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Note: All scientific terms and concepts in the following excerpt from Chapter Nine are defined and thoroughly explained earlier in the book.

Entanglement, Love, and One God

As I was writing about how entanglement and superposition relate to the fall of Adam and Eve, I awoke one morning with Jesus’s prayer for His disciples on my mind, and I sensed a deeper meaning in it than I had previously noticed. Theologians would say these verses are figurative, and classically speaking, it’s a reasonable assumption. After all, how could Jesus literally be “one in” us and we “one in” Him? But quantum physics offers a scientific explanation: Jesus is addressing the relationship between Him and His close followers in terms suggestive of entanglement – the same quantum state that existed between Adam and Eve and God before the fall, as previously explained.

John 17:21 – 23:

In Schrodinger’s scenario the unobserved Geiger counter, cyanide and release mechanism, and cat constitute one entangled system. Likewise with Adam and Eve before the fall. Jesus’s prayer is as accurate a description of this state of being as can be verbalized using pre-quantum mechanics language. Of course, we can’t see entanglement with physical senses. We’re talking in terms of wave function, the spiritual reality.

Can following Jesus closely, as His disciples had done for a few years at this point near the end of His ministry, restore the lost or hidden entanglement that resulted from Adam’s “transgression?” Any two objects (or people) that interact become entangled. Thereafter, whatever is experienced by one instantaneously affects the other also, regardless of distance between them, depending on the degree of entanglement. This has been convincingly demonstrated in the laboratory. Thus, there is a connectedness that pervades the universe.

Without question, Jesus and His close followers were entangled at this time near the end of His ministry. You are quantum mechanically entangled with everything and everyone you have ever encountered, and the more intense the encounter, the more thorough and persistent the entanglement. No doubt this is a major reason we’re so often urged to pray, meditate, and immerse ourselves in the scriptures, even though the Lord knows our needs already.

Entanglement suggests a quantum physical definition of love: Love is quantum entanglement with another person, or with God. When their joy is your joy and their pain causes you to ache beyond the ability of language to express, you’re thoroughly entangled with them. In fact, the claim that love is entanglement is reinforced in Verse 23: “…that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”

Can there be a greater human entanglement than between a mother and the child she has carried and nurtured in her womb for nine months, or a deeper love? Mothers’ intuition is real, and quantum entanglement provides a simple and elegant explanation for it.

In fact, while we’re on the subject of entanglement and relationships, we can draw an important conclusion regarding how the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are One God. This has been a point of contention among religious factions for a long time, but again, quantum physics provides a scientific answer. Various notions exist, but none of them have been founded on a solid scientific basis until now.

Physically speaking, the Three are distinct individuals. But as in Schrodinger’s thought experiment, in which the cat and other distinct items in the box can correctly be said to comprise one undifferentiated wave function while unobserved and isolated from the rest of the world, we can say the same regarding the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. So, whether speaking theologically or scientifically, we can truly say the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are One.