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Originally Posted by Busby
I like the one about the aquarium in the living room. Four people are sitting round it. One sees a fish swimming towards him, the other sees a fish swimming away from her, one sees a fish swimming from right to left and the other sees a fish swimming from left to right.
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I've read about that aquarium in Frank Kinslow's "Beyond Happiness".
Alain Aspect discovered that subatomic particles like electrons communicate with each other over vast distances, even millions of light years. What is astonishing about this discovery is that the communication happens instantaneously even at opposite ends of the universe. Einstein showed us that faster-than-light communication is impossible. So how can this be? David Bohm suggested that these subatomic particles are not really separate entities but two expressions of a much subtler energy/intelligence system. He said that we only perceive them to be separate.
To illustrate he explained it in this way. You are in one room and a fish in an aquarium is in another room. You are not told how many fish are in the aquarium. Someone has set up two video cameras so that you can see the fish. One camera is in the front of the aquarium and the other is pointed at the side. When you look at the two monitors you initially think that there are two fish, not one. That is because you see one image of the fish from the front and the other from the side. But soon you notice that the two fish tend to move in some kind of synchronicity. They float up and down together and when one turns to the side the other turns to face you. You might think that the fish were somehow communicating with each other. Bohm suggested that we were observing one electron from two different angles. In a linear universe this could not happen because of the restraints put on a single observer bound by space-time. That observer is limited by laser-like consciousness. If the universe were a hologram then this observation would be possible, and a great deal more.