The Physics of Encounter
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Roderick H. Boes The Physics of Encounter www.physics-of-encounter.com Toward a Theory of Consciousness Does consciousness exist throughout the universe? Based on scientific investigations of anomalous phenomena, this book addresses a number of related questions. Does it explain the reports of encounters with “aliens”, apparitions, disembodied minds? Does it explain the ghost-like forces that cause Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK) = “poltergeist” events? Does it explain why experiments have shown that prayers can heal? Does is provide evidence that the mind survives the death of the body? Yes, it does. It points the way toward an increasingly fruitful dialogue between science and religion. It points the way toward a more firmly grounded assumption that encounters with the unknown during our lifetime are but a foretaste of our ultimate encounter with the Universal Mind.
Table of Contents Part One What is the physical reality of consciousness?
Chapter 1 Open questions about the laws of nature. 1
Chapter 2 Physics and metaphors. “Visualizing” invisible forces. Waves and bubbles. The pull of gravity and the push of waves. Points of encounter and zero-point energy. 8
Chapter 3 Oscillating strings and the ingredients of consciousness. Intertwined realities. “There is more to time than just a dimension.” The initial void: creating something from nothing. 16
Chapter 4 Atomic nuclei and the inner light of consciousness. “The spark that ignited the big bang.” Black holes, implosions and retrocausation. Lederman’s “God Particle”. 35
Chapter 5 Hidden energy and morphic resonance. The effect of staring at someone. The smile of the Cheshire Cat and the “extended mind”. Converging hemispheres and the big bang. 53
Chapter 6 Quarrels about the scientific method. Spoon-bending parties and Poltergeist events. Psychic research and the CIA. Did Lincoln attend spiritualistic séances? 67
Chapter 7 Avid believers and fanatical debunkers. UFOs, spy satellites and cover-ups. Prophetic dreams. The entanglement of the “agent” and the “receiver”. Clarifying relevant concepts. 81
Chapter 8 UFOs and consciousness fields. Imposing structure on random events. Playing with a whimsical robot. Resonance, Near-Death-Experiences and non-local proximity. 97
Part Two Anomalous events - categorized processes
Chapter 9 The powerful light of UFOs. Photons and wave functions. Anomalous plasma and atoms of oscillating size. The trance during the observation of a UFO. Photographs of UFOs. 115
Chapter 10 “Materialization”. UFOs and the phantom images created in a séance. Mirror neurons and the jolts in a railroad car. The “embarrassing infinities” in a Higgs field. 127
Chapter 11 The structure of the atom. Quarks and gluonic light. Splintering photons. UFOs and “solid lights”. Echo waves and offer waves. Atoms marching in step. 140
Chapter 12 Magnetism, spin, and the “handshake” between waves. Cold fusion and hot plasma. Archetypes and elusive particles. The magnetic effects of UFOs and Poltergeist events. 154
Chapter 13 The invisible energy associated with life. Can plants learn? Healing and the information in morphogenetic fields. Weight changes at the moment of death. 170
Chapter 14 Near-Death-Experiences and holographic images. Stored information in a non-functioning brain. The out-of-body mind and the role of positronium. 189
Chapter 15 Motion, changing shapes, visual fields. The stunning maneuvers of UFOs. Balls of light that hover near their observers. Séances, levitation, and the “possessed mind”. 202
Chapter 16 Scorched earth and cold breezes: the opposite effects of anomalous events. Rapping sounds and distorted voices. “The world is vibration”. 217
Chapter 17 Time warps and gravitational fields. UFOs, “frozen sounds”, and prematurely aged plants at landing sites. Near-Death-Experiences, iPods, and accelerating spaceships. 233
Chapter 18 The Universal Mind. Encounters across the barrier of time. “Ancient astronauts” and the spaceships of Indra and Arjuna. Archaeological artifacts and the future of humanity. 246
Part Three Crucial issues in theoretical physics
Chapter 19 The hidden processes underlying current conceptual constructs. 261 (a) Spheres and hemispheres. The efficient cause and the final cause of quantum events. The wave/particle duality. The two halves of our universe and the “shadow brane”. (b) The EPR-paradox and non-local correlations. Bohm’s “hidden variable”. Opposite spin effects at two points on a VE-surface. Collapsing superpositions. (c) String theory. “Flop transitions”. Sub-Planck distances and the Kaluza-Klein radius. Undetectable dimensions. Loops and one-brane configurations.
Chapter 20 The hidden processes underlying current conceptual constructs (continued). 276 (a) Photons, time, and atomic nuclei. (b) Quantum gravity and dark matter. The absorption of photons and sub-Planck shifts in the location of point-particles. (c) Loop quantum gravity. Wheeler’s cosmic feedback loop. Mini-loops and “bit bangs”. Angular momentum and centrifugal forces.
Chapter 21 The hidden processes underlying current conceptual constructs (continued). 287 Particle classification. Inertial mass and gravitational mass. The electric charge and the effect planes of photons. The Lorentz invariance of moving particles. Particle decay.
Chapter 22 Some proposals for experiments. The CERN experiment and Lederman’s “God Particle”. Metaphors, science, and consciousness-related influences. 296
===================================Preface Will scientists be able to build computers that have “a mind”? Does it take a brain to create consciousness? The Physics of Encounter suggests that a mind can be regarded as a physical system that processes information and feels something while doing so. How does physical reality produce feelings? What are mind events? Physicists are unable to explain the paradoxical relationship between the measurable effects of matter and the inaccessible “inner” reality of a mind that is aware of its own existence. The Physics of Encounter proposes a geometric model for describing the unobservable processes that create the events experienced in the mind and also create the elementary physical events in space and time. The proposed images of the interaction between mind and matter touch upon deeply personal philosophies and religious views. This book, therefore, was written for broadly interested readers of all backgrounds. Where I have quoted from scientific publications, I have explained the concepts that may not be familiar to everyone. Theoretical physicists should find the book worthwhile because it suggests answers to some vexing questions within their field. The puzzles addressed in this book involves more than the “normal” events that occur when physical reality affects the mind. Why is it that just thinking something can influence events outside the mind? Two radically different kinds of reality seem to be “entangled”. What evidence is there that the mind can exist outside the brain? Is it possible that our consciousness survives the death of our physical body? Part One of this book describes the basic features of the Physics of Encounter. Part Two shows that this model can shed some light on the details of “anomalous” events that the currently known laws of nature cannot explain. Part Three shows that the proposed scenario is in accord with a broad range of conceptual constructs currently used by physicists.
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The Physics of Encounter suggests explanations for paranormal phenomena. It describes the hidden force that generates consciousness and enables our mind to influence physical events. The proposed conceptual model shows that mind and matter are two sides of the same coin and introduces new interpretations of pivotal concepts into the public debate about science and religion. Written for readers of all backgrounds, the book illuminates the controversial views regarding the nature of our universe. Could our minds be imbedded in a field of cosmic consciousness? Was our universe created "from nothing" or is it a pulsating reality, expanding and collapsing? The book examines the issue of consciousness in the light of recently developed theories of vacum fluctuations and oscillating strings. It describes how "entanglements" with a hidden force give rise to such baffling phenomena as Near-Death-Experiences, UFOs, and backward causation. Last not least the book examines fears that have recently resurfaced in the media: could our entire earth be pulled into a black hole? Could the simulation of a big bang in an immensely powerful particle accelerator, like the one at the atomic research lab CERN near Geneva, create such a fateful event? As you read this, the earth is still circling around the sun. The book provides a framework for a rational discussion of fascinating and by no means trivial phenomena.
About the Author
Born in 1931 in Cleveland, Ohio, Roderick H. Boes became interested in the mind/matter enigma during his university studies of psychology, physics, and philosophy, which led to a B.A. degree in 1954. He interrupted his graduate work as research assistent in experimental psychology to absolve his two-year military obligation which took him, at his request, to Germany and to France. Having spent nine years of his childhood in Germany after the divorce of his German-born mother from his American father, he decided to postpone his return to the United States and was able to finance his stay in Germany by working as a journalist. When the German television network ARD offered him a job as a TV producer and newswriter, he abandoned the idea of returning to the United States, a decision that led to a career as an anchor and reporter for German TV. Far from abandoning his original interests, he used his journalistic work and his professional travels, which often took him to the United States and numerous other countries, for contacts that stimulated his private effors to keep abreast of developments in the field of mind-related physical phenomena. He attended scientific conferences and, over a period of several decades, worked on early versions of the manuscript that he has now expanded to fill the book entitled "The Physics of Encounter". The breakthrough came after his retirement in 1994 and was catalyzed by a number of recent developments in theoretical physics. Roderick H. Boes lives in Berlin, Germany, and has a wife and two children,