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raj_105_2001
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posted September 08, 2002 01:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
Quantum and Relativity were the two buzz words of the past century which almost every high school student knew. They were important because not only they were important, they raised interesting and complex questions on the intricacies of matter. Finally mankind were facing the fundamental questions of life through the microscope of Science.

Quantum theory and Relativity were significant, because they introduced what is termed as a Paradigm shift in the way science viewed the Universe. Infact many books are written on how the Einsteinian Universe would behave and all its peculiarities.

I am surprised the Scientists aren't expecting any more Paradigm shifts! They are expecting revolutionary breakthroughs similar to Einstein's - but no paradigm shifts! Surprise. Surprise.

Newton back in the 18th century, was the first to investigate - to start the controversy. The raging controversy has been going on among the academics for 300 years - the question is this - Whether Light is a particle or not? The answer is still not clear!

So what if Light is a particle or not a particle? A particle is something you can touch - it is matter unless it is very minute so that your fingers can't feel them. Energy on the other hand isn't anything. For eg, when you strike a gong, it sets the atoms in the air which stays nearby into vibration - this vibration would agitate the atoms which are still further - and so on - until you hear the sound of the gong. Sound is not matter. It is energy.

What this has got to do with Linda Goodman and Spirituality is what I would come on later. For the benefit of non-technical backgrounds, I eliminate them - even a child would understand it.

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posted September 08, 2002 01:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for proxieme     Edit/Delete Message
I personally like the compromise on the matter:
to call light a wavicle.

When all else fails, make something up.

Corri

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raj_105_2001
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posted September 08, 2002 01:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
Energy would need something to through which it can travel - something which it must set into vibration so that it can reach the other end. For sound, it is air - the medium. If I have a bell within an inverted glass jar, you can hear it ringing - but if you sucked out all the air out of it, it will still be ringing though you can't hear it. There is no medium. The bell rings in a vaccum.

Newton proposed that Light is a particle (his famous corpusclar theory of Light, which he was working on during his end). But experiments after experiments were proving that Light behaved the same way Sound does. Except the scientists couldn't know what its medium was! Because Light could travel through a vaccum. It is around this time, the hypothetical 'medium' called Aether was invented. Proponents of Aether theory argued that aether pervaded everywhere - so Light could pass through it even if it is a vaccum. Known as the Wave Theory - it was held for 200 years.

Skeptics insisted that the existence of Aether be proved. Because unless it is known that Aether exists - it is not possible to determine whether Light is a particle or not. It may be a particle or a wave. The experiment was to decide whether Newton was right in the first place - Newton couldn't be wrong.

Since nobody knew how to suck out Aether, and see whether Light travels or not - for eg. if you sucked out all aether in your room, you can lit your lamp, heat would emanate from it - still you won't see any light. Theoretically. So a circuitous route was discovered.

Everyone was aware how the pitch of sound from a train whistle drops as the train approaches. There must be similar 'drop' in the 'pitch' of light - which could be detected by measuring its speed. At the beginning of the 20th century experiments were made to detect such a difference. The faster the observer moves the slower the light should appear to travel. Which would conclusively determine the existence of Aether. It didn't. No matter how fast the observer moved Light travelled at the same speed. The motion of the observer never affected the Light. The 'pitch' always remained the same.

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raj_105_2001
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posted September 08, 2002 01:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
It seemed Scientists couldn't disprove either - Wave theory or Particle theory. It was during this time Max Planck proposed the famous Quantum Theory - which made the paradigm shift in Science. In simple words, it meant Light was both wave and particle at the same time. It was a clever compromise between the two divergent points of view - it was proved and accepted.

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posted September 08, 2002 01:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
It was after the discovery of Quantum Theory - revolutionary discoveries were made in the annals of Science - Science for the first time was entering into the spiritual realm.

The profoundly astounding discovery was - what Scientists originally thought to be matter - wasn't matter either. Matter too exhibited a dichotomy similar to Light. Matter was also Energy!

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raj_105_2001
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posted September 08, 2002 01:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
One such famous experiment is termed Diffraction - in ordinary terms it means scattering Light. Light could be scattered just as Sound could be scattered - In the experiment a beam of light would be passed through two slits a few cm apart - and Light proved to be diffracted.

When the experiment was done with electrons - which during the time was accepted to be a particle - the electrons too were diffracted. Literally, it meant the same electron passed through both the slits

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posted September 08, 2002 04:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Foxxy     Edit/Delete Message
YAY!!! I'm listening Quantum theory is somethign that has fascinated me for a while.

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posted September 09, 2002 07:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
Around this time Heisenberg propounded the famous Uncertainty principle - though many argued it was only the result of a measurement limitation - it attempted to explain how matter would also be a wave - energy that is. That is to say, you can't pinpoint an electron and say "Look, it is here". But you could express its existence as a probability. Again, non-technically speaking it is like saying a cricket ball is all over the ground instead of 'here' or 'there'. Only in this case, the cricket ball is an electron. It doesn't make sense in the macroscopic world we live but when we get into the sub-atomic Universe, their occupants behave in strange manner. The cricket ball is all over the ground at the same time.

At around the same time, when the academic circles were still unsettled as to how the speed of light remained a constant and the dichotomy Matter and Energy proved to have - Albert Einstein (Whom Linda kept referring as Abstract Al) propounded that Matter could be converted to Energy - and Energy could be converted into matter. It was a fundamental paradigm shift - The world was no longer divided into two neat compartments called Energy and Matter. Not only one can be the other - one can also be converted into the other. Einstein derived much of his conclusions from mathematical deductions rather than experiments. What they showed was when you approach higher and higher speeds, you would lose matter and turn into energy - and at the speed of light, your mass(how much matter, you are) would be ZERO! When you 'overtake' Light (Superluminal velocity), the Universe takes on a new strange behavior - described as Time dilation when a mere 10 years would have passed for you, your fellow beings much below your speed, such as in earth, for them thousands of years would have elapsed. At Superluminal velocities the Space and Time are no longer separate - they blur together. This again, was another revolutionary paradigm shift. The Universe was no longer two separate entities called Space and Time. Rather it was one and only one now known as Spacetime.

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posted September 09, 2002 08:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
You would have read in myths (one is accounted in Erich Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods) about how someone went to sleep and after waking up, found out that generations have passed. Time Dilation. The scientific explanation is that the person went on a space trip.

When we put this scientific knowledge of superluminal velocity into Linda's findings - a surprising new result emerges - it has been generally disregarded by academicians that all matter vibrates. That the atoms and molecules just dont stand static, but vibrate with a small frequency. There is a critical frequency, similar to the constant speed of light - which Linda described in such an elusive manner - she hers-elf might have not understood it better - termed as Extra Low Frequency - If you need to experience Time Dilation, you need not go on a space trip - you can just lower yours frequency beyond the critical frequency - time would slow down, so when a 10 minutes would pass for you, actually an hour would have moved in earth - It is a very common experience, when how you are absorbed in your work, very little time appears to have passed. If you reduced your frequency below the critical frequency (Extra Low Frequency), you would eventually turn invisible, simply because the vibration of your atoms would be too high, that photons (light particles) wouldn't get reflected, but instead would pass through.

At Superluminal velocites, Mass turns negative - which is yet another implication of Einstein's discovery. By the same token, at Extra Low Frequencies, your mass would turn negative. You could not only be unseen, you cannot be touched. Ghost.

By Newton's Laws of Gravitation, Gravity would repel a ghost (negative mass). Thus the pictures describing a ghost standing a few inches high above the ground weren't the result of a fantasy or a super power attributed to the ghosts. Earth repels the ghost.

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raj_105_2001
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posted September 09, 2002 08:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
Consciousness and Matter

The same consciousness manipulates different corporeal bodies all of which look like, but differ only in their vibratory frequencies.

A corporeal body vibrating below the critical frequency, would experience its-elf as distinct from the rest of the bodies belonging to the same consciousness. On the other hand, a corporeal body vibrating above the critical frequency (spirits and ghosts) would experience its-elf as One with the rest of the corporeal bodies. Thus a spirit can experience being at two places at the same time, whereas a physical body can experience only one place at a time.

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raj_105_2001
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posted September 09, 2002 08:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for raj_105_2001     Edit/Delete Message
What happened to Alladin's Magic Lamp? We tend to think, if the spirit in the Lamp can bring whatever Alladin wished, Alladin would have had everything he wanted. Alas, no!

The material world, is as mysterious to the spirits as the spiritual world is to those who occupy the material plane. For one thing, spirits find it difficult to understand or convey through words! (Have you ever had dreams with lengthy conversations or monologues?). So even Alladin's simple requests, if unfamiliar would be very difficult for the spirit to understand, let alone materialize. Alladin probably got fed up with the strange objects the spirits brought up for him, and stopped using his lamp!

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posted September 09, 2002 03:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hopeful     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Raj - anxiously awaiting your lexi request over in the lexi forum!

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