Superposition (Achievement Nudge about How Your Thoughts Create Reality)
Last Updated on February 17, 2025 by Bill Truby
I heard a mother say about her teenager, “My daughter is just evil! I’ll be glad when she gets her brain back.” I heard a man speak about a situation that could turn positive OR negative say, “It’s not going to work! I know it.” Both of these people were triggering a powerful principle in Quantum Physics known as “collapsing a superposition.” It’s so powerful, it’s scary.
Achieve Powerful Influence Using Laws of Physics
It’s crazy. It’s weird. It’s beautiful. It’s unbelievable. It defies logic. It’s powerful….all of these phrases are used to describe Quantum Physics, the laws that govern how the smallest particles in the universe behave. Einstein’s and Newton’s laws dissolve to dust when looking at this micro level.
One of the principles in Quantum Physics is known as “Superposition.” This is where a particle is said to exist in all states simultaneously. In simpler words, a small bit of matter can be mass AND energy at the same time. And, one of the weirdest aspects of the Quantum world is this: You CAN know which it is, IF you DECIDE what it is, and measure it as such.
If you BELIEVE it is mass, and measure it with “mass measuring equipment,” it shows up as “mass.” The same occurs if you decide it is energy, and measure it with “energy measuring equipment.” And, whatever it becomes, based on your decision and measurement, it remains…forever. (Queue science fiction, woo-woo, mysterious music). This is called “collapsing a superposition.”
There is plenty of research that supports the notion, “you get what you expect” out of life (AND people, for that matter). And now we know this concept is supported by the scientific findings of the most powerful theory in the universe – Quantum Physics.
The mother I mentioned above collapsed the “superposition” of her daughter’s state. Before she decided what her daughter was, her daughter had the potential to be anything. But now, with the “scientific measurement” complete, the mother interacts with her daughter as if she is “evil and doesn’t have a brain.” The superposition was collapsed.
The man I mentioned above had a situation that was truly in a neutral state. A positive OR negative outcome was still available. By “collapsing the superposition,” he “decided” the outcome and began reacting according to THAT one. All possibilities were collapsed to ONE.
Ok…here’s the good news. Though the micro world of Quantum Physics exists, AND we need to work with those laws to power all of our advanced technologies and opportunities, AND we can learn and practice some of the powerful laws learned from that micro level… our spiritual and physical world doesn’t have to live there. A quantum collapsing sticks. Our decisions don’t have to.
If you’ve “collapsed a superposition” about a person, a place, a thing or a situation…reverse it. Use your power of choice to change it. You have that right. You have that ability.
Use one of Einstein’s theories to overpower a Quantum Physics theory…namely E=MC2, where Everything = your Mental-Creation, more powerful when shared by 2 people. You do THAT and YOU are in a SUPERposition!
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Bill Truby
Founder and President of Truby Achievements
