Monday 2 October 2017

Fictional Entanglements - A Thought Experiment


Flotsam

Ever wondered where our imagination comes from? It must come from somewhere otherwise we would pulling ideas from nothing.  Funny thing about nothing according science down at the smallest scale that we can understand the quantum level particles pop in and out of existence all the time. 

Science has also proved and tested a theory called Spooky Action at a Distance which was originally described by Albert Einstein.  Please excuse my layman's term I am not a physicist, this theory shows how two subatomic particles can instantaneously affect one other over long distances which effectively gets round the speed of light.

The Big Bang effectively came out of 'nothing' although the prevailing theory is that it was a subatomic particle and its opposite which is called anti-matter.  When the two collide there is a release of energy and wipe each other out.  Apparently this sort of thing is going on all the time at the quantum level.

All matter in the Universe was created out of the Big Bang and science has shown the Universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate.

Jetsam

Our consciousness is made of up atoms from the Big Bang what if there are other civilisations out in parallel dimensions or just trillions of light years away from us but the atoms in our brains are entangled with the atoms of other conscious brains.  Our imagination comes from them and their imagination comes from us.  That would mean all fiction is a reality elsewhere and that perhaps all imagination just entanglements bouncing ideas back and forth.

There are many problems with this idea least of which is the issue of translating an idea from the quantum level up to an actual conscious thought.  One atom probably would not be enough you would need a lot of atoms all sending similar data.

Perhaps we are not alone and our imagination proves it.

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