QUANTUM HEALING

"Quantum" is the magic incantation that appears in virtually everything written on alternative medicine. It seems to be uttered in order to make all the inconsistencies, incoherences, and incompatibilities of a proposed scheme disappear in a puff of smoke. Since quantum mechanics is weird, anything weird must be quantum mechanics. "Einstein" is a name found frequently in the literature on bioenergetic fields. Albert Einstein was a brilliant physicist, perhaps the most influential physicist in history. Einstein's immortality rests on his two theories of relativity (E = mc2 and that sort of thing). Einstein was not the inventor of quantum mechanics and objected strongly to its anti-Newtonian and unpredictable character, saying famously, "God does not play dice." Still, Einstein contributed mightily to the development of quantum mechanics, especially with his photon theory. (Modern quantum mechanics is the progeny of a large group of early 20th century physicists such as Planck, Bohr, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Pauli, Born, Jordan, and Dirac. Each of these men made contributions to quantum mechanics at least as important as Einstein's.)
Quantum mechanics is often claimed as support for mind-over-matter solutions to health problems. The way the observer is entangled with the object being observed in quantum mechanics is taken to mean that human consciousness actually controls reality. As a consequence, we can all think ourselves into health and, indeed, immortality. "Quantum healing" is based on a particularly misleading interpretation of quantum mechanics. Thus holistic healing can be associated with the rejection of classical, Newtonian physics.
Yet, holistic healing retains many ideas from eighteenth and nineteenth century physics. For example, electromagnetic fields were around well before quantum physics. It was Einstein himself who proposed that they are composed of measurable particles. And never mind that Einstein did away with the aether, the medium that nineteenth century physicists thought was doing the waving in an electromagnetic wave (and a few others thought might also be doing the waving for "psychic waves"). As the nineteenth century drew to a close, experiments by Michelson and Morley had failed to find evidence for the aether. This laid the foundation for Einstein's theory of relativity and his photon theory of light, both published in 1905. Electromagnetic radiation is now understood to be a fully material phenomenon. Photons of light have both inertial and gravitational mass (even though they have zero rest mass) and exhibit all the characteristics of material bodies. Electromagnetism is as material as breath, and an equally incredible candidate for the vital field.
Much as we might wish otherwise, the fact remains that no unique living force has ever been conclusively demonstrated to exist in scientific experiments. Of course, evidence for a life force might someday be found, but this is not what is claimed in the literature that promotes much of alternative medicine. There you will find the strong assertion that current scientific evidence exists for some entity beyond conventional matter, and that this claim is supported by modern physical theory - especially
quantum mechanics. Furthermore, the evidence is not to be found in the data from our most powerful telescopes or particle accelerators, probing beyond existing frontiers. Rather, it resides in vague, imprecise, anecdotal claims of the alleged curative powers of traditional folk remedies and other nostrums. These claims simply do not meet any reasonable application of scientific criteria. The bioenergetic field plays no role in the theory or practice of biology or scientific medicine. Vitalism and bioenergetic fields remain mere speculation - speculation that is not even needed to explain what is happening. If bioenergetic fields exist, then some two hundred years of physics, chemistry, and biology has to be re-evaluated.
Much of alternative medicine is based on claims that violate well established scientific principles. Those that require the existence of a bioenergetic field, whether therapeutic touch or acupuncture, should be asked to meet the same criteria as anyone else who claims a phenomenon whose existence goes beyond established science. They have an enormous burden of proof, and it is time that society laid it on their thin shoulders.

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