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A visit with Jack Sarfatti (aka the real Doc Emmett Brown) to commemorate 38 years since Back to the Future hit theaters on July 3. So, buckle up here we go…

Jun 30, 2023

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Hello, we’re Alice and we are always in a state of wander. In 2010 we sat down with Dr. Jack Sarfatti, a post-quantum theoretical physicist who postulates that consciousness exists at a level outside of time and space at his home in San Francisco to find out…“Umm, what exactly does ‘post-quantum’ mean?”After all, when you get a chance to meet a 1970 hippy physicist from the group called the Fundamental Fysiks you can really geek out. And, if the Fundamental Fsyiks are not enough to peak your inner hippy, how about tapping into Doc Emmett Brown from Back to the Future who is based on Sarfatti.

The interview that follows will give you an idea of Sarfatti’s energetic view on consciousness in warp speed. Honestly, Sarfatti steered the conversation and we just sat back and absorbed this human force of nature. “Wait A Minute, Doc. Are You Telling Me You Built A Time Machine...???” Back to the future…2010.

But, before we go back to the future…Let’s go back to age 13.

When Jack Sarfatti was 13 years old, he began receiving phone calls from a strange metallic voice that told him he would someday become part of an elite group of scientists exploring uncharted territory. Those calls, which he believes may have come from a computer on a spacecraft, proved a seminal influence on his life and led him to pursue a career that combined mainstream physics with an enduring interest in UFOs and the far-out reaches of science. Sarfatti told us that what was very strange was that the caller said certain things that were going to happen in twenty years. And, which he confirmed did happen. Even involving a President of the United States making a program like Star Wars. For those who might dismiss Sarfatti, think twice! The existence of UFOs might prove that the technology required for interstellar travel is possible. It’s the physics that interests Sarfatti, who received his PhD in the subject from the University of California. That experience, and interest, also helped make Sarfatti one of the key figures invited to help formulate an unusual government program: the 100-Year Starship (100YSS), (yup, foretold on the call when he was 13.) All these implications, ripples across time, suggests a time travel sort of scenario coming from the future.

The following is an excerpt from our interview with Dr. Jack Sarfatti…

What I'm excited about right now is I'm basically working in cosmology. Sort of like the Stephen Hawking type stuff. And the creation of the universe, and the final destination of where the universe is going. The dark energy problem, the dark matter problem. The holographic, the idea that the universe is a hologram. And that idea's been around, David Bohm of course talked about it in a sort of metaphorical way back in the seventies. it's become a much more rigorous concept with this guy Gerardus ’t Hooft who's the Nobel Prize physicist in Utrecht, Netherlands. And a guy I used to work with, Lenny Susskind.

I have a certain take on the holographic theory. That the universe is a hologram, but the hologram is in the future. This is my particular take on it.

When is the hologram? Everyone assumes it's in the past. But it turns out that doesn't work.

Tamara Davis wrote a PHD dissertation in 2004 for the University of South Wales, taking the best cosmological data, what's called the WMAP, where they take the radio telescopes, and they look all around the sky, in every direction of the sky, they measure the temperature of the Big Bang, and they find, what we're getting is a picture of the universe about 380,000 years after the initial Big Bang. But, in any case, that data has a lot of information about how the universe was created. So, she took all the data and got this computer simulation of literally the creation of the universe. So here's the thing, it turns out that if you use Tamara Davis' computer simulation, and if I take the area of our future horizon–what is going to be in our future, and I take one over that area, which is like a curvature. And then there's a certain proportionality factor, it's like multiply it by a certain proportionality factor, and I get exactly the observed dark energy density. So, this is like a weird thing, because what it's saying is the dark energy density we measure from our past, corresponds to the reciprocal area of something that's going to happen in our future. It hasn't happened yet but it will happen. So this is a retrocausal effect. And so, this was the inspiration for Back to the Future which was based on me.

The Quantum Mind

My main interest is in the physics, how does consciousness work? What is consciousness? And I have certain ideas. I've solved the problems to my satisfaction as a physicist as much as the problem can be solved. From my database of looking at the world.

Basically the mind is a quantum information field. What David Bohm called the quantum potential. The Bohm Hidden Variable Theory distinguishes between the quantum particle, for example, an electron, and a hidden ‘guiding wave’ that governs its motion. In this theory electrons are quite clearly particles. When you perform a two-slit experiment (wave-particle duality), they go through one slit rather than the other. However, their choice of slit is not random but is governed by the guiding wave, resulting in the wave pattern that is observed. That's the mind-field.

What consciousness is, is simply when the material changes in the material motion like signals coming in, nerve signals, stuff like that get transmitted and modified in the quantum information field. Like a halo in a brain, so to speak. I am speaking metaphorically. And so, it's the material signals cutting and modifying the configuration of the mental field or this quantum information or quantum potential field as David Bohm called it.

We know that quantum mechanics is not local. But there were certain restrictions related to actually what Hawking was working on. The debate between Stephen Hawking and Lenny Susskind is what happens with information that falls through a blackhole? Is the information lost? Stuff like that. According to something called unitarity in quantum mechanics. What is comes down to is that consciousness would not be possible. Because what happens according to early quantum theory the mind-field can change the motion of matter, but not the other way around. That matter cannot change the configuration of the mind-field.

That's the theorem basically and I'm putting it in more popular words, but that's the theorem. And that's called unitarity. It's also called single locality. But it's like a catch twenty-two. It says that non-locality cannot be used in a practical way or immediate way for like signal lengths to get like telepathic signals or precognition. So ordinary quantum theory could actually prove the theorem, remote viewing is not possible. Precognition is not possible. All the interesting things are not possible. Magic is not possible. They don't want it to be possible because they're afraid of what it would be. Whatever. I don't know what they're afraid of. They're uptight.

So, there's something wrong with quantum theory. Quantum theory breaks down.

Quantum theory breaks down. I was working on this problem with Brian Josephson, the Nobel-prize physicist, at Trinity College Cambridge for a week. And there is also a whole series of papers that show how quantum mechanics has to be modified in order to account for signal non-localities. There is a fellow named Bernard Carr, he's a professor of physics, and he used to be Stephen Hawking's assistant back in the seventies. But he also became president of the British Psychic Research Society and he's written a monograph where he discusses all this stuff.

We call it post quantum theory.

The thing is that we understand pretty clearly now how long the laws of physics have to be changed. They are changed by very tiny amounts. Not a big deal you know. We call it post quantum theory.

Just like general relativity. Just like this general relativity supersedes special relativity. The general relativity of the gravitational field. Things that are not possible in special relativity are possible with general relativity. That's the way physics goes.

“Weird things do happen. You know, paranormal does happen.”

You generalize theories so instead of micro-quantum theory there's also what's called macro-quantum coherent theory. It explains all this weird stuff. Weird things do happen. You know, paranormal does happen. Everybody's experienced it.

In a way there's no mystery. In my mind personally, there's no mystery to these things. It's all part of natural order. Now, if we see that dark energy also coming from the future, what's the big deal? We got to get used to it. We have a larger conception of reality than most scientists want to admit.

I'm sort of at the culminate the physics theory. I think I've unified gravity with the other fundamental forces of nature. I'm really interested to see it before I die if this really is going to work, if I got something or it's a delusion. That's the big thing. But I'm optimistic.

Thank you Dr. Jack Sarfatti!

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