Entanglement.....What?

We all know that we leave fingerprints on everything we touch.... did you know that you leave a bit of yourself with every person you meet?

I have been very interested in "Quantum Entanglement" lately. It's possible that we are always connected to the people we encounter, even if we aren't aware of it.

Scientists have been studying electrons and have discovered that when they interact with each other ONCE they are always able to send messages back and forth, even if they are no longer anywhere near each other. It doesn't seem to matter how long they have been apart or the distance that is between them. The researchers have been looking for a way that these messages are being passed physically, but based on the speed of the communication it seems that the connection is happening in another dimension. Sounds like science fiction, I know.

They are just discovering that this concept is probably happening in the real world too (not just on the atomic scale). In the November 2009 issue of Scientific American, they share, "...you don't see quantum effects in everyday life ...because those events are camouflaged by their own sheer complexity. They are there if you know how to look, and physicists have been realizing that they show up in the macroscopic world more than they thought." (pg. 25).

So we can watch it happen on the small scale and some pretty smart physicists think it is probably happening in the real world: It seems that we are always connected in some way to the people we interact with.....despite distance and time. This information also points to the existence of other dimensions or the possibility of alternative ways to communicate with eachother.

I am looking for people measuring things in the physical world that could prove concepts from the spiritual world. What does this mean for the philosophy of the World Soul, the idea that there is a spirit that animates all matter in the world? How does this relate to the ideas of synchronicity or coincidence? What are the implications of this research for Cleve Backster's work (see below)?

Perhaps nothing....but I am enjoying thinking about it.