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Transcript for 12/19/24: X=MAS SQUARED THE QUANTUM GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS ALWAYS

For many people hearing Christmas music on the radio is something that outs them in the Christmas spirit. I don't know why, but I find it more of a nuisance as many of the songs weren't even recorded in this century, so literally from Big Crosby, Karen Carpenter and even David Bowie we are listening to the many ghosts of Christmas past.

It is quite interesting how Edison while trying to create a way to talk with ghosts --managed to create a mechanism where we can hear recordings of singers who have long since died.

Everything about Christmas, when you think about it can only be truly experienced on a quantum level in order for it to be legitimate. 

I mean it would be hard for anyone to explain how every year Santa defies the laws of physics when he attempts to deliver his presents to every child in every corner of the earth in one night.

Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west which seems logical. This works out to 822.6 visits per second.

This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth, we are now estimating 78 miles per town county or province , that would be a total trip of 75½ million miles, not counting stops to do bathroom breaks, plus feeding the reindeer This means that Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at 27.4 miles per second — a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that “flying reindeer” could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer.

This increases the payload (not even counting the weight of the sleigh) to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance — this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.

The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy…per second…each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.

Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. Of course this would mean that Santa would wind up looking a pile of jelly rather than a bowl full of jelly.

Christmas magic in order for it to be plausible has to be explained on a quantum level .

The fact that no one knows where Santa is at a particular moment in time makes him a perfect candidate for some elementary use of Heisenberg’s Principle of Uncertainty.

Consider this: On Christmas night, Santa is in a superposition of quantum states, smeared out all the way round the planet, and each quantum state delivers presents to a single child. The is called parallel processing -- something that would be akin to sending thousands of emails in one second. The coverage is astronomical.

This explains why it is so important that children are asleep, because if just one child sees Santa, he immediately collapses into a single state, in accordance with Heisenberg.

So peeking in on Santa would freeze him in that small moment in time and that would mean that no other children would receive presents that Christmas.

This theory elegantly avoids all the flaws in the conventional theory. Of course, the smearing of Santa is similar to the manner in which an electron is “smeared out” within a certain distance from the nucleus in an atom. Thus he can, quite literally, be everywhere at any given moment.

Another mind-boggling theory is that there are also possibilities that Santa is entirely capable of arriving before he even leaves the North Pole.

It would be possible to see two images of him and then he would take on the characteristics of tachyon particles. Since a tachyon always moves faster than light, we cannot see it approaching.

After a tachyon has passed nearby, we would be able to see two images of it, appearing and departing in opposite directions. Yes it is all hypothetical but so are Black Holes – well, they are still debating their purpose and whether or not they reveal anything about time and space.

This brings us back to that, ‘Many-Interacting Worlds Theory’, paraconsistent logic, mental voodoo or the ghost universe proposition.

If we apply these principles then two of our favorite Holiday movies would become horror and science fiction masterpieces as they have already introduced us to the paranormal and time travel.

It's a Wonderful Life as with many Christmas movies like 
A Christmas Carol have already shown us that a multiverse is a possibility and that there are many outcomes in many timelines where you the main character plays an integral part, while others can remain acausal beings that make no real impact on anyone or anything.

In the end however we learn that everything you do matters, and that what little you think you do has a major impact on the outcome of what is in the present.

It’s a Wonderful Life has certain resonances with A Christmas Carol. George is, like Scrooge, shown the impact he has on his friends, family, and neighbors through supernatural means. 

But Scrooge is taken to a past and present where he exists (and then, of course, a future in which he doesn’t. He witnesses things of which he was already aware or could have been had he sought the knowledge. George is offered the chance to see what the world would entail had he never existed at all.

Unbeknownst to even many film fans today, Frank Capra, the man who directed It's a Wonderful life was not only a pre-eminent cultural warrior who took every opportunity to expose fascist movements during the 1930’s and 1940’s but also fought to provide a positive principled understanding of the divinity mankind’s higher nature in all his works. When asked to put into words what motivated him to create movies he said:

"My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other”

During World War II, Capra’s Why We Fight series was one of the most important educational tools used to shape the hearts and minds of the American population towards the strategic nature and purpose of the war against the fascist machine.

It is ironic that Capra had been a target of the House on Un-American Activities due to his friendship with many blacklisted film makers, and watched as Hollywood was purged of those key individuals who acted as it’s conscience when Hollywood’s role as a tool of patriotism or fascism was still undetermined.

Capra’s documentary The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays illustrated his powerful technique that sought to unite science and art through a reverence for God’s creation which is in many ways as cutting edge today as it was 60 years ago.

It is obvious that Capra had an interest in science and scientific theorem in literature as in the film there are puppets that represent the thinkers that he most admired. 

One of them was Charles Dickens. 

When you stop to think what Charles Dickens was really illustrating in his story of Scrooge you would stop and ask if that maybe at least once a year you can go through the transition from feeling persecuted to opening your heart to the possibilities before you in the future.

It appears that in our time, the future is weakening us and our past and present are confusing us. Scrooge’s transformation was legendary, because he gave up his selfish attitudes when he realized that all of the knowledge, he thought he had was misguided.

Initially, Scrooge is a miser who shows a decided lack of concern for the rest of mankind. However, after a night of horrifying ghost appearances, Scrooge sees life in a whole new way.

In December of 1843 Dickens wrote:

“I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.”

A Christmas carol is one of those scary ghost stories that was ahead of its time. Who would have thought that a Christmas story would include both ghosts and time travel in order to make a point about having to change in order to see progress.

Scrooge was shown his past, his present and a foreboding future where he would lie cold and unloved in a pauper’s grave.

I was thinking about Charles Dickens as I was reading about a new time travel theory that could explain why we experience magical moments in our lives.

It is called the ‘Many-Interacting Worlds Theory’ and it talks about stuff that science fiction movies are made of. Authored by Professor Howard Wiseman from Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Dr. Michael Hall also from Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics, and Dr. Dirk-Andre Deckert from the University of California, the theory claims that our universe is only one among many universes that exist.

Interestingly, these multiverses exist on the same space, on the same timeline, and occasionally interact when they bump into each other. Moreover, these other universes are also supposed to be governed by the same laws of physics that our universe follows. If this theory, presented through a paper published in the Physical Review X journal is correct, it means what we know about space and time is inaccurate, and that travelling through time is in fact, possible.

And so the concept of going back in time or going forward in time to change the present will no longer be just a movie plot but a very real scenario. And the world we know can easily become an altered version where dinosaurs still exist (because the historic giant asteroid missed our planet and struck some other universe) and the lost city of Atlantis is not a myth but a real city that still stands because the gigantic tsunami that was supposed to have buried it deep under water hit some other city.

the parallel universes can best be imagined as ‘ghost universes.’ The ‘ghost’ part is the fact that they exist, but they can’t be seen because they interact with our universe under conditions that we can only speculate about. Supposedly, the interaction happens through a force that acts on similar particles that exist within the different universes. However, the interaction is almost negligible that it can’t be noticed but is enough to explain how quantum mechanics work.

The psychological insights expressed in A Christmas Carol correspond to the insights into personal growth provided by quantum psychology, which is a combination of Eastern philosophy and Western science. Perhaps the most revolutionary insight is that talking about problems does not bring about transformation but hinders it. Dreams are produced solely by the unconscious mind and just as we dream in pictures, fundamental change emerges from communicating with the unconscious mind in the language it prefers – pictures. When we do, the brain responds immediately.

Another shared insight is the connection between personal growth and higher consciousness. Scrooge’s first ghost, Jacob Marley, who is Scrooge’s deceased business partner, introduces the subject of higher consciousness. He warns Scrooge that success in business is not enough: “Man was my business, charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.”

So also the changes that emerge with the practice of quantum techniques both improve our ordinary lives and bring about higher consciousness. For example, we become courageous, enjoy life and have satisfying relationships; we also become compassionate, spiritual beings, which are characteristics of higher consciousness.

Opening the mind up to magic and miracles at Christmas can raise our consciousness.

The magic spoken of during the Christmas season can now be interchangeable with quantum philosophy. That is of course if you are afraid that your character will be judged harshly for engaging in magical thinking.

As adults, we are certainly aware of the flaws in the conventional Santa Claus theory, but young children seem to accept it quite readily. The older children get the less gullible they are and require a more rigorous proof of his existence.

The answer to this problem lies in quantum theory and concepts that can only be explained using the theory that we live in a simulation and that there are many simulations happening all at once.

.The Multiverse is a collection of scientific theories, positing that there are multiple universes beyond the observable one. This theory has different explanations and underlying justifications, but the one we hear most about, at least in popular culture, is the “many worlds” interpretation. It’s based on quantum mechanics—the study of how things work on an atomic and subatomic level, and thus constitute reality. 

The “many worlds” theory posits that for every cause, every possible effect occurs simultaneously. We can only observe one of those outcomes, but each of the other outcomes also occurs and splits into its own universe. 

In one Universe there is a George Bailey, Clarence the angel shows him a universe without George Bailey. In one Universe, there is an Ebeneezer Scrooge -- in a past timeline we see what effects Scrooge had on those around him, in the present we see what effects he has on those around him and eventually we see the outcome of one future where he dies alone --without friends. The moral is that you can change your timeline and your journey can lead you to a brighter and more prosperous future.

Because contemporary psychology has no name for these experiences, we call them for lack of a better word, paranormal. However, many can see that it is quantum quickening that can allow these stories of fantasy to become reality outside of the classical physics model.

Unlike Scrooge seeing quantum shadows in time, George Bailey finds himself abruptly in a world in which he never existed, in a world in which the things he did were never done because he was not there to do them.

George Bailey, saved his brother from drowning, prevented the local pharmacist Mr. Gower from making a deadly error in filling a prescription, and marries his sweetheart Mary, saves the savings and loan association so the evil banker Mr. Potter won’t destroy the town, and in general makes sacrifices himself for the benefit of others.

It leads to a moment when that evil banker manages surreptitiously steal money needed to keep the savings and loan solvent, and George despairs of life. He would have committed suicide had the angel not intervened; throwing himself in the river so George would rescue him.

Then when George is blaming himself for the present crisis, Clarence changes the past such that George Bailey never lived. History has been changed; it was changed based on George’s wish, although George did not travel to the past to change it. Clarence changed the past; he did not travel to the past to do it, but he did reach back into the past and cause the change, based on information in the present.

It thus might be argued this is a grandfather paradox. George has not exactly killed his own grandfather, but he has undone his own existence, and now he does not exist to make the wish that does this. We ought to be trapped in an infinity loop, since undoing George’s existence undoes the reason for undoing it, and so undoes the undoing. In fact, if George was never born, he should not be able to know what the world would have been like without him.

It might be resolved by adopting a parallel dimension explanation: George has moved sideways into a universe in which he never existed, and then returns to his own universe after an hour or so of studying that world. It means that the bleak dreadful world without George Bailey also exists and he was able to be an acausal entity in a paralleled dimension seeing a world without him in it. A causality is defined as the ability to exist outside of causality, or the natural flow of manipulating cause and effect. It has now been theorized that if you go back in time and kill an acausal being in the past or prevent the being from being born created, it will still exist in the present and other timelines. Often, even if an acausal being is killed in the present it can still survive by appearing from another timeline.

There are a few points in the story that might be challenged. Most of them concern the notion that the absence of George Bailey would not have been filled by someone else. Mr. Gower probably would have hired a different assistant, and that assistant might have recognized the mistake as easily as George.

Granted that Harry drowned, the air force would have had some other pilot in his place who might have been that Medal of Honor winner who rescued the men Harry was not there to save. Someone else might have saved the savings and loan. Mary might have married someone else. Still, it is not certain that anyone would have stepped into these roles, and the alternate history is at least credible.

Quantum philosophy and quantum change can open our minds to the idea that what little we do, can contribute a lot in the quantum picture.

The solution lies in Scrooge’s question: is this what will be, or what may be? Well, the answer is that he is seeing a retro causal future which is the most probable future based on the present at the moment he leaves it. The information he receives alters the probabilities after that moment, and so the future is altered without changing the fact that at that moment in the past a different future was predicted.

Time, like a pretzel, will twist and turn and leave us with our mouths open at the quantum entanglements and synchronicities. Can anyone stop for a moment and realize that the time travel in a Christmas Carol is more of a paranormal event rather than a scientific one proposed by H.G. Wells and his Time machine?

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843, before The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, which was published in 1895.

It is important to note that things like Time Travel and multiverse visions were something talked about that long ago.

It raises the question as to whether or not Dickens or Wells were part of some Time Travel cult that had experiences with the quantum field. 

Wells himself, through the voice of the Time Traveler in his book , uses memory - which is ultimately the basis of Scrooge’s travels - as a means of validating time travel:

"You are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment-- meaning that the most remedial form of Time travel is recall. Drawing from memory, we can relive the past -- anything more would be paranormal or scientific.

Nikolai Tesla claimed that he was able to time travel in 1898.

Consequently even while we may deem the supernatural to be irrational in real life, within the narrative of fiction, it is no less rational than the pseudo-scientific presumptions made by authors, and can nevertheless provide explanation enough to propel the story forwards.

This is not to say that Dickens’s story does not present difficulties or barriers to reading Scrooge’s journey as a scientifically rational experience; Dickens s enjoyment in the magic of his story can lead to instances that call into question the reality of what is occurring. Scrooge does not only seethe past, but figments of his imagination as well.

In order to experience these things he must have an Out of body Experience -- otherwise scrooge dies at least three time in the night and awakens a changed man.

Same with George bailey in its a wonderful life -- Clarence the angel tells him, "You have never been born."

Poof - you become an NPC a non player character in a simulated video game, of sorts. 

We now take for granted that authors who include time travel and simulated events in their stories know what they are talking about -- but most do not, they just use the trope as a Deus ex machina -- it either saves the narrative or makes it awkward cliche.

But stories like a Christmas Carol and It's Wonderful life continue to be Christmas favorites, when they could be considered Christmas horror or even Christmas science fiction.

I am sure none of them are thought of in that way, but if we focus on the morbid thoughts or George Bailey or the threatening aspects of the hooded ghost of Christmas yet to come, we can understand just how much of a nightmare this can create.

In fact in the book a Christmas Carol Scrooge acknowledges that he may have died and had an out of body experience where he says:

“I don’t know what day of the month it is!” said Scrooge. “I don’t know how long I’ve been among the Spirits.” 

This appears to be similar to biblical passages where prophets like Enoch and Ezekiel describe experiences above planet where they do not know if they are in a sprit form or a physical one.

These descriptions also apply to so called UFO absentees that do not understand how they go from being in their beds to being testes and probed in a alien laboratory.

This Dickens story and the George Bailey Frank Capra movie could easily be changed where three aliens take Scrooge into a UFO -- or that a Trickster alien named Clarence finds a way to adjust time without George in it -- those scripts I am sure are collecting dust somewhere or are too obvious for Hollywood not to produce.

Self-discovery and disassociation are made more tangible for Scrooge through the unnatural sensation of seeing himself from the outside. This is the narrative advantage of time travel, for “A time travel story, because it is able, in the mode of strict realism, to double back on itself, can portray modes of self-reflection in a conveniently literal way.

Oh what we could do if we had enough time -- or if we could reverse time to correct a mistake or an accident that had huge repercussions on the ones you love.

Time is a fundamental factor in defining ourselves; Scrooge as a young man is distinct from the Scrooge we meet at the start of the story , and the identification of the two Scrooges is subjective: the Scrooge visiting his past would refer to himself as the present Scrooge, and the younger man as the past Scrooge, while conversely the younger would recognize himself as the present Scrooge, and the older Scrooge as future Scrooge. It is a paradox where both are correct and incorrect: they can both lay claim to being the present Scrooge while fundamentally they are distinct from one another and so obviously we see that dickens never really thought of this paradox-- in reality the whole timeline would seize.

Scrooge can, however, change the future. His return to the present day allows him to use the lessons of the past, present and future to mend his ways and avert the visions he has seen. 

Same with George Bailey -- the story uses superposition in order place George Bailey out of his self-imposed limbo to being able to see that despite all of the problems we face and contribute to, we still have a wonderful albeit quantum life.