# 21 Worst Psychic Lull Period To Date

# 21 Worst Psychic Lull Period To Date
-This is my first effort to snap out of my dolorous doldrums. The past few months were anything but pleasant. Experiencing the loss of my son, has been devastating. The moments of sadness and love are still shared and experienced by the family, see:
http://sunshine-adayinthelife.blogspot.com/
Have pretty much kept it all bottled up. Still need to open the door and face reality here. When I'm ready it will happen. So, while checking my e-mail, and not paying much attention to anything in particular, am not sure how I wound up at a website called "Tickle". This site has numerous tests for determining ones ESP level. The least thing, on my mind, was my ESP level. Almost clicked away from it, but thought maybe this will help refocus my thoughts. My heart was not really into doing this. But I did it, at warp speed , just to get it over with, and with the thought in mind, my score would be "forget it". Now a screen pops up and says for $9.95, I can get the full report. I thought" that's nice", and clicked away. But a few days later there is an e-mail stating there is a way to get it free.
( No, I'm not going to tell you )

Anyway, I was rather surprised at the scores ( LOL ). All in all it was a nicely detailed report, and in retrospect, would have been worth the $9.95. How reliable these reports are, I'm not sure, but it sure did reflect, and quite well at that, that, which I know "is there".
Yes, I do feel somewhat better for having done this.
If interested, here is the site:
http://web.tickle.com/tests/esp/authorize/signin.jsp?url=/tests/esp/index.jsp

# 20 Bending God and free Audio downloads

Check this site out. Here you will be able to download free audio and Ipod material that will be along the lines of solid training material,that took me many years of searching to locate anything as good as this material is. I bought hard copies of the books "The Handbook of the Navigator" and Bending God". You can download a free copy of "Navigator", and the other may soon be available, also free. Would be delighted to hear from you, after you checked it out. Be ready to have you chain rattled, and beliefs shook up.

http://www.hbidynamics.com/free-audio/

# 19 Develop ESP At No Charge To You.

Here are two sites, that offer a series of lessons, for you to learn ESP. All at no charge to you. So if your interested, check them out. As mentioned in my posts, I'm not interested in setting up methods on ESP or psychic learning processes.There are many offerings on the Web. Not all are free though. The Silva site is very good and will offer ( after the free lessons ) an opportunity to purchase a more comprehensive version. Keep in mind that the free lessons offered, on both sites, are sufficient for many people, but others need more coaching, and it is available with Silva at a modest investment. The Mind Energy site has a good section for those with questions, and comments.
Copy and paste the addresses into your browser.
Not able to get the links to work directly. (Still trying 7/20/2007 )
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http://www.mind-energy.net/archives/47-How-to-develop-ESP.html


http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/online/lessons/1-intro.php

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If you choose to , you can come back here, to share your experiences, with others.That would please me greatly.
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You may find the next sites listed here of great interest. While what is offered on these sites is very good, most offerings are not free.

http://www.hbinavigators.com/

http://www.ourultimatereality.com/forums/index.php
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# 18 The Psychics Blog Index

# 36 Talkers Thoughts on The Inner Babbler
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# 35 Thoughts On Walk-ins and Death
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# 34 Talker on Visualization and Law of Attraction
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# 33 Ever Heard About Walk-ins!
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# 32 What! Angels Talking To Me!
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# 31 Psychic Feeling Tones and The Talker
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# 30 Talkers Thoughts On Qigong
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# 29 Who Is That In The Mirror !
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# 28 Improve Psychic Intuition With EFT
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# 27 The American Monk & Talker's Babbler
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# 26 What? Never Experienced a Reading! Why?
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# 25 Tune up Your ESP Modes 6th Sense
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# 24 You Are Psychic
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# 23 Relax and Let Go : The Easy Way
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# 22 Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Lifes Challenges Before Birth?
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# 21 Worst Psychic Lull Period To Date 7/20/2007
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# 20 Bending God and free audio downloads
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# 19 Develop ESP At No Charge To You
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# 18 The Psychics Blog Index
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# 17 Psychic Related Notes Recovered 2/18/07
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# 16 Natal Chart - Now and Then 2/2/07
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# 15 Random Reality and Psychic Reality 1/25/07
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# 14 The Day "The Talker" Was Born 1/23/07
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# 13 Psychic Activity and What The Bleep Do We Know 1/20/07
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# 12 Psychic Lull Day 1/17/07
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# 11 My Book Sources For Psychic and Health Reading 1/13/07
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# 10 I Hear You Talking, But What Are You Saying! 1/4/07
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# 9 How Do I Know If I'm Psychic! 1/1/07
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# 8 How Does One Explain These Little Incidents ! 12/27/06
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# 7 Psychic Intuition and The Babbler 12/18/06
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# 6 Touching on Realty-Life-Metaphysics-and the Occult 12/17/06
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# 5 Conversations With Me ! 12/17/06
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# 4 Mind and Body Training Control 12/17/06
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# 3 Psychic Here and There 12/16/06
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# 2 ON BEING PSYCHIC and HOW IT ALL STARTED 12/14/06
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# 1 So You Think Your Psychic, Why ! 12/11/06
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# 17 Psychic Related Notes Recovered

Have recovered some notes, that went into the way one "feels" when "recognition sets in" regards "coincidences" in ones life. Did delete some names and correct errors from the original spelling, done a few years back. These were posted on a site that was deep into the "unusual events in ones life".
I do use various pen names according to the frame of mind I'm in, and blog I'm posting too. Have deliberately, not posted, techniques and practices used. At this time am not inclined to do so. Future, maybe !
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This is what was said:
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Finding of these sites that are beyond the mundane are most welcome. It is going to be a new experience, being able to converse with others that have also traveled along these not so mundane paths. Will need to research my notes and refresh my memory, regards the unusual events, that were, seemingly , unexplainable at the time they took place. Where to start. At what point does one actually realize that "odd things" are happening, and in some manner, this "odd thing" is no longer a coincidence. Is some what mind boggling, and shakes up ones belief factors. Have always had a deep sense "some thing is lacking" in my existence, but could not pin any thing down to a specific. Belief factors waxed and waned. Solid foundations from childhood are being shaken-up. What is taking place! As doors are opened and other teachings with what seems radically different, from that which one grew up with, causes internal conflict. Receptivity to the new, is easy for some. In my case, it was two steps forward and five steps backward, belief wise. So now, my mental doors doubt started opening and closing at around seven years of age. Lots of water over, under and around the bridge since those days.
Once my research was under way, some semblance of "this could be" set in. In that this Forum is about ( changed the forums name here)"psychic awareness", can only say , that is what I mentally came into. Nothing earth shaking of course, but for me it was a step forward with no backward steps. Do I hear some one saying, "who wants to hear about your back ground ?" I think its important to know that I wasn't born with a natural ability for the things talked about in this forum. No bolt of lightening, no bump on the head or things one hears about, that caused one to have "unusual abilities". Just plain research and practice, with an open mind. No longer concerned with the "raised eyebrow", of what I say or do. For some reason , I was locked into the belief, that only "special" kinds of people were gifted . It is a relief to know that "I" can also share and function, using those acquired gifts. It is my desire to offer hope to any, along the theme of this forum, that find it difficult to believe in what is read there. Will get down to the nitty-gritty of things experienced in future posts.
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- Today at 01:09 Time Frame:
Gas for the car, was 5 gallons for a buck.
You felt good,when the hourly rate went from 0.575 way up to .675. ( that's less than tax on a Whopper and fries today) Family started, beat up old rusty Chev. Big dream was to own a home and get away from the cranky landlords While there were a number of "odd" books coming into my awareness, (at that time), that started the "new belief factors", one did and still does stand out. "The Secret Of The Ages". Deep thought and a tremendous shake-up of belief factors. Wow, that's radical thinking. Give it a whack! ( was now crossing the taboo lines of my religion ) Had spotted a home that was up for sale, that ran along the lines of my "dream Home". Applied what I had read in the book. Numerous miscues, ups, downs, frustrations, dare to dream it, forget it, recall it, and finally "stick to it". Ah, sweet success. Yes, there is more to the tale here, but it DID happen, under impossible circumstances at the time. Have kept this as short as I was able too, but would do another post with nitty-gritty fill-in details, if anyone was interested in reading it?

(Anther's reply to my above post)
Ancient One, I must say that you have opened the doorway for RI in almost every respect here. Would it be possible (and if you really did wish to do such a thing) for you to document the incorporated steps/procedures in how you did accomplish this? At this time I myself am doing such things as documenting how I feel anyone can also do such things. You may even find better and faster ways to RI, as you do document it all in greater details. If so, maybe we could compare notes on such ways of RI, in order to perfect such skills? Do you feel that you are a natural at doing RI, then? Well given the fact that (like me) you had to open your mind a bit before doing so.
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Very happy to hear from everyone here in such ways. And waiting to see the day when such talk is open for all of the world to join in.
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- Today at 16:41 As Seth would say ,"Greetings, I freely share with you ,those blessings , I am free to share.
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Point of clarification needed here, on that first "Dream House" experience. While I had related some specifics as regards feelings and conditions that prevailed , there were prior "coincidences" that in introspection, were actually of the same nature, but on a minute scale, unrecognized by me at the time. Showing in that post, was what I consider "the turning point in awareness". No, never considered myself as a "natural" in that sense of the word, but am delving deeper into that aspect, as a matter of interest. So yes, am already capturing the nitty-gritty details of the "how" it came to pass. Doing the write-up off line though, so I can be more specific and accurate. Have found that many of the "unusual" books, created far to many unanswered questions and conditions that were troublesome to me. Just the knowing of ( for others ) the prevailing conditions and attitudes experienced along the way,may prove helpful. Not sure at this moment when the posting will take place as I am needed out on the West coast ( another story ) for a number of weeks.
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- Today at 18:21 ( name deleted), along the same lines of the topics being read here, I had reached various "stick" points. Having no one to talk with, that was willing to step out of the "box" thought wise, did build internal stress and conflict. So I did start a Blog, to hard copy my thoughts. Have found that even though one "thinks" they are aware of their belief factors, its not necessarily, what they actually believe. During what I call "my research" have found that "what I thought, I believed in, was not what I wrote as hard copy. Question became, "why the variance?" and where did it come "from". At this point coupled with other research, "free will", became an issue with me. An issue that was a troublesome conflict internally. If one "can" have anything they desire, yet its not happening as "worked",where and what ,is the "block"! So anyway, here are some thoughts on that. ( Note: During my write-up for my Blog and before doing the Post, I received the shown below "coincidence". Hmmm, whats at work here! )

( from my Blog )
Free Will - Truth or Fiction

Where to start and arrange the words and subjects covered into a congruous read! Honestly, and unfortunately, there will be no solution, no real answers, regards topics covered. Everything presented here is abstract speculation. Metaphysics, religion, God, Higher Power, spirituality, and reality are mainly speculation.
One would think that at least reality could be understood. We experience it every day. Watch it though, seems that scientists have now found that quantum physics, indicates, that what we experience as our world, is not what we think it is. Still trying to sort this one out. Will at this time, leave out most of reality talk, for another post. Part of ones reality seems to include "free will". That leads to choices and decisions. For instance, one can cheat, lie, harm another or purchase a purple and orange suit for dress up. Perhaps you helped care for a hurt animal or bird, maybe risked you life to help save a person in trouble. Even donated some cash to a charity while behind in paying the rent. So you made a decision and a choice. What you did was free will in action , right, or was it!
One classical complaint regards free will, is mentioned in the bible. If your interested go to Romans 7:15-24. So now one needs to ask, does one truly have "free will". This can be quite troublesome in ones life. Is there an explanation to this seeming paradox? Yes and no, are both in action here, at least it seems to be so. Have over time really pondered this issue. Also seems that others have looked into this issue. I've listed one site, that has gone into the subject quite well. It makes sense, but how to prove it, still remains an issue with me. Is it even possible to verify in any way? While I do have beliefs on this subject, will need to pursue it further.
With the best of intentions, I include:
With permission, this is a quote from "Light Whispers" newsletter.
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**DID YOU KNOW…FREE WILL***

Did you know…your life can be written in stone and that you may actually have little or no free will? The events that you must experience may be so defined that no matter what you choose to do, the Spirit Guides will manipulate the situations and circumstances so that you end up doing what was written (which is often not what you thought would happen). You cannot change what is written. Did you know…you may have a lot of free will on your life path? It may not matter what you choose to experience in your life. If your spiritual goals and life blueprint do not have events that “must happen” for you to learn what you have chosen, you may be able to do what you want throughout your life.
Did you know…different areas or aspects of your life might allow for different amounts of free will? That means that you may have a lot of free will when it comes to your job or career and you may have little or no free will when it comes to your romantic relationships. Each aspect of life is unique and the amount of free will that you have within that aspect depends on what you are here to accomplish in life.
Did you know…you decide prior to being born what events will take place in your life and how much free will you will have during your lifetime? There is no one to blame for the experiences that you have or do not have in your life – you chose and agreed to have them.
Did you know…if you have a lot of free will, when you make a decision it will affect your life blueprint and you will sit down in Spirit with your Guides and Teachers and make the necessary adjustments to your life path as you go?
Did you know… One decision can affect other aspects of your life and that can affect predicted outcomes. That is why when you get a reading, your actions or decisions can change the outcomes of the reading. If you have no free will then what you have been told will come true when it is time.
That you can find out if you how much free will you have in certain aspects of your life by

clicking here.

http://www.oralin.com/infocentre.phtml

Seems this link is dead:
http://www.oralin.com/october5lightwhispers.htm
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So It is and came to pass
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# 16 Natal Chart - Now and Then - and Why Blog !

My "Babbler" raised the question again, of the numerous blogs, I maintain. So I asked myself the same question, "why", do I do it. Numerous reasons cropped up that could have been the real reason of doing the blogs. Many human qualities came to mind, vanity, ego (LOL), and a few others that didn't ring true. So I did what I frequently do, when faced with a situation like this. I pulled my old copy of a natal chart print out and re-read it. Of course, I was cherry picking, looking for what could apply to the question posed here. For what it's worth, here are my cherry pickings:

(Ascendant is Cancer) is in the Second Decan/-sensitivity toward creative expression))

(Sun is in Gemini) a nonconformist seeking new and exciting lifestyle, especially if you can talk about them-easily depressed and need several ongoing interests to keep you happy))

([Sun is in the 12th House] your activities center on serving the needs of others, often from behind the scenes)

([Sun is Squared to Uranus] your insistence on having your own way, which often seems eccentric)

(Mercury is in the First House) your daily activities usually requires that you express yourself by talking and by writing))

([Mercury is Sextile to Venus] you have literary and artistic abilities)

([Mercury is Trine to Uranus] you learn to trust and follow-up on your intuitive hunches,- you enjoy study of scientific subjects,)

(Mars is in the ninth house) your activity centers on the pursuit of higher wisdom))

Was quite interesting rereading my natal chart, in the present moment, and seeing what parts were valid, in relation to what was stated at that time.It was many years ago, then I wrote the following:
"Ones natal Horoscope does not "predict" what you're going to be like. This is so frequently misunderstood. You're reading is merely saying "at the time of conception or birth, these are the planetary influences you were in endowed with".There is severe controversy on so many aspects of astrology, that it boggles ones mind to wade through the Pro and Con of it all. I make no case for or against astrology. The system and methodology I follow is also up for grabs. Draw your own conclusions based on the gut reaction. Some traits may only indicate that given the right conditions, "here is what could" take place."
I may be biased, but I would say that there was a high percentage of hits. Whether this is just a fluke or a one in a billion "coincidence", I'm pleased with its accuracy.
I should know, for I have lived it.
So for the original question, I guess I do Blogs for the pleasure of doing it, and sharing, with whomever cares to read it, the good, the bad, and the indifferent, experiences of life.

# 15 Random Reality and Psychic Reality

This was just found. It is a hard read, and some what matches along with what was covered in post # 13. These two posts, #13, and this one, fit in beautifully with the Seth material, written by Jane Roberts. Notice that I didnt say " ahaa, now I understand it all", but "some" loose ends were tied together. Bit by bit, and still way over my head at this point, perhaps one day, I'll intuit it into a cohesive understanding. Anyway these scientists are first now, coming up with what Seth was explaining, about reality, some 25 years ago.
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Random Reality

Space and the material world could be created out of nothing but noise. That's the startling conclusion of a new theory that attempts to explain the stuff of reality.
If you could lift a corner of the veil that shrouds reality, what would you see beneath? Nothing but randomness, say two Australian physicists. According to Reginald Cahill and Christopher Klinger of Flinders University in Adelaide, space and time and all the objects around us are no more than the froth on a deep sea of randomness.
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that randomness is a part of the Universe. After all, physicists tell us that empty space is a swirling chaos of virtual particles. And randomness comes into play in quantum theory -- when a particle such as an electron is observed, its properties are randomly selected from a set of alternatives predicted by the equations.
But Cahill and Klinger believe that this hints at a much deeper randomness. "Far from being merely associated with quantum measurements, this randomness is at the very heart of reality," says Cahill. If they are right, they have created the most fundamental of all physical theories, and its implications are staggering. "Randomness generates everything," says Cahill. "It even creates the sensation of the 'present', which is so conspicuously absent from today's physics."
Their evidence comes from a surprising quarter -- pure mathematics. In 1930, the Austrian-born logician Kurt G -- del stunned the mathematical world with the publication of his incompleteness theorem. It applied to formal systems -- sets of assumptions and the statements that can be deduced from those assumptions by the rules of logic. For example, the Greeks developed their geometry using a few axioms, such as the idea that there is only one straight line through any pair of points. It seemed that a clever enough mathematician could prove any theorem true or false by reasoning from axioms.
But G -- del proved that, for most sets of axioms, there are true theorems that cannot be deduced. In other words, most mathematical truths can never be proved.
This bombshell could easily have sent shock waves far beyond mathematics. Physics, after all, is couched in the language of maths, so G -- del's theorem might seem to imply that it is impossible to write down a complete mathematical description of the Universe from which all physical truths can be deduced. Physicists have largely ignored G -- del's result, however. "The main reason was that the result was so abstract it did not appear to connect directly with physics," says Cahill.
But then, in the 1980s, Gregory Chaitin of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, extended G -- del's work, and made a suggestive analogy. He called G -- del's unprovable truths random truths. What does that mean? Mathematicians define a random number as one that is incompressible. In other words, it cannot be generated by an algorithm -- a set of instructions or rules such as a computer program -- that is shorter than the number. Chaitin defined random truths as ones that cannot be derived from the axioms of a given formal system. A random truth has no explanation, it just is.
Chaitin showed that a vast ocean of such truths surrounds the island of provable theorems. Any one of them might be stumbled on by accident -- an equation might be accidentally discovered to have some property that cannot be derived from the axioms -- but none of them can be proved. The chilling conclusion, wrote Chaitin in New Scientist, is that randomness is at the very heart of pure mathematics (24 March 1990, p 44).
To prove his theorem, G -- del had concocted a statement that asserted that it was not itself provable. So G -- del's and Chaitin's results apply to any formal system that is powerful enough to make statements about itself.
"This is where physics comes in," says Cahill. "The Universe is rich enough to be self-referencing -- for instance, I'm aware of myself." This suggests that most of the everyday truths of physical reality, like most mathematical truths, have no explanation. According to Cahill and Klinger, that must be because reality is based on randomness. They believe randomness is more fundamental than physical objects.
At the core of conventional physics is the idea that there are "objects" -- things that are real, even if they don't interact with other things. Before writing down equations to describe how electrons, magnetic fields, space and so on work, physicists start by assuming that such things exist. It would be far more satisfying to do away with this layer of assumption.
This was recognized in the 17th century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz believed that reality was built from things he called monads, which owed their existence solely to their relations with each other. This picture languished in the backwaters of science because it was hugely difficult to turn into a recipe for calculating things, unlike Newton's mechanics.
But Cahill and Klinger have found a way to do it. Like Leibniz's monads, their "pseudo-objects" have no intrinsic existence -- they are defined only by how strongly they connect with each other, and ultimately they disappear from the model. They are mere scaffolding.
The recipe is simple: take some pseudo-objects, add a little randomness and let the whole mix evolve inside a computer. With pseudo-objects numbered 1, 2, 3, and so on, you can define some numbers to represent the strength of the connection between each pair of pseudo-objects: B12 is the strength of the connection between 1 and 2; B13 the connection between 1 and 3; and so on. They form a two-dimensional grid of numbers -- a matrix.
The physicists start by filling their matrix with numbers that are very close to zero. Then they run it repeatedly through a matrix equation which adds random noise and a second, non-linear term involving the inverse of the original matrix. The randomness means that most truths or predictions of this model have no cause -- the physical version of Chaitin's mathematical result. This matrix equation is largely the child of educated guesswork, but there are good precedents for that. In 1932, for example, Paul Dirac guessed at a matrix equation for how electrons behave, and ended up predicting the existence of antimatter.
When the matrix goes through the wringer again and again, most of the elements remain close to zero, but some numbers suddenly become large. "Structures start forming," says Cahill. This is no coincidence, as they chose the second term in the equation because they knew it would lead to something like this. After all, there is structure in the Universe that has to be explained.
The structures can be seen by marking dots on a piece of paper to represent the pseudo-objects 1, 2, 3, and so on. It doesn't matter how they are arranged. If B23 is large, draw a line between 2 and 3; if B19 is large, draw one between 1 and 9. What results are "trees" of strong connections, and a lot of much weaker links. And as you keep running the equation, smaller trees start to connect to others. The network grows.
The trees branch randomly, but Cahill and Klinger have found that they have a remarkable property. If you take one pseudo-object and count its nearest neighbors in the tree, second nearest neighbors, and so on, the numbers go up in proportion to the square of the number of steps away (click on thumbnail graphic below). This is exactly what you would get for points arranged uniformly throughout three-dimensional space. So something like our space assembles itself out of complete randomness. "It's downright creepy," says Cahill. Cahill and Klinger call the trees "gebits", because they act like bits of geometry. Tree roots: pseudo-objects link up into random trees, which link into ever larger structures. The hierarchy of neighbors is just like that of points in 3D space
They haven't proved that this tangle of connections is like 3D space in every respect, but as they look closer at their model, other similarities with our Universe appear. The connections between pseudo-objects decay, but they are created faster than they decay. Eventually, the number of gebits increases exponentially. So space, in Cahill and Klinger's model, expands and accelerates -- just as it does in our Universe, according to observations of the recession of distant supernovae. In other words, Cahill and Klinger think their model might explain the mysterious cosmic repulsion that is speeding up the Universe's expansion.
And this expanding space isn't empty. Topological defects turn up in the forest of connections -- pairs of gebits that are far apart by most routes, but have other shorter links. They are like snags in the fabric of space. Cahill and Klinger believe that these defects are the stuff we are made of, as described by the wave functions of quantum theory, because they have a special property shared by quantum entities: nonlocality. In quantum theory, the properties of two particles can be correlated, or "entangled", even when they are so far apart that no signal can pass between them. "This ghostly long-range connectivity is apparently outside of space," says Cahill. But in Cahill and Klinger's model of reality, there are some connections that act like wormholes to connect far-flung topological defects.
Even the mysterious phenomenon of quantum measurement can be seen in the model. In observing a quantum system any detector ought to become entangled with the system in a joint quantum state. We would see weird quantum superpositions like Schr -- dinger's alive-and-dead cat. But we don't.
How does the quantum state "collapse" to a simple classical one? In Cahill and Klinger's model, the nonlocal entanglements disappear after many iterations of the matrix equation. That is, ordinary 3D space reasserts itself after some time, and the ghostly connection between measuring device and system is severed.
This model could also explain our individual experience of a present moment. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, all of space-time is laid out like a four-dimensional map, with no special "present" picked out for us to feel. "Einstein thought an explanation of the present was beyond theoretical physics," says Cahill. But in the gebit picture, the future is not predetermined. You never know what it will bring, because it is dependent on randomness. "The present is therefore real and distinct from an imagined future and a recorded past," says Cahill.
Sand castles
But why can't we detect this random dance of the pseudo-objects? "Somehow, in the process of generating reality, the pseudo-objects must become hidden from view," says Cahill. To simulate this, the two physicists exploited a phenomenon called self-organised criticality.
Self-organised criticality occurs in a wide range of systems such as growing sand piles. Quite spontaneously, these systems reach a critical state. If you drop sand grains one by one onto a sand pile, for instance, they build up and up into a cone until avalanches start to happen. The slope of the side of the cone settles down to a critical value, at which it undergoes small avalanches and big avalanches and all avalanches at all scales in between. This behavior is independent of the size and shape of the sand grains, and in general it is impossible to deduce anything about the building blocks of a self-organised critical system from its behavior In other words, the scale and timing of avalanches doesn't depend on the size or shape of the sand grains.
"This is exactly what we need," says Cahill. "If our system self-organises to a state of criticality, we can construct reality from pseudo-objects and simultaneously hide them from view." The dimensionality of space doesn't depend on the properties of the pseudo-objects and their connections. All we can measure is what emerges, and even though gebits are continually being created and destroyed, what emerges is smooth 3D space. Creating reality in this way is like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, throwing away the bootstraps and still managing to stay suspended in mid-air.
This overcomes a problem with the conventional picture of reality. Even if we discover the laws of physics, we are still left with the question: where do they come from? And where do the laws that explain where they come from come from? Unless there is a level of laws that explain themselves, or turn out to be the only mathematically consistent set -- as Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin believes -- we are left with an infinite regression. "But it ceases to be a problem if self-organised criticality hides the lowest layer of reality," says Cahill. "The start-up pseudo-objects can be viewed as nothing more than a bundle of weakly linked pseudo-objects, and so on ad infinitum. But no experiment will be able to probe this structure, so we have covered our tracks completely."
Other physicists are impressed by Cahill and Klinger's claims. "I have never heard of anyone working on such a fundamental level as this," says Roy Frieden of the University of Arizona in Tucson. "I agree with the basic premise that 'everything' is ultimately random, but am still sceptical of the details." He would like to see more emerge from the model before committing himself. "It would be much more convincing if Cahill and Klinger could show something physical -- that is, some physical law -- emerging from this," says Frieden. "For example, if this is to be a model of space, I would expect something like Einstein's field equation for local space curvatures emerging. Now that would be something."
"It sounds rather far-out," says John Baez of the University of California at Riverside. "I would be amazed -- though pleased -- if they could actually do what you say they claim to."
"I've seen several physics papers like this that try to get space-time or even the laws of physics to emerge from random structures at a lower level," says Chaitin. "They're interesting efforts, and show how deeply ingrained the statistical point of view is in physics, but they are difficult, path-breaking and highly tentative efforts far removed from the mainstream of contemporary physics."
What next? Cahill and Klinger hope to find that everything -- matter and the laws of physics -- emerges spontaneously from the interlinking of gebits. Then we would know for sure that reality is based on randomness. It's a remarkable ambition, but they have already come a long way. They have created a picture of reality without objects and shown that it can emerge solely out of the connections of pseudo-objects. They have shown that space can arise out of randomness. And, what's more, a kind of space that allows both ordinary geometry and the non-locality of quantum phenomena -- two aspects of reality which, until now, have appeared incompatible.
Perhaps what is most impressive, though, is that Cahill and Klinger are the first to create a picture of reality that takes into account the fundamental limitations of logic discovered by G -- del and Chaitin. In the words of Cahill: "It is the logic of the limitations of logic that is ultimately responsible for generating this new physics, which appears to be predicting something very much like our reality."
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New Scientist magazine, 26 February 2000