FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
At last, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, a 400-year old poem by John Donne—made famous by Hemingway in his 1940 novel—and the Quantum world converge.
Neil Bohr, considered a father of quantum physics, came to believe it is the relationship between the observer and the observed— their interaction that makes it a reality. While many physicists with classical physics mentality have contempt for hypotheses around consciousness in the quantum realm, multiple founders of the quantum field agreed with Bohr’s belief. With that history, it is absurd to not consider these hypotheses.
In a quantum world, the forces that govern our physical world as we know it don’t apply. In some ways, everything is possible.
Since dense technical nuances and complexity are quite dry, I took liberty to capture the concept of quantum entanglement in the Wellesley paper, as I understand it, in non-technical terms like this: Our consciousness collectively vibrates unconsciously in the quantum world. That is, the signal formed by our inner thoughts vibrates, voluntarily emits into the universe; and they are all just there interacting with one another.
Simply put, our thoughts exist in the universe involuntarily. The ideas that our own thoughts belong only to each individual alone may no longer apply.
For a poet, John Donne described the concept in ten short phrases:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
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. . .
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
If proved to be true, human connectivity on the quantum scale makes sense because, it probably has enabled a trait that sustains us as a species: Trust.
Link to the Wellesley technical paper below: