Neurons, chemicals, and a PhD

Once upon a time, occupiers of the highest echelon of public learning espoused a special purpose. While the majority of the world – i.e. the less formally educated people – pondered the “how” questions pertaining to solutions for problems confronting humanity, the PhDs were tasked to harnessing the beast that obscured the answers to associated “why” questions.  In modern physics, the members of each level of the hierarchy, including the top one, ponder mainly the question “How do we make it work?” – which is applied to specific end-goals, usually of a nature that is in combination with a financial incentive. Gone are the monks of Mensia.

Along came Einstein and his friends, bringing with them a fancy wave theory. The wave theory answered all types of questions relating to “how” things can be made to work, but nothing at all about why the electromagnetic waves even exist.  Those “why” questions are still mainly unanswered.  The new pledges of the priesthood are given the holy transcripts, those handed down from the gods of physical understanding.  Those commandments cover well the wave theory that has successfully built bridges, spaceships and electrical power plants.   But the why question is completely untouched, even by the gods.

Tesla was angered by the priesthood.  He himself was mainly a “how” question answerer, being an engineer, but he did at least ask the “why” questions a few times of himself.  That a wave could form in space, within a vacuum of nothing, was a preposterous proposition in his mind.  Yet, Einstein and all his friends accepted this proposition by limiting their thoughts to the part of the science they already knew – the wave theory – and pretending that there was no need to know anything else.

They stuck their heads in the sand.

Not being an osterich, Tesla promoted various theories to intelligently probe for an answer to the “why” questions attached to an electromagnetic wave.  One of his ideas was related to an aether in the universe.

March forward a hundred years, and scientists have answered many questions related to how to rig a quantum machine.  They don’t know why it works, but they’ve discovered that when they do this and thus, and then combine it with this and that, they find they can connect two photons, two atoms, or two molecules to other photons, atoms, or molecules, utilizing what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”  The two parts (the individual photons, atoms, or molecules) – can be hundreds or thousands or trillions of miles apart, and be absolutely synchronized with each other.  The reason for this doesn’t seem to fit their wave theory, and they find no “waves” traveling between the synchronized particles, so they ignore the unknowns and just work with the this-and-thus of their wave theory, endlessly tweaking their configurations to maximize things.

Recently they’ve found, via their this-and-thus technique, that graph3ne can facilitate the spooky action at a distance effect.  They still measure only the indirect reflections of the effect (via equipment built upon their perceptions of wave theory), but it works, sorta.  Subsequent to this success, they found that they can mix (conjugate) graph3ne with (poly)ethylene glycol, in such a form (lipid n@nop@rticle) as to be insertable into the interiors of many human cells, including neuronal cells and other brain cells.  They’ve found that when these structures are incorporated inside the cells of the human brain, a “connection” can be made with those same structures, and any associated energy fields, via the “spooky action at a distance” effect that they don’t understand, but for which they are able to trick-up an exploit.  They call it a “non-local” connection, to keep it all on the DL, for reasons that seem clandestine to me.  There is a point at which science crosses the line of civil liberty, where there is no longer good reason to use it,  no matter what questions we have been tasked to answer.

Note: the author is a writer on technical subjects in some areas, of novels, and of other literature, but does not have any formal credentials related to the medical field, or in physics.  Thus, this all constitutes an opinion of what might be possible, based on his own hobby-level knowledge quests.

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