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by Simon Harvey-Wilson
Teleportation ...Materialization and Invisibility
Throughout history there have been reports from
paranormal research, shamanism, mysticism and ufology, of people or objects
that become invisible, materialized, dematerialized, or teleported.
Because of their similarity, understanding the
dynamics of one of these phenomena may assist us in understanding the others.
In other words, perhaps the 'physics', if that is the appropriate term, of
becoming invisible may be similar to that of the materialization and
dematerialization of solid objects, which in turn might be similar to that
of teleportation.
Science fiction writers frequently toy with the notion of invisibility, and
modern military researchers are also interested in the subject. Not that
long ago soldiers used to march into battle dressed in splendidly colored
uniforms which, unfortunately, made them excellent targets.
More recently they have instead started to wear camouflage in an attempt to
blend in with their environment. Current research by the military seeks to
make soldiers of the future even less visible by having them wear a special
coat covered with miniature sensors that would transmit a picture of what
was behind each soldier to a matrix of screen-like material on the front of
the coat. This helps camouflage them by giving the impression that they are
transparent.
However there is a subtle difference between being invisible and being
transparent.
Western air forces have, in recent years, spent heavily on stealth
technology, a form of radar invisibility for aircraft. Primarily by its
shape, a stealth plane attempts to reduce its reflectivity to the microwave
radiation used in radar to such a degree that an enemy is fooled into
thinking it isn't there.
Stealth aircraft normally try to make themselves less detectable in the
visible part of the electro-magnetic spectrum by being painted black and
only operating at night. The US Air Force is currently experimenting with
various daylight stealth techniques such as applying an electromagnetic
coating to the outside of aircraft that changes color to match their
background. (Douglass & Sweetman)
However these methods cannot be completely effective unless the noise of the
plane's engines can also be masked, which might be achieved by some form of
destructive interference.
Dr Richard Boylan (1997) claims that the US Department of Energy is
working on "high-energy invisibility 'cloaking' technology", however proof
of this claim would obviously be hard to obtain.
Although some UFOs are detected by radar, this
may only be when they want to be detected.
At other times they may use advanced stealth technology, because, apart from
often flying completely silently, UFOs have sometimes disappeared
without being seen to fly away. In these cases what we, and probably the US
Air Force, would like to know is whether they were just making themselves
transparent, or actually dematerializing and/or perhaps entering other
dimensions.
In his book UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union, veteran ufologist
Jacques Vallee describes a UFO landing in a park in the Soviet city of
Voronezh in full view of children playing soccer there, as well as about
forty adults.
After the craft had landed, a very tall three-eyed being and a robotic
entity emerged and started moving around. When a nearby boy cried out in
fear, and other people started shouting, the beings and the UFO vanished on
the spot.
As Vallee writes:
"Five minutes later the sphere and the three-eyed
being appeared again, just as strangely as they had disappeared. The being
now had at his side a tube about four feet in length. A sixteen-year-old
boy was close to the scene.
The alien pointed his 'rifle' toward the
teenager, and the boy instantly disappeared. The alien entered the sphere
and the sphere flew away, gradually increasing its speed. At the same
instant the vanished teenager reappeared."
It would be interesting to know whether the boy
was physically there, yet invisible, during this experience or whether he
was somehow not there, in which case, where was he, how did he get back, and
what did the experience feel like to him?
Additional questions would relate to the physics
of the UFO's invisibility, and the alien's tube. Nevertheless, we can be
sure that, while public science cannot at present explain this phenomenon,
the military would be extremely interested in it, and there are probably
numerous parents the world over who at times would love to own one of the
alien's invisible-making tubes.
A fascinating article in The Anomalist (1995) by Donna Higbee
describes her research into what she terms 'Involuntary Spontaneous Human
Invisibility', a condition whereby otherwise normal, healthy people find
that they have suddenly become invisible to those around them.
After placing an inquiry about the phenomenon on several Internet bulletin
boards, she says "the letters began pouring in." (p.156) Many people claimed
to have had several of these experiences.
"Often it takes several such occurrences
before they realize that they are truly invisible during certain times to
other people. They attempt to interact with those around them and simply
can't be seen or heard."
These people report instances of invisibility in
places such as airports, libraries, clothing stores, restaurants, parties,
and at home.
Luckily the effect seem to wear off
spontaneously, otherwise we might never hear from them again. As
invisibility is sometimes reported as a component of the UFO abduction
phenomenon, Higbee at first thought that the people contacting her
might all be abductees, but, as her data-base expanded, this appeared not to
be the case. She does claim however that they seem to have higher than
average psychic abilities.
Higbee also points out that Western occultism and Eastern yoga traditions
refer to the possibility of making oneself invisible.
For example, in the Indian tradition, one of
Patanjali's yoga-sutras states that after suitable training,
"the contact between the eye (of the observer)
and light (from the body) is broken and the body becomes invisible."
(Taimini, 1975)
This does not sound like dematerialization,
and does not refer to the suspension of sound effects as in Higbee's reports,
but does seem to claim that there is a link between consciousness
and this form of invisibility.
In the occult tradition, the ancients apparently
believed that the gemstone heliotrope conferred invisibility, and also gave
the power of divination. (Tondriau, 1972)
Heliotrope, otherwise known as bloodstone, is a dark green variety of the
silica mineral chalcedony that is spotted with red nodules of jasper, which
look like drops of blood. Heliotrope was therefore prized during the Middle
Ages for its suitability in religious sculptures representing flagellation
or martyrdom.
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline
variety of quartz which can occur in several other forms such as agate,
chrysoprase, carnelian, or onyx. Quartz, or natural crystalline silica, is
the most common mineral in the Earth's crust. Its chemical name is silicon
dioxide, SiO2, a combination of the elements silicon and oxygen,
which are respectively the seventh and third most common elements in our
solar system.
Silica has a high melting point, is hard, and is
used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics.
So why the variety of quartz called heliotrope might confer invisibility is
somewhat of a puzzle. There is another version of the connection between the
word heliotrope and invisibility. Heliotrope also refers to a
light purple color, which derives it seems from one of the 250 plants of the
genus Helitropium (the genus name originally referred to the
plant's ability to turn its flowers to the sun) from the family Boragaceae.
The best known of these, garden or Peruvian
heliotrope (Heliotropum arborescens), has a fragrant five lobed
purple flower. In this version, it is the heliotrope plant which confers
invisibility and powers of divination.
A third version of this legend, which states that a magical ritual in which
one covered the heliotrope stone with the heliotrope plant to produce
invisibility, simply sounds like someone trying to have a bet each way.
In a possible connection to the purple color of
heliotrope, it is noted that legends apparently claim that the grimoires,
or books which contain the secrets of witchcraft, have pages of,
"violent purple and that the characters on the
page are invisible to the profane."
(Trondriau & Villenuve, 1972)
Exactly what sort of people are regarded as
profane by practitioners of witchcraft is unclear.
Explanations for the invisibility of writing on
purple pages are not given, but it is noted that purple is the last color of
the visible spectrum before the frequency of electromagnetic radiation
becomes too high to be detected by the human eye, and therefore becomes
invisible. It may also be relevant that purple is the color traditionally
reserved for royalty.
The connection between invisibility and consciousness seems the obvious
place to look for further explanations. In his excellent book The
Holographic Universe, science writer Michael Talbot describes
an incident in which a man is hypnotized in a room full of people including
his teenage daughter, and is given the post-hypnotic suggestion that, upon
awakening, his daughter will be invisible to him.
When bought out of his trance, not only could he apparently not see the
giggling girl standing in front of him, but, when the hypnotist stood behind
her and held a watch against her back, he was able to read the inscription
on it as if he was looking right through her body.
Talbot, who actually spoke to the man, was unable to explain the incident,
but suggested that perhaps he was obtaining the information via telepathy.
In discussing what she calls 'Virtual-Reality Scenarios' Dr Karla Turner
describes a UFO Close Encounter case where the experiencer, Amelia,
claims to have been lying in bed at night when she heard a helicopter over
the house. Looking up she discovered that she could see through the ceiling
and roof as if they had disappeared, or become completely transparent.
This enabled her to see a strange looking craft
above the house containing two entities who subsequently appeared at the
foot of her bed.
The other person sleeping in the room had not
heard the noise of the 'helicopters', nor seen the entities. While Amelia,
who seemed enveloped in a ball of bluish light, spoke with these entities,
two witnesses in the room found that, not only could they not communicate
with her, but that they could hardly hear each other, even when they shouted.
English UFO researcher Jenny Randles (1990) has coined the term the 'Oz
Factor' to describe a feature of some UFO cases in which the witnesses find
themselves entering a strange dreamlike state where, among other things,
everything around them goes silent.
This may apply to insect noises for example, or
they may find they are unable to hear their car engine, or the noise of the
tyres on the road. (Harpur,1994)
While an explanation for this may turn out to be quite simple, it is
interesting to wonder what could cause people, who suddenly find themselves
invisible, to be unable to make themselves heard as well, when there is no
anomalous device, such as a UFO, in sight. Light and sound propagate at
vastly different speeds.
Sound travels at about a thousand kilometers per
hour, while the speed of light is about one billion kilometers per hour.
An article in New Scientist on something called 'Electromagnetically
Induced Transparency' (Buchanan, 1997), describes research being done in
quantum optics in various universities whereby,
"opaque solids can be made transparent simply
by shining laser light on them."
Working originally with "low density clouds of
gas", and then moving on to "a piece of solid frozen hydrogen", the
researchers have found that the light from two carefully tuned laser beams
can be made to interfere with each other in such a way that the light from
one of lasers will cease to interact with the atoms in the material, and
therefore be able to pass through that material unimpeded.
In other words, from that laser beam's
perspective the material has now become transparent. It is too early yet to
conclude that this research may lead to an understanding of human
invisibility.
As the article says:
"Any hope, for instance, that eyesores can be
made to vanish with a few strategically placed colored lamps should be
abandoned. Making a material transparent at all the many visible
frequencies at which it can absorb light is probably impossible."
Some reports on invisibility suggest that a few
people can make themselves selectively invisible to others.
This sounds a bit like Michael Talbot's hypnosis
case without the hypnotist:
as if a person with this ability can affect
someone else's perceptual system using something like telepathic mind-control.
An example of this is the case of the Spanish
monk Saint Vincent Ferrier (1350-1419) who was highly regarded at the
court of Aragon because of his wisdom and supposed miraculous abilities.
The story goes that Queen Yolande once requested
to see his living quarters, and when the monk refused permission, had the
door forced, and entered with her attendants. There she discovered that,
while everyone else in the room could see him quite clearly, the Queen could
not see Ferrier at all.
When questioned about this invisibility, the monk explained that this was
God's punishment for the Queen's intrusion, and her partial blindness
would recover when she left, which apparently it did.
There are other similar reports of selective invisibility in the
Middle Ages, all of which seem to relate to holy men, who may have gained
this ability as a result of prolonged prayer or contemplation.
However it is not suggested that in these cases the person concerned had
actually dematerialized.
Materialization and dematerialization are opposite sides of the same coin,
and sometimes would be indistinguishable from invisibility. But, if someone
simply disappears from a witness' sight, later reappears, and could not be
touched while invisible, we can assume that something other than an
inhibition in the witness' perceptual system has occurred.
In the annals of the paranormal there are
probably more instances of things materializing than dematerializing. In
séances for example, objects have frequently been known to appear, seemingly
out of thin air.
Called apports, it is generally assumed that a disembodied spirit has
either created them out of 'nothing', or teleported them from elsewhere.
There are too many of these instances to
document here, but an example might be a fragrant rose, still covered in dew,
that suddenly falls out of the air onto a seance table. If such
an apport was somehow picked off someone's rose bush by a spirit, one
wonders what the owner of that bush might have seen if they were looking out
the window at the time.
Would the rose suddenly become invisible, leaving behind a snapped-off stem,
while the spirit 'flew' invisibly back to the seance to deposit the now
visible rose on the table? If something like this is possible, then we
certainly have a lot more to learn about the nature of reality, let alone
invisibility.
Objects do not only materialize during séances, and when they do, it may be
hard to tell if they were teleported from elsewhere or not.
The English healer Mathew Manning, who
experienced a lot of poltergeist activity during his teenage years, gives
several examples in his book The Link:
"I was collecting material for a Guy Fawkes
fire at the bottom of our garden. Finding myself short of rubbish, except
for half a dozen cardboard boxes, I went to the house and asked my mother
what I could use. There was no one else at home and she had no idea or
suggestion. I returned to the bottom of the garden, and to my utter
amazement I found a stack of large logs and wood placed next to the
cardboard boxes.
At that time there was nobody who could have
done this, let alone in the short space of time I had been in the house.
In all, there were several hundredweight of wood and logs... Other such
apports included several gramophone records, a bag of sugar, a bank note,
a pair of black lace gloves and postage stamps."
In another incident, "a pint bottle of beer and
an apple pie" appeared in his bag while he was on a train.
Manning also describes apports that seem to have
come from somewhere else.
"A long-playing record of which I had a copy
appeared one day in the house; it seemed to have come from another owner
as it bore obvious marks of wear. There seemed no reason for this to
materialize as I owned a copy of it already."
(p.98)
Manning seems surprised when uninvited objects
materialize around him, despite the occasional link between what he is doing
or thinking and what later appears. On the other hand, the Indian spiritual
leader Sathya Sai Baba is well known for deliberately materializing
solid objects which he gives to visitors and devotees. (Haraldsson, 1987)
These are normally small trinkets, and, when questioned about this, Sai Baba
insists that he does not teleport them from a jeweller's shop elsewhere. (Karanjia,
1994, p.29)
This leaves us with the baffling question of how
someone can produce matter from 'nowhere'.
In the literature on shamanism there are instances where objects, or even
living insects, are materialized.
In his book Gifts of Unknown Things,
Lyall Watson describes an incident in the Amazon where he witnessed a
local healer first remove an infected tooth from a patient, and then
announce that he had to make the pain of the infected gum go away. To do
this, he somehow materialized over a hundred black army ants which marched
in an ordered column out of the patient's mouth, down his arm and away into
the grass at the edge of the clearing.
This caused great mirth among the watching natives because, as Watson later
discovered, the local word for pain was the same as that for army ant.
As Watson put it:
"The healer had promised that the pain would
leave, and so it did in the form of an elaborate and extraordinary pun. It
walked out."
(p.142)
The military too is interested in learning how
to make things materialize.
In early 1997 scientist Dr Gary Wood, at the US Army Research
Laboratory in Maryland, claimed that his team's research into non-linear
optics might in future enable the army to project three-dimensional
holographic images of tanks, planes and soldiers onto a battlefield to
confuse the enemy. As well as reducing casualties to real soldiers, such
technology would be of great use in training battlefield commanders. (The
West Australian, 13/5/1997)
UFO close encounter reports frequently describe aliens as ghostly or see-through
in appearance. Perhaps this is because some of them are holographic
projections coupled with some form of sophisticated artificial intelligence.
Teleportation refers to the invisible movement of an object, or person,
from one place to another by an, as yet, unknown means. Teleportation
frequently occurs during outbreaks of poltergeist activity.
Colin Wilson (1981, p.156) gives an
example in which an egg, apparently from the kitchen refrigerator, floated
in through the lounge room door of a poltergeist affected house, and dropped
onto the floor. One of the house occupants then put all the refrigerator
eggs into a box and sat on the lid. As if provoked by this defiance, eggs
continued to smash all over the floor until the box was empty, despite its
remaining closed throughout the event.
It has been traditional to regard poltergeist
activity as the pranks of invisible spirits from other dimensions. More
recently it has been suggested that the phenomenon may be linked to
unresolved conflicts in the mind of a teenager living in such a house:
a form of unconscious psychokinesis working
through hyperspace.
This theory makes several radical assumptions
about the nature of consciousness: for example, that it can affect matter at
a distance. Poltergeist-like events also occur after UFO abduction cases. (Cahill,
1996)
What this suggests is even more speculative. Just calling aliens space-age
poltergeists does not help.
A more detailed suggestion is that some UFOs may
be able to teleport through hyperspace, which is in turn somehow connected
to consciousness, so that being pulled into this 'realm' affects abductees'
minds deeply enough to cause poltergeist activity around them afterwards.
Idries Shah, an expert on Sufism,
which is the mystical branch of Islam, claims that the Qutub, the chief of
the Sufi system, is always someone who has attained the degree of Wasl (Union
with the Infinite).
Such men,
"are able to transport themselves anywhere
instantaneously, in physical form, by a process of decorporealization."
(Shah, 1973)
This sounds like teleportation, and reinforces
the claim that such abilities are linked with altered states of
consciousness.
The parapsychologist Dr. Scott Rogo
(1991) points out that teleportation overlaps the phenomenon of
bilocation, whereby a person is seen in two places at once. The Italian monk
Padre Pio apparently appeared physically in two places simultaneously on
several occasions. Rogo also quotes the 1951 case of the adolescent boy
Cornelio Closa in Milan, Italy, who claimed that his repeated teleportation
was the result of being touched by the apparition of a teenage girl all
dressed in white.
He would reappear later, sometimes miles from
home, even after being locked in his room by his parents. The disappearances
stopped after he was exorcised by an American missionary.
John Michell gives an example of apparent
teleportation in his book The Flying Saucer Vision.
On 25th October 1593, a Spanish soldier was arrested in the main
square of Mexico City because he was unable to account for his presence
there, and because he was wearing the uniform of a regiment that was at that
time stationed in the Philippine Islands, nearly a year's travel away by
ship. The befuddled soldier nevertheless gave precise details of his life in
Manila up to the moment he had found himself instantaneously and
inexplicably transported to Mexico.
He was even able to tell his interrogators of
the recent death of the Spanish governor of the Philippines; news that did
not arrive in Mexico City for many months.
It is interesting to wonder what could have caused this event. Did the
soldier possess unknown psychic abilities, was he unusually devout, or was
he perhaps in the wrong place at the wrong time when some delinquent spirits
or aliens decided to have some fun at his expense?
The parapsychologist Professor Erlendur Haraldsson (1987) quotes
various witnesses who, with other devotees, in the late nineteen-forties,
used to go for afternoon walks with the Indian religious leader Sathya Sai
Baba towards the river in his home village of Puttaparti, in Southern India.
On several occasions Sai Baba would disappear from among the devotees and
reappear at the top of a nearby hill. Sometimes he would then shout that he
was coming down and would instantly reappear among the devotees. Later, in
1995, there were anecdotal reports that in full view of a group of
Australian devotees, who had been granted an interview with him at his
ashram at Whitefield on the outskirts of Bangalore, Sai Baba teleported an
elderly man back to his home in Australia to be with his ailing wife.
His friends saw the man disappear from the
interview room, and when, just after the interview, they went and phoned his
home in Australia, it is claimed that it was he who answered the phone. If
true, this report suggests that someone with powerful paranormal powers can
teleport another person.
A brief article in New Dawn (July-Aug 1997) claims that a US Defense
Intelligence Agency translation of an article in a 1983 Chinese journal
described successful experiments on the teleportation of small objects such
as fruit flies, a watch, a match and a nail using "extraordinary children"
as test subjects.
The researchers concluded that:
"Transference is not a simple process of
mechanical movement in three dimensional space."
(p.12)
If such reports are true, we might suspect that
the original Chinese article prompted the US military to sponsor similar
research.
Dr Richard Boylan (1997) claims that researchers
at the Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories in the US have
conducted "successful teleportation experiments."
Not surprisingly details do not seem to have
been published in any science journals, so it is hard to know what to make
of such claims.
How could something dematerialize and/or teleport from one place to another?
A common explanation is that these objects enter other dimensions invisible
to normal human perception. Unfortunately this is not a very satisfactory
explanation because it simply replaces one mystery with another.
Nevertheless, the possible existence of higher dimensions, otherwise known
as hyperspace, is frequently mentioned by physicists these days.
The advantage of hyperspace is that, being
beyond the three physical dimensions of space-time, it may facilitate
shortcuts from one part of space-time to another.
Topologists, who study other dimensions from a mathematical perspective,
point out that three dimensional physical barriers, such as the sides of a
box, cease to be obstacles in higher dimensional space. In 1985 the US
physicist Kip Thorne suggested that inter-dimensional shortcuts
called 'wormholes' might one day facilitate space travel.
Astronomer Carl Sagan used this idea in his book
Contact (which has now been made into a film), about human contact with
extraterrestrials. However, physicists claim that to create a wormhole would
require vast amounts of energy. It is even suggested that black holes
are versions of such rips in the fabric of space-time. (Couper & Henbest,
1996)
On a much smaller, but no less dramatic, scale, perhaps consciousness itself
is somehow able to create the equivalent of a wormhole to facilitate
teleportation. If so, then perhaps an advanced extraterrestrial civilization
has researched this aspect of the 'physics' of consciousness enough to use
the results in the UFO and abduction phenomena.
In his book Hyperspace Michio Kaku describes how Superstring
theory postulates that numerous other dimensions exist beneath the sub-atomic
scale, and that electromagnetism and the other three fundamental forces in
the universe are united in this realm.
Perhaps the matter produced from the energy of
the Big Bang, and that produced by anyone that materializes objects,
originates within hyperspace to which consciousness also has access. In fact,
within hyperspace, matter, energy, the fabric of space-time, and
consciousness itself, may derive from the same source.
Another explanation for teleportation is that the object concerned
dematerializes, somehow travels to its destination, and then becomes solid
again. In his book The Physics of Star Trek, the US physicist
Lawrence Krauss discusses the scientific validity of the science fiction
ideas in that popular TV series.
Krauss points out that, from a physicist's
perspective, to teleport a human body, as in 'Beam me up Scottie', requires
several steps.
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Firstly you have to record the exact
configuration of all the atoms in the body, and to store that much
information would require an astronomically tall heap of 10-gigabyte
hard drives.
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Secondly, you would need to somehow
dematerialize the person, which he claims requires vast amounts of
energy.
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Thirdly, you transmit to the new location
either the body's sub-atomic particles, called quarks, or perhaps just
the atomic information about them.
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Finally, either with the original quarks or
some new ones, you use the information about the person's body to
rematerialize it at the other end.
Krauss is wise enough to add the disclaimer that
if humans have souls, as many people believe, his whole plan falls to pieces.
Nevertheless, given these and several others obstacles, Krauss is of the
opinion that science won't be teleporting anyone anywhere for some time to
come.
Let us deal with Krauss' objections to teleportation first. Krauss says that
the volume of atomic data about the human body is unmanageable. However, the
mathematics of Fractal Geometry, apart from producing beautiful psychedelic
patterns, enables redundant data to be removed from, for example, a high
resolution spy satellite image, to facilitate its transmission back to earth,
where, using the same mathematics in reverse, the image can be decompressed.
The final product is of high quality, and such
techniques are rapidly increasing in sophistication.
Fractal Geometry can also produce patterns that are similar to many of
those found in nature. As the human body is made of trillions of almost
identical sub atomic particles, data compression would assist in
transmitting such information. So Krauss' information overload objection is
probably irrelevant. Krauss claims that to vaporize the body into pure
energy in preparation for teleportation would take the equivalent of a
thousand 100-megaton bombs.
Yet paranormal reports of teleportation do not
mention such energies.
We could suggest therefore that modern physics
is investigating the nature of matter the hard way - from the outside.
Paranormal evidence suggests that the subtlety of consciousness can affect
matter from the 'inside' in a very energy efficient manner.
A simple example of this is paranormal spoon bending, where the mind seems
able to affect the molecular structure of metal from within. At present we
don't know how this works, but we will never find out unless we do the
relevant research. One place to look is the relationship between matter,
energy, consciousness, and the domain in which they operate, called space-time,
which is increasingly being seen by physicists and others, not as the
emptiness in which things happen, but rather as a 'substance' that can
expand, contract, bend or reverberate.
This suggests that space-time may have an 'outside' or 'beyond' (Matthews,
1997), which might just be an alternative description for hyperspace.
Attempts to grapple with a definition of this 'beyond'
have referred to altered states of consciousness, other wavelengths,
vibrations, or, more esoterically, some sort of transcendental consciousness
or universal mind. I prefer to use a computing analogy and refer to this
unknown 'beyond' as a 'realm' that seems to have astonishingly sophisticated,
multi-dimensional, or nonlocal, informational processing
abilities, and which can use space-time as a four dimensional 'screen' on,
or in, which to display the results of such information processing.
Krauss' suggestion, that in teleportation we may
only need to transmit atomic information rather than atomic particles,
echoes this idea; that information theory may provide the best model for the
fundamental nature of reality. In other words, the basic units of matter, if
such things exist, may be units of information rather than anything solid.
As an example of seeing beyond space-time,
physicists claim that no-one needed to show the energy produced during the
Big Bang how to coalesce into matter. Sub-atomic particles and atoms seemed
to know how to assemble themselves, as if the rules of physics were already
there.
If this is so, how was this information stored,
and where did the energy of the Big Bang actually come from?
Some researchers speak of the energy of the vacuum, or Zero Point
Energy, which suggests that 'behind' the fabric of space-time there may
exist an almost infinite amount of energy.
For example:
"According to quantum theory, empty space is
not as empty as it seems: if we could examine a vacuum at the 'Plank scale'
- a resolution of 10-35 meters - we would see a seething mass of virtual
particles, including photons, flitting in and out of existence."
(Watson, 1996)
If the entire universe popped up from nowhere,
it does seem rather churlish for physicists to claim that it is impossible
for someone with powerful paranormal ability, such as Sai Baba, to produce
an object containing less than one kilogram of matter from that same 'nowhere'.
What we'd like to know is how he does it.
Perhaps consciousness can somehow address the energy of the Plank scale, and
persuade it to create permanent atomic particles rather than just virtual
ones.
But how would these particles know what object
to make?
To answer this we need to refer back to Krauss'
earlier disclaimer that, if humans have souls, his teleportation theories
are probably wrong. However, the existence of souls might make teleportation
easier to explain rather than harder. There is evidence from events such as
Near-Death-Experiences that at least some humans do have invisible
forms of consciousness that could perhaps be called souls.
It has also long been claimed that all living things have something
resembling a subtle version of their genetic code that exists beyond the
body. Plato referred to the Realm of Forms, and in modern
times Rupert Sheldrake speaks of Morphic Fields.
He suggests that as things grow they obtain
developmental information from both their genetic codes and
Morphic Resonance. These two informational sources may even overlap,
with one able to substitute for the other. A long these lines, a brief,
poorly referenced article in Nexus (Kanzhen, 1995) claims that a Chinese
scientist working in Russia has perfected a bio-electromagnetic field
process whereby he can change the genetic structure of some plants and
animals.
If true, such a discovery would be of enormous
importance. This might mean that the information needed to reassemble the
human body after teleportation is obtainable from an informational realm
like Morphic Resonance.
Sheldrake has suggested that Morphic fields may transcend time and space,
which might mean that, provided the body was disassembled correctly, the
information to reassemble it would not need to be transmitted anywhere, but
instead might be stored nonlocally and therefore be accessible from anywhere.
After several landmark experiments, modern physics has accepted that
nonlocality does exist at the sub-atomic level.
Otherwise known as the Holographic Paradigm,
this research shows that within the quantum realm, something that occurs in
region A can have an instantaneous physical effect in region B, regardless
of the distance or conditions between A and B. (Talbot, 1991)
Further research in this field may yet lead to significant advances in our
understanding of both the paranormal and the nature of consciousness.
For example, some years ago, Professor Roger Penrose (1989) at Oxford
University put forward the controversial suggestion that consciousness may
have something to do with the quantum realm.
Obviously more research is needed, but if he and
other theorists in this subject are correct, then perhaps consciousness has
the capacity to reach beyond the dimensional limitations of space-time, to
an astonishingly creative nonlocal informational realm which holds something
like the 'blueprints' for the structure of matter.
Once accessed, willpower alone may be able to 'flesh
out', or 'solidify' such information to produce, within space-time,
something that the inhabitants of that realm normally regard as 'solid'.
These suggestions imply that scientists are
going to have to take a harder look at the evidence for paranormal anomalies
such as teleportation, materialization, invisibility, and the UFO phenomenon
if they are ever going to discover the fundamental nature of reality that
they claim to seek.
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