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==Scientific consensus==
 
==Scientific consensus==
It is the most amazin theory  of the world and you can use it for every kind of problem you have. It worls 100 %. Very effective regarding Nature study see biocentrism Richard Conn Henry 2005 NATURE|Vol 436|7 July 2005 ESSAY
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Scholarly consensus has held that applying the theories of the ''The Secret'' is <s>about as effective as an air conditioner on [[Pluto]]</s> a highly successful method of achieving one's goals.
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The mental Universe
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The only reality is mind and observations, but observations are not of things. To see the Universe as it
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really is, we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things.
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Richard Conn Henry
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Historically, we have looked to our religious
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leaders to understand the meaning
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of our lives; the nature of our world. With
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Galileo Galilei, this changed. In establishing
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that the Earth goes around the Sun,
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Galileo not only succeeded in believing
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the unbelievable himself, but also convinced
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almost everyone else to do the
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same. This was a stunning accomplishment
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in ‘physics outreach’ and, with the
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subsequent work of Isaac Newton, physics
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joined religion in seeking to explain our
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place in the Universe.
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The more recent physics revolution of
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the past 80 years has yet to transform
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general public understanding
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in a similar way. And yet a
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correct understanding of
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physics was accessible even
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to Pythagoras. According to
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Pythagoras, “number is all
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things”, and numbers are mental,
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not mechanical. Likewise,
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Newton called light “particles”,
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knowing the concept to be an
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‘effective theory’ — useful, not
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true. As noted by Newton’s
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biographer Richard Westfall:
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“The ultimate cause of atheism,
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Newton asserted, is ‘this notion
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of bodies having, as it were, a
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complete, absolute and independent reality
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in themselves.’” Newton knew of Newton’s
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rings and was untroubled by what is
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shallowly called ‘wave/particle duality’.
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The 1925 discovery of quantum
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mechanics solved the problem of the Universe’s
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nature. Bright physicists were again
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led to believe the unbelievable — this time,
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that the Universe is mental. According to
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Sir James Jeans: “the stream of knowledge
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is heading towards a non-mechanical reality;
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the Universe begins to look more like a
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great thought than like a great machine.
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Mind no longer appears to be an accidental
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intruder into the realm of matter... we
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ought rather hail it as the creator and governor
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of the realm of matter.” But physicists
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have not yet followed Galileo’s
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example, and convinced everyone of the
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wonders of quantum mechanics. As Sir
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Arthur Eddington explained: “It is difficult
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for the matter-of-fact physicist to
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accept the view that the substratum of
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everything is of mental character.”
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In his play Copenhagen, which brings
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quantum mechanics to a wider audience,
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Michael Frayn gives these word to Niels
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Bohr: “we discover that... the Universe
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exists... only through the understanding
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lodged inside the human head.” Bohr’s
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wife replies, “this man you’ve put at the
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centre of the Universe — is it you, or is it
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Heisenberg?” This is what sticks in
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the craw of Eddington’s “matter-of-fact”
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physicists.
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Discussing the play, John H. Marburger
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III, President George W. Bush’s science
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adviser, observes that “in the Copenhagen
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interpretation of microscopic nature, there
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are neither waves nor particles”, but then
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frames his remarks in terms of a non-existent
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“underlying stuff ”. He points out that
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it is not true that matter “sometimes
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behaves like a wave and sometimes like a
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particle... The wave is not in the underlying
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stuff; it is in the spatial pattern of detector
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clicks... We cannot help but think of the
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clicks as caused by little localized pieces of
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stuff that we might as well call particles.
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This is where the particle language comes
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from. It does not come from the underlying
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stuff, but from our psychological
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predisposition to associate localized phenomena
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with particles.”
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In place of “underlying stuff ” there have
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been serious attempts to preserve a material
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world — but they produce no new
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physics, and serve only to preserve an illusion.
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Scientists have sadly left it to nonphysicist
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Frayn to note the Emperor’s lack
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of clothes: “it seems to me that the view
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which [Murray] Gell-Mann favours, and
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which involves what he calls alternative
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‘histories’ or ‘narratives’, is precisely as
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anthropocentric as Bohr’s, since histories
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and narratives are not freestanding elements
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of the Universe, but human constructs,
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as subjective and as restricted in
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their viewpoint as the act of observation.”
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Physicists shy from the truth because
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the truth is so alien to everyday physics. A
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common way to evade the mental Universe
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is to invoke ‘decoherence’ — the
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notion that ‘the physical environment’ is
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sufficient to create reality, independent of
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the human mind. Yet the idea that any
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irreversible act of amplification is necessary
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to collapse the wave function is
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known to be wrong: in ‘Renninger-type’
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experiments, the wave function is collapsed
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simply by your human mind seeing
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nothing. The Universe is entirely mental.
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In the tenth century, Ibn al-Haytham initiated
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the view that light proceeds from a
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source, enters the eye, and is perceived. This
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picture is incorrect but is still what most
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people think occurs, including,
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unless pressed, most physicists.
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To come to terms with the
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Universe, we must abandon
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such views. The world is quantum
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mechanical: we must learn
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to perceive it as such.
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One benefit of switching
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humanity to a correct perception
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of the world is the resulting
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joy of discovering the mental
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nature of the Universe. We have
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no idea what this mental nature
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implies, but — the great thing is
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— it is true. Beyond the acquisition
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of this perception, physics
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can no longer help. You may descend into
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solipsism, expand to deism, or something
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else if you can justify it — just don’t ask
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physics for help.
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There is another benefit of seeing the
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world as quantum mechanical: someone
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who has learned to accept that nothing
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exists but observations is far ahead of
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peers who stumble through physics hoping
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to find out ‘what things are’. If we can
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‘pull a Galileo,’ and get people believing the
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truth, they will find physics a breeze.
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The Universe is immaterial — mental
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and spiritual. Live, and enjoy. ■
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Richard Conn Henry is a Professor in the
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Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics
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and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins
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University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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FURTHER READING
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Marburger, J. On the Copenhagen Interpretation of
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Quantum Mechanics
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www.ostp.gov/html/Copenhagentalk.pdf (2002).
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Henry, R. C. Am. J. Phys. 58, 1087–1100 (1990).
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Steiner, M. The Applicability of Mathematics as a
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Philosophical Problem (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge,
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MA, 1998).
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Proof without words: Pythagoras explained things using numbers.
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Nature © 2005 PublishingGroup
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The Secret is a movie (and book) created in 2006 that focuses on interviews and dramatizations that rationalize the New Age idea of the Law of Attraction. Various knock-off products such as books and pamphlets have also been produced. The Secret was originally marketed using a viral campaign until it was featured on Oprah and went mainstream. Since then, the promoters of the movie assure us, people have made remarkable transformations that continue to baffle the so-called "scientists." Which, being translated from the curious lingo of pseudoscience-pushing quacks, means that people have been dumping countless amounts of money, time and effort into the hopeless and selfish belief that if they ask for it hard enough then the universe will magically grant them their every wish and desire. Author Rhonda Byrne explains carefully that "Imperfect thoughts are the cause of humanity's ills", that "The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts", and that "You cannot 'catch' anything unless you think you can" -- this last may be why infants and toddlers, who don't know what illness is, are universally immune to all sickness.

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Scholarly consensus has held that applying the theories of the The Secret is about as effective as an air conditioner on Pluto a highly successful method of achieving one's goals.

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