lostmio
02-05-2008, 06:10 PM
I'm changing from the HO HO HO train to the HOlmium train.
In one of those odd moments of synchronicity, I yesterday rec'd 2 books I had ordered (Lynne Taggart's The Field (http://www.merrynjose.com/artman/publish/article_756.shtml) and The Intention Experiment (http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the_experiments.htm)) last month..
Imagine my surprise when I opened the latter book and right off the bat found that the whole premise of the book rested upon experiments with holmium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmium), which as others have noted on this forum, has unusual magnetic properties and is designated by the symbol HO.
The first few pages of the first chapter presented a barrage of terms and concepts that have become staples on Lost message forums. Several chapters later, I'm still stunned by the implications of the holmium experiments in general, and even more so how those implications dovetail with the Lost mysteries.
I'm not ready to synthesize the experiments and books and present a theory, but I'm 99.9% convinced the HO refers to holmium, and not Santa Claus.
Thanks to a footnote in the 1st chapter, I found The Weirdest Link (http://www.biophysica.com/quantum.htm), an article from the March 2004 issue of New Scientist. It's a great read for a Lost fan.
Here are some of the quotes from that article, that tell why I think the HO easter eggs point to HOlmium:
Entanglement: Erwin Schrödinger called this phenomenon the defining trait of quantum theory. Einstein famously dubbed it spukhafte Fernwirkungen: "spooky action at a distance". It is not hard to understand why. Set things up correctly, and you can instantaneously affect the physical properties of a particle on the other side of the universe simply by prodding its entangled twin.
This is no longer just a curiosity of the quantum world, visible only in excruciatingly delicate experiments. Physicists now believe that entanglement between particles exists everywhere, all the time, and have recently found shocking evidence that it affects the wider, "macroscopic" world that we inhabit.Just how little we know about entanglement was made crystal clear last year by a collaboration led by Sayantani Ghosh at the University of Chicago (Nature, vol 425, p 48). The team analysed experiments done more than a decade ago with a sample of a magnetic salt containing holmium atoms, and compared them with theoretical predictions. What they found is extraordinary.
The holmium atoms within the salt behave like tiny magnets and respond to each others' magnetic fields by adjusting their relative orientation, just as a compass needle orients itself to align with the Earth's magnetic field. But the atoms change this settled orientation if they are placed in an external magnetic field. The degree to which they align with the field is known as the salt's "magnetic susceptibility".
As if our current understanding of entanglement between widely separated particles were not sketchy enough, Brukner, working with Vedral and two other Imperial College researchers, has uncovered a radical twist. They have shown that moments of time can become entangled tooedit: I've never been a fan of The Island as a Conscious Entity theory. After reading about the holmium experiments, though, I could accept the notion that the island's vegetation interacts with and responds to human consciousness.
The HO experiments correspond to the "Secret Life of Plants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants)" phenomena, and further, the idea that plants are sentient and have a "learning curve" as we interact with them...
In one of those odd moments of synchronicity, I yesterday rec'd 2 books I had ordered (Lynne Taggart's The Field (http://www.merrynjose.com/artman/publish/article_756.shtml) and The Intention Experiment (http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/the_experiments.htm)) last month..
Imagine my surprise when I opened the latter book and right off the bat found that the whole premise of the book rested upon experiments with holmium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmium), which as others have noted on this forum, has unusual magnetic properties and is designated by the symbol HO.
The first few pages of the first chapter presented a barrage of terms and concepts that have become staples on Lost message forums. Several chapters later, I'm still stunned by the implications of the holmium experiments in general, and even more so how those implications dovetail with the Lost mysteries.
I'm not ready to synthesize the experiments and books and present a theory, but I'm 99.9% convinced the HO refers to holmium, and not Santa Claus.
Thanks to a footnote in the 1st chapter, I found The Weirdest Link (http://www.biophysica.com/quantum.htm), an article from the March 2004 issue of New Scientist. It's a great read for a Lost fan.
Here are some of the quotes from that article, that tell why I think the HO easter eggs point to HOlmium:
Entanglement: Erwin Schrödinger called this phenomenon the defining trait of quantum theory. Einstein famously dubbed it spukhafte Fernwirkungen: "spooky action at a distance". It is not hard to understand why. Set things up correctly, and you can instantaneously affect the physical properties of a particle on the other side of the universe simply by prodding its entangled twin.
This is no longer just a curiosity of the quantum world, visible only in excruciatingly delicate experiments. Physicists now believe that entanglement between particles exists everywhere, all the time, and have recently found shocking evidence that it affects the wider, "macroscopic" world that we inhabit.Just how little we know about entanglement was made crystal clear last year by a collaboration led by Sayantani Ghosh at the University of Chicago (Nature, vol 425, p 48). The team analysed experiments done more than a decade ago with a sample of a magnetic salt containing holmium atoms, and compared them with theoretical predictions. What they found is extraordinary.
The holmium atoms within the salt behave like tiny magnets and respond to each others' magnetic fields by adjusting their relative orientation, just as a compass needle orients itself to align with the Earth's magnetic field. But the atoms change this settled orientation if they are placed in an external magnetic field. The degree to which they align with the field is known as the salt's "magnetic susceptibility".
As if our current understanding of entanglement between widely separated particles were not sketchy enough, Brukner, working with Vedral and two other Imperial College researchers, has uncovered a radical twist. They have shown that moments of time can become entangled tooedit: I've never been a fan of The Island as a Conscious Entity theory. After reading about the holmium experiments, though, I could accept the notion that the island's vegetation interacts with and responds to human consciousness.
The HO experiments correspond to the "Secret Life of Plants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants)" phenomena, and further, the idea that plants are sentient and have a "learning curve" as we interact with them...