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The Writer's Studio

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11 contributions to Quantumology
Quantum Coffee - Negativity
Today is very hot. I am sweltering and there's no point in brushing my hair. So today you have me here in the raw state of sun-shot sweatiness talking about negativity and positron annihilation. I've not covered the subject of negativity in this way before but it seems evident to me that some kind of physics is at the root of our psychology, and this positive-negative parallax is one in which we all share the spoils. I hope you enjoy this ten-minute investigation - signing off now, it's twenty past seven and if the timeline of these live events doesn't work well for you, suggest a time that does - I can be flexible to some degree and would welcome your company. Speak soon, Kathy
Quantum Coffee - Negativity
0 likes • Jul 14
You've got a truly, truly unique mindset. I feel like I ain't even qualified to be an apprentice to be trained in quantumology (even though I learned quantum mechanics at university last fall). You're right, it requires personal supposition, which I'm afraid isn't that easy to make. I would really, really love to hear more of your perspectives on such matters. Thank you very much for sharing.
The Video
I looked back over the first few minutes and felt like deleting it, but it reflects what it means to be trying to relax and relate. I promised to mention a few people who've made significant contributions here and extend my warmest wishes to @Ann-Marie Burtell , @Caleb Boring , @Mary Singer , @Evie Wright and @Elliott Robertson ... Thanks for contributing to the Skool mission - I could have done much more with it given the time and circumstance to keep up multiple interactions every day but this just hasn't been the case. I'm happy to chat with you on your own timeline where arrangements can be made to accommodate, so message me if you'd like to converse. Make sure you look after yourselves, follow a path with your heart and mind in agreement and work your way towards what's meaningful for you. I hope you have a lovely day and enjoy the road ahead on your world line.
The Video
0 likes • Jul 14
Thank you very much for this truly great sharing. You're the best:)And this community is so cool:) But yeah, I have this question, why don't most people pursue Quantumology, considering the details you mentioned in this cool video?
Quantumology's response to confusion etc.
This week ahead of us may very well be discombobulating for many people. Intensity squared. I've been thinking one of the needs of the hour will be simply holding space, being compassionate, allowing people to be confused, irate, depressed, etc. I'll be privately celebrating because I've been waiting for everything people believe to be challenged and cleaned away, for a blank slate for The New. I'm wondering if there are any Quantumology ways/practices for the week ahead, if it's a week of disorientation for many, and cognitive dissonance.
0 likes • Jul 14
Interesting. What makes you expect that the coming week will leave many people feeling emotionally and mentally unsettled?
Quantum Principles - 4 Pillars and Schrödingers' Cat
This evening I managed to get back from the NEC in time to jump online with you at home - and as I was on my own tonight I went into explaining the 4 Pillars of quantum mechanics and added a bit about Schrödinger's Cat as his 'thought experiment' (no cat was harmed as it was never performed) linked into wave-particle duality and superposition - and a bit of uncertainty too, now I come to think about it. I promised a link to Schrödinger's Wave Equation in the video and here it is.... taken from Wikipedia as the links there will lead to as many rabbit holes as you'd like to explore. The founding fathers I speak of were all active physicists at the same time, the mid-1920s to 1930s (many are mentioned and linked in that Wiki entry). Richard Feynman is a bit of an exception - he was around later than the rest. Born in 1918, he would have been a kid when quantum mechanics was forged by the Masters, but he came along to make significant contributions later and was a joint Nobel Prize winner in 1965. I'm putting this one on Quantumology's YouTube as the death of Wol, my faithfully camera-loving tawny owl, has put me off making any more for a while. This can be the start of a new era - I'll record here, and put them on YouTube - no-one else will be in the recording without express consent. I'll be editing them on IMovie before they go public there - the originals will only be on here. Should Coffee Hours hot up with a regular crowd, I'll do separate recordings on here for YouTube conversations and those who would like to be on those can join in as they wish. Hope you get a few minutes to watch and let me know your thoughts.... from next week these will become Coffee Breaks and be half an hour long unless we get into conversation and overrun, which is fine by me. I'll still be giving ten minutes' grace from start time before coming offline if nobody arrives. Warmest wishes all! see you soon x
Quantum Principles - 4 Pillars and Schrödingers' Cat
1 like • Jun 8
@Kathy Ratcliffe Yeah, great analogy with TVs, I think. So, if I'm understanding your point correctly, then I think TVs were just interpreting the chunk of the multiverse that we were interacting with at the time, while other parts of reality, like holograms or real-time interactions, were happening in God knows which parallel universes with maybe similar time frames but too "different configurations". I think I'm being super silly here, perhaps you're just saying that we don't have the neural wiring in our brains that could make us aware of quantum things. Ah, I see. But didn't Heisenberg say that uncertainty has nothing to do with instruments that could help us see the quantum world, but rather that it is the very nature of quantum things that gives the quantum world its strange character? Its nature is independent of any sort of human intervention, or even humans themselves. So, is it the case that we can't really intuitively grasp quantum information, regardless of the physical understanding that we put down on paper through experiments? This makes me think that, if this is true, then there probably isn't any universe in which I have some sort of spooky conscious connection to quantum-level things, since I simply can't intervene in or intuitively grasp quantum nature. At the same time, there could be other universes where I am doing all sorts of different things. I don't know. Thank you very much for sharing your cool perspectives. You have a very unique mindset. Great sharing. Thank you very much.
1 like • Jun 13
@Kathy Ratcliffe Yeah, the observer effect is pretty valid, but isn't it the case that it merely catches quantum phenomena doing something rather than changing their very nature? Wow, do you mean that a possible future version of ourselves would probably be the one living in those multiversal layers, rather than the version we have become in this reality at that time?
Skills Acquisition
There's a Skills Gap problem in the UK - young interns aren't being trained properly as the old hands have retired and companies don't have the forethought to bring them back in to pass knowledge on. Do you have skills in spiritual competence or practice that you were taught from an elder? Can you relay your story if so - I am wondering if there's something in this we could be missing....
Skills Acquisition
1 like • Jun 10
Of course, it's such a shame that not everyone is lucky enough to be guided by people who know things much, much, much better than people who are just newbies at things and are not aware of how things could go wrong or how they can harness the potential that they don't know is within them. As a university student, I realized that the pursuit of learning at uni or at school is just becoming a pedigree thing. I think I have a few elders whom I adore as my guiding lights, but of course, I also understand that their time is rare, and I can't have free access to their guidance whenever I want. Sometimes, my misery knows no end when I just can't ask them for help for obvious reasons. Even though we are supposed to be guided by somebody at uni (or wherever we are not good at understanding things on our own), we feel homeschooled, and it feels like burning in a lake of sulphur. I felt that way, like unskilled me was tired of teaching unskilled me. But yep, it has a good side as well. When we guide ourselves, we can make our own mistakes until we are wrong in all the right ways. I had done that. I wrote so many tests for which I was studying on my own. I wanted to lean on someone to light my way, but I could not have anybody helping me. Of course, there are high chances of failing ourselves when we don't know things, but we do them anyway based on our own terms, without knowing whether those terms might fit or manipulate what we are doing. Even as a student, I could say that I discuss my assignments more with AI than with my professors, as I don't know what else I can do when I can't have real human guidance. It's not a rant, of course, but it is the very truth that is what it is. But yeah, I can connect with AI's words too, as if we were built for each other, haha. And I think that what human guidance feels like would be a new reality, since all we do is talk to AI these days. I cannot put into words what this feels like, but yeah, I just tried my best to pour out what I really, really feel.
1 like • Jun 13
@Kathy Ratcliffe Thank you very much for sharing your uniquely helpful thoughts!!! I loved each and every word of 'em. I think one line in particular made me so curious.. You said, "Clocks are not time," and I'm super interested in knowing what your definition of time is in a quantumological context. You are the best.
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