1. Does The Future Really Affect the Past?
The New Revolution in Physics, Cosmology & Consciousness
Talk at the Savile Club, London UK April 21, 2015
Jack Sarfatti
Now don’t you go right past
you mustn’t drive too fast
The future affects the past
Space time continuum, Space time continuum
Who knows where we’re from …
Excerpt from fellow Savilian Richard Fordham’s song
composed especially for this occasion
http://youtu.be/kL9YF-Aeft0
2. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.”
Burnt Norton Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsowkvhFns
3. The Important Big Picture
Problems
How do we unify Einstein’s general relativity of the
gravitational field with the quantum field theory of the
electro-weak and strong forces?
Is time travel to the past through wormhole stargates
possible?
See Cal Tech’s Kip Thorne’s movie Interstellar for
example where this question is explored in a
“science-faction” pop way.
What is consciousness? How can we explain our self-
awareness in a scientific way? This is David
Chalmer’s “hard problem.”
How real is real? For example, do we live in a
hologram simulation? See Nick Bostrum’s book on
advanced super-intelligence for example.
Are we alone in the multi-verse?
What about God?
4. “God does not play dice with the universe.”
As Albert Einstein said “God does not play dice
with the universe” we can now arrive at a post-
quantum view of things and say “He loads the
dice back from the future”.
Future events are contributory causes of present
ones – Past (Causality) is interacting with our
Future (Retro-Causality) at the junction of the
present moment called the ‘now’ moment
5. FEELING THE FUTURE: IS
PRECOGNITION POSSIBLE?
MOST SCIENCE PAPERS don’t begin with a
description of psi, those “anomalous processes of
information or energy transfer” … It’s even less
common for a serious science paper, published in
an elite journal, to show that psi is a real
phenomenon. But that’s exactly what Daryl Bem
of Cornell University has demonstrated in his new
paper, “Feeling the Future: Experimental
Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences
on Cognition and Affect,” which was just
published in The Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology.
http://www.wired.com/2010/11/feeling-the-future-
is-precognition-possible/
6. Back From the Future
A series of quantum experiments shows that
measurements performed in the future can
influence the present. Does that mean the
universe has a destiny—and the laws of physics
pull us inexorably toward our prewritten fate?
By Zeeya Merali|Thursday, August 26, 2010,
Discover Magazine
This article is about the work of David Bohm’s
protégé Yakir Aharonov and his students on the
interference of future to present “destiny”
quantum information flows with past to present
“history” quantum information flows to create
“weak measurements” in the present that have
useful laboratory applications.
7. Free Will and Retrocausality in the
Quantum World
A conference held under the auspices of the JTF-
funded project, New Agendas for the Study of
Time
Venue: Free Will and Retrocausality in the
Quantum World
Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College,
Cambridge
Dates: 1—4 July 2014
8. Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Victorian Gentleman,
Harvard Porcellian Club wrote:
“Science proceeds as if the past was the home of
explanation; whereas the future, and the future alone,
holds the key to the mysteries of the present. When
the first cell divided, the meaning of that division was
to be discovered in the future, not in the past; when
some pre-human ancestor first uttered a human
sound, the significance of that sound was to be
interpreted by human language, not by apish grunts;
when the first plant showed solicitude for its seed, the
interest of that solicitude lay in the promise of
maternal affection. Things must be judged in the light
of the coming morning, not of the setting stars”. -
Henry Dwight Sedgwick, “An Apology for Old Maids” (
1908)
9. “Creation faces the future”
“There are invisible ways of conveyance by which
some great thing doth touch our souls, and by which
we tend to it. Do you not feel yourself drawn by the
expectation and desire of some Great Thing?” -
Henry Dwight Sedgwick, “The House of
Sorrow” (1908)
‘It is not the past which, like an uncoiling spring,
pushes us on; creation faces the future, and is drawn
onward by an irresistible attraction. “For though it be a
maxim in the schools,” says Thomas Traherne, “that
there is no love of a thing unknown, yet I have found
that things unknown have a secret influence on the
soul, and, like the centre of the earth unseen, violently
attract it. We love we know not what…”
- H D Sedgwick
10. Sir James Jeans
“The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-
mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more
like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind
no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the
realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator
and governor of the realm of matter.” The Mysterious
Universe, page 137.
“I incline to the idealistic theory that consciousness is
fundamental, and that the material universe is
derivative from consciousness, not consciousness
from the material universe... In general the universe
seems to me to be nearer to a great thought than to a
great machine. It may well be, it seems to me, that
each individual consciousness ought to be compared
to a brain-cell in a universal mind.”
11. Creation of our observable universe “causal
diamond” piece of the multiverse
13. Dark stuff voids make our universe
look like a giant brain’s neural
network.
14. Niels Bohr to Wolfgang Pauli
1958
“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The
question which divides us is whether it is crazy
enough to have a chance of being correct. My own
feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”
“cosmology without apology
no-one knows the topology
only craziness will find the way
breaking down the rulebooks of today
smashing beliefs is half the job
stealing the future just to rob
the meaning of the universe will be clear
when we find a route from here to there”
Excerpt from Richard Fordham’s song.
15. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of
Time
“... if we do discover a complete theory, it should
in time be understandable in broad principle by
everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall
all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary
people, be able to take part in the discussion of
the question of why it is that we and the universe
exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the
ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we
would know the mind of God.”
16. I first recognized the quantum entanglement problem with
special relativity in 1961 at Brandeis University before it
became mainstream, but I was told to “shut up and
calculate.”
The history is given in MIT Physics Professor David Kaiser’s
award-winning book
https://archive.org/details/DavidKaiser-HowTheHippiesSavedPhysics-
Iqc-2012
18. Quantum theory is not good enough
to explain our consciousness.
“It is argued that immense physical resources -
for nonlocal communication, espionage, and
exponentially-fast computation - are hidden from
us by quantum noise, and that this noise is not
fundamental but merely a property of an
equilibrium state ... It is suggested that 'non-
quantum' or nonequilibrium matter might exist …
Nonequilibrium matter could be used to send
instantaneous signals, to violate the uncertainty
principle, …, to eavesdrop on quantum key
distribution, and to outpace quantum computation
(solving NP-complete problems in polynomial
time).” Antony Valentini
19. Post-Quantum Physics of Consciousness
Consciousness comes from entanglement signal
non-locality in the sense of the excerpt from
Antony Valentini in the last slide.
Einstein struggled for ten years to extend his
1905 special theory of relativity to his general
theory of relativity of the gravitational field He
needed two physical ideas and one mathematical
idea:
Equivalence Principle – weightlessness in free fall
Newton’s action-reaction principle generalized to
all influences of A on B.
The local frame of reference invariant tensor
calculus.
20. Action-Reaction Explains Gravity
Special relativity unified space with time and
energy with mass, but it could not explain gravity.
The reason was that the unified space-time was
rigid. It told matter how to move in the absence of
real forces, but there was no direct back-reaction
of matter on the space-time continuum geometric
field itself.
Einstein’s final gravity field tensor equations
restore the generalized Newtonian principle of no
action without a reaction. The equations show
how unified mass-energy curves spacetime.
21. Action-Reaction and Time
The quantum wave-particle duality is the same as
mind-matter duality. Bohr was already aware of
this.
The particle is approximated as a test particle in
orthodox quantum theory. It is acted upon by the
wave, but does not back-react on the wave - not
so in post-quantum theory.
The wave acts on the particle in the present both
from the past and the future.
The particle back-reacts on the wave in the
present both from the past and the future.
The former is memory. The latter is precognition.
22. Action-Reaction Explains Consciousness
Quantum theory as taught today is in the same position
that special relativity was before Einstein’s 1915
explanation of real gravity as spacetime curvature from the
direct back-reaction of the mass-energy spacetime acts
on.
The entangled quantum information fields pilot the motion
of matter in a much weirder nonlocal-retrocausal way than
does the spacetime continuum, but without direct-back-
reaction of matter on them in orthodox quantum theory that
works only for the less complex lifeless functions of matter.
Quantum information pilot fields are intrinsically mental.
Direct back-reaction of matter on its pilot field excites a
conscious experience in that pilot field. That is the basic
hypothesis that allows naturally conscious AI in androids
and in many other material environments including
perhaps the surfaces of black holes and our future dark
energy cosmological event horizon that literally may be the
world hologram “brain” of Hawking’s “Mind of God.” A crazy
idea - is it crazy enough to be true?
Henry Dwight Sedgwick
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Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Born Henry Dwight Sedgwick III
September 24, 1861
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died January 5, 1957 (aged 95)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place Stockbridge Cemetery (Sedgwick Pie)
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University
Harvard Law School
Occupation Lawyer, author
Spouse(s) Sarah Minturn (m. 1895; died 1919)
Gabriella May Ladd (m. 1953–57) (his death)
Children 4
Relatives Theodore Sedgwick
(paternal grandfather)
Ellery Sedgwick (brother)
Edie Sedgwick (granddaughter)
Henry Dwight Sedgwick III (September 24, 1861 – January 5, 1957) was an American lawyer and author.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
3.1 Marriages and children
3.2 Relatives and friends
4 Death
5 Works
6 References
6.1 Sources
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Sedgwick was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the second of five children born to Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824–1903) and Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick (1829–1899). On his paternal grandmother's side, he was part of the New England Dwight family.[1] His paternal grandfather was Theodore Sedgwick. He had an older sister, Jane Minot (1859-1918), and three younger brothers, Theodore (1863–1951), Alexander "Aleck" (1867–1929) and Ellery Sedgwick.[2]
Career[edit]
Sedgwick graduated from Harvard University in 1882, and studied law in Boston until 1884 when he was admitted to the bar. He practiced law in New York City from 1885 to 1898. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and was elected in 1893 as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose members were chosen from the National Institute; they have since become one entity. He also was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
He later became an author and wrote several historical biographies on Isaac Thomas Hecker, Henry of Navarre, Alfred de Musset, and Marcus Aurelius.
Personal life[edit]
Marriages and children[edit]
On November 8, 1895, Sedgwick married Sarah May Minturn, daughter of Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr. (part owner of the Flying Cloud clipper ship) and Susanna (née Shaw) Minturn (Susanna was the sister of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw) at St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City.[3] The couple had four children: Henry Dwight "Halla" IV (1896–1914), Edith Minturn (1901–1901), Robert Minturn (1899–1976), and Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967). Their only daughter, Edith, died the day after her birth. Their eldest son Henry IV (known as Halla) died of pneumonia at the age of 17.[4] Sarah May Minturn died of a stroke in 1919.[5]
On May 18, 1953, Sedgwick married Gabriella May Ladd in Newtown Township, Pennsylvania.[6] She was the daughter of Dr. Maynard Ladd and sculptress Anna Coleman Ladd.[7] Ladd, who was 46 years Sedgwick's junior, had never been married nor did she remarry after Sedgwick's death.[8]
Relatives and friends[edit]
Sedgwick's paternal granddaughter was Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick, the daughter of his youngest son Francis and his wife Alice Delano de Forest. Alice was the daughter of Henry deForest. During the 1960s, Edie Sedgwick starred in many of Andy Warhol's short films.
He is also a paternal great-grandfather to actress Kyra Sedgwick, whose father is Henry Dwight Sedgwick V. Henry V is the son of Sedgwick's second oldest son Robert and his first wife Helen Peabody (1890–1948), daughter of Endicott Peabody.
Sedgwick was a friend to Leavitt Hunt, son of Vermont Congressman Jonathan Hunt (Vermont Representative) and, like Sedgwick, also a Harvard Law School-educated New York attorney. Hunt was also a photographer and brother of Boston painter William Morris Hunt and architect Richard Morris Hunt. Sedgwick and Leavitt Hunt frequently corresponded.[2]
Death[edit]
On January 5, 1957, Sedgwick died at Pittsfield General Hospital in Pittsfield, Massachusetts at the age of 95.[9] His funeral was held on January 8 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Boston.[10]
Sedgwick and his first wife, Sarah Minturn Sedgwick, are buried in the Sedgwick Pie in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His second wife, Gabriella, was also buried in the Pie upon her death in 1972.
Works[edit]
The Letters of Captain Cuellar (1896)
The Life of Father Hecker (1897)
The Life of Samuel Champlain (1901)
Essays on Great Writers (1902)
The Life of Francis Parkman, in the "American Men of Letters Series" (1904)
A Short History of Italy (1905)
The New American Type and Other Essays (1908)
Italy in the Thirteenth Century (1912)
An Apology for Old Maids, and other Essays (1916)
Marcus Aurelius: A Biography told as may by Letters, together with some Account of the Stoic Religion... (1921)
PRO VITA MONASTICA: An Essay in Defence of the Contemplative Virtues (1923)
Cortés the Conqueror: The Exploits of the Earliest and Greatest of the Gentleman Adventurers in The New World (1926)
Spain: A Short History of its Politics, Literature, and Art from Earliest Times to the Present (1926)
La Fayette (1928)
France: A Short History of its Politics, Literature, and Art from Earliest Times to the Present (1929)
Henry of Navarre (1926)
Alfred De Musset, 1810-1857 (1931)
The Life of Edward the Black Prince, 1330-1376: the Flower of Knighthood out of All the World (1932)
The Art of Happiness or the Teachings of Epicurus (1933)
Dan Chaucer: An Introduction to the Poet, his Poetry, and his Times (1934)
Vienna: The Biography of a Bygone City (1939)
Memoirs of an Epicurian (1940)
Horace: A Biography (1947)
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874). The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass 2. J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders. pp. 738–739.
^ Jump up to: a b "Sedgwick Family Papers". masshist.org. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
Jump up ^ "MINTURN-SEDGWICK WEDDING". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 8, 1895. p. 4.
Jump up ^ (Sedgwick 2008, pp. 244–248)
Jump up ^ (Zimmerman 2012, p. 209)
Jump up ^ "Marriage Announcement". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 19, 1953. p. A6.
Jump up ^ (Leonard 1914, p. 469)
Jump up ^ "91-Year-Old Man To Marry Woman Of 46". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. May 12, 1953. p. 10. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Henry D. Sedgwick: Noted Biographer, 95; Harvard Graduate in '82". Daily Boston Globe. January 6, 1957. p. B51.
Jump up ^ "Henry D. Sedgwick". Daily Boston Globe. January 7, 1957. p. 16.
Sources[edit]
Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, Volume 1. The American Commonwealth Company
Sedgwick, John (2008). In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family. Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-060-52167-8
Zimmerman, Jean (2012). Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-151-01447-7
Rovin, Jeff. Cat Angels. Harper Paperbacks. ISBN 0-06-100972-5.
External links[edit]
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Works by Henry Dwight Sedgwick at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Henry Dwight Sedgwick at Internet Archive
Sedgwick-Shaw-Minturn 4 generations portrait at Flickr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hopwood_Jeans
Jeans was elected Fellow of Trinity College in October 1901,[7] and taught at Cambridge, but went to Princeton University in 1904 as a professor of applied mathematics. He returned to Cambridge in 1910.
