![]() ![]() ![]() Our basic point, that the physical world lost its reassuring status, based on what the senses perceive, a hundred years ago when the quantum revolution began – is beyond dispute.īut the fact that every particle in the universe winks in and out of the quantum field, or that particles can transition into waves that spread in all directions doesn’t strike very close to home. But we aren’t straying outside science in the quantum era. Convincing someone that this didn’t really happen is disturbing, and among scientists, whose worldview depends on the material world being real, hackles are raised as soon as you say otherwise. There is a world “out there” that that every baby plops into when it is born. In our previous articles, we challenged a cherished point of view, that reality is material and external. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Director, Center of Excellence, Chapman University. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Menas C. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), P. ![]()
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