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Uncertain Future of Particle Physics

A New York Times article on Jan. 24, 2019 by Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder summarizes the state of quantum particle findings and makes the point that their have not been any major experimental discoveries from the European Large Hadron Collider (L.H.C.) over the last 10 years except for the discovery of  the Higgs boson. She suggests that physics need to broaden its experimental process beyond those of the L.H.C.

She says that the physic’s community should step back and reflect on why the L.H.C. has not been able to make any more major discoveries.

She also recommends that physics research focus more on the following issues: 1) features of dark matter, 2) the interface between the quantum realm and gravity, and 3) the development of potentially new insights on the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Multiverse Theory and Lack of Proof

Over the last decade physics has struggled to explain the very fine-tuned nature of our universe. I am a fan of Dr. Woit and his website [], “Not Even Wrong.” One of the proposed explanation for it is the multiverse theory. Voit and many other physicists emphasize that the multiverse theory is unprovable with our current with our current state of technology. Following is from Woit’s website for Dec. 6, 2017 about a talk by 2018 Breakthrough Prize symposium winner David Spergel:

“Well, alright, I’m going to say something that I probably shouldn’t say in Palo Alto. I don’t think the multiverse is a testable and interesting scientific hypothesis. I think it doesn’t explain anything.

“The way the multiverse tends to be used is together with the anthropic principle. The idea is that the universe is the way it is because that’s the way we get to live in it. I find the multiverse solutions to these problems, it’s a lot like if you ask me “why am I wearing a black shirt today”. My answer would be: “you wouldn’t have asked the question if I wasn’t wearing a black shirt”. That’s not a satisfactory answer.

“The way we have advanced in science is by fallibility. By developing hypotheses, testing them (that’s why we do experiments) and ruling things out.

“Ideas that are not testable, it’s interesting metaphysics, perhaps interesting for philosophers. What has driven four hundred years of scientific progress is the fact that ideas can be wrong. And, the multiverse, I think is kind of the last refuge of cowards…  That’s why it’s great to have tenure.”



Description of Subtle Realm/Universe








Two Recent Books by Ervin Laszlo

Recently I have been reading several of Ervin Laszlo’s newer books. His older book, Science and the Akashic Field (2004), was one of my key sources on frontier science for my book Frontiers of Knowledge; and it is interesting to see the evolution of his concepts on frontier science and its integration with spirituality in two of his newer books:

  1. The Self-Actualizing Cosmos: the Akasha Revolution in Science and Human Consciousness (2014)
  2. What Is Reality? The New Map of Cosmos and Consciousness (October 2016)

In both books, endorsements, extended comments, and written contributions are provided by some of the top researchers and writers on the integration of consciousness, spirituality and frontier science. For The Self-Actualizing Cosmos, supporting comments are provided by  Edgar Mitchell (founder of IONS), Deepak Chopra, Ken Wilber, David Loye, Kingsley Dennis, David Lorimer, and Stanley Kippner. Part Four of this book incluses major contributions (mostly as Q&As) from David W. Gibbons, Maria Sagi, and Gyorgyi Szabo. This book also has the following long appendices:

  1. Nonlocality and Interconnection: A Review of the Evidence (29 pages)
  2. The Akasha Paradigm in Physics: Two Hypotheses (26 pages). “The Transmuting Ether” by Paul  LaViolette, and The Universal Quantum Field” by Peter Jakubowski

It is almost as if Laszlo is publishing a “Journal” with writings by other scientists of the latest thinking and alternatives related to his Akasha concept.

In Chapter 14 of The Self-Actualizing Cosmos, Laszlo provides his overview on the nature of the Akasha and goes on to use his information and concepts to provide answers to 14 basic questions related to existence–two samples are given below:

  • What is the nature of dark energy? Laszlo’s answer: “Not yet known, but offering orientation for the search, as the answer is likely to be the constitution of the hidden dimension [of the Akasha], the physically real basis of spacetime and background of matter and energy in the universe.
  • How did life arise? Laszlo’s answer: “The processes we see as basic to life originated as coherent relations emerged in time in the rich welter of organic molecules on the watery surface of some satellites in orbit around active stars.” [My comment: this totally ignores what I see as the central role of nonphysical beings (souls) working through subtle-energy fields to create (design) life forms.]

I have not finished reading What Is Reality? The New Map of Cosmos and Consciousness, but when I do, I will provide highlights in a blog entry.


Speculation by Physicists on Nature of Space-Time

I found the Scientific American online article in their Oct. 27 Space and Physics titled “Tangled Up in Spacetime” very interesting. [To access article, click here.] The premise being pursued by quantum physicists is that “space and time may spring up from the quantum entanglement of tiny bits of information.” The effort is still very speculative, but it might lead us to insights on how advanced souls in higher dimensions created our physical universe. Below is a quote from the first paragraph:

“space and time may spring up from the quantum entanglement of tiny bits of information:

“Lately scientists have begun to question this conventional thinking and speculate that space—and its extension according to general relativity, spacetime—is actually composed of tiny chunks of information. These chunks might interact to create spacetime and give rise to its properties, such as the concept that curvature in spacetime causes gravity. If so, the idea might not just explain spacetime but might help physicists achieve a long-sought goal: a quantum theory of gravity that can merge general relativity and quantum mechanics, the two grand theories of the universe that tend not to get along. Lately the excitement of this possibility has engrossed hundreds of physicists who have been meeting every three months or so under the banner of a project dubbed ‘It from Qubit.’”

The key idea being pursued is that “the universe is built up from some underlying code [highlighted by me], and that by cracking this code, physicists will finally have a way to understand the quantum nature of large-scale events in the cosmos.”

For me, the word “code” brings to mind the idea that there are “coders” who are “writing [creating] the code. This is a new line of research, and we will have to wait and see if it leads to anything.


Helping People Find Their Spiritual Living Prescription






Fairy-Tale Physics: Modern Physics Without Testable Theories










Light Flash at Start of Human “Life”

Northwestern Univ. research reported in the English newspaper, The Telegraph, describes how their is a light flash when sperm impregnates a human egg. The following pictures shows the “flash” in the 0.40 sec. frame.

Flash in Human Egg When Impregnated with Sperm

Scientists had seen the phenomenon occur in other animals but it is the first time is has been also shown to happen in humans. Not only is it an incredible spectacle, highlighting the very moment that a new life begins, the size of the flash can be used to determine the quality of the fertilized egg.

The researchers note that the bright flash occurs because when sperm enters an egg it leads to a surge of calcium which triggers the release of zinc from the egg. As the zinc shoots out, it binds to small molecules which emit a fluorescence which can be picked up by camera microscopes.

Amazing development: seeing the start of human life.

Improbability of Creating a New Life Form by Random Mutation

The Discovery Institute has created a new YouTube video on the impossibility of creating a new protein by the process of random mutation. The key scientists in the video are Stephen Meyer and Donald Axe. Both have Ph.Ds in biology.  Axe’s field is molecular biology.

The essence of their argument is that a new life form requires new proteins. Axe goes  through the probabilities of creating a new protein that contains 150 amino acids (a small to medium size protein). Based on molecular processes, he calculates that it would take 10 to the 77th power random trials. A totally improbably number given that the total number of life forms that have ever existed on earth are only 10 to the 40th power.

The YouTube video is available at [click here]


Two Downloadable Papers Available

I have loaded two papers that can be downloaded as pdf documents.

  • The first is located under the “About Doug” tab and is titled: “My Spiritual Story & 21st-Century Knowledge_2016.03.”
  • The second is located under the “Mind-Body Phenomena and Subtle Energy Bodies” subtab under the “Science a New Era” tab. It is a write-up of my presentation at the 2014 SSE annual conference for SSE’s Explorer Magazine. The paper is titled: “Ability of Subtle-Energy Model to Explain Mind-Body Phen. 2015.03.