Hello! This is Cynthia Sue Larson with realityshifters.com with excellent news
for you today, that scientists are starting to see some
experimental physics results showing that there may be no such thing as one
objective reality. This is the work of some teams of scientists that are
studying at the University of Edinburgh called Heriot-Watt University,
and also in conjunction with scientist Caslav Brukner, at the University
...that's the name of the scientist, Caslav Brukner, at the University
of Vienna. The team leader over in Edinburgh is Massimiliano Proietti.
The work of these teams of physicists are showing that essentially the idea
that when we make an observation in quantum physics--you might already know,
or maybe you don't know, that to make a very clear measurement, or an observation,
as a scientist would call it, is to witness that that quantum photon, for
example, something that cannot be collapsed any further, that's what makes
it quantum, a photon is about the smallest it can get, it doesn't go
smaller. And when you take a look at that, and observe it, you can either see that
it's showing up like a particle--so if it goes through the double slit experiment,
then it's going through like a little ball, like a paint ball, leaving a splat
on the screen--versus if they observe the scientist is observing, and notices it's
going through like a wave, so it's leaving little ripples, like
you'd see if you throw a pebble in a pond. And those are the two types of
results you get when you make the observation. And if you haven't yet
observed anything, then there's what's called a superposition of states, where
there's no collapse of any wave functions, so there's no measurement
possible. It's just it's just in that blur. The experiment that's been
conducted now started out as a thought experiment,
a Gedankenexperiment, and this is something that goes way back.
You might recall Schrodinger's cat, when Erwin Schrodinger had the idea
to put a hypothetical cat inside of a box that is airtight with a vial of
poison, which is triggered by a little device--a radioactive device, with a
radioactive isotope, which decays at some random rate. And then at some moment, it
may or may not kill the cat when the trigger breaks the vial, and the poison is
released. This seemed ridiculous to Erwin Schrodinger, that a cat could
exist in a superposition of states. How could that be? So, just trying to make it
into something we could wrap our minds around. What's really interesting
is, in addition, that Erwin Schrodinger's hypothetical experiment with the cat,
Eugene Wigner, another scientist, asked what if another scientist also observes?
Might that result in two different observations? This has been a question
that has not been answerable, because not until recently has an experimental
protocol involving, in this case, beam splitters, lasers, and several
different little observation points acting as the observers, with six
different photons, been able to replicate this Gedanken experiment. What the
experimenters are finding, is that when one observer is watching, he's that
observer. That scientist can take a measurement, and determine whether the
photon is either particle, or acting like a wave. A second observer doesn't
necessarily know that the first observer has observed anything at that moment, but
might be aware that there is no observation yet made. In other words, that
there's still a superposition of states existing. So that would then give us this
result, which in this case, to me, it feels like the "shot heard around the
world." This is big news to me, that for the first time, we're getting the initial
results from some quantum physics experiments that show that there may not
be just one objective reality. So when we look at the way Nature operates, this is
not such a big surprise. We can see evidence with photosynthesis.
We can see evidence with instantaneous types of evolutionary leaps made by
bacteria that are put in a lactose-based nutrient agar solution, for example.
They're capable of mutating; of evolving to a new state of organism, that can digest
that lactose within one generation. And these sorts of things are
philosophically described as being possible and expected by such
philosophers as Nicholas Rescher, who wrote a book called Axiogenesis,
which I highly recommend. So anyway, going back to the results
from these experiments, the big news is that thanks to this big rush--the golden
age of quantum computing is on--we will now be seeing increasing degrees of
quantum principles, and philosophies, and quantum phenomena occurring on a
macroscopic scale. Like the entangled diamonds that we've already seen, that
you can hold in your hand and look at, and they can move together, just like a
part of a quantum computing device. So we're seeing a lot of things that are
happening just in our lifetime now. For me, it's personally validating to get
this kind of news, because for 20 years I've dedicated my life's research to
studying first-hand reports of people saying that they've witnessed a shift in
reality; that they've seen perhaps a Mandela Effect, where a whole bunch of
people are noticing that things are not the way that the official history
describes they remember it differently. And thanks to the internet, we can share
these experiences now. And thanks to experiments like this one, we're starting
to see that's okay! This might be the way the universe works, instead of a
consensus reality, where everything always agrees, and that's the root truth.
It looks like things could be quite a bit more subjective, and based on our
observer status. Which means that when we ask a question like the one I love to
ask: "How good can it get?" we can perhaps transform seemingly impossible
situations, and make our way through insurmountable
seeming problems. If you'd like to read the details about this experiment,
please click the link at the bottom of this video, because then you can go to
read a little bit more about what I wrote as a blog. Click through to the
link, and learn a lot more. Until next time, this is Cynthia Sue Larson with
realityshifters.com reminding you to keep asking my favorite question: "How
good can it get?" Thanks so much!