Weirdness Makes Sense

The following is a letter I wrote that was published by the editor of The New York Times Magazine. It was written in response to an interesting article by Timothy Ferris on quantum logic.

Just as Einstein wondered what he would see if he observed an electromagnetic field while traveling at the velocity of light, I wonder what Timothy Ferris would see in a world that followed quantum logic (''Weirdness Makes Sense,'' Sept. 29). It would be a world without victims since nobody could point to another person or thing as being the cause of whatever happened to him. It would be a world in which only success is possible since everyone is creating his reality at every instant. It would be a world without opposites since all opposites are complementary aspects of the same, underlying reality, existing simultaneously as tendencies until an observer decided to focus attention on one of the aspects, transforming it into reality. It would be a world in which words like luck and impossible were missing from the dictionaries. It would be a world, in short, where abundance and personal responsibility were our common birthright.

RUBIN WALD

New York

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/magazine/weirdness-makes-sense.html?src=pm

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/magazine/l-weirdness-makes-sense-845949.html