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by M.R. Franks
2003
from
ManyUniverses Website
What are Parallel
Universes?
Recent discoveries in quantum physics (the study of the physics of
sub-atomic particles) and in cosmology (the branch of astronomy and
astrophysics that deals with the universe taken as a whole) shed new
light on how mind interacts with matter.
These discoveries compel
acceptance of the idea that there is far more than just one universe
and that we constantly interact with many of these “hidden”
universes.
What is needed is a resource that explains in understandable,
non-mathematical terms everything from the big bang hypothesis to
morphogenetic fields to Bell's Theorem to the Aspect experiment.
Such a resource now exists.
The
Universe and Multiple Realities
“There is no one reality. Each of us
lives in a separate universe. That's not speaking
metaphorically. This is the hypothesis of the stark nature of
reality suggested by recent developments in quantum physics.
Reality in a dynamic universe is non-objective. Consciousness is
the only reality.”
 With
those words, M.R. Franks, a life member of the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada, a member of that organization
since high school, and also a law professor, begins his new book,
The Universe and Multiple Reality.
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But what is multiple reality?
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How do parallel universes
interconnect?
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What are the exact processes by
which mind interacts with matter at the quantum level?
Unfortunately, most books on parallel
universes and quantum cosmology are written in language that an
ordinary intelligent person cannot understand.
Discover the
fascinating nature of the universe in which we live and the exact
processes by which mind interacts with matter at the quantum level.
Understand parallel universes, multiple reality, and the hypotheses
advanced by scientists such as Hugh Everett, Bryce DeWitt, David
Deutsch and others.
The Universe and Multiple Reality presents an understandable
view of parallel universes and quantum physics––and explains what
this means in our daily lives.
The Universe and Multiple Reality explains to the non-scientist
reader in understandable, non-mathematical language the paradox of
Schrödinger's Cat, the two-slit experiment, and recent developments
in quantum physics and cosmology.
There are a great many other books on “parallel universes,” on
quantum physics and multiple reality––but none that offers an
understandable model of how minds interact with multiple realities
at the quantum level to produce palpable physical effects including
paranormal phenomena.
CHAPTER ONE
Postulate One
Every conceivable energy state exists
There is no one reality. Each of us lives in a separate universe.
That's not speaking metaphorically.
This is the hypothesis of the
stark nature of reality suggested by recent developments in quantum
physics. Reality in a dynamic universe is non-objective.
Consciousness is the only reality.
The purpose of this short book is to suggest a model for quantum
superposition of realities, the better to visualize how these
quantum effects "leak out" into the macroworld and indeed define it.
This first postulate simply asks us to assume that every possible
arrangement of matter and energy consistent with the laws of quantum
physics exists. This postulate asks us to assume, among other
things, that a universe exists "right now" somewhere that differs
from our own only in that one electron on one remote planet of one
distant star in, say, the Andromeda Galaxy is in a less excited
energy state.
Another universe exists that differs
from the present universe only in that one photon, of all the
photons in the room where this book is being read, is positioned
exactly one Ångström unit to the left. Another universe exists in
which the earth has two natural moons.
Another universe exists in
which there is no planet earth. Another exists in which Elizabeth
Taylor has brown eyes. Another exists in which George Washington has
a wart on his nose.
If a universe can be imagined, it exists.
The late Sir James Jeans,
the great British astronomer, was among the first scientists to
recognize the universe as a creature of imagination.
He wrote in 1932:
To-day there is a wide measure of
agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches
almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is heading
towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look
more like a great thought than like a great machine.
Mind no
longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of
matter; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail
it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter - not of
course our individual minds, but the mind in which the atoms out
of which our individual minds have grown exist as thoughts.
This new knowledge compels us to revise our hasty first
impression that we had stumbled into a universe which either did
not concern itself with life or was actively hostile to life.1
Indeed, every conceivable arrangement of
matter and energy, however improbable, is postulated to exist as a
separate universe.
These universes are, however, static––not dynamic. Dynamic concepts
of energy and of motion and of time and of change with time have not
yet been introduced into this discussion.
While every conceivable
arrangement of quarks, gluons, subatomic particles, atoms,
molecules, photons and energy that could possibly be imagined is
assumed to exist, this first postulate asks us only to assume that
each such arrangement exists in a frozen state for all eternity.
Each of these imagined universes is
eternally like an ice palace or like a still frame in a reel of
motion picture footage. The frame exists forever simply because it
is capable of being imagined, and because nature abhors a vacuum.
This suggestion is not entirely strange to quantum cosmology. Hugh
Everett first postulated "parallel universes" in 1957.
David Deutsch, a research fellow at the
Department of Astrophysics, Oxford, and a professor at the
University of Texas, tells us:
I think it's safe to say that there
is a very large, probably infinite, number of these universes.
Many of them are very different from ours, but some of them
differ only in some minute detail like the position of a book on
a table, and are identical in every other respect.2
Davies and Brown tell us:
If the many-universes theory were
correct, however, the seemingly contrived organization of the
cosmos would be no mystery. We could safely assume that all
possible arrangements of matter and energy are represented
somewhere among the infinite ensemble of universes.
Only in a
minute proportion of the total would things be arranged so
precisely that living organisms, hence observers, arise.
Consequently, it is only that very atypical fraction that ever
get observed. In short, our universe is remarkable because we
have selected it by our own existence!
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Notice, however, that while Everett,
DeWitt, Deutsch and others postulate an infinity of universes, each
of their postulated universes is dynamic, moving, changing.
Bryce
DeWitt of the University of Texas tells us that under this theory,
"every quantum transition taking place on every star, in every
galaxy, in every remote corner of the universe is splitting our
local world into myriads of copies of itself. Here is schizophrenia
with a vengeance!"
There can be no doubt that these pioneers envision multiple worlds
that are dynamic, moving and changing.
P.C.W. Davies and J.R. Brown speak of the imaginary
experiment involving
Schrödinger's cat, so named for the physicist
Erwin Schrödinger who first conjured up the idea in 1935. In this
thought experiment a cat is placed in a box.
A quantum event determines whether this
imaginary cat is poisoned or not. Perhaps a Geiger counter is
arranged to count the number of particles encountered in a defined
time period, and if the count is odd, a hammer is tripped and a
glass vial's deadly contents are inflicted on the cat. If the count
is even, the cat is allowed to live.
However the situation may be
arranged, it is arranged so that a quantum event determines the
cat's fate.
Quantum physics tells us that upon the happening of the event the
cat goes into two superimposed states, one of being half alive and
the other of being half dead. Only when the human experimenter
arrives later to look into the box does objective reality "collapse"
in upon the events.
And then that reality instantly collapses back
retroactively to the time of the fateful event.
Speaking of this, Davies and Brown tell
us:
According to Everett the transition
occurs because the universe splits into two copies, one
containing a live cat and the other a dead cat. Both universes
contain one copy of the experimenter too, each of whom thinks he
is unique. In general, if a quantum system is in a superposition
of, say, n quantum states, then, on measurement, the universe
will split into n copies.
In most cases, n is infinite. Hence we
must accept that there are actually an infinity of 'parallel
worlds' co-existing alongside the one we see at any instant.
Moreover, there are an infinity of individuals, more or less
identical with each of us, inhabiting these worlds. It is a
bizarre thought.4
In Everett's view, because each of these
worlds is dynamic, the live cat goes on living in the one world,
while in the other world someone presumably takes the carcass out of
the box and buries it.
David Deutsch tells us that Everett's universes all are "changing in
content."5
The present postulate differs from their thinking in that here each
of the postulated universes is absolutely static, frozen,
unchanging.
CHAPTER FOOTNOTES
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Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious
Universe (New Revised ed.), New York: The Macmillan Company,
1932; Cambridge: The University Press, 1932), p. 186.
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David Deutsch in The Ghost in
the Atom, ed. P. C. W. Davies and J. R. Brown (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986), 85.
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P. C. W. Davies and J. R. Brown,
ed., The Ghost in the Atom (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1986), 38.
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Ibid., at 35-36. (Emphasis
added.)
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David Deutsch in The Ghost in
the Atom, ed. P. C. W. Davies and J. R. Brown (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986), 86.
A Scientific
Explanation for the Paranormal
The Universe and Multiple Reality
“There is no one reality. Each of us
lives in a separate universe. That's not speaking
metaphorically.
This is the hypothesis of the stark nature of
reality suggested by recent developments in quantum physics.
Reality in a dynamic universe is non-objective.
Consciousness is
the only reality.”
With those words, M.R. Franks, a life
member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada who has belonged
to that organization since high school, begins his new book, The
Universe and Multiple Reality.
What is multiple reality?
How do parallel universes interconnect?
What are the exact processes by which mind interacts with matter at
the quantum level?
Those are the questions that Franks, a law
professor, tackles in his book as he explains the physics of
miracles and of paranormal phenomena such as ESP and telepathy.
Franks explains that recent discoveries in quantum physics (the
study of the physics of sub-atomic particles) and in cosmology (the
branch of astronomy and astrophysics that deals with the universe
taken as a whole) shed new light on how mind interacts with matter.
These discoveries compel acceptance of the idea that there is far
more than just one universe and that we constantly interact with
many of these “hidden” universes.
Professor Franks says he feels it is unfortunate that most books on
parallel universes and quantum cosmology are written in language
that an ordinary intelligent person cannot understand.
What he felt was needed is an
understandable, non-mathematical source that explains the concept of
parallel universes and its relationship to perceived reality—a
source that brings together the contributions of such greats as
David Deutsch, Albert Einstein, Hugh Everett, Stephen Hawking, and
John Wheeler.
“I wanted to fill the need,” the
author says, “for an understandable source that makes clear the
concept of parallel universes, multiple reality, and the nature
of the multiverse or superuniverse.
We talk about miracles, time
travel, faith healing, and mental telepathy and how the latest
scientific discoveries explain how these phenomena work.”
Franks promises that The Universe and Multiple Reality will enable
the average intelligent reader to understand parallel universes,
multiple reality, and the latest hypotheses advanced by scientists.
It will also give insight into the paranormal and the miraculous.
The author claims that just about anyone can easily learn the nature
of the universe in which we live and the exact processes by which
mind interacts with matter at the quantum level.
The theory also explains the mechanics
of faith healing, the power of prayer, and even witchcraft and
voodoo.
“I have presented a view,
understandable to the non-scientist reader, of parallel
universes and the latest developments in quantum physics—and I
explain what this means in our daily lives,” says the author.
“The Universe and Multiple Reality breaks new ground. There are
a great many books on parallel universes, on quantum physics and
multiple reality—but none that proffers an understandable theory
on how the human mind interacts with multiple realities at the
quantum level to produce palpable physical effects,” claims
Professor Franks.
The author feels this book is a must for
any intelligent person curious about the place their mind holds in
the cosmic scheme of things.
Hear Professor
M. R. Franks
Beyond the Ordinary is a program originating from Radio Station KRSE
in Washington and heard worldwide via the Internet.
On 25 March 2004, and invited back many times, most recently on 3
February 2006, hosts Nancy Lorenz and Elena Young
interviewed the author, Professor M. R. Franks, devoting a
full hour each time to his groundbreaking book, The Universe and
Multiple Reality.
The fourth interview, conducted on 22 November
2004, was on the forty-first anniversary of the assassination of
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The subject of that one interview
was the assassinations of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All other interviews are on the subject
of parallel universes and multiple reality.
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To hear the first interview
(multiple reality)
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To hear the second interview
(multiple reality)
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To hear the third interview
(multiple reality)
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To hear the fourth interview (JFK/MLK
assassinations)
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(multiple reality)
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