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physics of the law of attraction
The Physics of the Law of Attraction
Have you ever thought of someone and then they called? Watch the movie “The Secret.” The Law of Attraction states that you attract what you think about the most, especially when emotions are involved. This is a little known law, and many people dismiss it, but I have seen it work too many times to attribute it to randomness. After reading this, I challenge you to test my theory. See if it works.
So you may be wondering, what credentials does this guy have? I am an optical physicist with 20 years experience. Recent health problems have caused me to slow down and think about things other than work.
Recent advances in quantum physics have revealed that in an experiment, the observer’s expectations have a definite and measurable effect on the results, whether the observer is aware of it or not. In a good experiment design, you set up the equipment and the object under test to measure a certain attribute, action, or whatever. Then you run it and see what happens. If an unknown force skews the results, you try to eliminate it. Then you analyze the results, propose a theory, and set up another experiment to measure it in a different way. You don’t want to bias the results either way, because then the results won’t be repeatable, and the theory remains unproven.
We also know that the brain uses electrical impulses and chemical reactions to form and retrieve memories. Whenever there is electricity, there is a frequency involved. Normal US AC electrical power runs at 60Hz, or 60 cycles per second. This frequency has a sound associated with it, even though it’s usually too soft for us to hear. Think of the buzz of an electrical power station.
Now think about the miniscule sound produced by an electrical impulse in your brain. How can that affect anything? The answer is persistence. The effect of a force depends on the duration (amount of time it lasts) as well as the intensity (how big or loud it is). A single thought is fleeting – blip, and it’s gone. Keep thinking that thought, and the effect builds up.
Why is emotion important? That part I’m not sure about. Maybe it makes the thought “louder.” Measuring that effect would make an interesting experiment.
So now we know that thoughts have sound. I propose that different thoughts have different frequencies, or series of pitches.
Think of a low pitch, say the lowest C on a piano. That’s 25 Hz. This sound has many overtones, whose frequencies are integer multiples of the fundamental’s frequency. That C at 25Hz has an overtone at 50Hz (2 times 25), 75Hz (3 x 25), 100Hz (4 x 25) and on up. Musically, this corresponds to an octave, then a fifth, then a fourth, then a major third, and so on. Eventually the intervals get too small to be musical intervals. This effect is how brass instruments work. With only a few keys, they can make any note on the scale, and some inbetween. The set of harmonics for any fundamental is called its series.
I bet you’ve heard bands play out of tune. It’s awful. But when they’re in tune, that is, their instruments are producing the same frequency when they play the same notes, it’s a beautiful thing. In the same way, the frequency of your thoughts interacts with other frequencies in the universe. They are drawn together because they are in harmony, that is, their frequencies are in tune with each other.
I’m not sure if there if a Higher Power involved in this, but I suspect it. As this is an experiment in process, I don’t have all the answers. Just think about it and try it.
Have you ever thought of someone and then they called? Watch the movie “The Secret.” The Law of Attraction states that you attract what you think about the most, especially when emotions are involved. This is a little known law, and many people dismiss it, but I have seen it work too many times to attribute it to randomness. After reading this, I challenge you to test my theory. See if it works.
So you may be wondering, what credentials does this guy have? I am an optical physicist with 20 years experience. Recent health problems have caused me to slow down and think about things other than work.
Recent advances in quantum physics have revealed that in an experiment, the observer’s expectations have a definite and measurable effect on the results, whether the observer is aware of it or not. In a good experiment design, you set up the equipment and the object under test to measure a certain attribute, action, or whatever. Then you run it and see what happens. If an unknown force skews the results, you try to eliminate it. Then you analyze the results, propose a theory, and set up another experiment to measure it in a different way. You don’t want to bias the results either way, because then the results won’t be repeatable, and the theory remains unproven.
We also know that the brain uses electrical impulses and chemical reactions to form and retrieve memories. Whenever there is electricity, there is a frequency involved. Normal US AC electrical power runs at 60Hz, or 60 cycles per second. This frequency has a sound associated with it, even though it’s usually too soft for us to hear. Think of the buzz of an electrical power station.
Now think about the miniscule sound produced by an electrical impulse in your brain. How can that affect anything? The answer is persistence. The effect of a force depends on the duration (amount of time it lasts) as well as the intensity (how big or loud it is). A single thought is fleeting – blip, and it’s gone. Keep thinking that thought, and the effect builds up.
Why is emotion important? That part I’m not sure about. Maybe it makes the thought “louder.” Measuring that effect would make an interesting experiment.
So now we know that thoughts have sound. I propose that different thoughts have different frequencies, or series of pitches.
Think of a low pitch, say the lowest C on a piano. That’s 25 Hz. This sound has many overtones, whose frequencies are integer multiples of the fundamental’s frequency. That C at 25Hz has an overtone at 50Hz (2 times 25), 75Hz (3 x 25), 100Hz (4 x 25) and on up. Musically, this corresponds to an octave, then a fifth, then a fourth, then a major third, and so on. Eventually the intervals get too small to be musical intervals. This effect is how brass instruments work. With only a few keys, they can make any note on the scale, and some inbetween. The set of harmonics for any fundamental is called its series.
I bet you’ve heard bands play out of tune. It’s awful. But when they’re in tune, that is, their instruments are producing the same frequency when they play the same notes, it’s a beautiful thing. In the same way, the frequency of your thoughts interacts with other frequencies in the universe. They are drawn together because they are in harmony, that is, their frequencies are in tune with each other.
I’m not sure if there if a Higher Power involved in this, but I suspect it. As this is an experiment in process, I don’t have all the answers. Just think about it and try it.
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