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Is there a limit to the size of objects that can show this extraordinary behavior? Apparently not as nothing in quantum theory puts any limit to this size. Even living things (to be tested shortly) are expected to behave likewise.
Apparently a completely new theory will be necessary. Anton Zeilinger, leader of the fullerene experiment team, had this to say: "Something else--some other undiscovered theory--will have to explain what role information plays. But if you are thinking that this new theory will put us out of our collective misery over the weirdness we see in quantum experiments, think again. There's no indication that it shouldn't get weirder."
Items that interest us for the discussion that follows are: Objects that become super-positioned may always and instantaneously be located in non-local space--where they will remain in waiting for such an occasion as being recalled by an observer to normal local space. Once made, that recall occurs instantaneously.
It may also be true that all material objects not being observed by a conscious observer are in such a state. That is the thinking behind the statement of quantum physicists that the moon is not there unless an observer is observing it.
So where is the moon if one person is observing it and another is not doing so? The most likely reality is that it is there for the one looking, but not for the person not looking. It has to be in the observer's mind to be his or her reality.
Experimental work indicates that information about what has happened, is happening, and perhaps, what will happen to the fullerene molecules we have described is carried from the fullerene being observed by emitted photons. Previous such work also shows that the amount of information being generated and needing to be instantly available in such events can be large and variable. How is this necessary information stored, who keeps the records, and who or what makes the decisions about which information is to be activated?
Further questions remain, an important one being how many "bits" of information would be required to move from a non-local dimension to a specific address in a local one. How does a photon in non-local space 'know' where it came from?
Since the observer is normally completely unconscious about the details of this process and, for the most part, has zero knowledge that such a process exists, observers can be ruled out as being the necessary information banks.
These information banks, if they exist, must surely also be located in non-local space. And as the over-all process appears to include decision making, it becomes extremely difficult to perceive it as being other than subject to conscious control. Could it be computerized? Possibly, but who built the computer, who maintains it, and who runs it?
Few have had the courage to even speculate about this problem. One view that is held by those who subscribe to a philosophy termed "monistic idealism" is that the whole universe is created from consciousness and is existent only in consciousness--the consciousness of God. For such idealists, consciousness is the ground of all being.
The Urantia revelation puts it this way: The universe is mind planned, mind made, and mind administered. (481)
All the worlds of every universe are constantly within the consciousness of God. (49)
God is possessed of unlimited power to know all things; his consciousness is universal. (49)
When man analytically inspects the universe through the material endowments of his physical senses and associated mind perception, the cosmos appears to be mechanical and energy-material. Such a technique of studying reality consists in turning the universe inside out. (1135)
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