WTB - You talk about new examinations of bioentanglement. What is a current study that's been done that's kind of knocked your socks off?
Radin -- A study at the University of Milan in Italy where they grew neurons in a dish - human brain cells in a dish. Then from the same batch of cells, they grew them in another dish. The idea was that if those neurons, coming from the same source, are actually connected (even though they appear to be in separate dishes), then if I stimulate the neurons in one dish you should find a reaction in the other dish. So that's what they did. They grew the neurons on a dish that had electrical contacts underneath the neurons; so that if the neurons begin to fire you hav a way of measuring that they are active. The way that you stimulate them is with a laser. You use a laser because certain light frequencies will stimulate neurons, and because the laser light can easily be blocked from affecting the neurons in the non-stimulated dish.
They put the non-stimulated dish in a light-tight box away from the stimulated dish. They made sure that there was no way that the laser, even a single photon from that laser, could hit the non-stimulated dish. Then they stimulated the first batch of neurons, and they saw a big reaction in the non-stimulated batch. They've done many tests like this over the past couple of years, using more and more refined methods to make sure that it's not an artifact, and the papers that I've been reading about it look pretty good. Other people will eventually try to replicate this work, and if they’re successful then this will be a major breakthrough. A recent review of this same work by a researcher at the Naval Postgraduate School agreed with my assessment that the reported experiments look good, and that if real, they’re very important.
WTB -- I have to admit, I'm one of those people in your book that you talk about that, if they're not blown away by the significance of Bell's theorem and Bell's inequality and its implications for psi, it means they haven't understood it. Is there any way to simplify the explanation?
Radin -- It challenges the mind, to really grasp it. There are a number of ways of describing how it works, including a moderately easy way that I’ve gone through in some detail in the book. As I was writing that chapter in the book, I suddenly got the impact of Bell’s Theorem in a new felt sense, and I actually felt dizzy for a moment. You can become woozy because of the sudden shock of understanding that things which appear to be separate at some level are not actually separate. For real, and not just in an abstract sense. It's a realization based on the logic of Bell’s Theorem combined with the laboratory studies demonstrating that entanglement is really real. The wooziness comes about because of the challenge to common sense. Most of the time I feel separate from other people and other things. So it's difficult to make the leap of faith – and in this case a leap of fact as well - that in another way I’m not as isolated as my senses insist on telling me. Continued on page 3
