So

I have been obsessed with this book. (not out of character for me to geek out over a book).

It’s about quantum physics.

It’s a history lesson and a pretty good explaination of how a wave of energy becomes matter. There’s a weird phenomenon. Particles (tiny ones, on the quantum level), need to be observed. Otherwise, they will just stay as waves of energy.

yes, apparently there are devices that can measure energy, electromagnetic waves. Scientists discovered that as these waves are measured, they start to transform. If observed, they then transition into particles which appear and disappear and even change location, as if deciding what the observer is expecting to see.

Its a bit mind-blowing to think that without an observer, there would be no matter. The book goes as far as suggesting that consciousness needs to invent (and continues to invent) ways to observe itself. Light, eyesight…

Early physicists, contemporaries of Einstein wondered if the universe is only able to expand if it is observed.

I can’t help wondering about how influential our perspective of observation really is. We see what we expect, or rather, we expect and then we see. something crazy like that.

There is a whole chapter about the fact that man decided on the concept of as time, it doesn’t really exist. (?) Time is a strange construct if you think about it. It’s measurable, but it seems to speed up or slow down depending on our circumstances. Memory is always inaccurate, the future doesn’t exist, though we can spend a great deal of time thinking about the past, or the future, which makes it FEEL almost like we are there, un noticing our present which can disappear into our past, then disappear from memory. Oh my!

What spending all our time rehashing or future-izing CAN do is give us more of the same things we tend to think about. The reticular activating thing in our brains helps us unconsciously sift and sort and look for those things we are used to seeing, or thinking about.

I can’t help wonder if I could train my brain to think more purposely.

The concept of thinking with quantum theory in mind, using thought as a precursor to intention as a precursor to actual events or things is not new.

It’s just that it’s not easy to remember to think on purpose, I’m finding that every time I listen to this book that I’m somehow wanting to try harder.