Witchcraft and Physics

[Ilaxilil]

So I was sitting here thinking about how the law of attraction is kind of like Newton’s law of gravitation when I realized that Newton’s Laws of motion can also be applied to spiritual matters (for example, “equal and opposite reaction” sounds like yin and Yang.) I also noticed that the 4 elements: earth, water, air, and fire, directly correspond to the 4 states of matter: Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, respectively. I was just wondering if someone a little more physics-Savvy than myself had any notes on this?

Discussion

[frustrated_staff]

What kind of notes are you looking for? ‘Cause you’re not wrong.

Recent advancements in physics have basically concluded that there is also a fifth state of matter, with the unfortunately long name of a Bose-Einstein Condensate, but we’ll just let that rest for a little while…

[kai-ote]

Earth/Solid, Water/Liquid, Air/Gas, Fire/Plasma, Spirit/Energy.

The 5 points of a pentagram.

I have had this belief for over 30 years.

And E=mc squared means matter and energy are interchangeable, and one can be turned into the other.

Time to go bend light again. BB.

[GoldenWinterSunshine]

I don’t know a whole lot about witchcraft, but one of my interests is trying to tie together physics with general spirituality so I can speak to that a bit. A lot of western spirituality can be traced back to Hinduism, and I am still in the process of learning about Hindu cosmology. So my ideas are only loosely based on some of these concepts, and will be refined as I continue to learn more about spirituality, Hinduism, and physics.

Everything is energy and vibrations. This is something believed in Hinduism and commonly in western spirituality. We can see a lot of waves already in classical mechanics – for example, water waves, an oscillating spring, heat, light, and earthquakes. Quantum physics relies heavily on a profound mathematical tool called the Fourier transform, which splits a function up in terms of frequencies (i.e., using waves to describe functions). We also know that light and matter exhibit wave-particle duality, although I prefer to think of waves as primary and the particle-like nature is an emergent property (but that’s just my opinion). As for gravitation, well we know that LIGO has detected gravitational waves. Furthermore, in Hinduism, “aum” or “om” is the primordial vibration of the universe from which all other vibrations were born – sounds a lot like the big bang to me.

Now, waves need a medium to travel through. This is where the aether comes in, and is actually the 5th element in addition to earth, fire, wind, water. Aether, or akasha, is also a concept we see in Hinduism. Aether is everywhere. In physics, people will actually get upset with you for talking about aether, because a very specific theory of aether was disproven, and for some reason it is a very sensitive, emotional subject. However, we could identify aether with spacetime (and Einstein actually asserted that his theory of spacetime could be identified with aether) and/or the quantum vacuum.

Here’s one more idea you might like: we can see the concepts of duality and oneness in light. Electricity and magnetism were once thought to be separate phenomena, but it turns out that they are just different sides of the same coin, and that coin is electromagnetic radiation. Furthermore, the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces were unified acting as one force in the very early universe until they split apart as the universe cooled off. It’s theorized that gravitation was also unified in the very early universe, but we don’t have a way to mathematically describe that yet.

I have lots of other loose ideas too about the law of attraction, consciousness, psychic abilities, etc. but they need some more work before I share 🙂

[kalizoid313]

The Uncertainty Principle.

[wonka31]

The whole reason I got into anthropology was I took an anthro class that illustrated how magic and witchcraft are possible (which I already accepted) using physics as the basis. Class was centered on a book titled supernatural as natural by baker and winkleman.

[baby_armadillo]

Newton was an alchemist as well as a scientist, and worked in a time when science was indistinguishable from magic. His work likely draws as much from observation as it does from alchemical theory.

[OkHunter8299]

Hi, I am a physicist and a witch!

So basically I think it’s about “thought forms” and how we’ve developed them.

Physics comes from Medieval Alchemy, Newton was an alchemist! So of course the elemental way of viewing things (thought form) is part of physics.

Physics took that thought form and moved it more and more away from spiritual matters until we now have what we call “the canonical object” which is a mathematical structure which generalizes all matter. Or “all that is measurable via classical means”.

Everything else (non-canonical objects or concepts) is immeasurable. Most physicists then exclude that information, because it literally isn’t physics, I think there is no reason to exclude classically immeasurable phenomena (like consciousness or spiritual matters).