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Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests
This controversial idea could completely change how we understand the mind. gremlin//Getty Images It has long been argued that the human brain is similar to a computer. But in reality, that’s selling the brain pretty short. While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ultra-efficient, its energy is
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Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests
This latest clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain. A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness. To pull it off, these microscopic hollow
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This Quantum Paradox Shows We’re Not Real.
Well, not “locally real,” at least. Yuichiro Chino//Getty Images For over 100 years now, quantum mechanics has rattled the cage of everything we’ve believed we know about physics. Is everything just made of wiggles and waves if you look close enough? How far can one entanglement be stretched—is it long enough to enable quantum telecommunications around the
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Five English Witch-Haunts: Witches & English Mythology
English myth is a curious being. Compared to, say, that of Ancient Greece, which gives origin stories to real-life flora and fauna from across the world, our tales often involve more local variations. Nowhere is this clearer than in a huge sub-part of English myth: folklore, the traditional beliefs and legends of a particular people.
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The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612
At the assizes at Lancaster in the autumn of 1612, twenty persons, of whom sixteen were women of various ages, were committed for trial, and most of them tried for witchcraft. Their names were: Margaret Pearson was tried 1st for murder by witchcraft; 2nd for bewitching a neighbour; 3rd for bewitching a horse; and, being acquitted
