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Quantum Repentance



Imagine if you could turn your very worst liabilities into your most precious assets--using both cutting edge science and state-of-the-art religion, i.e., Judaism

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Posted: Sep 4, 2006
Thank you!
Thank you very much for the beautiull and touchable words! You help us feel more deeply how much our efforts and wishes can destiny our own harmony! It's doesn't matter what we feel every morning when we open our eyes, it's the magic what we feel when we try change our vision and concentrate on our love of HaShem! All around us things will change and all day we will feel His emanation in our heart!

Appreciated, Antonina Murzina


Posted By Antonina Murzina, Oak Park, MI

Posted: Sep 7, 2006
Thank you
your article was both inspiring and uplifting
Posted By anonymous

Posted: Sep 10, 2006
Perspective
Presence is the only moment of creation. Sorry, Big Bangers, but light either ages or it doesn't. Because these are mutually exclusive propsitions, light just can't do both, but this is rather explicitly denied when backround microwave radiation can be the result of light "cooling" during eons (12-18)(?), and yet all red-shifting from stars billions of light years distant is attributed uniquely to Doppler effect...because light NEVER ages! This is a bit too conveniently restricting one variable to a single equation, huh? Because TWO variables would really screw things up, huh?
So, the Big Bang theory fails quite miserably, but the secular alternatives are even more specious and reaching far too far beyond any practical grasp, huh?
Posted By Mark Cameron, Walsenburg, Colorado

Posted: Sep 11, 2006
Light Preserved in Vats from the Time(see Akadmut)
Regarding the question of light aging, I always thought (and this is from a laywoman, so bear with me) that the shift of the Big Bang into the microwave hiss detected at a Bell Labs radiotelescope was a red shift due to the Big Bang being 13 billion light-years away (or 13 billion years in the past, those are just two ways of saying the same thing).
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Posted: Sep 12, 2006
Quantum Repentance
Very nice article. I saw What the Bleep do We know a few years ago. It referred to quantum mechanics in the realm of human thought.
This is a very uplifting article indeed and I am so happy that the contributions to your site are always so timely and up to date.
Thanks again,
Posted By alice
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Posted: Sep 12, 2006
Apology, Astrology, Cosmology, and so on
Fact Theory explicitly states that to know anything, all things must be known a priori. Regular textbook revision, among other things, is a sure sign that we know little, in fact, if indeed anything at all...consciously...
Consciousness is, by nature, exclusive, vis a vis the requirements of concentration, focus and avoiding distraction. In this sense, what we ignore and forget is stunningly ingenious! Subliminal mental activity much resembles thought, but it is opposite in nature insofar as it is all-inclusive, by nature, and this raises the quite plausible possibility that we do, indeed, know everything...subconsciously...
After all, everything else "knows" everything by virtue of the universal bath of data in light and force connecting everything to everything else by such fundamental common denominators of communication, so why shouldn't we, too?
More to the point, go to http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=36646 to see why scientists are "astonished"...
Posted By Mark Cameron, Walsenburg, Colorado

Posted: Sep 12, 2006
"You determine the reality."

That's not what happens, actually. You don't determine whether an electron is a particle or a wave. You determine whether it allow its wave nature to interfere with itself. By placing a detector, you physically interact with the electron and limit its probabilistic wave-like dissipation through both slots.

See, electron is actually a wave of matter. However, unlike water wave, it does not consist of any smaller particles. So, if you "attract" the electron by a detector, ALL of the wave must be attracted toward the detector, and the wave loses the ability to interfere with itself.

Another interpretation is that it is a wave of probability. By placing a detector, you influence the probability making it more particle-like. So, your consciousness has nothing to do with the results.
Posted By AF, Boston, MA

Posted: Oct 3, 2006
Quantum Repentance
In every moment we are creating the world by what we accept that world to be within...
Posted By Mark Siet, San Clemente, CA
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Posted: Oct 19, 2006
quantum repentance
as i read the article, i kept thinking about the zohar! the problem with the majority of us (myself included) is that we try to analyze, EVERYTHING. G-d created everything and can do with it as he sees fit! was Noah (per chance) involved in this and thought it was a year? as the ole saying goes, "nothing is as it seems"!
Posted By ravid, knoxville, tn,usa

Posted: Jan 22, 2007
Teshuva
Quantum leaps of teshuva can displace you from society, family and once friends. Your circle has been divided as your search for God becomes stronger. When you understand and have deepen your inner beliefs that are in agreement with the divine law and Mosiac teachings -those that have not reach that spiritual height tend to ambush your efforts to maintain this level with God. You can feel tension and those around you despite your greatest example can be rejected or ignore-feign ignorance.
Posted By Mari Brooks, Meriden, Ct

Posted: Apr 19, 2007
It doesn't affect the author's conclusions, but...
In the interrest of accuracy - a correction for those who fuss over the details.

According to Richard Feynman "Newton got it right.", photons are not waves - they are particles. (See his "QED - The Strange Theory Of Light And Matter"). The fact is that one photon goes through ONLY one slit. The weirdness (and the illusion of "waviness") comes in because the photon somehow "knows" (before it chooses!) not only how many slits it has to choose from, but whether or not it's choice is being watched.

Of course, for Dr. Gotfryd's argument it doesn't matter because that difference doesn't affect his conclusions. And, for him to unseat such an ingrained misconception would take a lot more space than is available to him here.

For some information on the wonderful man who shaped Dr. Feynman's scientific thinking, see the Chabad article "A Tanya for Professor Wheeler."
www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=81944
Posted By yonason

Posted: Apr 19, 2007
to: Mark Cameron
I hope this helps clarify your understanding.

While it is true that as you say light doesn't "age," all other things being equal, it can appear to change when it's environment changes. As the universe expands, space (which is a component of the universe) expands, and light is "streched." I.e., it's energy decreases relative to it's surroundings. It transfers less enegy to an absorber, and so appears to have "cooled."

The red-shift results from photons emitted at high energies relative to the emitter but having lower energies relative to the receiver it is rushing away from -conservaton of energy.

It is also the same for CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background).
"The universe initially had radiation of an infinitely small wavelength, but the expansion has 'stretched' the radiation out and we now see microwaves. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER TYPE OF REDSHIFT" [my emphasis].
cmb.physics.wisc.edu/polar/ezexp.html

There really is only one and the same theory that applies to both phenomena.
Posted By yonason

Posted: Apr 29, 2007
A Correction To My "In the interrest of accuracy "
I MADE AN INCORRECT STATEMENT

I overinterpreted Feymnan's words.

I said " The fact is that one photon goes through ONLY one slit."

But I can not say that, because no one (but Hashem, of course) knows what the photon did when no one was watching. However, if Feynman is correct, then whenever we meet up with a photon it is always a particle. What it does on it's own time, however, is it's own business.

Sorry for the error.
Posted By yonason

Posted: Apr 30, 2007
Academic lecture on why G-d is no longer dead
Here's a fantastic non-Jewish lecture about why materialism is "dead," and consequently atheism is as well.
www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=108&EventId=271

Careful, it isn't Torah. BUT, it shows that the rest of the world is catching up.
Posted By yonason

 


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