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If you are looking for a truly scientific explanation of the title, you have definitely arrived at the wrong place. However, a seminar I covered today for the News linked with something I read at Chapters about quantum states.

The seminar today was from Michael Losier about the Law of Attraction. In particular, simply the vibe we give out can affect our situation. When we think negatively, we are actually adding the negative to our vibe. If we think someone is an ass, we could make them an ass to us, simply because we “include them in our vibe”. That definitely ties in with the phenomenon called a self-fulfilling prophecy.

He went on to say that our vibe can actually affect the outcome of lottery tickets. That is very far fetched of course. Yet, my purely philosophical link to science based on what I have read, could very well allow for this.

First of all, if you believe in quantum holography, it states that all information is non-local. That is, it exists across space and time. If your body really is a kind of quantum computer, then you can perhaps affect the information in the quantum hologram, not just physically. So what does that mean? Your vibe could really alter information about the world around you!

What I read at Chapters, was about Bohmien mechanics of quantum theory. That is, quantum states are deterministic. What that further means, is that if you know the state of the variables involved in a system, an outcome can always be predicted. Instead of some randomness that happens in life, you have the power to change it! Granted there are many, many, many, many variables you will need to manipulate to ensure your desired outcome, the possibility is there. Of course, the probability of manipulating these variables, is probably less than the probability of actually winning the lottery based on the numbers drawn. (Any mathematicians want to calculate it?)

But what if one day, we develop computers powerful enough to consider all the variables in life? Then everything we do will be predictable. What would life be like if we knew exactly what happens in our life from birth to death?

I was thinking that the exact future and all futures can only be predicted based on the exact state of the universe at a precise moment in time. So one minute change and perhaps all futures change. But then I changed my mind and realized that if you know the exact state of the universe at a given time, and can predict the next state, then you really cannot change because you can predict the next state, which can then be used to predict the following state.

You really have no free will. You cannot choose to be angry or not angry as your quantum state could dictate that, after all, your brain will be chemically altered into the angry state. Everything you do, your choices, your actions are all determined by quantum states.

So what would life be like if it were all completely predictable? If you could know exactly when you get a job, what job you will get, when you will get married, who you will get married to? When you “know” these variables and try to change them, it was already predicted in the quantum equation of life. There really was no change. What would life be?

Some quantum physicist might be reading this and having the most hilarious night of his life. Yet, there is a science in every art, and an art in every science. (You can quote me on that! That was one of the coolest lines I woke up with in my head this morning!)