String Theory, Quantum Observers, and Magic

[Okay, I've re-written and expanded on my Feb. 26 post, tying it in with magic and spirits. If it seems familiar, just keep reading. I still need to expand upon it a bit more, but I have the essense of it down, and this will be going on the Clan of the Firery Moon site in the Technomage pages]

One of the concepts in String Theory is that the universe is made up of tiny filaments with unique vibrations. The vibration of each string determines what subatomic (or maybe sub-subatomic) particle the string represents. In essense, a string (or more likely a set of strings, they're REALLY tiny) could be vibrating in one way, causing it to "be" an electron; and the very same string(s) could have a different vibration, with the effect that it's a neutrino.

So, it's not the strings that are important, it's the vibration. (It's not the singer, it's the song.) Strings are the medium which carries the universe. The universe itself is the tune that is reverberating on the strings, from the one Big Note that was plucked on them at the beginning of time.

Then there is the conundrum of quantum physics and observation of effects...

There is a premise in quantum mechanics that, in order for an event to "exist", it must be observed (there's more to it than that, but that's good enough for now). So, what about the Big Bang? Who or what observed that event?

My theory is that the strings with which the universe is filled are quantum bits of consciousness. Individually, a quantum observer (QO, for short) observes/witnesses the events around it (it experiences the vibration it carries), but has no means to record the memory of those events within itself. It can only communicate its experience by allowing the resonance of its own vibration to affect the QOs around it. This resonant vibration would combine with those given off by neighboring QOs, possibly forming a "pattern of experience" within certain groups of strings.

These patterns may or may not have been very complex (it's the dawn of the universe, talking about the history of thought...). As the more sophisticated lifeforms evolved (those with nervous systems), some patterns of experience attached themselves to the sensory and cognitive apparati of those lifeforms, basically becoming a part of them. The part that grants self-awareness. What the patterns get in return is the ability to become more defined, complex and sophisticated.

Now, not all patterns attached to lifeforms, most did not. Those that didn't continue to flit around the universe. Occasionally, however, an unattached pattern will pass through the brain (or otherwise interact with the "resident" pattern of experience) of a lifeform that is telling a story (or saying a prayer, etc.) and the unattached pattern may associate itself with the subject of the story/prayer/whatever. As it touches other minds, encountering more thoughts and stories associated with its name will strengthen it sense of identity. The more people talk about a being, be it a hero, faerie, djinn, angel, spirit, god, etc., the more people believe, the more defined (i.e. stronger) it gets. Its presence can be felt more easily, and it can possibly affect the physical world more easily.

How do they affect the physical world? The spirit alters the pattern of resonance that comprises it, perhaps by touching the thoughts of lifeforms ("attached" patterns of experience) and communicating their desire, or more drastically by directly changing vibrations in matter and energy within the environment to create effects, which can be very subtle or not. So you've got spirits affecting the physical world by altering the pattern of resonance of the vibrations that make up matter and energy in the universe. In other words, changing the world through force of will.

Magic.