well’ since the transverse cross section (section along the width) shows a parabolic shape for the potential along the width of the wire.

The Length and Width axis of the wire are in units of nano-meter (1 nm = 1*10^-9 m, i.e. 1 billionth of a meter). Nanometer is the typical unit for length used for measuring dimensions in the nano world. The Potential axis is in arbitrary units of electric potential. All the numeric values are chosen to represent typical values seen in actual experiments.

Once the wire is formed in the simulation, it is rotated (in the above video) to give a clear view of its shape (remember the edges are electric potential and not physical walls/matter). The last segment of the video shows the top view of the wire which will be a useful view to get used to when we will pass electrons through the wire. The color bar on the right hand side gives the value of the potential at any point in the wire based on the color gradient; maximum is 25 (red) and minimum is 0 (blue).

Feel free to post any questions…………… thanks

The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has turned up rare evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has ruled out the idea that it’s foamy enough to interfere with light. From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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“One of the problems in our society is that most peoples’ brains are not working well, certainly nowhere near as well as they should.  Essentially they have been hijacked by the amygdala system, which is the fight-flight system that is designed to keep us alive. 

These days, the stresses of living often cause the amygdala to malfunction.”

—Dr John Veltheim. Founder of  The BodyTalk System ^TM

 The Cortices technique is by far the most commonly used technique in BodyTalk.  A main goal of  BodyTalk is to have the brain functioning extremely well, because when the brain is functioning well,  it can control the health of the body by ensuring the right communications are happening and the right instructions are going out.

The BodyTalk System is an energy-based technique, based on the scientific premise that energy comes first and matter follows.  A great deal of communication within the brain and from the brain to the rest of the body is occurring at a much higher level through energy systems such as meridians, the flow of electrons, protons, solitons, and electromagnetic frequencies.

The brain and the heart are huge electromagnetic frequency generators, and their frequencies are part of the communication system.  When we balance the energic level of the electromagnetic blueprint, we are going to profoundly affect all these electrical circuits. Further, we find that, clinically, the balance even affects the physical neurological circuits.  The result of this better communication in the brain enables the brain to settle down and better coordinate its activities.

Sage, Law of Attraction & Success Coach

Welcome to my Sage’s Wisdom Pages blog! This site is dedicated to sharing inspirational and transformational resources to help you become a more powerful manifester of the life you desire.

I am a woman with a mission! I am 100% committed to helping people live lives that are more conscious, abundantly prosperous, personally fulfilling, creative, spiritually awakened, Earth-honoring and above all, full of love.

I have served as a professional spiritual counselor, workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, energy healer, hypnotherapist, meditation teacher, relationship and success life coach for over 15 years and am also the author of The Radical Self-Love Workbook, and many hypnomeditation audios including Aligning with Abundance and many more.

By using the empowering, holistic tools and practices for healing Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit that I will share with you, I have changed my life so magnificently, I am a living example of the power of these techniques. In my 20s, I was chronically ill with a serious lung disease called sarcoid, along with carpal tunnel syndrome so disabling I had to quit my career as a journalist. I also had a third disability in my spine and had to walk with a brace and cane for 4 months. I was told I would never run, dance or jump ever again and would be lucky to be able to walk without a cane. This at the age of 25! I was married to a depressed man who eventually became abusive. Fortunately, I had the self-respect to walk away the moment my life was endangered, and recreated myself. I was poor, sick, and depressed myself, despite doing everything I knew how to do to “pick myself up by my bootstraps” and think positively. I prayed, meditated, saw numerous healers of every variety, and still I was struggling and suffering.

But  I kept faith and never gave up. In 1994, over a three-month period, I began having visions and dreams so powerful and frightening,they were more than just a dream. I felt a tingling energy building in my body and felt a sense of great excitement, as if something momentous was about to happen. Indeed, in one life-changing 18-hour period in the Baja Desert of Mexico, with a Cherokee soul sister friend, I went through three Near-Death Experiences that changed my life forever. My friend and I both were seeing and hearing signs and spiritual messages continuously. (The fact that we were both seeing and hearing these other-worldly things at the same time helped us not think we were losing our minds, and I’m grateful for that!)

The story of that experience, which turned out to be a shamanic initiation, is so intense and rich, it deserves, and someday will be, its own book. For now, I will say that, ever since, I have been blessed to feel a connection with Spirit so continous, so joyous and so clear, I received my calling to be a healer, spiritual teacher and messenger of Love. I have written numerous books, articles, literally hundreds of poems and songs, and have been thankful to create a life I love, living and fulfilling my divine purpose and making a difference in the lives of thousands of people.

I am now completely healed of the back, sarcoid and carpal tunnel disabilities and enjoy a full,  healthy, prosperous life with an energy of love in my household and heart that are unparalleled. Perhaps because of all that I have been through, I have a deep sense of gratitude for each and every day of living, for the ability to just walk and breathe and dance and sing – and live. People tell me I have a very old soul yet a youthful spirit and seldom guess my age correctly. (How old do you think I am? Write me a comment.)

I recently presented The Radical Self-Love Experience to 930 people at T. Harv Eker’s “All Your Relations” seminar in San Diego, where I launched my first book, The Radical Self-Love Workbook, 14 years in the making. I cannot tell you how joyful my heart felt to touch the lives of all those beautiful people, sharing love and helping them remember who they really are! They gave me a 10-minute standing ovation and bought hundreds of my books, which are now in six countries. I work with clients all over the world to break free from old, unconscious limiting beliefs, negative self-talk and fear, and to align with their heart’s desire and life purpose in a way that is happy, healthy, prosperous and heart-centered.

You deserve to have it all. You do not have to keep struggling and suffering. Positive change is not easy, but with the right resources, both inner and outer, you can and will create the life you came here to live. The key is to address your unconscious beliefs and energy field, because as long as you are trying to change just by willpower, guess what? It becomes won’t power pretty quickly, doesn’t it? This is why 80% of dieters gain back all the weight and smokers light up that cigarette again, within 1 year of trying to change. And body care is, in some ways, easier to change than thoughts, feelings, work and relationship choices, which can be much more complex.

I will be sharing tips and techniques herein that draw from Eastern and Western wisdom traditions, advanced Law of Attraction, spirituality, holistic and mind-body healing and much more. So I invite you to subscribe to this blog and visit often. Blessings!

The moment of choice, the moment of change, is now.

To Your Success & Happiness,

Sage

Rev. “Sage” Taylor Kingsley, CHT, RM

Law of Attraction & Quantum Success Coach and Expert

Keynote Speaker, Clinical Hypnotherapist & Reiki Master

Intuitive Spiritual Counselor & Matchmaker

www.LoveandSpirit.org

Taylor@LoveandSpirit.org

Dr. Quantum’un Türkçeleştirilmiş hali ile yayınlanan çift yarık deneyine ilişkin anime videosunda kuantum fiziğinin temel taşlarından çift yarık deneyinin daha iyi anlaşılması sağlanabilmekte…

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This copy of the Quantum Tarot is special in that I have blacked out the card names at the bottom. The colorful oval in the middle of that strip still indicates which card each is, but the black space (instead of the name of the card) gives you time to think about the new implications of the card with the Quantum images before you get bogged down in RWS meanings. Click on either photo for a larger scan. The spread is the Compass Spread by my friend Sherry at Green Trinity.

The “center” card, which represents where I am at now, is Jupiter (King of Wands). Jupiter was the ultimate father figure in Roman times, and is very self controlled. I’ve been controlling myself almost to the point of stifling lately, so it makes sense.

The North position of my compass is the Solar System (Ten of Pentacles), representing what leaves me cold. I think right now I just feel like security is so far away as to be a joke, and without security, how can we have that sense of completion that comes with the tens?

What warms me is Particle Decay (Five of Cups). I’m starting to feel good about getting past what I have lost and working the new, different situation into my life. It’s a challenge, not a painful situation. Or at least that is how I am trying to see it.

I am set back by Mars (Knight of Wands). He is passion and fiery energy. I want to go to war with my problems. I want to fix them, and I mean yesterday, but my largest problem right now can only be solved by patience, persistence, and time. It’s getting me pretty riled up, and I have not been feeling my best because of the impotent feelings of it.

What moves me forward is Neptume (King of Cups). Looks like my husband is the driving force pulling me forward. Makes sense to me. There were a lot of court cards today!

“Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe black holes could hold the key to answering the ultimate question – what was there before the Big Bang?”

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This is not just a book to read and forget, but will be the base for my research for the following years. I’m lucky enough to know the authors and with my colleagues we had a reading club where we had been reading the final drafts. We did not get far in that but it was quite rewarding. This is first class cutting edge math (with a list of open problems).

Now I have a real copy of the book in my hands, so real reading can finally begin. As a trained philosopher I start with the preface and the introduction only.  First it gives the history of semigroup theory. This may not be the full story but a well rounded, coherent one. One can argue that you don’t need history in math. False. You need the right amount, just to give the perspective, the framework to understand theorems and their applications. I’ve been working in (applied semigroup theory for the last 7 years, I knew some results, but I was lacking the vision of the field before reading this introduction.

Not surprisingly the intro summarizes the book’s main thesis (more on this later), and you also get insights how mathematics is done plus you get a good laugh (Les Monts d’Auvergne).

Clearly I am biased I believe (and working on it) that semigroup theory will have important applications in other branches of science (e.g. biology).

I’ll write many times about this book as reading goes…

Publisher’s page:

The q-theory of Finite Semigroups

I normally avoid commenting on quantum physics related topics, particularly as they relate to mystical or energetic experience. No matter how many popular treatments I’ve read I don’t think I understand what’s going on because I know that in the scientific fields that I studied (environmnetal science, ecology, lichenology, parasitology) the intro text books were all a bunch of convenient lies, let alone whatever made it into popular press. Despite this, I’m going to be making a small exception to my rule.

A recent article at Reality Sandwich tipped me off to some profoundly interesting and potentially important research in the field of quantum biology. The abstract for the paper (published in the rather conservative science journal Nature) can be found here. Essentially, it has been laboratory demonstrated that the protein structures employed in plant photosynthesis create a protected zone where photons can behave as quantum waves, not particles. This allows the photons to follow all potential pathways through the chlorophyll molecule and retroactively take the path of least resistance. This results in a nearly one-hundred percent efficient energy transfer, as opposed to the ten to twenty percent efficiency of the artificial version of this process.

Aside from the potential improvements to photovoltaic technology, it was thought to be essentially impossible to create a coherent quantum process at room temperature with a biological system. This photosynthetic process is essentially a kind of quantum computation. Considering the possibility that all biological systems are potentially capable of room temperature quantum computing has mind boggling ramifications to say the least.

An interview with the author of the paper and lead researcher: