The Universe is Intelligent. The Soul Exists. Quantum Mysteries, Multiverse, Entanglement, Synchronicity. Beyond Materiality, for a Spiritual Vision of the Cosmos. E-Book

George Anderson

• Herausgeber: Bruno Del Medico Editore
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Pages 270. Illustrated.
The incredible discoveries of quantum physics are completely upsetting the assumptions of classical science. Today the technique allows amazing achievements. For example, the first quantum computers with almost unlimited computing capabilities are being realized. Some support the real possibility of time travel. In addition to these innovations known to the general public, there are others less known but no less important.  They are the novelties deriving from quantum studies, among which we can mention the "superposition of states" and the "quantum collapse".
The "superposition of states" confirms that the same particle can be found simultaneously in two or more places. The theory of "quantum collapse" confirms that the behavior of matter can be decided simply by observation. These are not assumptions, but principles verified experimentally.
This book does not only deal with these innovations, but gives much space to more advanced theories. These are theories announced but not yet confirmed. Furthermore, the book also evaluates the most risky theories, provided they are scientifically based.
For example, the book talks about the multiverse, or theory of parallel universes, proposed by the physicist Hugh Everett. In the same way the book speaks of non-locality. It is a psychic space totally independent of the laws of classical physics. As a result of non-locality, elementary particles, located at astronomical distances, behave as if they were one.
This book also talks about the latest research by Roger Penrose, an unbelieving physicist, and Stuart Hameroff. According to these two scientists the soul exists and can be identified with quantum fluctuations. These fluctuations have the ability to survive the physical death of the body.
If really the "souls" are condensations of quantum fluctuations, we can formulate a question: will it ever be possible to devise instruments that allow dialogue with these fluctuations?
The book exposes the research of established scientists but without using any mathematical formula. The theories are exposed in a simple and understandable way to everyone. In this way everyone can discover the unsuspected aspects of the reality in which we live.
It is clear that quantum physics is decreeing the end of materialism and the beginning of a new cultural phase, based on the collaboration between spirit and matter.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

The universe is intelligent. The soul exists. Quantum mysteries, multiverse, entanglement, synchronicity. Beyond materiality, for a spiritual vision of the cosmos.

Introduction

Living in the shell of a walnut

Astronomical disputes

“De l’infinito, universo e mondi”

Ethics issues

Infinity in a finite space

The multiverse theory

Intelligence at the center of the universe

Creatio ab nihilo

Non locality, entanglement

The soul exists

Glossary

Bibliography

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Book index

Book index

Introduction

Living in the shell of a walnut

What does Hamlet have with Stephen Hawking?

An author who represents his time.

Tycho Brahe and the supernova N1572

Astronomical disputes

The Ptolemaic system

The Copernican revolution

Tycho Brahe and the tonic model

Thomas Digges and the heliocentric model

“De l’infinito, universo e mondi”

Giordano Bruno, the philosopher of the infinite

Giordano Bruno and his idea of ​​infinity

Ethics issues

The problems of an infinite universe

Infinity in a finite space

A premonitory dream

The mandala

Jung and the Mandalas

The cosmic egg

The cosmic egg and current physics

The meeting between Jung and Pauli

The psychic diagram of Pauli and Jung

Let's talk more about Mandala

The infinite in the finite

Thought is a "finite" that contains the infinite

Cosmic Thought

The multiverse theory

The theory of the multiverse

Quantum physics is the mother of the multiverse

First phase. A slit

Second phase. Two slits

Third phase. The role of the observer

How many types of multiverse exist?

The multiverse landscape

The quantum multiverse

The simulated multiverse

The ultimate multiverse

The  brane multiverse

Aesthetics of science

Intelligence at the center of the universe

The role of the observer

A scientific nemesis

Amazing coincidences

The anthropic principle

Birth and evolution of the anthropic principle

Is man really at the center of the universe?

Intelligence cooperation

Creatio ab nihilo

What evidence do we have on the intelligence of the "Cosmic Matrix"?

But does the universe made of matter really exist?

Non locality, entanglement

Einstein and the locality

Is causality the basis of all things?

Quantum entanglement

Everything is one in the non-local dimension

The soul exists

The aggregation of matter

The matter aggregates into coherent and finalized forms

Every aggregation comes from a project

Quantum atmospheres

What makes us conscious?

Quantum physics and the soul

Collapse of quantum waves

Neurons as qubits

Angels, demons and souls of the dead

Collective unconscious and archetypes

The strange coincidences

Take the challenge

Meditation and prayer

Appendix 1. Hamlet

Characters

The plot of the tragedy

Glossary

Bibliography

Introduction

The incredible discoveries of quantum physics are completely upsetting the assumptions of classical science. Today the technique allows amazing achievements. For example, the first quantum computers with almost unlimited computing capabilities are being realized. Some support the real possibility of time travel. In addition to these innovations known to the general public, there are others less known but no less important.  They are the novelties deriving from quantum studies, among which we can mention the "superposition of states" and the "quantum collapse".

The "superposition of states" confirms that the same particle can be found simultaneously in two or more places. The theory of "quantum collapse" confirms that the behavior of matter can be decided simply by observation. These are not assumptions, but principles verified experimentally.

This book does not only deal with these innovations, but gives much space to more advanced theories. These are theories announced but not yet confirmed. Furthermore, the book also evaluates the most risky theories, provided they are scientifically based.

For example, the book talks about the multiverse, or theory of parallel universes, proposed by the physicist Hugh Everett. In the same way the book speaks of non-locality. It is a psychic space totally independent of the laws of classical physics. As a result of non-locality, elementary particles, located at astronomical distances, behave as if they were one.

This book also talks about the latest research by Roger Penrose, an unbelieving physicist, and Stuart Hameroff. According to these two scientists the soul exists and can be identified with quantum fluctuations. These fluctuations have the ability to survive the physical death of the body.

If really the "souls" are condensations of quantum fluctuations, we can formulate a question: will it ever be possible to devise instruments that allow dialogue with these fluctuations?

The book exposes the research of established scientists but without using any mathematical formula. The theories are exposed in a simple and understandable way to everyone. In this way everyone can discover the unsuspected aspects of the reality in which we live.

It is clear that quantum physics is decreeing the end of materialism and the beginning of a new cultural phase, based on the collaboration between spirit and matter.

Living in the shell of a walnut

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the universe.

I want to understand why the universe is made as it is and why it actually exists.

(Stephen Hawking, astrophysicist)

What does Hamlet have with Stephen Hawking?

On March 14, 2018, in Cambridge, one of the most famous scientists of our time, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, passed away. His interests ranged over vast areas of knowledge. For example, he first carried out scientific studies on the astronomical alignments of Stonehenge.

Hawking was also a very valuable communicator. His most famous work, the book "A Brief History of Time" was published in 1988 and has sold more than ten million copies worldwide.

In 2001 Hawking released another hit, "The Universe in a Nutshell". The title is quite original so as not to arouse curiosity. In fact, the reference to the nut shell is not explained in the introduction. We can only find a reference to the beginning of the third chapter. Here is a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet:

"O God, I could be bound in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space."

(Hamlet, Act II)

Hawking is a man of vast culture. There is a specific reason why he decided to choose this sentence. This chapter will be intended to explain the reason for this choice. Starting from this quote we will be able to understand the topics discussed below.

An author who represents his time.

William Shakespeare lived between 1564 and 1616. He produced many works. Among these the most famous is certainly the Hamlet, which Shakespeare wrote between 1600 and 1602.

Hamlet is a tragedy and tells some apparently fantastic events that, however, can be linked to the political and cultural context of the time. Indeed, Shakespeare fills the narrative with overtones. Consequently the content of the work can be evaluated on different levels. We can distinguish the narrative level and the historical level. But there is also a third level. This can be considered as the transposition of the author's opinions in relation to the cultural ferment of the time.

The three levels are summarized in the attached diagram. The knowledge of the detailed plot of Hamlet is not essential for understanding the different interpretations. We can briefly recall that one of the main characters is King Claudius. Claudio married Gertrude, the widow of the late King Hamlet. Incidentally, Gertrude is the mother of Prince Hamlet. (Curiously, the young prince has the same name as his father).

The ghost of the deceased king appears to his son Hamlet and reveals the secret of his death. He claims to have been killed by Claudio. Claudio committed the crime to usurp the kingdom and marry Gertrude. Anyone who wants can find a summary of the plot in the Appendix.

In the narration the vicissitudes of a negative character, the king Claudius, murderer and usurper, intertwine with those of a victim, Prince Hamlet. The prince, while being right, must pretend to be mad to avoid other negative actions of Cladio. Shakespeare adopts the "good-bad" scheme because he derives it from his cultural connections and the scientific disputes that involve him. He attributes the role of the "villain", represented by King Claudius, to the astronomer Tycho Brahe.

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Figure 1 - Stephen Hawking on the day of his first marriage to Jane Wilde, which occurred in 1963. Shortly thereafter he was struck by the illness that forced him into a wheelchair for life.

Instead, the role of the "good" is interpreted by Prince Hamlet. In the underlying plot of Shakespeare, however, the "good" is another astronomer, Thomas Digges.

Evidently, the two astronomers supported different theories and Shakespeare decidedly sided with one of the two, namely for Digges.

This means that Sakespaere sided with the Copernican thesis on the position of the Earth in the universe, supported by Digges. This thesis was opposed to that supported by Brahe, of Ptolemaic orientation.

The Copernican thesis foresaw that the Earth revolved around the Sun, while the Ptolemaic one foresaw, on the contrary, that the Sun turned around the Earth.

Interpretive levels of Shakespeare's Hamlet

King Claudio

Narrative level. The ghost of Hamlet's father reveals that Claudio killed him to steal the throne and marry the widowed queen Gertrude.

Historical level. Claudius is identified with Frederick II (1534-1588) who was king of Danimara and Norway. When the astronomer Tycho Brahe becomes famous, Claudio gives him an island located near the castle of Elsinore.

Allusive level. King Claudius represents the Ptolemaic thesis, supported by Tycho Brahe. This thesis places the Earth at the center of the universe. Shakespeare does not approve of this thesis.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Narrative level. They are friends of Hamlet. Claudio summons them and assigns them the task of investigating Hamlet's madness.

Historical level. Two practically equal surnames appear among the ancestors of Tycho Brahe.

Allusive level. The two characters accept the task of convincing Hamlet but they cannot. They represent traditional science that continues to support Ptolemy's thesis but is about to be supplanted by the Copernicus thesis.

Queen Gertrude

Narrative level. Wife of the late King Hamlet. Immediately after the death of her husband she agreed to marry Claudio.

Historical level. Gertrude is Queen Sofia, wife of Frederick II and mother of Christian IV.

Allusive level. Probably there was a romantic relationship between Sofia and Tycho. This binds Tycho's Ptolemaic theses even more to the prevailing establishment in that historical period.

Bernardo

Narrative level. In the first act of the tragedy, Bernard mentions a star that appeared in the sky and brought misfortune.

Historical level. That star would be the supernova that appeared in the skies of Europe in 1572 and described by Tychio Brahe.

Allusive level. The new star announces misfortune because it coincides with the appearance of the ghost of the late King Hamlet.

Prince Hamlet

Narrative level. The ghost of his father reveals the crime committed by Claudio.

Historical level. Prince Hamlet is identified with King Christian IV. When he ascends to the throne, Christian begins a trial against Tycho Brahe and forces him to emigrate to Prague. Cristiano probably wants revenge on Tycho's relationship with his mother Sofia.

Allusive level. Hamlet represents the thesis supported by Thomas Digges. Digges supports the model of the universe proposed by Copernicus. In this model the Sun is at the center of the universe.

Copernicus diminishes the role of the Earth which is no longer at the center of everything. But Hamlet does not consider this downgrading important. He feels happy even living in a Nutshell

Tycho Brahe and the supernova N1572

Tycho Brahe was a brilliant young man. In 1572, at the age of 27, he gained international fame by describing the explosion of a supernova. Today we identify this astronomical event with the initials N1572 or with the name "Eta-Cassiopeiae B", "the supernova of Tycho".

In the eyes of the uninitiated, a supernova resembles a new, very luminous star that suddenly appears in the sky. In Tycho's time the appearance of new celestial objects was a source of great concern, because this phenomenon was interpreted as a baleful omen. In fact, Shakespeare puts this event right at the beginning of Hamlet, as if to herald the tragedy of the events narrated below.

In the first act of Hamlet Bernardo, a military man at the king's service, arrives in the castle's stands to give Francesco a change of guard. Shortly afterwards, Marcello and Orazio also arrive. These four characters speak of the apparitions of the specter of the king, who died two months earlier. The apparitions are associated with the path in the sky of the new star. Bernardo relates the facts in this way:

“Last night of all, When yond same star that's westward from the pole.

Figure 2 - Portrait of Tycho Brahe surrounded by the coats of arms of his ancestors, two of which bear the surnames of Rosenkrantz and Guildenstierne. These surnames are extraordinarily similar to those of two characters who were Hamlet's fellow students.

Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven. Where now it burns, Marcellus and  myself, The bell then beating one...”

But at that very moment, along with the star, the specter of the king also appears.

When the supenova explosion occurred in 1572, Shakespeare was eight years old. Surely the event impressed him a lot and was relevant in his cultural growth.

Tycho Brahe also observed the phenomenon on the evening of 11 November 1572:

"Suddenly and unexpectedly I saw an unknown star in the zenith, with a very bright light."

The supernova had a brightness comparable to that of the planet Venus. It was also visible in the sky by day. Tycho described the phenomenon in a small volume published in 1573 with the title "De nova stella".

The supernova ceased to shine in 1574 but, metaphorically, Tycho's good star began to shine from that very moment. The astronomer became so famous internationally that King Frederick II (in the tragedy, Claudius) gave him the island of Hven located near his castle of Elsinore, at the entrance to the Øresund strait. On this island Tycho had a castle built which he named Uranienborg, in honor of the muse of astronomy, Urania.

The story ends in an unedifying way. It seems that Tycho has become the lover of Queen Gertrude, widow of the killed king. In the historical reality Gertrude was Queen Sofia, wife of Frederick II and mother of his successor Christian IV.

Obviously Cristiano IV did not like the astronomer's relationship with his mother. When he ascended the throne, the new king decisively changed the relationship between the royal house and Tycho and began a judicial process against him.

Following this, in 1597 Tycho left the island of Hven and emigrated to Prague. Both the Uranienborg castle and the nearby astronomical complex of Stjerneborg were destroyed shortly after the astronomer's death. In the 1950s, archaeological excavations were carried out at Stjerneborg. Later the site was rebuilt. Currently Uranienborg houses a museum dedicated to Tycho Brahe and the history of the island of Hven.

As for the knowledge of the supernova, until the last century no one knew what kind of celestial object it was. After 1952 astronomers began to study the emissions of the sky in the radio frequency band. This made it possible to identify the remains of Tycho's supernova with the object 3C10. It seems that this supernova was generated by the explosion of a white dwarf that had crossed the limit of Chandrasekhar, sucking up matter from another star. In 2005 the astronauts also identified the other star of the binary system and called it Tycho G.

Astronomical disputes

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;

And yet methinks I have Astronomy,

But not to tell of good or evil luck,

Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;

Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,

Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,

Or say with princes if it shall go well

By oft predict that I in heaven find:

But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,

And, constant stars, in them I read such art

As truth and beauty shall together thrive,

If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert;

Or else of thee this I prognosticate:

Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.

(William Shakespeare, Sonnet XIV)

The Ptolemaic system

The dispute in these pages is restricted to the thought of Tycho Brahe and Thomas Digges. However, before going into the matter it is appropriate to briefly set out the question that gave rise to the dispute. The two had different beliefs about the shape and functioning of the universe. In this regard, many theories were elaborated throughout human history.

The Greeks were the first to make a model of the solar system. Hipparchus, a philosopher who lived between 200 and 120 BC, carefully studied the observations and knowledge accumulated over the centuries by the Babylonian Chaldeans. Ipparco used this knowledge to develop a model able to explain the motion of the Sun and that of the Moon.

In the 2nd century AD the model developed by Claudius Ptolemy established itself. Ptolemy was a Greek of Hellenistic language and culture. He was an astrologer, astronomer and geographer. He lived in Alexandria of Egypt between 100 and 175 AD (figure 3).

Ptolemy proposed the so-called Ptolemaic or geocentric model. According to this model, the solar system is a large sphere placed at the center of the Universe. The Earth is flat and immobile, and is located in the center of the celestial sphere. the Sun, the Moon and the other planets revolve around the Earth

Finally, Ptolemy claims that the boundary of the univero consists of the sphere of fixed stars. According to Ptolemy the universe is full and has borders, so it is limited in space. Ptolemy's universe is not infinite.

In the Middle Ages Ptolemy's model was still accepted, but with different interpretations. There were two main interpretations.

An interpretation was called "mathematical astronomy" and was founded on Ptolemy's principal work, "Almagesto". This iterpretation was suitable for making calculations and forecasts but was not very organic.

The second interpretation, called "physical cosmology" was based on the work "De Caelo" by Aristotle. This interpretation was anthropocentric and was logically consistent. Unfortunately, he could not explain some physical phenomena so it was not consistent on a practical level.

During the Middle Ages the Church supported the Ptolemaic system through scholastic philosophy. In fact, this system is illustrated by Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy.

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The Copernican revolution