Creating Affluence by Chopra Deepak & Carlson Richard

Author:Chopra, Deepak & Carlson, Richard [Carlson, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing
Published: 2011-07-08T05:00:00+00:00

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In this chapter I would like to explain once more in a little detail the quantum field.

Physicists tell us that as we go beyond the realm of subatomic particles into the cloud of subatomic particles which makes up the atom, which makes up everything in reality, that when we try to examine and understand these particles — which have fancy names like quarks and bosons and leptons, and so on — these particles are so small that we can never measure them. There are no instruments that are available or will ever be available that will measure the minute smallness of these particles. In fact, they are so small that we can only think about them.

Now, there is another very interesting fact about these particles: they have never been seen. So, if you can’t observe these subatomic particles, if you can’t see them, how do we even know that they exist? And the answer is, we know that they exist by the evidence of the trails they leave behind in particle accelerators. In places where they are doing research on subatomic theory, one can see — and even photograph — the trails that these particles leave behind. And by looking at the trails, one knows that they did, in fact, exist. But there is another very interesting facet to these particles, and that is that they come into existence only when we observe them.

So, if we are looking at a quantum field, every time we look at it these particles blink into existence. And every time we turn our attention away from them they disappear into a void. They blink on and off like little lights in a dark room. The dark room you can imagine as infinite, unbounded space, and the particles that blink into existence do so by the mere act of putting attention on the field. When you put your attention on the field, then they come into existence. When you’re not putting your attention on the field, then they are just a probability amplitude in the field of all possibilities.

Each particle is a wave at the same time. And it’s a wave until the moment of observation. A wave is not restricted to any one location in space or time; a wave is a diffuse thing. That’s why it’s called a probability amplitude in the field of all possibilities. It defines the statistical likelihood of finding a particle at a certain place at the time of observation — which means the time of attention.

It is attention that transforms the probability amplitude, the wave, the probability distribution, for a possible measurement as a function of time. Attention takes that probability amplitude and brings it into material existence just by the mere act of observation, and the mere act of observation is, of course, putting our attention on it. So, a particle is literally created by you and me through the act of observation. Before it was observed it was just a mathematical possibility, a probability distribution for a possible measurement as a function of time.

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