From outside the box

I've been reading up on experiments that scientist around the world are doing in the field of quantum mechanics. I don't understand why some of these results are not front page news. They should be because some of the things science is learning will eventually change how we look at life, how we see ourselves in relation to each other, and the part we play in creating our realities.

In 1997 scientific journals throughout the world published the results of an experiment that traditional physicists say shouldn't have happened. At the University of Geneva in Switzerland an experiment was performed with particles of light called photons, the basic stuff the universe is made of. The photons were split and sent off in two opposite directions on fiber optic highways, the same kind that transmit telephone calls. At the end of seven miles, fourteen miles apart, the twin photons were forced to "choose" between two random routes that were identical in every respect. They choose the same route every time, and they did this in every repeated experiment. Even though conventional wisdom states that the two photons are separate and have no communication with each other, they acted as if they were still connected.

Between 1993 and 2000, a series of unprecedented experiments at the Russian Academy of Sciences was conducted using DNA. In one experiment they removed all of the air from a tube creating a vacuum. They knew the only thing that existed in a vacuum would be photon light particles. They observed that the photons were scattered throughout the tube in no particular random order. After introducing human DNA into the tube, the photons rearranged themselves into regular patterns. There was no known reason for this to happen. When they removed the DNA they noted that the photons remained in regular patterns.

Several more experiments were done, in fact still are being done, with results that are shaking the very foundation of what we thought we knew about matter. Scientist have found that, on a quantum level, matter changes just by observing it! What these experiments are demonstrating is that particles are communicating as great distances when there is nothing between them, no known reason for them to be able to communicate. Also we are finding that thought and touch actually change the order of particles that are the basic building blocks of matter. Think about that the next time you shake some bodies hand. You are sharing DNA and in the process, you are changing the very structure of each others physical make up on a quantum level! When touch is done with concentrated focus, how much more the effect?

So what does this mean to us? It means that we are influencing the world around us in unseen ways that we have never been aware of. It means that the whole universe may be connected in a way so profound as to suggest that all things are part of each other. It means that we have more responsibility as to how we think and act than we have ever realized. It means that there may be a highway or a fabric of intelligence that permeates the whole universe. It may even mean that we truely can change our lives in any way that we want to and that miracles really are possible. Physicist John Wheeler calls it...."a participatory universe." Life is changing ....stay tuned.

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