05/30/2025
Your perception creates your reality!
May Newsletter Just Released ~
Greetings Dear Friends, Cultural Creatives and Seekers Everywhere!
The Most Beautiful Experiment … Ever
Physics, the most basic of all the sciences, is focused on defining the “mechanisms” of the Universe. The science of physics was introduced in modern science by the work of Isaac Newton published in his book The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687.
Up to this time, science recognized that Universe was made of two realms: physical Matter and immaterial Energy. The Newtonian version of the Universe, based on exclusively the character of matter, was described as “physics,” while the invisible energy realm was defined as “metaphysics,” which means “outside of the realm of physical matter and the laws of Nature” (i.e., “not scientific”). Consequently, science only focused on the physical Universe and ignored the realm of energy, which included the concepts of consciousness, spirit, and God.
The foundation of the material Universe was established around 400 BCE, when the ancient Greek philosopher, Democritus, proposed that all matter was made up of tiny, indivisible particles that he called "atoms." Atom is a term derived from the Greek word "atomos," meaning "indivisible" or "uncuttable. All matter was eventually reducible to discrete, small particles or atoms.
One hundred and twenty years after the establishment of Newtonian physics, scientists were focused on determining whether photons of light were physical particles or energy waves. In 1804, Thomas Young published his research entitled, “Experiments and Calculations Relative to Physical Optics” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 94 1-16). This article described the results of research he discovered using The Double Slit Experiment.
According to a poll of physicists around the world, Young’s research was defined as the “most beautiful experiment” in physics.
The experiment consisted of a “gun” that would shoot light at a screen with two open slits each covered by a door. Behind the slit screen was a second screen to show the light that passed through the slits in the front screen. With only one of either of the two slits on the front screen “open,” there would be one spot of light on the rear screen. If photons of light were particles and both slits were simultaneously “open,” there would be two light spots (one from each open slit) projected on to the rear screen.
If photons were energy waves, and only one of the two slits open, there would also only be one spot of light on the rear screen. HOWEVER, if light was a non-physical wave and both slits were open, the waves going through each slit would entangle and the resulting interference would cause multiple spots on the rear screen.
Below is an animation that illustrates the results of the study showing how particles and waves behave in the double slit experiment. This experiment demonstrates that light photons can exhibit behavior of both classical particles and classical waves.
So, is a photon a particle or a wave? The double-slit experiment revealed an unexpected, yet an amazing phenomenon: They can be either particles or waves. Simply by observing the character of photons, the researcher influences the outcome based on the design of the experiment. This finding challenged the idea of research being an objective and independent reality.
With technological advances in the 20th century, the double slit experiment was extended to reveal a similar result when, in addition to photons, electrons, protons, atoms and even small molecules, were observed to be either particles or waves based on the design of the Double Slit experiment.
When particles like photons or electrons are fired one at a time through the screen with both slits open, they create the same wave-like interference pattern on a screen, even if they are detected one photon or one electron at a time. This pattern disappears if the researcher tries to determine which slit the particle passed through, indicating again, that the act of observation alters the particle's behavior.
The results of this “beautiful experiment demonstrate the nature of the Wave-Particle Duality: What we observe as matter can also possess the character of intangible energy waves.
This experiment also revealed the consequence of the Observer Effect: The act of observing a particle can alter its behavior, suggesting that the observer's influence can affect the outcome of physical phenomena.
This experiment illuminated the nature of the Collapse of the Wave Function: When a particle is observed, its energy waves "collapse" into a specific physical state of matter, an observation that creates a link between human consciousness and the collapse of the wave function.
The double slit experiment Challenged Classical Concepts: The notion that the Universe is a deterministic, objective reality where everything is pre-determined.
Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman quoted in his lectures "We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics."
Little did Thomas Young know that his 1804 “beautiful” Double Slit experiment was the “seed” that profoundly challenged the conclusion of conventional Newtonian (Classical) physics. To understand the experiment’s particle-wave conclusion, it took 123 years of further research before scientists resolved the conundrum of how a particle can also be a wave.
In 1927, physicists changed their understanding of the nature of the Universe with the introduction of quantum physics, the science that showed an atom’s electrons, protons and neutrons are comprised of nano-tornado like vortices of spiraling energy. This was the insight Albert Einstein introduced in his famous equation, E=mc2 (“E” is energy and “m” is mass, the character of matter). Matter IS energy! The Universe has only one realm, everything is energy.
The results of the Double Slit experiment led Max Planck, one of the founding fathers of quantum theory in 1927, to acknowledge, “The mind is the creator of all matter.” This deduction was recently repeated in Nature, the most prestigious scientific journal. In an article entitled “The Mental Universe,” physicist Richard Conn Henry concluded, “The Universe is immaterial - it’s mental and spiritual. Live and enjoy.”
Your consciousness is creating your reality-the Biology of Belief. Amen.
With Peace, Love, and wishes for World Harmony,
Bruce
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