Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: Cosmology
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Recently there’s been some hype in the media about how the idea of the universe as a computer simulation has been disproved. I was skeptical that such a sweeping hypothesis could be definitively falsified, and according to the good folks at Popular Mechanics, I was right. The researchers cited by news articles were not actually looking…
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Matt Rouge is back with his second guest post. Take it away, Matt! — In my first post here, I wrote: [In the Mist, t]here is no one to confirm that, yes, one is just so right about everything. Indeed, the contradictions and issues one perceives impugn one’s ability to sort them all out, to…
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Since this is said to be the season of miracles, here's an excerpt from John C. Lennox's God's Undertaker, which neatly summarizes some of the evidence for the apparently miraculous fine-tuning of the cosmos. After briefly discussing the “abundant supply of carbon” made possible by the very specific resonance of helium and beryllium nuclei (“if…
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Interesting news from November 30 about a new experiment testing quantum entanglement (nonlocality). It's increasingly hard to deny that a particle can directly influence its entangled partner regardless of distance. Regular readers know that I think the Virtual Reality Interpretation of quantum mechanics looks promising as a way of making sense of all this. Caveat:…
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Reading a multipart discussion of quantum physics at Ross Rhodes' excellent website The Bottom Layer, I understood an important point for the first time. For years I was under the impression that observation is the factor that causes the quantum probability wave to resolve itself into a single point (a particle). But in an endnote…
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I'm increasingly intrigued by the idea that the paradoxes of quantum physics can largely be resolved by analogizing the universe to a virtual reality simulation. As wacky as this idea sounds (and it certainly struck me as nutty when I first heard it), the more I think about it, the more it seems to make…
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A couple of times I've posted about an idea put forward by some freethinking physicists — namely, that our universe might be best understood as a virtual reality simulation. What I didn't know is that there's a neat little Web site devoted to this idea, with some well-written essays that explain the concept in refreshingly…
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A hundred years ago or more, when trance mediumship was in its heyday, many of the purported spirit communicators talked about the "ether" as a key to the nature of reality. At the time, the idea of the ether – often styled the luminiferous ether – was universally accepted by physicists and was well known…