Collapsor
In the wave lies the secret of creation
Copenhagen: The capital and most populous city of Denmark. It lies on the island of Zealand, the Old Zealand - the original recipe Zealand, and it’s a thousand years old.
“Copenhagen” is also a brand of chewing tobacco. I’ve never tried it… Well, that’s not entirely true - there was one brief moment when I was an innocent, dumb child in the early 90s, and I snuck a tiny fiber of it out of the puck shaped container my dad carried around. It was among the worst tastes I’ve ever experienced and I never did it again.
But Copenhagen is known for something else too. It’s a city, it’s a snuff, and it’s an interpretation…. Maaaan.
Recently, I was watching this video of Neil smoke-da-grass Tyson where he and some colleagues were talking about the Copenhagen Interpretation, which is the first of many interpretations of Quantum Mechanics from the early 20th Century. It’s named that because that’s what Werner Heisenberg called it. Niels Bohr, Max Born, and Heisenberg himself worked with a group of physicists exactly 100 hundred years ago, from 1925 to 1927, in the city of Copenhagen to explain the weird physics they were studying. They knew it worked, they could make predictions using the mathematics, but they didn’t understand why it worked.
The idea is that is that reality itself, the entirety of what we call the Universe, is in flux, and it’s only when it is observed and measured that it collapses into the objective reality we know. What exactly collapses? Well, the wave function of course. I’m not sure if I fully understand the concept of the wave function at all… In Quantum Physics, it’s essentially a probability of what a particle is doing at any given time, and we can’t directly know what the particle is doing until it’s measured.
What’s interesting about this to me is that this whole conversation was a century ago and we’re still perplexed.
If the Universe is just a probability of what could happen until I stumble out into it and observe, that means it’s almost entirely subjective based on how I do the observing - but we know that’s not true. Physics works no matter what your mood or perspective. It’s objective reality.
Personally, I don’t think we’re in our own subjective realities. This could just be a limitation of how our minds work. We want to reduce things to their smallest parts and then we get confused on why these small parts aren’t working in any way we can relate to at our own scale.
It could also be that we just have it all wrong.
Night Sea by Edna Andrade, 1977. I took this photograph of the artwork myself while viewing it at Harvard University in the Autumn of 2025.
I have this book called The Secret of Light by Walter Russell. I have no idea why I have it. There for a while, about a decade ago when I first started this website, I was digging in pretty deep to all sorts of Esoteica. I bet I was going down some gnostic, freemason rabbit hole and I impulse bought it. Who knows.
I’ve always been fascinated by the ideas in it though. I didn’t get very far - it reads like the rantings of a madman on a street corner. However, the first few pages present some neat ideas. It’s very New-Agey and Pop-Christian, if those are terms people use.
The thrust of his argument seems to be that God is Light. I’m assuming he’s referring to the Christian and Old Testament Father God. You honestly never know when you read these things… Then he goes into some pretty heady philosophical explanations.
Russell himself was an American contemporary of Einstein and Tesla. Einstein seemingly read Russell’s first book “The Universal One” around the same time that the Quantum Mechanics debate was raging. Nikola Tesla and Walter Russell were good friends and wrote to each other often. Tesla allegedly told Russel once that he should lock up his writings for a thousand years because Humanity simply wasn’t ready for the profundity of them.
Allegedly.
Russell is also the godfather of the Electric Universe concept, something that has been thoroughly debunked about a billion times by modern scientists. He was more of an artist, a conceptionalist - not a true scientist. He lacked the mathematical rigor and understanding to actually refute theoretical consensus.
Regardless, his ideas are truly fascinating. He really was way ahead of his time. Consciousness is still hotly debated. The origins of the Universe aren’t fully understood - it recently went from 13.7 billion years old, which it had been all my life, to 13.8. We found another hundred million years buried in the seat cushions of our cosmic couch I guess.
I like guys like Walter Russell. You need madmen yelling on street corners. Maybe we do have it all wrong. We almost certainly do.
Literal mainstream science says the Universe doesn’t exist until we observe it. Until our eyeballs and ear holes process the information of reality in our brains, it’s an open wave function.
We gobble up the data points and collapse it into the real world.
Of course, the Copenhagen interpretation is just one of many understandings of Quantum Mechanics. There are many others; many that don’t require an observer at all.
In FLOLAS I try to reconcile some of these concepts. Like Russell, I’ve always found the Creation Story in Genesis to be fascinating. The first four verses of the Bible for instance are:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
There wasn’t nothingness in the beginning, there were “dark waters,” and God immediately created Light to separate these two things. Two opposite things: Light and Water. Two opposite things that can be understood as… Waves.
Page 71 is almost done. I have probably another week of painting to do on it. You can watch that progress over here on my little YouTube channel. Sometimes I collapse the wave function into actually drawing my comic book. I realized yesterday that March 20th was the actual Spring Equinox this year, so apologies that this thing is a day late. There was a video game where you can ride dragons and get into sword fights that just came out, so I was a little distracted.
Godspeed everyone. Surf’s up 🌊
