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Does The Future Really Affect the Past?The New Revolution in Physics, Cosmology & Consciousness
Talk at the Savile Club, London UK April 21, 2015
Jack Sarfatti
Now don’t you go right past
you mustn’t drive too fast
The future affects the past
Space time continuum, Space time continuum
Who knows where we’re from …
Excerpt from fellow Savilian Richard Fordham’s song composed especially for this occasion
http://youtu.be/kL9YF-Aeft0
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.”
Burnt Norton Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsowkvhFns
The Important Big Picture
Problems How do we unify Einstein’s general relativity of the
gravitational field with the quantum field theory of the electro-weak and strong forces?
Is time travel to the past through wormhole stargates possible?
See Cal Tech’s Kip Thorne’s movie Interstellar for example where this question is explored in a “science-faction” pop way.
What is consciousness? How can we explain our self-awareness in a scientific way? This is David Chalmer’s “hard problem.”
How real is real? For example, do we live in a hologram simulation? See Nick Bostrum’s book on advanced super-intelligence for example.
Are we alone in the multi-verse?
What about God?
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
As Albert Einstein said “God does not play dice
with the universe” we can now arrive at a post-
quantum view of things and say “He loads the
dice back from the future”.
Future events are contributory causes of present
ones – Past (Causality) is interacting with our
Future (Retro-Causality) at the junction of the
present moment called the ‘now’ moment
FEELING THE FUTURE: IS
PRECOGNITION POSSIBLE?
MOST SCIENCE PAPERS don’t begin with a description of psi, those “anomalous processes of information or energy transfer” … It’s even less common for a serious science paper, published in an elite journal, to show that psi is a real phenomenon. But that’s exactly what Daryl Bem of Cornell University has demonstrated in his new paper, “Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect,” which was just published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
http://www.wired.com/2010/11/feeling-the-future-is-precognition-possible/
Back From the Future A series of quantum experiments shows that
measurements performed in the future can influence the present. Does that mean the universe has a destiny—and the laws of physics pull us inexorably toward our prewritten fate?
By Zeeya Merali|Thursday, August 26, 2010, Discover Magazine
This article is about the work of David Bohm’s protégé Yakir Aharonov and his students on the interference of future to present “destiny” quantum information flows with past to present “history” quantum information flows to create “weak measurements” in the present that have useful laboratory applications.
Free Will and Retrocausality in the
Quantum World
A conference held under the auspices of the JTF-
funded project, New Agendas for the Study of
Time
Venue: Free Will and Retrocausality in the
Quantum World
Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College,
Cambridge
Dates: 1—4 July 2014
Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Victorian Gentleman,
Harvard Porcellian Club wrote:
“Science proceeds as if the past was the home of
explanation; whereas the future, and the future alone,
holds the key to the mysteries of the present. When
the first cell divided, the meaning of that division was
to be discovered in the future, not in the past; when
some pre-human ancestor first uttered a human
sound, the significance of that sound was to be
interpreted by human language, not by apish grunts;
when the first plant showed solicitude for its seed, the
interest of that solicitude lay in the promise of
maternal affection. Things must be judged in the light
of the coming morning, not of the setting stars”. -
Henry Dwight Sedgwick, “An Apology for Old Maids” (
1908)
“Creation faces the future” “There are invisible ways of conveyance by which
some great thing doth touch our souls, and by which we tend to it. Do you not feel yourself drawn by the expectation and desire of some Great Thing?” -Henry Dwight Sedgwick, “The House of Sorrow” (1908)
‘It is not the past which, like an uncoiling spring, pushes us on; creation faces the future, and is drawn onward by an irresistible attraction. “For though it be a maxim in the schools,” says Thomas Traherne, “that there is no love of a thing unknown, yet I have found that things unknown have a secret influence on the soul, and, like the centre of the earth unseen, violently attract it. We love we know not what…”
- H D Sedgwick
Sir James Jeans “The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-
mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.” The Mysterious Universe, page 137.
“I incline to the idealistic theory that consciousness is fundamental, and that the material universe is derivative from consciousness, not consciousness from the material universe... In general the universe seems to me to be nearer to a great thought than to a great machine. It may well be, it seems to me, that each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind.”
Niels Bohr to Wolfgang Pauli
1958 “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The
question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”
“cosmology without apology
no-one knows the topology
only craziness will find the way
breaking down the rulebooks of today
smashing beliefs is half the job
stealing the future just to rob
the meaning of the universe will be clear
when we find a route from here to there”
Excerpt from Richard Fordham’s song.
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of
Time
“... if we do discover a complete theory, it should
in time be understandable in broad principle by
everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall
all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary
people, be able to take part in the discussion of
the question of why it is that we and the universe
exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the
ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we
would know the mind of God.”
I first recognized the quantum entanglement problem with
special relativity in 1961 at Brandeis University before it
became mainstream, but I was told to “shut up and
calculate.”
The history is given in MIT Physics Professor David Kaiser’s
award-winning book
https://archive.org/details/DavidKaiser-HowTheHippiesSavedPhysics-
Iqc-2012
Quantum theory is not good enough
to explain our consciousness.
“It is argued that immense physical resources -
for nonlocal communication, espionage, and
exponentially-fast computation - are hidden from
us by quantum noise, and that this noise is not
fundamental but merely a property of an
equilibrium state ... It is suggested that 'non-
quantum' or nonequilibrium matter might exist …
Nonequilibrium matter could be used to send
instantaneous signals, to violate the uncertainty
principle, …, to eavesdrop on quantum key
distribution, and to outpace quantum computation
(solving NP-complete problems in polynomial
time).” Antony Valentini
Post-Quantum Physics of Consciousness
Consciousness comes from entanglement signal non-locality in the sense of the excerpt from Antony Valentini in the last slide.
Einstein struggled for ten years to extend his 1905 special theory of relativity to his general theory of relativity of the gravitational field He needed two physical ideas and one mathematical idea:
Equivalence Principle – weightlessness in free fall
Newton’s action-reaction principle generalized to all influences of A on B.
The local frame of reference invariant tensor calculus.
Action-Reaction Explains Gravity
Special relativity unified space with time and
energy with mass, but it could not explain gravity.
The reason was that the unified space-time was
rigid. It told matter how to move in the absence of
real forces, but there was no direct back-reaction
of matter on the space-time continuum geometric
field itself.
Einstein’s final gravity field tensor equations
restore the generalized Newtonian principle of no
action without a reaction. The equations show
how unified mass-energy curves spacetime.
Action-Reaction and Time
The quantum wave-particle duality is the same as
mind-matter duality. Bohr was already aware of
this.
The particle is approximated as a test particle in
orthodox quantum theory. It is acted upon by the
wave, but does not back-react on the wave - not
so in post-quantum theory.
The wave acts on the particle in the present both
from the past and the future.
The particle back-reacts on the wave in the
present both from the past and the future.
The former is memory. The latter is precognition.
Action-Reaction Explains Consciousness Quantum theory as taught today is in the same position
that special relativity was before Einstein’s 1915 explanation of real gravity as spacetime curvature from the direct back-reaction of the mass-energy spacetime acts on.
The entangled quantum information fields pilot the motion of matter in a much weirder nonlocal-retrocausal way than does the spacetime continuum, but without direct-back-reaction of matter on them in orthodox quantum theory that works only for the less complex lifeless functions of matter.
Quantum information pilot fields are intrinsically mental. Direct back-reaction of matter on its pilot field excites a conscious experience in that pilot field. That is the basic hypothesis that allows naturally conscious AI in androids and in many other material environments including perhaps the surfaces of black holes and our future dark energy cosmological event horizon that literally may be the world hologram “brain” of Hawking’s “Mind of God.” A crazy idea - is it crazy enough to be true?