So far in mankind’s history, we’ve lived in a binary world; things are either black or white. They either exist or they don’t.
But quantum physics presents us with the dilemma that particles act differently on the sub-atomic scale: depending upon whether or not there is an observer, there can be either a wave-like or particle-like behavior of matter and radiation. An observer collapses the wave, and induces particle-like behavior out of matter, which would otherwise continue, unobserved, as a wave. (For an easy-to-grasp animation of this principle, watch this excerpt from the movie "What the BLEEP Do We Know!? ")
Science has often shown one manner of previewing the upcoming revolutions in philosophy and cultural trends, which points to the emergence of new world-view paradigms. Quantum physics, with it’s seeming duality of waves and matter, are a bellwether of what’s to come. Now it’s up to us to catch up with our evolution, and see how this applies in “everyday life”.
One idea is that we are all bits of observed energy waves, and thus we have collapsed into material form (our bodies). Like a wave that has rolled up onto a beach, the material world is created at the front of the wave-form, as it ebbs and flows.
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