Avatar of Death

The Day The World Died?

If the Multiverse of Many Parallel Worlds is correct, the world ended in September 1983.

(STARpod.org) -- It's been dubbed "the core story" by a handful of men involved at high levels of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

It's a tale about alleged visitations: otherworldly intelligence interfering with human affairs.

And it's been associated with something very "disturbing" to those said to be familiar with the deep core inside the outer story.

Is the core story a tale of the avatar of death, a direct result of the nuclear age?

Three years have been stamped on the outer wrapping of this strange tale: 1947, 1983, and 1992.

This article looks at 1983, in the context of the many worlds of quantum theory, and the implication which emerges from actual events which took place that year.

Modern physics entertains the notion that our world is continuously branching into different alternative outcomes. Everyday observations of the world only witness the branch we are on -- the technical reasons for this are understood, but what is interesting is to consider the reality of other worlds, with which we share a common history.

It is a strange consequence of what is arguably the most successful theory in all of science: quantum mechanics.

If you are reading this, you have evidence of the correctness of quantum theory right before your eyes: modern electronic devices require quantum mechanics for their very existence.

To illustrate one of the bizarre predictions of quantum theory, Erwin Schrodinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, devised a "thought-experiment" to demonstrate how quantum mechanics leads to impossible, counter-intuitive predictions.

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Schrodinger's "cat experiment" is a simple but potentially deadly example of the hidden unease imposed by quantum theory.

A live cat is placed inside a box, along with a vial of poison.

A single quantum event, such as the decay of an atomic particle, triggers a device that smashes the vial, releasing the poison, and killing the cat.

According to the mathematics of quantum theory, our best picture of the world -- the cat is left hanging in a bizarre combination of being a live cat and a dead cat: a "superposition" of both -- this directly attributable to the strange nature of the quantum world.

But when we look inside the box, we will see either one or the other, not both.

The idea of a cat being both alive and dead seemed absurd to Schrodinger.

To escape from the disturbing picture of a live cat superimposed with a dead cat, Schrodinger and his colleagues added an ad-hoc procedure to reduce the possible outcomes to a prediction of what we would observe in our world. Quantum theory, it was assumed, merely gives us the probability to observe either one (live cat) or the other (dead cat).

Somehow, it seemed less than satisfying.

Einstein didn't like this solution to quantum theory either, and is often quoted to have said, "God does not play dice with the universe."

Unfortunately for the human mind, grounded in common sense experience, "impossible" quantum events are a side effect of the formal mathematics used to predict real outcomes in the world around us.

Rather than waste time pondering the confusing philosophical issues represented by Schrodinger's cat, physicists ran with the theory and created a new world of technology, ranging from solid-state electronics to atomic weapons.

Replace the cat with the human race, and the vial of poison with a nuclear bomb.

The trigger, in this case, exists in the command and control system system deep inside the human brain. And, as is often reported, all that may be required is a single quantum event to trigger an avalanche of catastrophe.

In the 1950s, Hugh Everett III realized he could remove the ad-hoc procedure to "collapse" the quantum world into the classical world of human experience, so long as he allowed for the real existence of the other quantum possibilities.

This idea is now called the "Many Worlds interpretation" of quantum mechanics.

If you fire a series of quanta (for example, electrons, the fundamental particle of electric charge) one at a time towards a pair of slits in a barrier, and allow the impacts from the electrons to build a pattern on a screen, you will observe an interference pattern, exactly as predicted by the theory.

Oxford physicist David Deutsch is absolutely convinced that these strange quantum interference effects -- observed in the real world -- are evidence of the existence of  "shadow particles" in countless unseen parallel worlds.

And if electrons have shadows, then so does everything else made from electrons, including human beings and atomic bombs.

The disturbing implication of this disturbing picture of the world, painted from the evidence that particles in our world are affected by their "shadow selves" living in other worlds, is that all possible outcomes play out somewhere in the set of parallel universes.

With every binary yes/no decision, presumably including whether or not to launch an atomic missile, many worlds predicts both must take place, distributed among the worlds according to the quantum rules.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the many worlds interpretation of quantum theory is knowing that once atomic bombs are constructed in this world, they must have have been used in an alternative world -- an alternative that shares the same history, up to the point of destruction, with our own.

This lesson, which has yet to have been understood by the powers that be, implies a radical new moral responsibility for those who would create weapons of mass destruction.

Once you build an atomic bomb and a delivery system, you are guaranteed it will have been used, somehow, somewhere, out there, in the many worlds of the multiverse.

In September 1983, at the height of cold war fear and anxiety, the United States came under attack by nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union.

Fortunately, this nuclear war did not take place in our branch of the multiverse.

When we look at our best evidence, which we refer to as the history of the world, we learn that Stanislov Petrov, a Soviet officer, allegedly decided to go with his gut instead of blindly following doctrine, in response to a computer generated warning of an incoming missile attack from the United States.

It turned out that Petrov had made the right call: the incoming missile had been a false detection. But in the few minutes before the expected impact of an American bomb, no one knew for certain.

As with so much of the cold war, this particular story is mired in controversy, but for the purposes of illustration in the context of many worlds theory, it presents a kind of Schrodinger's cat situation for the survival or otherwise of the human race.

One might reasonably ask if that gut feeling was the result of a quantum event somewhere in Petrov's brain.

Professor Victor Stenger, a skeptic of proposed quantum explanations for the human mind, explained how this might take place in an article at the CSICOP website:

"External sources in the environment such as cosmic rays or internal sources such as radioactive potassium (K40) in blood can be expected to induce fluctuations in brain currents. These processes are quantum in origin, which means that they are random—at least in most interpretations of quantum mechanics. Like the fluctuations that provide for mutations in the evolutionary process, these might serve to trigger what complexity theorists call a bifurcation, when a system moves from one quasi-stable state to another. The brain could operate that way, being basically classical and deterministic but occasionally jolted by a random quantum event. What is interesting is that the decisions made in this fashion would be indistinguishable from creative acts or free will."

Many worlds tells us that millions died in an atomic firestorm on that date. The event, perhaps separated from our world by a single quantum event in a single human brain, places the destruction uncomfortably close.

In our world, history tells us Petrov's gut instinct proved correct: the computers, which showed an intercontinental ballistic missile heading towards Moscow, were wrong.

Had Petrov decided otherwise, his early warning would have been input into the Soviet launch command and control, in a time of high international tension and hair-trigger nuclear response.

Many worlds tell us that in another branch, Petrov overruled his feelings and, following procedure, warned his superiors. In some of those worlds, a retaliatory nuclear response was launched against the United States, initiating all out nuclear war, resulting in the end of the human race.

Every time you build an atomic bomb, you have signed a death warrant for millions of people, somewhere in the "shadow worlds" -- if the many worlds version of quantum mechanics is correct.

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