I am neither a quantum physicist nor a scientist, and cannot claim to know or understand the convoluted mathematical formulas that physicists come up with to prove their findings about physical reality.
But what fascinates me about quantum physics (also called quantum mechanics) is how the conclusions reached by quantum physicists regarding the fundamental nature of the physical universe do not differ essentially from the teachings of Eastern mystics and psychics.
Quantum mechanics is that branch of physics that studies and investigates the ultimate constituent of matter beyond which one cannot go any further.
This question was first asked by the ancient Greek philosophers. One of them, Democritus of Abdera, Greece, answered in 465 B.C. that the smallest particle of matter is the “atom,” which means “indivisible.” Atoms, he said, are the fundamental stuff of matter, and are indestructible and invisible.
One can go no further than the atom. Of course, this concept was proven incorrect when J.J. Thompson discovered in 1897 that the atom is not the smallest constituent of matter. Within the atom are smaller particles called electrons, protons and neutrons.
Quantum physics is concerned with the study of the nature and behavior of these sub-atomic particles.
The beginnings of quantum theory can be traced back to almost 100 years ago.
It took scientists many years to accept the initial findings about the behavior of subatomic particles, because it violated the sacred and accepted laws or principles of classical physics; namely: that matter is the only thing real, that it has an objective and independent existence apart from the observer, that it obeys definite and immutable physical laws established by Isaac Newton and others.
‘Epiphenomenon’
Classical science denies the existence of consciousness, the mind and spirit. The mind is considered by mainstream materialist scientists as just an “epiphenomenon” of matter. In other words, it is matter, with its chemical and electrical actions, that created the mind.
This theory has so dominated modern thought that scientists have difficulty accepting alternative theories or points of view.
Even Albert Einstein at first refused to accept the emerging theories of quantum physics, where everything is no longer certain, that there are no absolutes when it comes to the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.
Einstein declared that “God does not play dice with the universe.” But in fact, God does! Quantum physicists reluctantly had no choice but to admit this.
Quantum physicists were forced to think of the unthinkable and to invent new concepts to make sense of what they were finding out in the laboratories. For example, Heisenberg invented the term “Uncertainty Principle” to explain the behavior of subatomic particles, which is unpredictable.
Speed of light
Another sacred law of classical physics is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which is 168,000 miles per second. Quantum physics discovered that there are particles that can go near and even beyond the speed of light, which, by the way, led to the theory that one can travel into the future and come back older than his grandfather.
For thousands of years, eastern mystics have been telling us that this world is not what we think it is, that it’s an illusion. Quantum physicists are beginning to sound more like eastern mystics than scientists.
For example, the great British physicist, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, said: “This world is beginning to look more like a great thought than a great machine… the stuff of the universe is mind stuff.”
It was also Albert Einstein who declared that “imagination is more important than knowledge.” He pointed out: “Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty of reality.”
For those who are interested in exploring further the parallelisms between quantum physics and mysticism, I recommend the following books which can be understood by everyone.
“The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics” by Gary Zukav
“The Tao of Physics” by Fritiof Capra
“The Roots of Coincidence” by Arthur Koestler
“The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist” by Lawrence Le Shan
After reading these books, you will never see the physical world the same way again.
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