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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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October 6, 1991
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MIND11.ASC
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This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Tom Albion.
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Tom runs the THC Online System in Canada at 604-361-4549.
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The Quantum Zeno Effect
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Title-> Can't get there from here; quantum physics puts a new
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twist on Zeno's paradox.
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Authors-> Powell, Corey S.
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Can't Get There from Here
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Two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Zeno noted that an
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object moving from one place to another must first reach a halfway
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point, and before that a point half of the way to the halfway point,
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and so on.
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Any movement involves an infinite number of intermediate points, and
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so any motion must require an infinite amount of time. Motion, Zeno
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concluded, is logically impossible.
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In fact, things do move. Zeno did not consider that an endless
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series could have a finite sum. But in the counter-intuitive realm
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of quantum physics, something akin to Zeno's paradox can occur:
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atoms can be paralyzed if they are closely scrutinized.
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The act of observing prevents the atom from passing a halfway point
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between two energy levels.
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In 1977 E. C. George Sudarshan and Baidyanath Misra of the
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University of Texas at Austin realized that an unstable object, such
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as a radioactive atom, WOULD NEVER DECAY if it were observed
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continuously. They called this surprising phenomenon the quantum
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Zeno effect.
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Now Wayne M. Itano and his colleagues at the National Institute of
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Standards and Technology (NIST) have observed a variant of this
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effect in the real world. Their work will appear in Physical Review
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A.
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The reason for the Zeno effect lies at the heart of quantum physics,
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which states that the energy of an atom moving between two energy
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states is somewhat uncertain and that (for short intervals) the
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uncertainty grows over time.
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For an atom to shift from one state to the other, the uncertainty
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must be large enough to bridge the two. A measurement that
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determines the atom's energy "collapses" the atom to the measured
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state.
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Afterward the uncertainty grows again, but it should be possible to
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"freeze" an atom in one energy state BY TAKING MEASUREMENTS SO
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FREQUENTLY that its energy NEVER BECOMES UNCERTAIN ENOUGH TO LET IT
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JUMP TO ANOTHER STATE.
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To observe the Zeno effect, the NIST team confined 5,000 beryllium
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ions in an electromagnetic trap and exposed them for 256
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milliseconds to a radio frequency that bumps beryllium ions to a
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higher, excited energy state.
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During the test they fired short, 2.4-millisecond laser pulses at
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the ions to determine their energy state. Ions in the bottom state
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scattered the light pulse back; those in the excited state did not.
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Each measurement pulse returned a scatter proportional to the number
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of ions still in the bottom energy state.
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When a single measurement pulse was sent at the end of the test,
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nearly all the ions were found to be in the higher state, as one
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might expect. More frequent laser pulses caused the number of ions
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in the higher energy state to decrease.
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When 64 pulses--the largest number used--were sent, essentially none
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of the atoms was able to jump to the higher level. The measurement
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pulses occurred so often that THERE WAS NO TIME for each ion's
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uncertainty TO BECOME LARGE ENOUGH TO PERMIT IT TO REACH THE UPPER
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LEVEL.
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The NIST experiment sheds some interesting light on the question of
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the role of the observer in a system like this. The scattered laser
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light, used to determine the energy states of the atoms, was
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observed after the end of the 256-millisecond test period.
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The energy states of the ions, however, collapsed when hit by the
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pulses during the test period, before the return scatters were
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actually observed.
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Despite the apparent link between the viewer and the behavior of the
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ions, IT WAS THE ACT OF MEASUREMENT -- not the act of observing the
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measurement -- that immobilized the ions.
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Even so, the experiment may strengthen the conviction of those who
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believe the old adage: "A watched pot never boils."
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Vangard Note...
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A most fascinating observation. As a point of interest, in the
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early part of the 20th century, two well known psychics did a
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study of the elements in an attempt to ascertain their
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structure.
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The psychics were C. W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant. From their
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efforts, a book was written with descriptions of what they
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Page 2
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found. That book is "OCCULT CHEMISTRY" and is available from
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Health Research (listed in the CONTACT file on KeelyNet).
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Besant and Leadbeater described their attempts to "look" into
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matter using their psychic abilities. In the first attempts,
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they managed to see down into the structure but the particles
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were moving at such rapid speeds that no pattern could be seen,
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simply a blur of moving bodies.
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Something inspired them to think that a psychic "clamp" could be
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effected which would temporarily FREEZE THE MOVING PARTICLES to
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allow the structure to be seen.
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This technique was tried and found to be successful. The clamp
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could only be sustained for seconds but it was sufficient to
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allow them to describe and draw what they saw.
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Several years ago, Fate magazine ran a series of excellent
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articles written by a physicist who had been studying OCCULT
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CHEMISTRY. He found that the patterns CORRELATED ALMOST EXACTLY
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WITH modern findings of atomic structure. We have these papers
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and will place them on KeelyNet as time allows.
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Our friend Thom Pawlicki, author of "How to Build a Flying
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Saucer" and an excellent book on HyperSpace, writes in a letter
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to us that he believes it is possible to train ones eyes in such
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a manner that the vision path from each eye will NOT collide.
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Thom says that when the vision paths REMAIN PARALLEL to each
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other, the vision is essentially infinite, thus allowing one to
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see for miles or into the heart of matter.
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We find this of extreme interest since John Keely had
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constructed a special microscope which allowed him to view into
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the heart of atoms.
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We understand this device used Ultraviolet rays but there is
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little public information on much of Keely's work beyond that
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which Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet has found and placed in the
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public domain.
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