Can You Feel that Somebody is Looking at You?

This is a continuation of the previous post connecting to the possibility that our minds are field-like and extend beyond our brains and can have effects beyond our brains put forward by Rupert Sheldrake, a very heretical thought from the point of view of conventional science. 

Sheldrake recalls that children up to age 10-11 years spontaneously believe in visual extramission included in two-way transfer between object and eye. That's why Roald's Dahls Mathilda has eye beams that come out her that can move things (cf Superman and X-men). Children love that because that's the way they think vision works. 

But in school children learn that this is not possible because there is a one-way stream of photons from the object entering into the eye and creating an image in the brain without feed-back to the object. And so this is what educated people in the West believe, and what Sheldrake questions and so get critiqued. 

Two-way transfer object-eye directly connects to a new view of heat transfer between objects by radiation presented as Computational Blackbody Radiation CBB.

To see this let us replace object-eye connected by light as electromagnetic wave, with two bodies B1 and B2 of temperature T1 and T2 radiatively connected by electromagnetic waves. CBB describes how heat energy is transferred from B1 to B2 if T1 > T2 by a phenomenon of resonance between B1 and B2 carried by standing electromagnetic waves as a two-way connection between B1 and B2 like a vibrating rope between the bodies. 

The fact that heat transfer is one-way from B1 to B2 comes from the presence of high-frequency cut-off increasing with temperature, which makes frequencies carried by B1 above the cut-off frequency of B2 cause heating of B2, while shared frequencies does not involve heat transfer. Here B1 serves as the object and B2 as the eye. 

There is then main transfer of heat energy from object to eye, as in the conventional view as a stream of photons as light particles, but object and eye are connected by standing electromagnetic waves. With a two-way connection it is not unthinkable that the object can somehow feel (very weakly) the presence of the observing eye, while this is impossible with one-way stream of light particles.  

Two-way connection by standing electromagnetic waves is captured in Maxwell's equations, while the physics of a stream of light particles is missing. 

The conventional view is that knowledge is transferred one-way from scientists to unschooled, but a true scientist can learn from anything. 

Two-way connection by standing electromagnetic waves relates to a holistic view of things as being interconnected, as opposed to a classical reductionistic view separating things. Today we are all connected through a two-way web.  

Morphogenesis by Resonance

                                                       Patterns formed by resonance?

The book Morphic Resonance by Rupert Sheldrake addresses the fundamental problem of how organised structures are formed in physics, chemistry, biology from elementary building blocks seemingly without information about the overall structure. How does a flower, bird or human being develop from a genetic code, which contains recipes for protein building blocks but no information about the whole structure? Sheldrake seeks an answer in the form of morphogenetic fields carrying this information as collective resonance phenomena. 

We are familiar with resonance in physics as the wave harmonics of a vibrating string. We understand that wave patterns develop from instabilities with tendency to increase crests and troughs of certain wave lengths. Watch dropping a stone in a pond.

Thus we expect to see form develop from resonance serving as morphogenesis and find this in particular in the case of fluid flow with turbulent vortices developing from convective instabilities as shown in Computational Turbulent Incompressible Flow. 

The non-radiating stable ground state of an atom is represented by the lowest harmonic of a Schrödinger wave equation, while higher harmonics are triggered for a radiating atom. Real Quantum Mechanics gives a new explanation of the lack of radiation from the ground state, as the mystery Bohr struggled with. 

Computational Black Body Radiation presents a new analysis of the transfer of energy from a source of light to a receiver as an atomic resonance phenomenon carried by standing electromagnetic waves without need to introduce photons as particles of light. A similar transfer is seen between two tuning forks carried by standing acoustic waves. 

Sheldrake's concept of morphic resonance thus comes to expression in physics and may serve also in chemistry and biology in more general forms. Maybe memory is carried by resonance... Maybe the fertilised egg carries the blueprint as a resonance bringing the genetic code to life.

Musical harmony is based on tonal resonance, while musical rhythm represent patterns over time. Singing in a choir unites single souls into one. 

Resonance can have the material form of vibrating strings, or immaterial as a common gravitational potential (recall Neo-Newtonian Cosmology) or more generally beliefs forming a society. An immense subject…

Resonance appears as an expression of instability of a system in the sense that a small periodic forcing causes large oscillations in the system. This happens if the periodicity of the forcing agrees with an eigenvalue of the system and the corresponding eigenfunction represents the shape of the system response.  This allows patterns to develop from small forcing in creation of form as morphogenesis "by itself".

Gravitational Potential: Primordial Omnipresent Immaterial

This is a further reflection on Neo-Newtonian Cosmology expanding on the PS in the previous post on the work by Rupert Sheldrake on morphogenesis geared by immaterial presence.

The basic idea is that primordial omnipresent immaterial gravitational potential $\phi$ has been created from an infinitesimal fluctuation of a zero potential from which mass density $\rho$ emerges by the action of the Laplace differential operator $\Delta$:

• $\rho =\Delta\phi$    (*)   

inflating fluctuations into substantial mass density of variable sign. The gravitational potential assigns mass to material matter consisting of positive and negative electric charge densities emerging from an electric potential as in (*). 

The action of gravitational force separates matter into larger regions of substantial positive and negative mass, which repel each other as if subject to dark energy, with some part of $\Delta\phi$ appearing as immaterial dark mass. Further, gravitational collapse of regions of positive mass generates massive kinetic energy as vacuum energy. 

Altogether, structures as planetary systems and galaxies emerge from an omnipresent gravitational potential acting as immaterial organiser by assigning mass to matter in a form of cosmological morphogenesis. Here informations is directed from potential to mass density, which is the opposite of the current paradigm: 

• Each atom attracts all other atoms in the Universe with short time delay.   (**)     

With (*) as primary process, (**) appears as a secondary slow process. 

The main trouble with (**) is that the physics of the connection/attraction between atoms has no answer. The current idea of some form of particles carrying attractive force between all atoms in the Universe has not been fruitful. It remains to see if (*) is more fruitful. In particular (*) is local and as such can be instant without assistance of force carrying particles.

Connecting to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on protein folding, it may be that the total electric potential of a protein, like the total gravitational potential, acts as an organiser of the morphogenesis of the folding. See this post with connection to Real Quantum Mechanics.