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“Some would argue for the third possibility on the grounds that, if there were a complete set of laws, that would infringe God's freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world. It's a bit like the old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it? But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created. Presumably, he knew what he intended when he set it up!”

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Book:A Brief History of Time
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“So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. Daniel Bernoulli, John Herapath, Joule, Krönig, Clausius, &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure. (1860)”

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Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume II
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“I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I thought of how we teach physics: We have so many techniques - so many mathematical methods - that we never stop telling the students how to do things. On the other hand, the drawing teacher is afraid to tell you anything. If your lines are very heavy, the teacher can't say, "Your lines are too heavy." because *some* artist has figured out a way of making great pictures using heavy lines. The teacher doesn't want to push you in some particular direction. So the drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.”

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Book:Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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“If instead of arranging the atoms in some definite pattern, again and again repeated, on and on, or even forming little lumps of complexity like the odor of violets, we make an arrangement which is always different from place to place, with different kinds of atoms arranged in many ways, continually changing, not repeating, how much more marvelously is it possible that this thing might behave? Is it possible that that "thing" walking back and forth in front of you, talking to you, is a great glob of these atoms in a very complex arrangement, such that the sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do? When we say we are a pile of atoms, we do not mean we are merely a pile of atoms, because a pile of atoms which is not repeated from one to the other might well have the possibilities which you see before you in the mirror.”

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Book:Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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“If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about what science absolutely requires, and it is all wrong, because the only rule in science is that the final arbiter is observation - that you just have to look at the world and report what you see. Um... off the top of my head I can't think of where to find something about how it's an ideal of science to settle things by experiment instead of arguments -”

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“I never thought about a job in astronomy until I saw a job advert advertising one. It was in the Canary Islands, working for the UK Government’s Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). Wow! That sounded so cool! I applied, got flown out for an interview on the island and took the job. I felt like I had won the lottery, as I was being paid to do something I was interested in and living on the beautiful island of La Palma. I started my career fixing broken vacuum cleaners at the city hospital, it was quite a change!”

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“I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and I noticed a peculiar black line across the paper. ... The effect was one which could only be produced in ordinary parlance by the passage of light. No light could come from the tube because the shield which covered it was impervious to any light known even that of the electric arc. ... I did not think I investigated. ... I assumed that the effect must have come from the tube since its character indicated that it could come from nowhere else. ... It seemed at first a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new something unrecorded. ... There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy. [Describing to a journalist the discovery of X-rays that he had made on 8 Nov 1895.]”

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Author:Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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“She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and those that did not. Further she related this difference to the chemical constitution of the molecules from which carbon was made. She was already a recognized authority in industrial physico-chemistry when she chose to abandon this work in favour of the far more difficult and more exciting fields of biophysics. {Bernal on the death of scientist Rosalind Franklin}”

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Author:J.D. Bernal
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“Today we understand that the fabric of reality has a lot to do with consciousness, yet we have not really begun to explore this in a practical sense. A new field of study will be created, one that examines the connections between neuroscience, physics, mathematics, computing, and consciousness. #Pataphysics”

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Book:Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
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“The mechanistic worldview of classical physics had been based on the notion of solid bodies moving in empty space. This notion is still valid in the region called the “zone of middle dimensions,” in the realm of our daily experience where classical physics continues to be valid. Yet modern physics forces us to go beyond the middle dimension.”

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“Quantum physics indicates undetected communication between the observer and the observed. Because observation affects particles, there must be something between the observer and the particle where information relays back and forth.”

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“Study quantum physics, and you will soon reach the inescapable conclusion that so-called “physical particles” behave in such an unusual way because they are not physical. At the sub-atomic level, matter doesn’t exist at definite places. Instead, it shows “tendencies to exist.”

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“In quantum theory, these tendencies are expressed as probabilities and are associated with mathematical quantities which take the form of waves. This mathematical expression is why particles can be waves at the same time. They are not “real” three-dimensional waves like sound or water waves. They are “PROBABILITY WAVES,” abstract mathematical quantities. All laws of quantum physics are expressed in terms of these probabilities.”

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“We are still using the classical term particle for something wholly different. This leads to not only confusion within the scientific community but also hinders “quantum consciousness” from making inroads into culture and society.”

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“Quantum theory thus demolished classical concepts of solid objects and strict deterministic laws of nature. At the quantum level, classical physics dissolves matter into wave-like patterns of probabilities. Moreover, these probabilities do not represent the probabilities of things. Instead, these probabilities are PROBABILITIES OF INTERCONNECTIONS.”

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“Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities. They are understood as interconnections between the observer, their preparation of an experiment, and the subsequent results. The bottom line is that space isn't something that objects are in. Position and momentum are just part of the meta-object's frequencies equation.”

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“Quantum theory shows we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. It reveals the essential Oneness of the universe. The deeper we look, the more nature reveals that there are no "basic building blocks" but a complex web of relations between various parts of the whole.”

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“It's critical to have confidence that the unsharpness / uncertainty principle manifests on the macro scale, as well as the micro. It's excruciatingly painful to logically derive the existence of macro existence as independent of micro entanglement. Jungian synchronicity is another term for this entanglement. It is your imagination that is the central method of controlling these entangled states.”

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“In atomic physics, the scientist cannot play the role of the detached observer. Instead, they become involved in the world they observe to the extent that they influence the observed objects' properties. This affecting outcome by observation is true for scientists and every human being. Observation affects the world we see. We are more than casual observers. Instead, we are active participants in a participatory universe.”

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“There are no "building blocks," only a complicated web of relations between various parts of the whole. And these relations always include the observer. The human observer is the final link in the chain of the observational process.”

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“What keeps people from seeking and attaining various states of expanded consciousness, becoming more creative, and creating their own reality? Here fear plays a part, as well as a lack of understanding of how to access it. People may hold expanded consciousness as a virtue, yet fear tells them that they will lose self-identity with expanded consciousness.”

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“The focus on the self or individual consciousness is obsessed with control, ownership, and an attitude of “Mine, Mine, Mine” that not only blocks movement towards non-localized consciousness but also generates issues and conflicts along the way. It creates a xenophobia that nests and nests.”

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“The very unusual thing about quantum mechanics is that we learned synthesis is nothing more, and nothing less than just searching for a set of space-time coordinates, to which the synthesized matter is visible. When you bake a pizza, you're not actually changing it from an uncooked pizza to a cooked one. What you're doing is hiding the uncooked pizza, while simultaneously searching for a pizza which is cooked, and then finding it. Reducing “ingredients” down, one does not get to discreet particles. The ingredients are not matter, the ingredients are coordinates.”

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“Thinking about quantum mechanics makes perfect intuitive sense when you realize that coordinates are ingredients. When you observe a quantum event, the reason it collapses is that the only way to observe its coordinates is to take it away from the quantum event.”

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“Imagination is our bioenergy shapeshifting into a version of reality that doesn’t exist locally. Our consciousness is just shifting infinitely fast to a version of the universe that occurred a moment later. We go forward in time to a place that exists prior in time. Humans are a time machine with consciousness running in reverse time to physical reality.”

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“Even Physics cannot escape this as physics simply becomes an imaginary model that's merely a different way of looking at the world. It is dependent on those looking at it, and this is the way it will always be. Events will be different for everyone.”

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“Shifting timelines is as simple as changing the setting on cosmic macroscope. Instead of scrolling it linearly, it can be made to jump, or go backwards. To go slower, or faster. You don't need machinery to do it all, because we already have one (1) of those devices--it's called the universe, and currently, you're peering at yourself through it.”

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“A spiritual acceleration period is going to absolutely summon block-heads in sight but out of reach, as they will serve as road markers going the opposite way that uy're facing. This is positive signage that you're moving in the proper direction.”

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“The meta-reality is a net positive zone, albeit the mechanism occurs only out of sight because the mechanism, of course, is powered by negative energy. That consumption process makes it net-positive in every angle other than the angle of "well, better check on the negativity to make sure it's all there where it should be!”

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“Putting more positive into a positive feedback loop simply yields more of it. That's why negativity into a negative feedback loop is a self-consumptive process which ultimately exhausts itself, whereas positivity into positive feedback loop is the essential form of continual growth. Conscious entities have a special affinity for positive feedback loops due to our fractal nature. A person with contradictory energy will always find themselves getting in their own way, notably when thinking about trying not to think about something.”

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