The United Nations has proclaimed 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. It’s a celebration of the 100th year anniversary of Heisenberg's foundational theoretical paper that sparked the field of Quantum Mechanics. For the spiritually oriented, science and tech applications are the current bridge from an old mindset to a new reality. It’s a revolutionary understanding of the universe! Even after 100+ years, the concepts are not fully integrated into our experience.
Science is a numbers game; through observations and calculations, accepted facts are arrived at. Experiments are performed to find a solution to a problem in the physical world. As more work is done, logic based knowledge is built up - but is still always changing as new data and situations arise. This is especially true in medical science. Human health has always been a priority for - humans!
During Covid we had research on steroids. Many people didn’t seem to understand that what is true today is not always true tomorrow as we evolve our thinking. Usually Western medicine is traditionally slow to change its protocols, the “standard of care”. You see alternative and new approaches to healthcare that are effective, but take time to be researched and accepted. (Which is problematic in terms of funding research - it prioritizes a profit motive.)
The understanding of physics is glacial in comparison. It’s the underlying math that creates a model for all this other science to happen! It tries to define universal principles of how the universe works; describing the behaviour of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic levels.
Before Heisenberg's first mathematical formulation of quantum physics a hundred years ago, other scientists were considering the possibilities. From Max Planck in 1900, to Einstein's failed efforts to reconcile the ideas with his theory of relativity, to Bohr’s "quantum (hydrogen) atom”, particle physics and beyond, the work has continued. By the 1980’s the basic quantum framework was established (and quantum scientists were no longer considered “cranks”).
In the 1960’s, John Bell showed that non-locality is real. Particles are correlated across space and time in ways that aren't understood. We learn by measuring things; a particle can be located in a specific time and position. A wave is de-localized. In the earlier Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, a wave function is a "cloud of probabilities" that only "exists" when it collapses into a fixed particle.
Are atoms really composed of either particles or waves? That central question has been answered with a concept called "wave-particle duality." A particle can become a wave under certain conditions, like its velocity and how it's being observed. That a sub-atomic particle can behave as both is why quantum mechanics is blowing people's minds. But what does this actually mean for us as we go about our lives?
The earliest philosophers - Democritus, Thales, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Leibniz, Newton - have pondered the nature of time, space, matter, energy, cause and effect probably since the beginning. Ever since humans looked up at the heavens, we’ve been thinking, experiencing, and constructing models to answer the basic questions about our existence and the universe we live within.
Peace, love and healing -
Bear
In upcoming blogs I will delve into how this all relates to us, healing, and the new (5D) reality.
Google any of the names listed for LOTS more insights and history!
A good interview with physicist Chad Orzel - https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/quantum-mechanics-100-years/
U.N. website - quantum2025.org
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