Rudyard Kipling, the famous English author of “The Jungle book” born in India wrote on day “Oh! East is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet”. But certainly, and of course accidently, In 1802 an English doctor called Mr. Thomas Young with his double slit experiment not only opened the whole new field of Quantum physicsbut also, somehow, paved the path which ultimately would lead someday to find contemplation between science and spirituality, consciousness…. And yeah! Put east and west together. The experiment originally was designed to show the particle nature of light(When allowed to hit the metal screen), but then, as we call it, often the simplest things are most complex, several interpretation of the experiment later, paved the way for wave and particle theory of light and all the substances . This experiment leads us to the entire new way of observing experiments as Experiment, observer and the result. Now the experiments lead to the discovery of the subatomic level, the quantum level of matter.
It was found that consciousness, or at least the act of paying attention, influenced the behavior of particles. For example in the double slit experiment also if the screen was viewed in one state consciousness state the result appeared as two lines and as more than one if viewed in another state of consciousness. More so, it was deducted that particles are not tangible if someone is not paying attention to them. Particles seem to remain in states of absolute infinite potentials until some attention is given to them, where they then collapse into a single form of their innumerable possibilities. From these scientific discoveries, we had found a way to explain tons of Buddhist concepts such as Consciousness, Self and non-self, Unity in all things, Illusion and Reality, Impermanence, and more.