Physics Week 3

I think most of the evidence I can find for synchronicity comes from fairly simple experiences in my own life. Things like someone being on your mind seemingly randomly for a few days, and all of a sudden they get in touch with you for the first time in years. Or knowing exactly what a person is going to say before they say it - things like that. I actually really love this concept because it cements in the fact that we are all connected, and that we pick up on things and are aware of things that our rational minds are not. Intuition might be explained in this way - we are connected to everything, and therefore, there are things that we just know without being able to explain why. When we feel particularly connected to other people, it is sort of like quantum entanglement - just like the particles are in relationship with each other, we are also in relationship with this other person. And just like the particles, separating people/places/animals/etc doesn't change this connection. We know the common stories about twins having this type of connection, but I think it happens with other people too.

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  1. katharine elyseMay 25, 2017 at 12:06 PM

    I think your last comment about twins is very interesting in terms of "connection." I think we live in a society that praises and supports "individualism" and constantly reinforces the way we are all unique and different from one another. However, when twins are discussed, there is this "telepathic" crazy power they share to know what each other are feeling/thinking across time and space, etc. I think in these popular culture stereotypes, identical twins are the ones being referenced. However, in my experience as a fraternal twin who has experienced synchronistic moments with her, I really think that us knowing each other/ have been living in close proximity develops this "intuition" versus something necessarily "unique" to twins. Maybe in the way our identities formed as in-relation to another, versus individual and separate as singletons, this allowed this kind of muscle to develop. I think these connections happen with everyone, it's whether or not they're paying attention and attributing meaning to those weird moments.

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    1. LidaRoseMay 30, 2017 at 12:22 PM

      Your post sparked an incident that happened when I was young, flying alone to Miami. I 'saw' a pilot and I believed he also 'saw' me. A stranger. The connection was unexpected, brief, very 'in-that-moment' - a glance at most but memorable and strong to this day. I believed my life would have taken on an entirely different directions if we had acted upon those impulses.
      It was as if he was my illicit sole mate, never realized.
      Synchronicity can be sexy too. Hahaheeheehee

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    2. alexMay 30, 2017 at 10:06 PM

      The twinly connection really is a common story, and I agree with Katie that it seems more centered around identical than fraternal twins, - but everyone has these connections right?
      Maybe it's disappointing, but I feel a lot closer to other people in my life than my twin brother. True, there's a special 'something', a bond, but I can't define it and we don't have too many of those really cool entangled stories. We've also hardly lived in the same city since we were 18!

      Synchronicity can indeed be sexy! :) I think it can be sexy in its subtlety - because overt staring and gaping at one another isn't necessary if two people are quantum-ly entangled!

      That sounds like a good line, instead of: "sorry, you're not my type", maybe: "sorry, we're just not very quantumly entangled in this space/time" :-P

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