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January 19 - February 28, 2020
Physics! Looking back, I see how I was being led to figure out the puzzle of qi from RCTs to Tillerian physics.
According to Tiller, human capabilities such as telepathy, remote viewing, and clairvoyance are worthy of scientific study because they point to higher laws in the physical sciences. His aim is to give meaning to this class of human gifts.
Tiller says: “All of the important stuff of us, the soul-self stuff where we truly are one, is in the superluminal domain and therefore looks invisible to us and to our instruments because they are made from electromagnetic waves, which are subluminal. You cannot perceive them with [those kinds of] instruments. That’s the old world for us.”
Our physical science does not necessarily deal with reality, whatever that is. Rather, it has merely generated a set of consistency relationships to explain our common ground of experience, which is determined, of
course, by the capacity and capabilities of our physical sensory-perception mechanisms. William A. Tiller74
We must talk about what the textbooks don’t say. They don’t say anything about what the brain MRI means.
Perhaps we will have to look to the molecular level. For example, it was only recently discovered that a quantum process is necessary for photosynthesis.
in close interactions with its resident microbes, the gut can influence our basic emotions, our pain sensitivity, and our social interactions. It even guides many of our decisions!82
The brain receives about eleven million pieces (known as bits in information theory) of information per second from sensory sources, but conscious thought can handle, at most, forty bits per second. An awful lot is going on that you do not notice.
If you want to grow, give things meaning. Expand your conscious bandwidth.”
Consciousness imparts evolution as expressed in thinkingness. This quality of thinkingness,
z, that man possesses must also be expanded to show the range of his thoughts, from what we universally accept as negative, such as deception or jealousy, to positive ones, such as willingness and love.
Science suggests that the best language for thinking about nature is that of change, not of permanence.
“Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object,” said Greek philosopher Plotinus.
Tiller’s hypothesis centered on intention and on subtle energy being a source of useful work.
Consciousness does things by intention, and consciousness is the human connection to Spirit. You cannot provide proof of these statements. Regard them instead as self-evident. As Tiller sees it, you have to start somewhere. You have to make
an assumption and explore consequences.
Tiller takes the angle of consciousness performing useful work. And work means consciousness via intention must be a source of energy.
Work and energy point to fundamental laws in physics,
A theory is the more
impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability. Therefore, the deep impression that classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced will never be overthrown, within the framework of applicability of its basic concepts.
We have developed these mathematical laws based ultimately on a set of definitions of mass, charge, space, and time.
We don’t really know what these quantities are, but we have defined them to have certain unchanging properties and have thus constructed our edifice of knowledge on these pillars. The edifice will be stable so long as the pillars are unchanging. William A. Tiller116
Thermodynamics isn’t only about heat and work; it has fundamental implications for human life. Scientists trust these laws more than any other.
Having read more than thirty-five physics textbooks since that fateful Thursday meeting, I will not provide a “how to” but rather a “what it’s all about” of the underlying principles.
first law of thermodynamics: Energy is conserved.
All we know is that it has worked in every instance where it has been applied, and we are happy with it simply because it works.
The conservation law is a description of how nature works, not an explanation. Fortunately, that’s all we need. Although we do not know why it works, we do know how it works.
equilibrium is the most probable state.
In our meeting, Tiller wrote a version of the second law known as the Gibbs free energy equation. In the Gibbs free energy equation, (G) equals pressure times volume (PV) plus internal energy (E) minus temperature times entropy (TS): G = PV + E – TS
Critical lynchpin
“free”
refers to the amount of energy in a system that is readily available for usage.
internal energy term denoted by E. This looks familiar, and it is. It is the famous E in E = mc2. We note that mass (m) and energy (E) are on equal footing thanks to Einstein’s insight.
Einstein’s equation revealed
that mass itself (or matter) has an associated energy that can be released if ...
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temperature
It’s a macroscopic description of the kinetic energy of a group of particles. Thus, technically, temperature is an energy unit.
An implication of the second
law is that converting heat to energy to do work is not perfect. In any process that changes heat into another form of energy, a little energy is wasted.
“heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body.”
Entropy, denoted by S, helps us determine the amount of energy that cannot be recovered or is unavailable to do work. Simply put, entropy is a loss of energy, an increase in disorder. The minus sign before TS signifies energy that is not transferred. So, entropy is a negative kind of quantity, the opposite of available energy.
Temperature is directly related to entropy; cold bodies
have low entropy. Their atoms are less disordered than those in hot bodies, w...
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“Disorder” is a central idea of the second law and one that I will use in this book to mean the opposite of organization or order.
Negentropy or dysentropy or order
The qualifier “thermodynamic” is necessary because the word entropy is also used in other, non-thermodynamic ideas, such as spreading and information.
Tiller advised me: “Always go back to ΔG. In short, excess free energy drives the universe. Changes in any of the terms—ΔP, ΔV, ΔE, ΔT, and ΔS, or combinations thereof—can lead to available free energy for useful work. Your consciousness can be a source of excess free energy, too. Always go back to ΔG. That’s the important part.”
Nature moves, always, spontaneously in the direction of increasing entropy until it reaches equilibrium or maximum spread. Therefore, equilibrium is the highest level of entropy.
Boltzmann provided a way, one of
the most powerful methods in thermal physics, to predict the macroscopic properties of systems by averaging all possible solutions of the mechanical system at the atomic level. The second law of thermodynamics is a probabilistic law.
By 1926, the Perrin-Boltzmann message had been so successful that no one doubted the atomic hypotheses.
