Saturday, October 31, 2009

selective perception or entanglement theory?

from my letters to J:

it's not enough that i think of you all the time, wherever I go, whatever I do - wishing you were there, _now_ i also see your name again everywhere i go.
i had a phase like this - i think, it was when we were trying not to see each other for a while in the beginning -- or maybe it was before we saw each other in the beginning. wherever i looked, there was your name (first or last). almost every day... at the moment, i'm seeing your name everywhere i look. ;) -- selective perception? i don't know. -- maybe my longing for you is just so strong that i affect the physical world around me (according to entanglement theory? if you are wondering whether i've been diggining through quantum physics/mechanics then i can only say yes in so far that i've been googling it. unfortunately, i have to report that i am now not any smarter than i was before. -- entanglement theory is mentioned in the Dan Brown book [one of the many trivias he throws in] and there he mentions that "subatomic research has proven categorically that all matter is interconnected...entangled in a single unified mesh...a kind of universal oneness." -- I just had to look that up and what i found is..... wayyy too much information...and not very conclusive BUT definitely a steadfast theory that goes back to Einstein.

From the Stanford site: Quantum entanglement is a physical resource, like energy, associated with the peculiar nonclassical correlations that are possible between separated quantum systems. Entanglement can be measured, transformed, and purified. A pair of quantum systems in an entangled state can be used as a quantum information channel to perform computational and cryptographic tasks that are impossible for classical systems. [...]

Anyway, now I've got a new field to explore -- the principles of quantum mechanics and its related theories (string theory, entanglement theory, quantum chaos theory, ..). HA! - like I have the time.

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