c/rupert-sheldrake
Lectures, debates, and dialogues by biologist Rupert Sheldrake — morphic resonance, telepathy, and challenging materialist science.
…do with parapsychology from the TED talks. Also, several people pointed out on their blogs, it would also have eliminated Albert Einstein because only people who are holding academic posts should be considered to be real scientists. Einstein was a clerk in…
…also have eliminated Albert Einstein because only people who are holding academic posts should be considered to be real scientists. Einstein was a clerk in the Patents Office in Zurich when his great papers on quantum theory and relativity were published…
…in the 17th century, in their theory. And that's the same. And of course, they can convert into each other, according to Einstein. but still the total amount of matter and energy is supposed to be the same because it's God-given. That's the reason for…
…atom turns into energy via Einstein's principles, and it all makes kind of a perfect world, just like Newtonian science made until Einstein came around. So, I'm trying to make myself open-minded to new ideas, as opposed to being so closed, which I'm sure…
…it included causation from the future. Actually, I myself think gravitation does involve causation from the future. I mean, the Einstein block universe, which is the standard theory, has past and future is symmetrical in gravitation and it's kind of…
…same atom or molecule and they move apart, a change in one is instantaneously associated with a change in the other. When Einstein realized that this was an implication of quantum theory, he thought quantum theory must be wrong. He said if quantum theory…
…they move apart, they can remain non-locally connected or entangled so that a change in one instantly affects the other. When Einstein realized this implication of quantum theory, he thought quantum theory must be wrong because it would allow for what he…
…it would allow for what he called a spooky action at a distance. Experiments show that quantum theory is right. Einstein was wrong. And quantum entanglement is now being applied in quantum computing and in quantum cryptography. There's a mysterious connection…
…were responsible for gravity, that matter itself couldn't possibly attract matter throughout the whole universe, just matter. So then Einstein came along with the idea of the gravitational field, saying this is geometric, that the gravitational field isn't in…
…He assumed the fields were made of subtle matter, the ether, and that ether was what conducted light. But when Einstein put forward his special theory of relativity, he said the ether doesn't exist. The electromagnetic fields are made of what?…
…millions, hundreds of millions of electric motors in the world. They all work, whatever theory we have. You know, then Einstein and Maxwell has a theory. Einstein has another theory. And in quantum electrodynamics, the theory of electromagnetic fields now…
…motors in the world. They all work, whatever theory we have. You know, then Einstein and Maxwell has a theory. Einstein has another theory. And in quantum electrodynamics, the theory of electromagnetic fields now says that all electromagnetic interactions are…
…electromagnetic theory from then on was based on the ether, an invisible form of subtle matter pervading all space. In 1905, Einstein, in his theory of... theory of relativity. What Faraday, his idea that they were just modifications of space, in a way,…
…his theory of... theory of relativity. What Faraday, his idea that they were just modifications of space, in a way, that's what Einstein went back to. In his special theory of relativity, he showed that ether doesn't exist. We don't need the ether. He…
…of matter, rather matter is made of fields, of energy bound within fields. In his general theory of relativity in 1927, Einstein showed that the universal gravitational field is a field. It's what holds the whole universe together. There's a field that…
…each other through what's called quantum non-locality or quantum entanglement. So change in this one instantly affects the other. When Einstein first realized quantum theory predicted that, he said quantum theory must be wrong, because if it's true, it would…
…must be wrong, because if it's true, it would allow for what he called a spooky action at a distance. Experiments have shown Einstein was wrong. There really is a spooky action at a distance underlying quantum theory. And this is one of its more profound…
…forms of electromagnetic radiation. Maxwell preferred the idea of the ether, a subtle matter that was the basis of these fields. But Einstein in 1905, in his special theory of relativity, got rid of the idea of the ether and just took up Faraday's…
…But in Einstein's special theory of relativity, he showed the ether doesn't exist. Fields are just free-floating forms. As Faraday and Einstein, quoting him, said, they are modifications of mere space. Now, you may think this is a It's kind of occult or…
…in which case it'd be called naturalism or physicalism, or is that some sort of matter? That's become more complicated since the Einstein revolutions at the beginning of the 20th century and quantum theory where what's called matter is seen to be a kind…
…they move apart, they can remain non-locally connected or entangled, so that a change in one instantly affects the other. When Einstein realized this implication of quantum theory, he thought quantum theory must be wrong because it would allow for what he…
…it would allow for what he called a spooky action at a distance. Experiments show that quantum theory is right, Einstein was wrong, and quantum entanglement is now being applied in quantum computing and in quantum cryptography. There's a mysterious connection…
…forgot about God and the sense organs of God and couldn't explain it at all, but simply took it for granted. Then Einstein came along, as we heard this morning, and... formulated a field theory which meant that all phenomena, the whole universe, is…
…the field being produced by matter, matter is produced by the field. And then what's the field made of? According to Einstein, it's made of space-time itself. It's not something in space-time, it is space-time. So this delocalization of matter is fundamental…
…itself. It's not something in space-time, it is space-time. So this delocalization of matter is fundamental to modern science. However, Einstein was not the first person to invent the field concept. That was invented in the 1840s by Michael Faraday studying…
…was the theory that Maxwell developed into his mathematical theory of electrical and electromagnetic fields. This is the theory that Einstein refuted or transcended in 1905 with his special theory of relativity, where he showed that ether doesn't exist, or at…
…idea of his was rejected in the 19th century, and people went for the ether theory, subtle matter. But in 1905, Einstein and his special theory of relativity showed that subtle matter, ether, doesn't really exist. That the fields are indeed, as Faraday…
…doesn't really exist. That the fields are indeed, as Faraday thought, modifications of mere space. The gravitational field, according to Einstein, is not in space and time, it is space-time. So the gravitational field of the universe contains everything in…
…observer, time might elapse between it leaving one place and turning up in another. Now, that's exactly the discussion that Einstein had about the nature of light, the quanta of light. Einstein had a thought experiment where he imagined running along…
…and turning up in another. Now, that's exactly the discussion that Einstein had about the nature of light, the quanta of light. Einstein had a thought experiment where he imagined running along and sort of jumping onto a moving quantum of light. But from…
…of creator God. So the universe was eternal, the laws were eternal, the matter was eternal, the energy was eternal. When Einstein worked out the equations of his general theory of relativity, he found that they showed that the universe should either be…
…his biggest mistake. But because it was later discovered, the universe is actually expanding. But that was a huge shock to Einstein because so deeply embedded in the thinking of physicists was this idea that everything's eternal, that it was a terrible…
…Maybe there's a theory that underlies quantum mechanics where we can explain what's going on. And that's certainly a respectable theory. Einstein, one of his most famous pronouncements was, God does not play dice. And that was because he didn't believe that…
…a soul that was transcendent. They could go to heaven, or hell in my case, perhaps, or wherever. And Spinoza's, the reason Einstein said he was a Spinozist, the reason Einstein said Spinoza was the greatest philosopher of modern times is because he was…
…to heaven, or hell in my case, perhaps, or wherever. And Spinoza's, the reason Einstein said he was a Spinozist, the reason Einstein said Spinoza was the greatest philosopher of modern times is because he was the first to bring mind and matter together.…
…I insist on it too, because I think that the, um, I totally reject the idea of the future's determined and this sort of Einstein block universe view. Um, and one of the things that comes out of psychical research is that the, when you have a pre…
…resuscitate the ether or that space is, in fact, empty or full? You know, this is obviously a debate between Bergson and Einstein. And you have the Michelson-Morley experiments of the 1890s where, you know, they did a set of these sort of optical…
…devised. I agree with you, but general relativity would, you know, and there's even actually a paper, I think in 1923, where Einstein says general relativity is in fact compatible with the ether. So he sort of goes back on his special relativity, denied…
…there a fluid flowing through magnetic lines of force, the ether, as Maxwell thought? You see, the particular theory that Einstein, the Michelson-Morley experiment was about was a theory that there's a uniform ether spread out equally through space and time,…
…resuscitate the ether or that space is, in fact, empty or full? You know, this is obviously a debate between Bergson and Einstein. And you have the Michelson-Morley experiments of the 1890s where, you know, they did a set of these sort of optical…
…devised. I agree with you, but general relativity would, you know, and there's even actually a paper I think in 1923 where Einstein says general relativity is in fact compatible with the ether. So he sort of goes back on his special relativity, denied it,…
…there a fluid flowing through magnetic lines of force, the ether, as Maxwell thought? You see, the particular theory that Einstein, the Michelson-Morley experiment was about, was a theory that there's a uniform ether spread out equally through space and time,…
…also in space. And that's why fundamentally quantum theory has the uncertainty principle. You can't define a wave at an instant. So Einstein, I mean Whitehead pointed this out very clearly. He also pointed out that if matters made of waves and waves of…
…after Einstein's theory of relativity. Everything in space occurs within the gravitational field, which is not in space-time. According to Einstein, it is space-time. It's the container of everything in the universe. It's a bit like the world soul, the anima…
…be subtle matter, the ether. They invented a special kind of subtle matter to be the basis of the field. But what Einstein showed was that we don't need the ether as the basis of electromagnetic or gravitational fields. They're themselves made of space or…
…then Suddenly they found an explanation for something they'd discovered by themselves. Who is actually against me? The new Darwin and Einstein in one person, as many people think? Or someone who, as many of his future colleagues judge, has designed a…
…intuition that the light which pours on us on lovely days like today at least isn't just... photons, a notion which people at Einstein actually were deeply suspicious of, in fact, is a sort of useful heuristic he used to remark, I believe. But that it's…
…theory of the whole universe being connected through the universal gravitational field. Newton didn't know how it worked, and Einstein suggested a field. And we have now quantum matter fields, electrons and protons are vibrations in fields. And fields…
…worked. And it took 20 years before Maxwell came along with Maxwell's equations to try and explain how it worked. And then Einstein came along and said, oh, well, Maxwell's got it wrong because he depended on the ether. The ether doesn't exist. So…
…came along and said, oh, well, Maxwell's got it wrong because he depended on the ether. The ether doesn't exist. So Einstein changed it all. Then quantum electrodynamics came along and said, oh, it all depends on zero point energy fields and virtual…
…And everyone said that was great and built up 19th century understanding of light and so on and radio waves. And then Einstein came along and said no such thing as the ether and had his special theory of relativity. And then quantum electrodynamics came…
…same atom or molecule and they move apart, a change in one is instantaneously associated with a change in the other. When Einstein realized that this was an implication of quantum theory, he thought quantum theory must be wrong. He said if quantum theory…
…action at a distance shouldn't be allowed in science. And so he thought quantum theory must be wrong. Experiments have proved that Einstein was wrong. Quantum theory is right. There really is a spooky action at a distance in quantum theory. This is called…
…in contact very well. Another example in the abstract form, in quantum physics, this telepathic structure can also be found. What Einstein, for the spiritual, from Berne, because he could not control it, because it contradicted his idea, his theory. This is…