A diversion. I’ll get back to our recent discussion eventually, but first the question that bothered me greatly in establishing my relationship with God. I was an engineering student and member of the Christian Fellowship. The question was when God over rode the consistent and regular rules of physics. I tried many traditional religions seeking the answer: Catholicism, Born Again, Neo Pagan and Taoism were among them. None provided a clear answer, although there were plenty of incidents where suspension of physics in either past myth or present day life was suggested.Guest wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:04 amWithout God, Jesus, and an afterlife in Heaven, this life would be pointless.
Eventually, I tried parapsychology, the scientific study of mind over matter. I dug into the various experiments for a while, especially the decline effect, that new discoveries and revelations produced larger probability shifts than confirmations of such observations. Eventually I developed my own theory.
Hang on tight. Be prepared to suspend disbelief briefly.
Parapsychology experiments sometimes generated emotion. Emotion often causes an increased metabolism. A human with an increased metabolism generates more of the many worlds alternate realities suggested by one branch of quantum physics. Simply, if something can be observed in more of the many worlds, the probability of observing it is increased.
This hit another factor. Some psi experiments showed reverse time causality. The cause of a probability shift came well after the shift occurred. For example, some experiments involved ‘predicting’ targets which were generated long in the past. This was supposed to not be able to happen, but it did. This was supposed to be a control, but the experimenters were shocked.
In quantum physics, the basic equations are unsolvable. The only way to get anywhere is to simplify the equations. Under my understanding, this is because to know the probability of something, you have to factor in all the possible futures that might occur. This is not doable for any vaguely realistic system. Yet, that’s what ‘scientists’ do, simplify the equations to disregard any influence from the future. Current physics is based on the past causing the future, a one way arrow of time. Experimentally…. Wrong!
Poof. The probabilities of physics can be effected by something very much like mind over matter. All you have to do is get excited about something and it becomes more probable, even if that something is past. One is slightly more likely to observe the more emotional future.
A religious question that ultimately lead to a changing of one’s understanding of physics?
This led to additional discoveries of an entirely different nature. So called scientists will not take parapsychology experiments seriously. Rejected. Ignored. True scientists do not take medieval superstitions seriously. Second, parapsychology investigators believe in mind over matter. If your theory does not involve mind over matter, does not feature medieval superstition, it will be rejected, ignored. Generalizing, if one believes adamantly in one’s preconceived perception of the way the world works, anything that conflicts with one’s worldview is ignored, rejected. This principle of fixating on one’s worldview is not limited to physics or religion.
Back to the present day. Do you think I will take traditional religions or the ideas spun out of them seriously? I found my answers walking a non traditional path. It may help to understand that path to understand my feelings towards medieval superstitions.