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Modern Physics AND Vedanta Bells Theorem - Vedanta Quantum Physics HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD Om Isha vasyam idam sarvam, yat kincha jagatyam jagat All this- whatever exists in this changing universe, is pervaded by God -Isa Upanishad Om purnamadah purnamidam purnaat purnamudachyate,purnasya purnamadaya purnamevaavashishyate That (pure consciousness) is full(perfect); this(the manifest universe of matter; of names and forms being maya) is full. This fullness has been projected from that fullness. When this fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains is fullness.-Peace invocation- Isa Upanishad The Supreme Brahman(God) is the only Reality. The idea of the phenomenal universe is falsely superimposed upon it.Swami Nikhilananda of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre, New York. THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS THEOREM ARE STAGGERING In recent years physicists have had to address the interplay of consciousness and the physical world. In Quantum Physics much has been made over Bells Theorem. The implications of this theorem and the experimental findings that flow from it are staggering. They force us to consider that the entire notion of a purely objective world is in conflict not only with the theory of quantum mechanics, but with the facts drawn from actual experiments. These findings point insistently to a profound interaction between conscious mental activity and the physical world itself. THE RISHIS VISION The Rishis vision of a world in which man participates in a seamless existence, indivisibly united with the universe around him, resonates through a discovery called BELLS THEOREM. This discovery, first proposed in 1964 by the physicist John S. Bell was first confirmed by experiment in 1972 by Professor John Clauser at Berkley. It is an almost unbelievable result - unbelievable because the logical mind has great difficulty in comprehending how it can be true. Its impact on the physics community has been enormous. Professor Henry Stapp, a phys