Trekking On The Sands Of Time

After we have been briefed by Prof Martin Rees on his wondrous vision of an infinity of Universes, of which we are but on one, we start our trek and meet Fred Alan Wolf, a physicist and author of at least 5 books, including Taking The Quantum Leap, which won an American Book Award.

In his book, “Parallel Universes”, Fred Alan Wolf covers the broad spectrum of human knowledge embodied in Quantum Physics (”Bringing in an Observer”), Relativity (”Relationships-Weird and Wonderful”), Cosmology (”A Search for the Beginning”) and Psychology (”Consciousness and Machine Intelligence”), a new notion of time and parallel universes in the quest to reconcile the ideas contained within each of them.

Fred Alan Wolf explains why he wrote “Parallel Universes - The Search for Other Worlds” :

” The fact that the future may play a role in the present is a new prediction of the mathematical laws of quantum physics. If interpreted literally, the mathematical formulas indicate not only how the future enters our present but also how our minds may be able to “sense” the presence of parallel universes.

Are we pressing the laws of Physics too far? “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and so far as they are uncertain, they do not refer to reality,” wrote Albert Einstein. Einstein was undoubtedly referring to the mathematical laws of quantum physics in that these laws describe only possibilities of reality but never reality itself. Can mathematics describe reality? I believe that the answer is yes, provided we take the new view given us by parallel universe theory. The laboratory of parallel universe experimentation may not lie in a mechanical time machine, a la Jules Verne, but could exisit between our ears.

If the parallel universes of relativity are the same as those of quantum theory, the possibility exists that parallel universes are extremely close to us, perhaps only atomic dimensions away from us and perhaps in a higher dimension of space - an extension into what physicists call superspace. Modern neuroscience, through study of altered states of awareness, schizophrenia and lucid dreaming, could be indicative of the closeness of parallel worlds to our own.

It is in the hope that these radically new and, I believe , quite exciting ideas will turn out to be evidences of truth that I have written Parallel Universes.” - Fred Alan Wolf

On your trek, read Wolf’s “Parallel Universes” and comment.

If you ever wonder why things are what they are; why things happen the way they do; or what is the purpose of all this existence, reality, conciousness, illusion….in short, if you ever wonder at all….welcome Fellow Seeker!

Let us trek on the sands of time together and who knows, we may end up right where we began…the past, the present and the future all interlinked together. We may not know how it will all end for each of us, but it should be a darn good journey, if we keep good company and good spirits and good intentions. Let Compassion, Loving Kindness and our eternal curiousity guide us on the trek.

Ready to take the first step? Let’s begin!