The Effect of the Observer

Quantum mechanics has successfully challenged the belief that the observer is independent of the reality and has no influence on what is being observed.

Measurements of the properties of electrons had clearly demonstrated an "operator effect".

For example, sub-atomic particles and light just appear to be as particles when they are observed, whilst at other times they are predicted to spread out as a probability wave throughout the whole of space (Davidson, 1989).

Some modern physicists consider that the world of real objects only exists when are taken on by consciousness (Pratt, 1997).

The Hidden Reality: "The Quantum Vacuum"

One unresolved problem of quantum mechanics was that if light and sub-atomic particles can apparently only exist at discrete energy levels, and can jump from one level to another, where do they go during the transit from one energy state to another when they cannot be observed? It is now believed by many that probability waves of particles and those of electromagnetic energy are the results of an ‘energy dance’ on the surface of a hidden reality outside space and time, called the ‘quantum vacuum.’ although ‘Vacuum’ is a misleading expression, implying as it does to us, ‘nothingness’. Theorists have predicted that it is energetically enormously dense, so dense that we should be crushed by it, but it is frictionless and so neither we nor our instruments register it (Laszlo, 1996) (Pratt, 1997).

The quantum vacuum corresponds to the ‘implicate order’ proposed by physicist David Bohm, as a vast ocean of hidden energy on which the physical, or ‘explicate’, world, is just a ripple (Bohm and Hiley, 1993). Material particles and waves pass into and out of existence on the surface of this vacuum, as in a dance. It underpins and gives rise to physical reality. We move in it like a fish in water and owe our existence to it.

All of creation both animate and inanimate is proposed to be linked at the level of the quantum vacuum, and at this level the rules of space and time as we observe them in our daily lives, cease to exist. Solid objects seem solid only because it is the perception of forces between atoms and molecules create on our connsciousness: what looks solid is really a dance of tiny particles in the vacuum.

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