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6. Eugene Wigner, an eminent physicist known for his work on the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics, has been honored with the Atoms for Peace Award in 1960, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, and the Albert Einstein Award in 1972.
7. Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931), p. 332.
8. These tests, which relate to an aspect of the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox, seem to confirm a phenomenon predicted by Bell’s math—that the way one measures one of a pair of particles that have once interacted, instantaneously af- fects the behavior of the other, even when they are separated by great distance, in a way not understood by present laws of physics. This suggests a degree of interconnectedness between objects much more intimate than previously imag- ined in the field of physics.
Einstein was perplexed by this possibility, as this instantaneous reaction refuted his belief that an object cannot transmit information to another separate object at a speed greater than the speed of light in a vacuum. Some physicists are suggesting that this phenomenon as well as mystical and psi phenomena are aspects of a subatomic but universal intelligence system that receives, integrates and transmits information at a level much deeper than the sensory appearances of what we call space, time and separateness. And so, now in physics there arises serious question as to whether the universe is constructed of separate and distinct objects, or is fundamentally one unified whole—an expression of an underlying infinite consciousness.
9. Committee on Science and Technology, (U.S. House of Representatives) Survey of Science and Technology Issues Present and Future, June, 1981.
10. Arthur Koestler, The Roots of Coincidence (New York: Random House, 1972), p.101.
11. Stanley R. Dean, M.D., “Metapsychiatry and Psychosocial Futurology,” M.D. 22(12): pp. 11-13.