Saturday, March 30, 2024

IS MIND AN ENERGY?

   This is little unusual question. The Hindu religion mentis various SHAKTIS or POWERS and certainly Mind is one of them. But can mind be considered as energy, is difficult for science to ascertain. We all know what is mind ,but can a thought change 'physical' thing ? Many of us who have known quantum particle behavior, have known the 2 slit experiment. But I will describe that and then se where and how mind comes in pictures.

   For many years there has been a debate as to if light is a particle or is it a wave. It seems that the light can behave as particle at times and as wave  other times .Many years ago and experiment was preformed. There was a photon gun and there were 2 slits  and then behind the slits there was screen to record the hitting of the light particles If the gun was fired randomly with NO ONE WATCHING the light acted as wave and so ,the pattern was that of peak and tough . When the 2 waves meet and had peak then there is brighter recording and when 2 waves cancelled each other there was trough and a lighter pattern . But as soon as there was a device to see which slit the photon went in, the pattern changed as if some one had thrown stones through a wall with 2 openings - like that of 2 heaps of stones rather than the dark and lighter lines. So the light changes based on observer. How does the photon particle or the light wave 'KNOW' that someone is watching ? Now instead of some device watching they had human volunteers concentrating on one or other slit . So no  one was touching or near the slit and there was no mechanical device but they were concentrating MENTALLY. Several times this experiment was done and the pattern did change as if a device was watching . This was not 100%. 

   So, the mind concentrating did change the pattern. Is this due to mind being an energy ? I don't know . But it certainly acted as Physical Thing . 

   There  are others who do not believe in mystery of the 2 slit experiment and feel they can explain that by certain equations related to quantum theory. David Bohm has equation and then they feel that each particle has a fix path and when we disturb that the pattern changes . But I am not sure how THINKING about it can change the path . Unfortunately the mediation does not change it 100 %