Scientifically based miracles
Ancient oriental philosophies, like any of the religions that exist in the world, declare the mind to be the center of reality. Many teachings, telling about good and the machinations of evil, fatal misfortunes and ways to salvation, remind that the cause of events in life, and the state of the soul, after inevitable death, depends on the purity of thoughts or sinful desires inherent in a person. And happiness can be found only by freeing your mind from negative emotions and dark thoughts. In Buddhism, the mind is the center of reality itself, and reality creates our imagination, just as consciousness can create emotions, feelings, ideas and dreams. According to Eastern teachings: there is no material without the activity of the mind.
In 1906, the famous physicist and genius of his time Ernest Rutherford, making experiments on the bombardment of matter with heavy trace elements, proved that only less than one billionth of an atom is occupied by real objects, that is, the nucleus and electrons. The rest of the space of matter is occupied by emptiness. All objects around us and ourselves are made of this “nothing”. And the feeling of solidity is given not by the object, but by the force of interaction of interatomic bonds.
It turns out that, feeling an object with your hand, you cannot touch it without reproducing the image of this object in your mind. And Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, discouraged by the impossibility of classical physics to fully explain the phenomena of the world of reality, noticed that matter exists only thanks to the force, behind which ultimately, apparently, spiritual will and reason are hidden. It turns out that the material world is just an illusion of something really existing. So what is reality then?
Who would have thought at a time when a person abandoned mysticism and superstitions, considering them something outdated, that, striving to know the world through experiments, scientific facts and irrefutable arguments, human civilization will come to understand the long-forgotten truths that it left on its way … And quantum physics, which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, having proved the illusory nature of everything, will baffle many great minds, discovering such phenomena as quantum entanglement and the state of superposition, which paved the way for the emergence of many mystical theories.
One more paradox
The legitimacy of the laws of quantum mechanics in our time, hardly anyone dares to deny. And even if it occurs to someone to argue, he will first need to refute the possibility of the existence of a smartphone, computer and mobile phone. Objects so necessary for modern people would never have been at our disposal, if not for this mysterious science. It was created by physicists to describe the laws of the microworld, but they turned out to be so illogical and mysterious that certain aspects of them deprived realists of a restful sleep for a long time.
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The superposition principle states that an electron is capable of being simultaneously in several parts of the spatial continuum. Moreover, at the moment when no one is watching this "cunning" particle, it seems to be nowhere at all. And how can you not ask the question: for some reason, such a tiny constituent of matter is capable of producing such tricks, behaving so inconsistently and erratically?
This dilemma prompted Jung Hugh Everett, an American scientist from Princeton University, to create in 1954 a bold theory of the existence of many parallel worlds. The essence of the scientist's idea is that, like an electron, as if existing in a certain pseudo-reality in a variety of options, our Universe is also duplicated into a huge number of parallel worlds. They are often similar, but differ only in an incredible number of versions of the events taking place. For example, if someone was not born in our universe as a result of a combination of circumstances, then he (possibly his double) can appear and continue to live peacefully in another world, where the combination of events has developed in a completely different way.
In some of the duplicate universes, the World War could end with the destruction of civilization, and somewhere, perhaps, intelligent life exists in completely different forms, since evolution millions of years ago took a completely different path. Also, as, according to this theory, there are worlds where circumstances and events practically coincide with ours, differing only in insignificant details. The total number of options cannot be calculated, there are myriads of them, that is, an infinite number.
Quantum suicide or immortality?
Skeptics are unlikely to take this assumption very seriously, and for many of them the described theory was indeed perceived as absurdity for many years. But in Everett's reasoning, in fact, there is a lot of incomprehensible things. For example, according to the scientist's hypothesis, our world seems to “stratify”, like a cake or a pie, only on many levels in space and time. And if the guess is correct, then someone, being in mortal danger, dies for a number of universes, but continues to live somewhere. In one of the worlds, the relatives of the "deceased" go crazy with grief, not knowing that there is a section of the universe where our hero was saved and continues his life with unsuspecting relatives.
Oddly enough, at the very end of the past century, a similar version was confirmed at once in two experiments conducted independently of each other by H. Moravex and B. Marshall. Scientific experiments of this kind have received the nickname "quantum suicide", and at the same time another: "quantum immortality." It is interesting that both seemingly opposite phrases reflect the essence of the issue. The reason for the experiment was the hypothetical "Schrödinger's cat", which always turned out to be alive from the point of view of the cat.
The universe as a whole organism
The concept of quantum entanglement is surrounded by an equally mysterious and enchanting aura that once again confirms the assumption of the inevitable existence of many worlds. The essence of this phenomenon lies in the instant connection between objects that seem to have nothing to do with each other.
John Bell tried to illuminate a similar concept in more detail, formulating the theorem on the unity of all systems in the Universe. This postulate, born in the post-war period, found practical confirmation among the supporters and followers of the scientist.
Moreover, Bell's hypothesis suggests the possibility of the existence of connections between independent worlds, which he called "nonlocal correlations", in some implicit, almost curious form. For example, some mutually exclusive event can take place not just here and here, but simultaneously here and there, as an electron is in two places at once.
It is the same as if two subjects share an apple, and instead of getting to one of them, it turns out to be entirely eaten by both. This seems to mean that time and space, as if existing for our senses, are actually unreal, that is, hypothetical. After all, only mentally it is possible to admit the presence of two mutually exclusive facts at the same time.
There are more than enough paradoxes in quantum physics, and it is even more difficult to understand them than in the intricacies of understanding all the wisdom of higher mathematics. But the main thing that we need to understand is that everything that we do at a given moment affects some distant unknown worlds with instantaneous speed. It is like the “butterfly effect” or a stone accidentally thrown into the water surface of a lake, which can change the political regime, for example, in the United States.
Ultimately, we are talking about a kind of informative field, absolutely all distant elements of which have a connection with each other. Explaining such a unity of worlds, space and time in the future may help to reveal the mechanisms of such phenomena as telepathy and clairvoyance.