Physics: Uncertainty Principle

The Uncertainty Principle speaks for itself in ways- it's uncertain. Scientists are uncertain about certain aspects of quantum physics. Reason being, we (huamns) influence a situation just by obsering particles. This "influence" inhibits quantum physicists from figuing out the velocity and speed of particles. Even photons, the smallest measurement of light, can move the particles around, directly affecting the particle's velocity and speed.

As they (scientists) say, energy never dies or is erased but rather transfers somewhere else when it's not where it originally was noticed (or unnoticed for that matter). Since observing something is an example of using energy (because if it wasn't, there wouldn't be any observing taking place?), the energy from us (humans) changes the particles that are being looked at as the energy of observing changes the measurements- of speed and velocity- of the object.

Scientist have experimented with "particle accelerators" which basically remove any physical human influence from the process of accelerating a particle's energy of motion, but the results even with this addition are still disrupted.

With this information, which sounds fairly simple even though is not understood, there is basically no other way to define what is happening except by succumbing to "uncertainty." I certainly don't have a reasoning as to why this is the case nor any round about. But, it is interesting to think that theoretically there is uncertainty defined in Science (even though there is much uncertainty when delving into other aspects of "Science"). Maybe we are just not supposed to know about the unseeable particles, energy that moves around us that which Scientists are so curious about. It's like the bridge between what is not seen at all- in terms of the light spectrum- and our ability to see through only a small portion of it- these particles are there, and studied, but have abilities we can only stay uncertain about.

Physics: The Meaning of Time

A farmer walks into a shop and asks the storeowner, "what's that on your wall." 
The storeowner replies back, "it's a clock." 
"Oh," says the farmer, "...and what is it for." 
"To tell time, it lets you know when to eat or when you are done with work."

The farmer heads back to his home, the farm, and proudly places an artichoke on the wall. He sits back down and after some time, walks up to the artichoke and begins to peel off one of its leaves, while saying to himself, "well, time to eat."

The above dialogue attempts to explain the concept of time among different cultures. In this story, there is a farmer and a city storeowner. These two people are a metaphor for two different cultures, for example, America and Mexico. Western Monochromic Time/M-Time is consistent with Americas/N. Europeans, while Eastern Polychronic Time/P-Time is consistent with Latin America/Middle East. It's amazing that time, the universal concept, can be interpreted so wildly different culture to culture.

In America, time is considered scarce, we are always anticipating running out of it. Our schedules and rigidity within them prove this. While time in other cultures isn't thought of as having the ability to 'run out of' at all, there is less rigidity around the concept of time and more involvement with the relationship of it.

In Mexico, generally speaking, there may be no "time is up" thought but rather "time to move on" after whatever is happening currently whether that be a conversation, work project, etc. is completed. Another example is conversation- as in many (perhaps most) other cultures it is not something that is hurried due to time constraints (that are mostly purposeless), but enjoyed and apart of the day, again-not deliberately placed into a non-justifiable timeframe.

Perhaps, more or less, Americans are more worried about getting as many things done as possible rather than enjoying one thing at a time. Maybe, our (Americans) time is skewed...

Physics: Synchronicity

Synchronicity and coincidence. What's the difference?

Synchronicity: the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection

Coincidence: a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection

The above definitions sound pretty much the same. "Remarkable concurrence" and "Simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related" are two different wordings of the same thing.

Further research indicates that Synchronicity applies to phenomena that which includes parapsychology: premonition, telepathy, dreams, astrology, etc. This term is also seen in Jungian psychotherapy- situations where the psychotherapists get information about their patients and vice versa, information that was not told to each other or found public yet just "known" via, presumably, telepathic, intuitive, or these sort of ways.

I found myself curious about the validity of "Synchronicity" being that there is a lot of controversy surrounding its truth. Some say its pseudoscience while others, like Carl Jung, claim it is the only way to explain an experience that which makes little sense to person in that situation. It can therefore be considered a "bridge with one foundation derived into the objectivity of hard science and the other into the subjectivity of personal values."

Stumbling upon other interesting studies, it was found that high levels of dopamine affect the propensity to find meaning, patterns, and significance where there is none, and that this propensity is relate to a tendency to believe in the paranormal. This got me wondering about the connection between those that practice meditation or any other "spiritual art," and if it is the high levels of dopamine derived from these practices that is driving the synchronicity experiences- it seems like these experiences are shared mostly among those that have these sort of lifestyles.

So... is it made of in someone's head due to "high levels of dopamine" or the ability to achieve a more or less higher level of consciousness when practicing strong self-aware and spiritual practices?

Physics: Short Bio

My name is Taylor ~

Third year student at ACCHS, looking forward to the end of December this year.

From Philadelphia area - came out to California Fall of 2016.

Dabbled in different careers: started in Design and Marketing in NYC. Shortly after that, I had a serious back injury that took me out of work and into surgery. It was around this time I discovered Chinese Medicine. Starting with the relief of pain (previous to surgery), I started to learn more about the benefits of this medicine through other lifetime issues I had yet to see in a new light. My fascination of Chinese Medicine only grew from there.

Stuck around in Philly for a while: bartending, serving, and catering for music venues. Met some cool folks back stage, I guess. Thought I might like to start a career in Acupuncture for various reasons and ended up enrolling in Tri-State College of Acupuncture, NYC, in 2016. Although I liked various aspects about this school, I still knew I wanted to come out to California and learn the traditional and classical methods of TCM that I couldn't really find where I was.

Made a trip out of it and drove across the country September 2016 and enrolled in ACCHS a couple of weeks later. Here I am still.