After reading the book A View from the Center of the Universe upon Matt’s recommendation, a reader wonders whether there is a relationship between quantum mechanics and human life:  namely, are we changed if we are observed by an unseen higher power?

Matt responds:

I believe we are changed by our observations if we really allow our free will to guide us in our observations.  Do we see something more or less?  How do we react?  Because science has taught us through our DNA that we are all different, I believe that when we observe things, we do so through our family background, culture, religion, and all kinds of other competing factors—and then we bring in the individual with our own free will.

It’s like a lot of little drops of water clinging to the glass.  The light reflected through them creates prisms and rainbows.  Looking at that concept and observing it is a great teaching tool.  We’re all the same, but we’re all different. Do things change, and do we change?  I think absolutely, yes.

Every experience we have in some way imprints something different.  That’s what makes us whole as we go on this pilgrimage from babies to old people:  from babies dependent on our mothers to great scientists who explore what has never been explored before.  Change is the reality of life.  I don’t believe that anything is static.  We’re all riding this great thing called Earth that keeps careening through space on a somewhat predictable course of destruction—whether it be hit by a comet ten minutes from now or sucked into a black hole 20-million years from now.

So just hang on and keep riding! 

Matt