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One of the breakthrough ideas in physics has enormous relevance to everyone\u2019s personal life. The idea is known as the participatory universe, which goes a long way to establishing the role of human beings in the cosmos. Traditionally, the universe was non-participatory. We stared at it from the outside like children with their noses pressed to a bake shop window. Humans occupied an isolated space here on Earth, which somehow created the potential for advanced life.<\/p>\n

A participatory universe changes our status. Your body, mind, feelings, thoughts, sensations, in fact, the very existence of the three-dimensional world, are intertwined with cosmic creation. This is a revolutionary concept for physics to arrive at. The accepted view of reality holds that human beings exist in the context of a vast physical universe \u201cout there.\u201d Only an extreme mystic would doubt this description, but all of us should.\u00a0Sir John Eccles, a famous British neurologist, and Nobel laureate, declared, \u201cI want you to realize that there exists no color in the natural world, and no sound \u2013 nothing of this kind; no textures, no patterns, no beauty, no scent.\u201d What Eccles means is that all the qualities of Nature, from the luxurious scent of a rose to the sting of a wasp and the taste of honey, are produced by human beings.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a remarkable statement, all the more because it\u2019s all-inclusive. The most distant star, billions of light years away, has no reality without you because everything that makes a star real\u2014its heat, light, and mass, its position in space, and the velocity that carries it away at enormous speed\u2014requires a human observer with a human nervous system. If no one existed to experience heat, light, mass, and so on, nothing could be real as we know it. If the qualities of Nature are a human construct, the existence of the physical universe \u201cout there\u201d must be seriously questioned\u2013and along with it, our participation in such a universe.<\/p>\n

When you break experience down into its tiniest ingredients, the physicality of everything begins to vanish. The story we keep telling ourselves depends on reality \u201cout there\u201d having a physical explanation, but it doesn\u2019t. For example, we depend on sight to navigate through the world.\u00a0No matter what you see \u201cout there\u201d\u2014an apple, cloud, mountain, or tree\u2014light bouncing off the object makes it visible, but how? No one knows. What makes seeing mysterious can be summed up in a few undeniable facts:<\/p>\n