4 papers in the library · publishing 2006
Quantum Enigma June 29, 2006 Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner
Abstract We wonder how literally Martin Rees, Cambridge University professor and England’s Astronomer Royal, meant what he said in this opening quote. Having come this far in the book, you at least know what stimulates his comment. Though quantum mechanics supposedly applies to everything, it’s a big step from those things for which observer-created reality has been demonstrated to the whole...
Quantum Enigma June 29, 2006 Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner
Abstract When in our book we discuss the demonstrated quantum facts and the quantum theory (as distinct from the theory’s several contending interpretations), we describe a generally accepted position. We cannot describe such a consensus in our discussion of consciousness—there is none. Diametrically opposed positions are strongly held. We have our own take, but, you may notice, we waver.
June 29, 2006 Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner
Abstract The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed in their laboratories. Trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum...
Quantum Enigma June 29, 2006 Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner
Abstract Consciousness and the quantum enigma are not just two mysteries; they are the two mysteries: the first, the physical demonstration of the quantum enigma, faces us with a fundamental mystery of the objective world “out there;” the second, conscious awareness, faces us with the fundamental mystery of the subjective, mental world “in here.” Quantum mechanics appears to connect the two.