Le Pont de Babel-Sérail

Un aspect bien connu de la physique quantique est que certaines observations ne peuvent être prédites de manière absolue. Au lieu de cela, il y a tout un éventail d’observations possibles, chacune ayant une probabilité différente. Une explication traditionnelle, l’interprétation de la « pluralité des mondes » énonce que chacune de ces possibilités correspond à un univers différent (le « multivers »). Une nouvelle théorie scientifique, appelée biocentrisme, affine ces idées. Il y a un nombre infini d’univers et tout ce qui pourrait éventuellement arriver se produit dans un certain univers. La mort n’existe pas dans un sens réel dans ces scénarios. Tous les univers possibles existent simultanément, sans se soucier de ce qui se produit dans n’importe lequel d’entre eux. Bien que le corps individuel soit destiné à l’autodestruction, le sentiment vivant – le « Qui suis-je » – est juste une fontaine d’énergie de 20 watts qui opère dans le cerveau. Mais cette énergie ne disparaît pas à la mort. Un des axiomes les plus sûrs de la science est que l’énergie ne meurt jamais ; elle ne peut ni être créée, ni être détruite. Mais cette énergie transite-t-elle d’un monde à un autre ?

Considérons une expérience récemment publiée dans le journal Science qui montre que les scientifiques pourraient rétroactivement changer quelque chose qui s’est produit dans le passé. Les particules doivent décider de comment se comporter quand elles frappent un séparateur de faisceau. Plus tard, l’expérimentateur peut activer ou désactiver un autre interrupteur. Il s’avère que ce que l’observateur décide à ce moment, a déterminé le comportement de la particule dans le passé. Sans se soucier du choix que vous, l’observateur, faites, c’est vous qui ferez l’expérience de ce qui en résultera. Les liens entre ces diverses histoires et les univers transcendent nos idées classiques de l’espace et du temps. Pensez à l’énergie de 20 watts comme simplement holo-projetant ce résultat ou bien un autre sur un écran. Si vous activez ou désactivez le second séparateur de faisceau, c’est toujours la même batterie ou le même agent responsable de la projection.

Selon le biocentrisme, l’espace et le temps ne sont pas les objets solides que nous pensons. Bougez votre main dans les airs – si vous enlevez tout, que reste-t-il ? Rien. La même chose s’applique au temps. Vous ne pouvez rien voir à travers l’os qui entoure votre cerveau. Tout ce que vous voyez et vivez là maintenant est un tourbillon d’informations qui se produit dans votre esprit. L’espace et le temps sont simplement les outils qui assemblent le tout.

La mort n’existe pas dans un monde sans temps ni espace. A la fin, même Einstein a admis : « Maintenant Besso (un vieil ami) est parti de ce monde étrange un petit peu avant moi. Ce qui ne signifie rien. Les gens comme nous… savent que la distinction entre le passé, le présent et le futur n’est qu’une illusion obstinément persistante ». L’immortalité ne signifie pas une existence perpétuelle sans fin dans le temps mais réside plutôt hors du temps en tout. [...]

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NdT : Le docteur Robert Lanza est considéré comme l’un des meilleurs spécialistes sur son travail sur les cellules souches. Il est professeur de Médecine régénérative à l’Université Wake Forest et est également l’auteur du livre : « Biocentrisme : Comment la Vie et la Conscience sont les clés pour comprendre la vraie nature de l’Univers. »

Source: http://nao-org.com/2010/06/la-theorie-du-biocentrisme-face-a-la-mort/

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by Robert Lanza M.D. Scientist, theoretician and author, 'Biocentrism'

Five Reasons You Won't Die

We've been taught we're just a collection of cells, and that we die when our bodies wear out. End of story. I've written textbooks showing how cells can be engineered into virtually all the tissues and organs of the human body. But a long list of scientific experiments suggests our belief in death is based on a false premise, that the world exists independent of us − the great observer.

Here are five reasons you won't die.

Reason One. You're not an object, you're a special being. According to biocentrism, nothing could exist without consciousness. Remember you can't see through the bone surrounding your brain. Space and time aren't objects, but rather the tools our mind uses to weave everything together.

"It will remain remarkable," said Eugene Wigner, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the conclusion that the content of the consciousness is an ultimate reality."

Consider the uncertainty principle, one of the most famous and important aspects of quantum mechanics. Experiments confirm it's built into the fabric of reality, but it only makes sense from a biocentric perspective. If there's really a world out there with particles just bouncing around, then we should be able to measure all their properties. But we can't. Why should it matter to a particle what you decide to measure? Consider the double-slit experiment: if one "watches" a subatomic particle or a bit of light pass through slits on a barrier, it behaves like a particle and creates solid-looking hits behind the individual slits on the final barrier that measures the impacts. Like a tiny bullet, it logically passes through one or the other hole. But if the scientists do not observe the trajectory of the particle, then it exhibits the behavior of waves that allow it pass through both holes at the same time. Why does our observation change what happens? Answer: Because reality is a process that requires our consciousness.

The two-slit experiment is an example of quantum effects, but experiments involving Buckyballs and KHCO3 crystals show that observer-dependent behavior extends into the world of ordinary human-scale objects. In fact, researchers recently showed (Nature 2009) that pairs of ions could be coaxed to entangle so their physical properties remained bound together even when separated by large distances, as if there was no space or time between them. Why? Because space and time aren't hard, cold objects. They're merely tools of our understanding.

Death doesn't exist in a timeless, spaceless world. After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said "Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us...know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." In truth, your mind transcends space and time.

Reason Two. Conservation of energy is a fundamental axiom of science. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can't be created or destroyed. It can only change forms. Although bodies self-destruct, the "me'' feeling is just a 20-watt cloud of energy in your head. But this energy doesn't go away at death. A few years ago scientists showed they could retroactively change something that happened in the past. Particles had to "decide" how to behave when they passed a fork in an apparatus. Later on, the experimenter could flip a switch. The results showed that what the observer decided at that point determined how the particle behaved at the fork in the past.

Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply powering a projector. Whether you flip a switch in an experiment on or off, it's still the same battery responsible for the projection. Like in the two-slit experiment, you collapse physical reality. At death, this energy doesn't just dissipate into the environment as the old mechanical worldview suggests. It has no reality independent of you. As Einstein's esteemed colleague John Wheeler stated "No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon." Each person creates their own sphere of reality - we carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which energy just dissipates.

Reason Three. Although we generally reject parallel universes as fiction, there's more than a morsel of scientific truth to this genre. A well-known aspect of quantum physics is that observations can't be predicted absolutely. Instead, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation is the 'many-worlds' interpretation, which states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the 'multiverse'). There are an infinite number of universes (including our universe), which together comprise all of physical reality. Everything that can possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death doesn't exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Like flipping the switch in the experiment above, you're the agent who experiences them.

Reason Four. You will live on through your children, friends, and all who you touch during your life, not only as part of them, but through the histories you collapse with every action you take. "According to quantum physics," said theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, "the past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities." There's more uncertainty in bio-physical systems than anyone ever imagined. Reality isn't fully determined until we actually investigate (like in the Schrödinger's cat experiment). There are whole areas of history you determine during your life. When you interact with someone, you collapse more and more reality (that is, the spatio-temporal events that define your consciousness). When you're gone, your presence will continue like a ghost puppeteer in the universes of those you know.

Reason Five. It's not an accident that you happen to have the fortune of being alive now on the top of all infinity. Although it could be a one-in-a-jillion chance, perhaps it's not just dumb luck, but rather must be that way. While you'll eventually exit this reality, you, the observer, will forever continue to collapse more and more 'nows.' Your consciousness will always be in the present -- balanced between the infinite past and the indefinite future -- moving intermittently between realities along the edge of time, having new adventures and meeting new (and rejoining old) friends.

"Biocentrism" (BenBella Books) lays out Lanza's theory of everything.

Sources :

The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-new-theo_b_384515.html
Wikipédia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocentrisme
Discover Magazine: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/may/01-the-biocentric-universe-life-creates-time-space-cosmos