Things are looking pretty grim these days on the societal front. I certainly don’t need to go into the litany of bad news, virus issues, divisiveness, international tension, and on and on. The question is, can we find a way out of this mess? I don’t think we can find our way out of current…
Continue ReadingIf you know only a little about quantum mechanics, it may be to say that it is so weird that even quantum physicists don’t understand it. The math is obscure, with very strange relations that often defy common sense. Quantum mechanics can be seen as unfriendly to our native human logic. But in fact, the…
Continue ReadingIn Babette’s Feast—a wonderful old movie—the out-of-town captain sits to dine with a motley set of locals at Babette’s cottage in a poor remote 19th century Danish village. As he begins eating, he is utterly shocked, and looks around at the others in disbelief. None of them realize that the meal in front of them…
Continue ReadingFinding links between physics with consciousness has been a personal dream of mine since grade school. That was a long time ago—and since then the philosophical understanding of both physics and consciousness has changed. Today physicists are much less likely to dismiss talk of consciousness in the context of quantum physics. They may not like…
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