The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics Quotes

“In my senior year, I took a yearlong course in quantum physics. That course hammered the first big crack in my materialistic worldview. As I learned about the scientific community’s struggle to understand what was happening at the atomic and subatomic level of our universe, I discovered something I was not expecting. Physicists are in many ways just making up stories about reality. They don’t know what is ultimately going on. Science is very good at answering questions about what is happening, but not as good at understanding why it’s happening.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“When the scientists didn’t know which slit the photon went through the light acted like a wave, when they did know, it acted like a particle. Without knowing, wave, with knowing, particle. How did the particle know that the scientists knew? How does what a scientist knows affect how reality shows up? This was really weird.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“The point here is not to try to concoct new concepts of time and space, it is simply to realize that we have very strong ideas about time and space that are going to need to be creatively challenged in order to embrace the implications of quantum science. And the same goes for consciousness. How can a photon know if another slit exists, and how can it know that it is being detected? How can the fact that we know where a photon is, affect how it behaves? How can an electron on one side of the galaxy know what its sister is doing on the other? Our entire concept of what it means to know and who it is that knows is ripe for questioning.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“The Big Bang Theory, as it is known, is not a very good theory for more reasons than we will go into here, but I can tell you that I did spend time reading literature both pro and con and I came to the conclusion that it isn’t sound. There just isn’t a better theory out there yet. To me, and obviously people differ on this, saying the universe was created in a big bang is no more explanatory than saying it was created by God. The Big Bang seems like a scientifically comfortable way of saying God.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“In philosophy, the opposite of materialism is idealism. A materialist believes that the foundation of reality is matter and an idealist believes that the foundation of reality is consciousness. The story of evolution that I recounted above is a materialistic interpretation of evolution. It starts with matter and adds consciousness later. It is a story of evolution in which matter is seen as primary and consciousness as a secondary byproduct of matter.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Today we are in a place where some of the fundamental assumptions of the current paradigm have been called into question. Quantum physics has already shown us that our understanding of reality is limited at best, and perhaps just plain wrong. The ground that the modern world was built on has begun to shake. The time is ripe for a paradigm shift. This shift needs volunteers, people who are willing to believe in the impossible and pioneer a new understanding of reality. I wrote this book as encouragement for those who feel this call.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Appling created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker,”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Think about this, could you truly call something real if it could never be experienced by anyone or anything at any time? Can something that is utterly and completely incomprehensible and imperceptible be real? Another way to ask this question is to ask if things can have qualities independent of anyone’s experience of them.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“We are not separate from reality observing it from a distance. Our observations are shaping reality.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Perhaps reality is being created in each and every moment, as it is being experienced.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

“Any reality that cannot be experienced is essentially unreal.”
― Jeff Carreira, The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics: Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts