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Quantum Magic

The team came across 'magic', which is a mathematical measure of how difficult a quantum state is to simulate using an ordinary classical (non-quantum) coumputer. The quantum property dubbed 'magic' could be the key to expelaning how space and time emerged, a new mathematical analysis by three RIKEN physicists suggest. It's hard to conceive of anything more basic than the fabric of spacetime that underpins the Universe, but theoretical physicists have been questioning this assumption. "Physicists have long been fascinated about the possibility that space and time are not fundamental, but rather are derived from something deeper," says Kanato Goto of the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS).

History

This notion received a boost in the 1990s, when theory physicist juan maldacena related the gravitational theory that governs spacetime to a theory involving quantum particles. theory involving quantum particles. In particular, he imagined a hypothetical space-which can be pictured as being enclosed in something like an infinite soup can, or 'bulk'-holding objects like black holes that are acted on by gravity. Maldacena also imagined particles moving on the surface of the can, controlled by quantum mechanics. He realized that mathematically a quantum theory used to describe the particles on the boundary is equivalent to a gravitational theory describing the black holes and spacetime inside the bulk.

In New Age thought

In the early 1970s New Age culture began to incorporate ideas from quantum physics, beginning with books by Arthur Koestler, Lawrence LeShan and others which suggested that purported parapsychological phenomena could be explained by quantum mechanics. [13]:32

In this decade, the Fundamental Fysiks Group emerged. This group of physicists embraced quantum mysticism, parapsychology, Transcendental Meditation, and various New Age and Eastern mystical practices. [17]Inspired in part by Wigner's exploration of the von Neumann-Wigner interpretation,[12] Fritjof Capra, a member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, [17] wrote The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (1975), [18] which espoused New Age quantum physics; the book was popular among the non-scientific public. [13]:32 In 1979, Gary Zukav,[19] a non-scientist and "the most successful of Capra's followers", published The Dancing Wu Li Masters. [13]:32 The Fundamental Fysiks Group and Capra's book are said to be major influences for the rise of quantum mysticism as a pseudoscientific inte Copied of quantum mechanics.

Modern usage and examples

In contrast to the mysticism of the early 20th century, today quantum mysticism typically refers to New Age beliefs that combine ancient mysticism with the language of quantum mechanics. [20] Called a pseudoscience and a "hijacking" of quantum physics, it draws upon "coincidental similarities of language rather than genuine connections" to quantum mechanics. [9] Physicist Murray Gell-Mann coined the phrase "quantum flapdoodle" to refer to the misuse and misapplication of quantum physics to other topics. [21]

An example of such use is New Age guru Deepak Chopra's "quantum theory" that aging is caused by the mind, expounded in his books Quantum Healing (1989) and Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993). [21] In 1998, Chopra was awarded the parody Ig Nobel Prize in the physics category for "his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness". [22] In 2012, Stuart Hameroff and Chopra proposed that the "quantum soul" could exist "apart from the body" and "in space-time geometry, outside the brain, distributed nonlocally". [23]

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