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Sky just before meeting Barack.Advanced physics has come to the disconcerting realization that our methods of inquiry shape the answers we get. As such, the scientific method, as it is currently understood, has its own self-defined limitations.

A scientific test relies on running an experiment again and again under nearly identical conditions, and testing all possible outcomes based on adjusting a controlled variable. Yet the types of simple daily situations we describe in synchronicity cannot be repeated. In life, we cannot truthfully say 'if only this or that had been different, everything would have turned out differently', because we cannot repeat 'experience', with the exact same conditions, to test it.

The photograph of me here was taken shortly before Barack Obama arrived to speak at the University of Reno campus. At the end of his speech, as he came around to shake hands of people along the front edge, I handed him a copy of the music video for my song "We Are the Ones (We've Been Waiting for)". I called out "Barack, Barack, here's a video to motivate the volunteers!", to which he replied "OK" and took it from my hands (see an incredibly lucky video of the experience here!). From beginning to end, from sitting at home pondering how I might get the video in the hands of the campaign, to ending up in Reno two weeks later as a volunteer, to Senator Obama (by random chance) visiting Reno that same weekend, to me being in the front row, this experience was an experience in learning about expecting synchronicity. Of course I cannot repeat the experience, so I cannot prove it, but if I had not had faith in synchronicity at this point in time, you can be sure I would not have met Barack Obama. The theories on this site are an attempt to explain reality as I experience it, through the language that I know, physics.

Experience, and the coincidences that happen on a daily basis, cannot be exactly repeated in order to be tested.

As a man of science, with an avid dislike for pseudo-science, I submit these ideas from a deep conviction that science can explain, literally, everything. In order to do so, it must be willing to question its own processes, and pay attention to the confounding answers of its own experiments. The assumptions of tomorrow's science will be unrecognizable to us today, and our current assumptions about the nature of reality will seem childish in retrospect.


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RodgerRicketts modern science 4 Jun 24 2010, 3:47 AM EDT by Anonymous
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I enjoyed skynelson's attempt to use quantum physics to theorize about synchronicity and his "deep conviction that science can explain, literally, everything.". His explaination has some intuitive sense to it. I say intuitive because if we go back to the basics of science we visit again that science is based on the scientific method which requires that after observation, hypothesis formulation and prediction, experiments be performed to confirm or rule out the hypothesis. Later a theory is put forth. Unfortunately, with synchronicity experimentation is missing and not possible, therefore, it will always remain in the realm of metaphyscics.
Secondly, not all scientists have or do share the idea that science will or can "explain everything" I offer a few quotes which offer another point of view, "The entire universe has to be understood as a single, undivided whole, in which analysis into separately and independently existent parts has no fundamental status." Bohm or "...all knowledge in the conscious content is a differentiated system that cannot by definition articulate the universal principle of order." M Kafatos, R Nadeau or "There must exist, beyond mere appearances (...) a 'veiled reality' that science does not describe but only glimpses uncertainly. In turn, contrary to those who claim that matter is the only reality, the possibility that other means, including spirituality, may also provide a window on ultimate reality cannot be ruled out, even by cogent scientific arguments.” B.d'Espagnat

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