“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” – Niels Bohr
The quantum observer effect is one of the most shocking discoveries in physics. It suggests that reality doesn’t exist as solid matter until someone is watching.
What Is Quantum?
Quantum is the smallest amount of a physical quantity that can exist independently. When we study the quantum nature of reality, we’re looking at how these very tiny things, when multiplied billions and billions of times, create the world we see around us.
The reason the study of quantum physics is so fascinating is the “as above, so below” reasoning. If we’re all made up of quantum things, and quantum things behave in a certain way, then we follow certain rules.
The problem is that at a quantum level, the rules change all the time.
The Illusion of Solid Matter
At our level of perception, we assume that physical matter is solid. That it can only exist as one thing. But this is really just an illusion.
When you put a gigantic magnifying glass over reality, you see that our idea of solid matter is just an illusion. Just like the lines on your computer screen LOOK solid, but if you magnify them, you see they’re actually hundreds of thousands of tiny pixels that line up in steps to form what APPEARS to be solid lines.
This is how everything in our reality works. At a quantum level, everything moves in steps. Just like when you take film out of a movie projector and see that the film is really just creating the illusion of motion.
The Quantum Observer Effect
Experiments have shown that until someone is watching, or tries to measure a particle, it actually doesn’t exist as something solid. Instead, it exists as a wave of potential existences. The thoughts and opinions of the scientist have a direct effect on how a particle will behave.
When we look even closer, we see that everything in our physical reality is actually pulsating. At one moment it exists in reality, and at the next it doesn’t, until it does again. On, and it pulses into physical reality. Off, and it pulses into non-reality.
Consciousness and Reality
In between these pulses, everything in our reality is checking in with our consciousness to see how it should exist. Before a particle reemerges into physical reality from non-reality, it looks at the belief systems of the perceiver and determines which probable existence it will manifest as.
Your reality is subjective. The way you perceive the world will be vastly different than the way anyone else perceives it, even though there will be enough crossover that you could have a conversation about the things around you, so long as you have similar belief systems.
Probability and Manifestation
If you think about it, 80 percent of the time, your life is probably very similar today as it was yesterday. But at any given time, reality could exist as any of the other infinite probabilities. Just because something is less likely doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
The more you put your attention toward the things you desire, the more those things become part of the most likely probabilities for your life. The quantum observer effect means your belief system determines how the particles you perceive will exist.
If you believe that anything is possible. Or that you can heal yourself. Or that by changing your thoughts about food, you change the way those food particles affect your body. Then what you’re actually doing is making certain particle existences more likely than others.
Why Bad Days Get Worse
If each quantum particle has a near infinite number of probabilities it might exist as, and if quantum particles respond to the thoughts of the person perceiving them, then our thoughts determine the possible realities that the quantum world will show up as.
For this reason, when you’re having a really bad day and keep grumbling about it, the day gets worse and worse. The quantum particles are using your vibration and emotions as the data set for which probabilities they should exist as.
On the other hand, when you’re having a great day and focused on all of the positive things in your life, then the world seems like a grand place to live.
The way you believe reality to exist becomes the way it presents itself to you.
This is the lens the Bible is meant to be read through.
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