Sublime

Whether a computer virus spreads widely across the internet or disappears quickly; whether a tiny neuronal misfiring is harmless or erupts into a seizure engulfing your brain; whether an idea spreads explosively throughout a population or fades away quickly—all are governed by similar dynamics: percolation on a small-world network.

Even more important than these contributions, he set in motion the process of rethinking our worldview—a search for knowledge based on the rejection of any obvious-seeming “certainty,” which is one of the main roots of scientific thinking.

the magic of entanglement could well be the key to life itself.13

This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).

According to the principles of quantum mechanics, anything that can move does move, spontaneously. As a result, the distance between two points fluctuates. Upon combining general relativity with quantum mechanics, we calculate that space is a kind of quivering Jell-O, in constant motion.

Returning to Montagnier’s experiment, we find that his use of the same natural energy waves of the Earth was critical to his success. Eighteen hours later, Montagnier’s two test tubes, one with the tiny piece of bacterial DNA and the other of the pure water, were examined. What was observed was remarkable, shocking nearly all ‘mainstream’ scientist