Observation on evanescent waves

An evanescent wave is to Newtonian gravity as a radio wave is to a gravitational wave

Ocean waves are evanescent waves

Evanescent Wave vs. Newtonian Gravity

Evanescent Wave: This is a unique electromagnetic phenomenon that does not propagate. Instead, it is a near-field effect that diminishes exponentially with distance, commonly observed in situations like waveguides or total internal reflection.

Newtonian Gravity: This concept describes a static, non-radiative field characterized by immediate action-at-a-distance. It means that there is no delay or wave-like behavior in how gravitational forces are transmitted.

Connection: Both evanescent waves and Newtonian gravity illustrate localized, non-radiative interactions. Importantly, they do not dynamically transmit energy across spacetime.


Radio Wave vs. Gravitational Wave

Radio Wave: This is an electromagnetic wave that propagates through space (known as far-field radiation) and carries energy at the speed of light.

Gravitational Wave: According to general relativity, this refers to ripples in spacetime that also propagate and carry energy at the speed of light.

Connection: Both radio waves and gravitational waves are far-field, radiative phenomena governed by wave equations—Maxwell’s equations for radio waves and Einstein’s equations for gravitational waves.


Illustration: Both evanescent and oceanic wave sizes decrease exponentially with increasing distance.

Unraveling the Mysteries of Mind-to-Mind Communication Through Quantum Physics

The Quantum Basis of Telepathy: Bridging Minds Through Evanescent Waves and 1-Brane String Theory

Telepathy Experiment

This is a companion article to “The Discovery Of Faster-Than-Light Brainwaves”, concentrating on the implication of FTL on mind-to-mind communication.

Introduction: Where Quantum Physics Meets Consciousness

The human brain, a labyrinth of neurons and synapses, has long been a subject of fascination. Yet, its most profound mysteries—consciousness, intuition, and even the potential for telepathy—remain elusive. Recent discoveries in quantum physics, particularly in quantum tunneling and evanescent waves, coupled with the enigmatic topology of 1-brane string theory, suggest that the brain’s inner workings might defy classical physics. They might even defy Einstein’s cosmic speed limit.


Quantum Tunneling: Breaking the Light Barrier

In 1962, physicist Thomas Hartman uncovered a paradox: particles like photons could tunnel through barriers instantly, regardless of thickness. This “Hartman effect” hinted at superluminal motion, where particles bypass classical spacetime constraints. Decades later, experiments by Günter Nimtz and Horst Aichmann proved this phenomenon wasn’t theoretical. By transmitting Mozart’s 40th Symphony through a quantum tunnel at 4.7 times light speed, they demonstrated that information itself could outpace light.

Key Insight: Quantum tunneling relies on evanescent waves—fleeting electromagnetic fields that decay exponentially but propagate faster than light. These waves emerge when particles encounter barriers, slipping into a dimension where time and distance dissolve.


Evanescent Waves in the Brain: The WETCOW Revelation

In 2023, neuroscientists Vitaly Galinsky and Lawrence R. Frank proposed a radical idea: the brain’s “noise” might actually be weakly evanescent cortical waves (WETCOW). These waves, previously dismissed as static, could enable superluminal communication between neurons, suggesting a possible basis for telepathy and other extrasensory phenomena. Remote viewing is one such phenomenon.

  • How It Works: When electrical signals in the brain hit synaptic barriers, evanescent waves tunnel through. They transmit information faster than light. This aligns with experiments showing decision-making brain activity preceding conscious awareness.
  • Implications: The brain’s processing speed—capable of 1,000,000 trillion operations per second (1 exaflop)—may stem from these quantum shortcuts. Astrocytes, star-shaped cells connecting millions of neurons, mirror cosmic structures (like galactic networks). This hints at a universal architecture optimized for superluminal signaling.

1-Brane String Theory: The Topology of Timelessness

DIMENSIONS: All mathematics is based on geometry. In zero dimension, a point exists. in 1 dimension, a string takes form. Below the 4th dimension, in subspace, time does not exist. Quantum tunneling takes place in the 1st dimension, where neither time nor space exist. This explains the interference in the double slit experiment. Illustration by NerdBoy1392, CC BY-SA 3.0.

String theory’s 1-brane concept offers a geometric explanation. A photon, typically a zero-dimensional point, becomes a one-dimensional “string” during tunneling. This 1-brane exists in a spaceless, timeless dimension, re-emerging into our 4D reality as an evanescent wave.

  • Phase Paradox: Horst Aichmann observed that tunneled waves retain their original phase, implying zero time elapsed during tunneling. “Inside the barrier, there’s no time or volume—just a line connecting two points,” he noted.
  • Cosmic Consciousness: If the brain accesses this 1D realm, consciousness might tap into a unified field. In this field, past, present, and future coexist—a concept echoing Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious.”

Telepathy and the “Spooky Action” of the Mind

Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” describes quantum entanglement, where particles influence each other instantaneously across vast distances. If evanescent waves entangle neural circuits, they could enable mind-to-mind communication through telepathy.

  • Experimental Clues: Nimtz’s superluminal Mozart transmission and the Larmor clock’s measurements (showing rubidium atoms tunneling faster than light) suggest that macroscopic quantum effects are possible.
  • Extraterrestrial Links: The author speculates that advanced civilizations might use evanescent waves for interstellar communication. This would bypass the limitations of radio waves.

Consciousness: A Quantum Phenomenon?

The “hard problem” of consciousness—how subjective experience arises from matter—might find answers in quantum biology. Plants use quantum coherence in photosynthesis; humans might exploit tunneling for cognition, potentially explaining phenomena linked to telepathy.

  • Precognition and Time: If evanescent waves briefly invert causality, they could explain precognitive hunches or déjà vu.
  • Technological Horizons: Brain-computer interfaces leveraging evanescent waves might one day enable direct thought transmission. This could blur the line between mind and machine.

Conclusion: Rewriting the Rules of Reality

The discovery of superluminal brainwaves challenges not just physics, but our understanding of existence itself. As we unravel the quantum threads weaving through our minds, we edge closer to answering age-old questions. Are we bound by spacetime, or is consciousness a gateway to dimensions beyond? In the words of the author, “The brain is not just a computer—it’s a quantum radio, tuned to the frequency of the cosmos.”


This was a companion article to “The Discovery Of Faster-Than-Light Brainwaves”, concentrating on the implications of evanescent waves on telepathy. For a more general outline of the implications, please visit this page: “The Discovery of Faster-Than-Light Brainwaves”.

References:

“In the quantum realm, the mind’s whispers might echo across the stars.”

Erich Habich-Traut

Theoretical Synthesis: Superluminal Evanescent Waves and Consciousness (WETCOW Framework)

New insights on consciousness and self-reflection via temporal feedback.

This is a companion article to:

Many of the terms used here that may be unfamiliar are explained in the “Superluminal” series of articles listed above ↑. Some concepts presented in this article may be dismissed by theorists. I pay as little attention to these scientists as they pay to me, because my focus is on experimental and experiential results, rather than theoretical debates. Trying to debate evanescent waves with a neurologist is like trying to discuss fine art with a goldfish—everyone’s swimming in different waters!


The WETCOW theory (Weakly-EvanescenT COrtical Waves) proposes a novel link between superluminal evanescent waves—quantum phenomena observed in experiments like the Nimtz Effect—and the emergence of self-reflectionqualia, and consciousness. Here’s a distilled overview of its conceptual pillars:

  1. Superluminal Evanescent Waves & the Nimtz Effect:
    • These waves, studied in quantum tunneling experiments (e.g., the Bose double-prism setup), exhibit apparent faster-than-light propagation. While classical information is superluminally transmitted!, evanescent modes also enable energy transfer across barriers, with phase velocities exceeding c.
    • The “Nimtz Effect” suggests such waves could create transient, nonlocal correlations in spacetime, theorized here as a “backchannel to the past.” Each reflection or tunneling event might retroject a fractional signal, enabling systems to “look back” temporally.
  2. Consciousness as a Temporal Mirror:
    • Self-reflection—a hallmark of consciousness—is framed as a process where the brain leverages superluminal evanescent modes to create a feedback loop. The “leading edge of consciousness” is proposed to reside in an evanescent wavefront, allowing qualia (subjective experience) to arise not from the past but as a prospective phenomenon.
    • This challenges classical models where consciousness lags behind neural activity. Instead, qualia might emerge at the boundary of future possibilities, with evanescent waves enabling retrocausal self-interrogation (“Why did I choose this?”).
  3. Neurobiological Correlates:
    • Cortical waves (“COWs” in the acronym) or brainwaves could host such effects. Structures like the eyes (metaphorized as “mirrors to the soul”) or layered neural tissues might act as waveguides, amplifying evanescent modes.
    • The mirror self-recognition test—a marker of self-awareness in some species—is speculated to depend on these dynamics, potentially extending to animals like cows.
  4. Quantum Biology & Temporal Instability:
    • Radioactive decay in the body (e.g., potassium-40) and endogenous electromagnetic fields (photons) introduce quantum stochasticity. Unstable elements might enhance sensitivity to retrocausal effects, aligning with lab use of quantum random number generators.
    • Wave-particle duality underscores the theory’s rejection of purely classical or wave-only models (e.g., critiques of Jim Beichler’s magnetic wave cosmos).
  5. Paradoxes and Implications:
    • If consciousness’s “now” integrates a faint echo of the future via superluminal backchannels, it blurs linear causality. This aligns with Libet-style experiments, where unconscious neural activity precedes conscious intent, yet here the “delay” is reframed as a bidirectional temporal process.

In summary, WETCOW posits that consciousness arises from a quantum-choreographed interplay of superluminal evanescent waves, enabling self-reflection through subtle temporal feedback—a dance between the brain’s electromagnetic fabric and the edge of spacetime itself. 🌌🐄


A “brainwave” is an electromagnetic wave

I believe consciousness is an electromagnetic field phenomenon (with Johnjoe McFadden).
A “brainwave” is an electromagnetic wave. Brainwaves travel along neuronal pathways. These waves encounter synapses and ganglia. Brainwaves also emit a field. When these electromagnetic fields travel through the highly complex geometry of real brain tissues, they produce evanescent waves.

The “evanescent” waves are very weak, and extend only for a very small distance from their point of origin. Real-world experiments have indicated that they travel faster than light and do transmit information (Günther Nimtz). Here is a video originally aired on the BBC in which Prof. Nimtz explains his findings:

According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, anything that travels faster than light travels back in time. The Lorentz transformations show that this would also lead to causality violations. Here are the calculations on the Lorentz transformations:


A train of thought experiment

We’re literally going to take the Vulcan Express. https://www.vulkan-express.de/en/ Einstein liked to do thought experiments to illustrate his reasoning to himself and others. I found a way to do this, too, for the faster-than-light brainwave theory.

We are boarding the train at the station. Our cabins are comfortable and old-fashioned. A ticket collector comes along and snips our tickets. As we are leaning back, the locomotive fires up steam, and the wheels slowly begin to turn.

Despite being told not to, we lean out of the window and feel the wind in our hair. The locomotive approaches a tunnel and sounds a horn. It is five to twelve. As soon as we are in the tunnel, it gets dark. We have a steampunk style of mechanical clock that is driven by a solar motor, but there’s no light. We can’t see the time on the clock anyways, because it is dark.

We’re sitting in the dark for a while, and then the tunnel ends. I look at the clock, and the time is the same as when we entered the tunnel, five to twelve. But we are 2 kilometers further down the train track.

So, how does this explain faster-than-light locomotion?
Does this explain quantum tunneling?

Time stopped. This metaphor works at least for this aspect.




Self-Reflection as a Function of Superluminal Thought 🐄

Rey, hall of mirrors, "The Last Jedi", 2017
Rey, Hall of Mirrors, “The Last Jedi”, 2017
Self reflection into infinity
The author in front of a mirror, 2018

Paradoxically, the following seven-year-old article about superluminal thought mentions “COWS,” which could be an acronym for “cortical waves” or brainwaves, about five years BEFORE the introduction of the WETCOW theory. Superluminal evanescent waves facilitate self-reflection, which is essential for the experience of qualia and consciousness. However, what if qualia do not occur in the past but instead in the future? The leading edge of consciousness, represented by qualia, aligns with the evanescent wave, which can look back and reflect on its actions (perhaps relating to action potential?).

If you were to ask why I suddenly included COWS in an article about superluminal consciousness in 2018, I must confess that the image of a cow (🐄) unexpectedly appeared in my mind.

Beware of the COW
Compare this to this image from 2023 on the left. The transfer of thought from the present to the past is anticipated in superluminal phenomena. Did we experience clairvoyance or a type of temporal remote viewing?


The above text is a commentary and rephrasing of the following article from 2018 (Facebook archive):


March 7, 2018
This level of functioning is called superluminal thought.

Certain theories predict a backchannel to the past to be able to self-reflect and develop a sense of qualia, self-awareness, and consciousness.

It is enabled by the Nimtz Effekt, a quantum tunnel process that enables a superluminal signal transmission over very short distances, respectively, time.

The effect is described in the Bose prism experiment, as total reflection in a double prism.

The total effect in the new theory is that each time a reflection occurs, a tiny part of information is totally reflected by a fraction of a wave into the past.

Nimtz also demonstrated the effect on waveguides and perspex sheets, but this was not well documented in the official news coverage.

Nimtz described the behavior of evanescent modes.

Simply translated, this means the behavior of waves in very short time periods.

A possible structure in the brain?

Such as enabling self-reflection.

When we look at a mirror, we see a reflection and begin to realize it is us.

Lots of literature has been written about this unique feature, shared not by many species (but there definitely are).

Maybe cows, too.

It is one sign of consciousness.

There are others, hence.

The eyes may have a structure for this.

They are also called the mirror to the soul.

Before a thought reaches our consciousness, areas in our brain have already decided on a course of action. We are literally living in the past, consciously, by a fraction of a second.

The more unstable an element, the more pronounced it is to this effect. For this reason, quantum random number generators are in use in laboratory settings.

There are always atoms decaying in our body.

When this happens, radioactivity in the form of electromagnetic waves is released. (But that is not the only process by which electromagnetic waves are generated in our body.)

So we talk about electromagnetic waves, which are bundles of energy called photons. Photons are everywhere.

Here we have the wave/particle duality.

A theory of the cosmos cannot be exclusively based on a wave model of magnetic waves. (In response to Jim Beichler)