Patient-practitioner-remedy (PPR) entanglement. Part 6. Miasms revisited: non-linear quantum theory as a model for the homeopathic process

Abstract

The possibility that non-linear quantum theory could be used to model PPR entanglement is discussed in relation to the treatment of miasms. In this model, miasms are imagined as disease entities behaving like solitary waves, or ‘solitons’ which, when trapped in a therapeutic state space, requiring equally soliton-like (miasmatic or high potency) remedies to effectively ‘annihilate’ them.

Keywords

non-locality - miasms - solitons - GHZ entanglement - non-linear PPR entanglement - weak quantum theory

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