The universe evolves backward in time, not the other way around as we were taught in school. "The histories of the universe," concedes Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist "depend on what is being measured, contrary to the usual idea that the universe has an objective observer-independent history."
Life is not just a collection of atoms — proteins and molecules spinning like planets around the sun. It is true that the laws of chemistry can tackle the rudimentary biology of living systems, but there is more to us than the sum of our biochemical functions. Conversely, physical existence cannot be divorced from the animal life that coordinates experience. We are connected not only by intertwined consciousness, but by a pattern that is a template for the universe itself.
Quantum physics tells us that objects exist in a suspended physical state until observed, when they collapse to just one outcome — we don’t know what happens until we investigate, and our investigation influences that reality. Whether or not certain events may have happened some time ago, may not actually be determined until some time in your future — it may actually be contingent upon actions that have not yet taken place.
Bizarre? Maybe you don’t believe this is real. Consider an experiment that was published in Science a couple of years ago. Scientists in France shot particles of light "photons" into a measuring apparatus, and showed that what they did — now, in the present — could retroactively change something that had already happened in the past. As the photons passed a fork in the apparatus, they had to decide whether to behave like particles or waves when they hit a beam splitter. Later on — well after the photons passed the fork — the experimenter could randomly switch a second beam splitter on and off electronically. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle actually did at the fork in the past. At that moment, the experimenter chose his reality.
Of course, we live in the same world. No physicist challenges the fact that particles do not exist with definite physical properties until they are observed. Every particle has a range of possible physical states, but it’s not until the actual act of observation that it takes on defined properties. So until the present is determined, how can there be a past?
According to eminent physicist John Wheeler, one of Albert Einstein’s last collaborators, "The quantum principle shows that there is a sense in which what an observer will do in the future defines what happens in the past."
It was only with the advent of quantum physics that scientists began to consider again the old question of the possibility of comprehending the world as a form of mind. Since that time, physicists have analyzed and revised their equations in a vain attempt to arrive at a statement of natural laws that in no way depends on the circumstances of the observer. It seems only natural that the daily circuit of, say, moon round earth, though satiable only by a mind, was independent of any perception whatever. But this was to prove an illusion.
In these days of experiment and disconnected theory, one point seems certain: the nature of the universe cannot be divorced from the nature of life itself. Indeed, the quantum theory implies that consciousness must exist, and that the content of the mind is the ultimate reality. If we do not look at it, the moon is gone. In this world, only an act of observation can confer shape and form to reality — to a dandelion in a meadow, or a seed pod, or the sun or wind or rain. Anyway, it’s amazing, and even your dog can do it too.
According to biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think (Lanza and Berman, Biocentrism BenBella, 2009). Wave your hand through the air. If you take everything away, what’s left? The answer, of course, is nothing. The same thing applies for time — you can’t put it in a marmalade jar. Look at anything — say this page. You can’t see it through the bone that surrounds your brain. Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the mind’s tools for putting everything together. We carry them around with us like turtles with shells. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, they are not "real and insurmountable."
In the end, even Einstein admitted, "Now Besso" (one of his oldest friends) "has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us…know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
(To be continued)
By Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra
Robert Lanza, MD is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is the author of Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe
Published in the San Francisco Chronicle
Dear Deepak & Robert,
Interesting article.
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Among All Beings of the Universe.
Let There be Peace.
Let There be Peace.
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
Awaiting for the continuation. Very interesting.
Thanks
We have an ongoing and evolving covenant to agree. 'Differences' are merely chosen. Living and let live, an inherent ordering leads us on to truly Loving our Creation. Trust.
We are on the verge of a merge.
Love this article and love its creators,
ed
This is an interesting article. I look forward to 'the rest of the story'.
Here is a simplistic analogy of the above : here is the open book – finished edited and perfected – but it takes the reader of the book TIME to receive and experience ( live ) the data page by page…. wondering what will happen next …… unless of course, he ' cheats' and reads the last page first and knows the outcome before anyone else is even aware of the plot .. haha
First and last pages and all intermediary pages are all there at the same place and time aren't they ?
Apparently the ' lamb' ( purity ) read the book
Awareness, being out of time and in boundless awareness could then go either forwards or backwards in the time space continuum just as it can expand to the infinite reaches or contract to the sub- atomic.
The universe is already evolved and perfect but it is the local mind – observer that observes its original state in space time and in a directional manner .. from the perception of perfection to the realms of imperfection the human mind might well deem it as ‘ backwards’ – these observations are from the mind that moves in space time .. Difficult for me to express – it needs a scientist who is well versed in both the eastern traditions and physics
Yes, sounds much like what Richard, Thomas, and Gerber wrote in The Metatron http://thesource.me/metatron/metatron.htm Mr. Urgo Diamu had suggested when the past changes so does the future, and that "when our perception of the past changes so does the present" October 7, 2004 http://iamblogging.net/Urgo/archives/2004/10/when…
Thanks for the links Richard… I am having a good laugh as I think of this forward backwards theory.. imagine that the end was set before the beginnning and process..What I mean by this is that you cannot draw a line ( path ,philosophy or even investiagation ) with an intent to find a destination / answer unless you know what or where that destination is and is marked out – even be that an abstraction such as a God or ' a criminal in a
novel ' . One can only draw a line / radius to the circumference when one has established the point on the boundary / circle in space time. – the end or the conclusion of an action. This is a finite method isn't it – to find or reach the or a truth. ? The Zodiacal circle and the stars of certain constellations which are marked out by the sun's movements throughout our year is an example of establishing boundaries until one can release all boundaries of understanding.
But in infiniteness, one cannot find a boundary to establish any truth or any defined state or destination. One cannot draw a line / philosophy when no point / end/ conclusion is available or can even be envisioned . Geometry, math, all concepts collapse in infinity – surely all things definable and predictable are found only in a mind made and finite universe and not an infinite one where things get more than a little chaotic and crazy ?
Personally i think that boundaries ( Hermes and boundary stones as his name implies ) were put there to help man learn until his mind can cope with the prospect of infinity- no boundary lines or limits and NO answers and NO definitve truth.. All these ideas and concepts are often crutches for the infant mind of man ?
We limit ourselves by wanting answers and conclusions ( finiteness ) because the thought of no answer and no god no any thing are too horrific for the common mind to contemplate and it would collapse into a depression of such proportions that the species would probably not survive ?
Boundaries are probably safety precautions and serve as relative learning points that make known the unknowable.
Not stating all this as a fact but as a theory
We seem to be going ' beyond ' all concepts answers theories much like the Buddhist Void… unknowable and undefinable. Like a spaceship in the void with no star markers or planetary outposts to which we can tether the spaceship of our mind for safety and rest… no consciousness to observe the unobservable..
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In the beginning was the void .. just as it is the end of all things knowable to a human brain ? ..
I am going to say that the boundary is a circle – you know the compasses and architect of the universe thing haha but I think that ' membrane' would be a better idea to follow ?
http://deoxy.org/branes.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralle…
I wish that I had studied science and physics instead of being the ballet swan for most of my life haha !
.. well I will try to keep up with the great minds on the problem
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Huge laughter – as I meditate I get ludicrous pictures of bread making and folding over space like bread making and the maya happens inside the dough – but then I know nothing so such analogies are commonplace to my simple mind
Holographic universe…
LOL well you can't be born in Bethlehem or the Egyptian bread and beer society for nothing unless the bread of life and rising bubbles really has a deeper meaning to the gods …. !!!
Thanks for the input here – will research that holographic universe
Of course as soon as I started to read it I remembered that I had done so some time back but had stored it away for later.. a version of Indra' s net yet again..
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If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose.
Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole.
http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html
* wishes this blog had send email to you when there is a blog response.. I loose track of where everything is that I have left a comment !!!
Here is some info on the folded universe :
http://randall.physics.harvard.edu/RandallCV/dall…
If I google the universal loaf or doughnut I wonder if I will get anything
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225811.30…
cosmic raisin bread hehe
http://astrophysics.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_…