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Digital Hermes
03:54 / 01.05.04
This is meant as an exploration/clearing-the-air of what some of what quantum theory is, for the layperson. Does "Back to the Future"s notion of alternate time-lines seem improbable? What about 'possible worlds'? Is quantum theory unfashionable these days, and if so, what's the new theory? Am I even spelling 'quantum' right? As far as I can see, it seems like a way of viewing the world that repeats many of the same lessons occultists have been teaching for a LONG time. But before I hold it to be true, can anyone air it out?
 
 
xenosss
23:27 / 03.05.04
The best thing for this thread is a bunch of links. It'd take too long (and a man more knowledgeable than me) to explain all the intricacies of quantum mechanics.

Guide to the Quantum World
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/quantum/quantum.jsp

Wikipedia: Quantum Physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_physics

The Physics Encyclopedia
http://members.tripod.com/~IgorIvanov/physics/

Actually, Wikipedia.com is an amazing resource. Go to it and do a search for anything you're interested in. Alternate universes, quantum computers, entanglement, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Schrodinger wave equations, Feynman diagrams, subatomic particles, quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics, etc. Those three links are good starting points for anything.

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I wouldn't say that how the occultists have been trying to describe the world and how scientists have been trying to describe the world is necessarily the same. Sure, as physics progresses, things may become even shadier and more chaotic and more like magick. But even then, I think there is a line between science and "pseudoscience", and between that and magick. Then again, maybe magick is just us fucking with the laws of physics? I do not know. Right now it seems like more, but maybe it isn't.
 
 
Digital Hermes
00:49 / 05.05.04
Just to clarify, I'm not trying to make it seem like each field is saying the same thing, so much as I'm drawing comparisons and finding similarities. Then again, like you say, xenosss, what is magick but fucking with physics? I'm fudging the details, but I remember some thread on here that dealt with synchronicity, showing that there MAY be a connection to the actual neuron-fire of a thought, and the subsequent thought-of result on relevant atoms. A will-full firing of those neurons may be powerful enough to begin a subsequently larger result.

This is by no means an explanation, I should stress, but it is something to toss out and play with. Of course, we're straying from the quantum theme of the thread, I suppose, slipping into the Temple. Thanks for the links, though.
 
  
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