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| − | 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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| − | 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 | + | |
| − | 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 | + | |
| − | 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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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |
No, not that one.