off-topic posts (was Re: [MURG] oh that joke was from)

[Anna]

Dear Eugen, let me then introduce myself. I am not affiliated with any  University. I belong to Prof. Hitoshi Kitada, a MetaAcademy  which is based in Tokyo and  am in charge of  Dept. of Metahumanistics. The reason why I am a member is  this list  is the project that my group has undertaken in producing the New Mind Paradigm for the 21 Century and the discussions on this list  made  me believe that I could find perhaps some answers to the question of mind and consciousness.  
My earlier question about NDE did not imply that I accept it  as a  valid proof of  life after death. Quite to contrary, and I think  this assumption  arises from the faulty or biased interpretation of experience. .   
But....even so, there seems to be another reality which is shared in the same way as ours is,  meaning that participants    perceive the same or similar 'virtual' event..  You see QM requires that reality  has the absorbers - receivers  on both  'ends of information'. 

I hope you are familiar with some of the Nick Herbert's  writings.  Anyway, let me post a short excerpt   here for your comments: 

" If Light Doesn't Travel Backward in Time, Your Flashlight Won't Work

In 1945, John Wheeler and his graduate student Richard Feynman, then at
Princeton University, proposed a novel way of looking at light that
gives the backward-in-time solutions of Maxwell's equations equal status
with the forward-in-time solutions. John Wheeler, author of a
seven-pound paperback book on gravity, is presently director of a
fundamental physics research center in Austin, Texas. Richard Feynman,
who received the Nobel prize for developing an improved quantum theory
of electromagnetic radiation, is remembered in some circles as "the
Groucho Marx of physics" for his humorous and irreverent behavior. The
Wheeler-Feynman model, called the "absorber theory of radiation," makes
electromagnetism a two-way street as far as the time dimension is
concerned. They base their time-symmetric theory on the assumption that
every light wave emitted by an atom must be absorbed by another atom and
that these two events, light emission plus light absorption, should be
considered as a single inseparable process.

. . . According to the Wheeler-Feynman theory . . . radiation occurs in
two steps. First atom A emits . . . a half-sized (retarded) wave that
travels forward in time at a speed of 186,000 mps to the absorber atom
B. Atom B recoils as it takes up this light's momentum. Then, stimulated
by its recoil motion, atom B emites a half-sized (advanced) wave that
travels backwards in time at a speed of 186,000 mps to atom A. Atom A
recoils as it takes up this advanced wave's momentum.

. . . in order for light to be emitted it must be connected to some
future absorber by a two-way retarded-advanced wave handshake process.
Because of the need for the presence of absorbers, the absorber theory
predicts that if there are none in a particular direction in space, then
light will refuse to shine in that particular direction! If absorber
theory is correct, your flashlight would go out whenever you shine it up
into the night sky in the direction of an "antiemission locus"-a region
of space entirely devoid of absorbers of light in the frequency range of
your flashlight. In certain other directions, containing only a few
absorber atoms, your flashlight would dim, but not go out. Only in those
directions in which light was totally absorbed would the flashlight be
able to shine at its full brightness.

- Nick Herbert, Faster than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics" 


Anna


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