Dear Friends,
It seems to me, time is a macro manifestation of the collapse of the wave function. Time has three parts, that which has happened, (the wave function has collapsed),now, (the point of collapse), and the future (a wave potential). Just as on the quantum level, “matter” acts as a wave until observation collapses the wave to a particle, time behaves the same way, but on a scale we can see. We know what has gone past and we know what is happening now, but the future is a murk of possibilities. Even as the future passes now, and again, now, and again, now, in the very short run we can predict the potential, but long tailed events can overturn that potential future, tossing our predicted life into a tailspin. We have no control over what has happened, the future is impossible to know, but we have control over now.
Just as the observer effects the observed on a quantum scale, we effect the future on the macro scale,by our reactions to events. When faced with tragedy, we can collapse into alcohol and drugs, or we can ride the emotion, as an elephant driver does an elephant, to do great good. The elephant has the power, and that power can be wielded for good or ill, depending on where we drive it. In this way we effect the future. If we use that power to make the world worse, then we have effected the future for ill. If, on the other hand, we use that power to do good, we have also effected the future, for the better. When we think about it, how would each future make us feel about ourselves? Moreover, if on the off chance there is a Heaven, making the world a much worse place is not the best path to get there.
Once the wave form collapses, it cannot be uncollapsed, just as the past cannot be undone. To dwell on the past, letting it hold us from a better future, for whatever reason, is a path to reacting badly to the suffering of the world. It is called the past because it is past. It’s hold over us is only in our minds, a bit like entanglement, except we can break the entanglement of the past from our future. To relive the past, dwelling on it, is trying to uncollapse the wave form, it cannot be undone and therefore is a waste of valuable time, energy and thinking power. Yet we remain entangled with it both good and bad. Because it has given us so many good things we fear letting go of the bad. Those things that have made us stronger, better people and more resilient, are the only memories we should remain entangled with.
The future is a wave form until it collapses at the moment of now. At each collapse, we can pull it a tiny bit closer to the future we want. Often, heck, always, it is a stretch, but each stretch makes us that much more likely to get the future we desire. Because of the observer effect on quantum waves. As we strive for which we want, our consciousness itself effects what we are given. Tom Campbell is doing research in this area. Therefore we actually have the ability to get what we want but we have to reach for it with intention. According to Campbell that intention and effort effects the quantum universe to give us that, for good or ill. Because often we desire and intend to get that which is not in our best interests. It is our effort and intention in the now that changes our options in the future.
Time is an analogue of quantum theory’s collapse of the wave function. Time operates exactly the same way, but backwards. As the particle, (electron, neutron, photon, etc…) acts as a wave until observed, time acts as a particle, the past particular, until the moment of now, and as a wave to the future. This is evident in the double slit experiment. At the moment of observation, the now, as the time wave changes from the particular to the possible, the photon goes from a wave to a particle. We are actors on both realms. Our observation collapses the wave function, on the quantum level, and our experience of now, collapses the time wave function. Our point consciousness is entangled in our past, yet we have the ability to disentangle ourselves from it, as our consciousness gives us agency on both planes.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
