He is a charlatan like many other people out there who use words like quantum entanglement, quantum measurement etc., to promote their own alternative medicines to gain money. Most/all of his claims are either conclusively wrong or cannot be provable. He doesn’t have any articles published in any recognized journals and his work has never been subjected to proper scientifique scrutiny. He talks about reincarnation, energies and spirituality etc., without explaining any proper ways of testing them.
One of the fundamental problems in quantum mechanics right now is the measurement problem, he claims that he discovered the solution and in his own words - “My discovery was, consciousness is the ground of all being, and objects are possibilities of consciousness itself to choose from. The paradoxes go away then”. How did the paradoxes disappear? How can we test this consciousness? Are there any other ways of testing his hypothesis? Honestly, no one wants to waste their time on explaining how bogus his theories are.
If you look at his views here Can Science and Religion be Integrated? - Center for Quantum Activism - he claims - “Medicine has the conventional allopathic medicine and also alternative medicine practices that complement it. A prominent part of alternative medicine is Eastern medicine that emphasizes subtle energies called variously as prana, chi, and ki”. Not only is this wrong but this kind of claims using genuine physics theories will have long lasting repercussions on how people interpret physics. In one case it even caused premature death - Teen’s death hastened by practitioner who had bogus diplomas. One of such bogus diplomas are given by an online website called “Quantum University” started by “Dr.” Amit Goswami.
If you read this article - Teaching physics mysteries versus pseudoscience they explain how such quacks are using the word quantum physics to promote pseudo science. There was even a movie called What the Bleep Do We Know!? which promotes such bogus theories. There are many other quacks out there like Mr. Mercola and his articles like - Use Quantum Physics to Send ‘Messages’ to Your Body to Get Well, there are also bogus machines like Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid - Wikipedia etc.
I genuinely beg everyone to pay extra attention to these pseudo physicists who claim that they discovered the elixir of life or whatever with quantum physics. Please, try to do some research and see if they have some articles published in recognized journals or try to see if any recognized physicists agree with their views. I can never wrap my head around the fact that these people are causing genuine harm to other people for their personal gain and still are out there without any repercussions.
As you probably know already — I hold a ph.d in quantum physics from Stanford University. Not just any ph.d — Stanford paid me today’s equivalent of US$4,800 per month to do my ph.d with them.
Yet my personal interests were (and are) much wider ranging. Since then, I’ve bicycled around the world more than once. I retired at the age of 33. I lived/traveled in a sea-kayak for two years — island-by-island, camping & spearfishing. I’ve written a book of poetry. I’ve adopted and raised five kids.
Here on Quora I mostly answer questions on spirituality and enlightenment. Normally I write these answers “in the mode of poetry.”
Now I will answer your question: I don’t think of Amit Goswami at all. Until 30 minutes ago I didn’t even know he existed.
But since you ask —His writing is mumbo-jumbo. His web-presence reflects a man seeking status and cash — really no different than anybody else trying to sell spirituality.
The kernel of human spirituality is whether you tend to see your wineglass as half-full or half-empty. Nothing more. Nothing less.
When shit hits the fan do you reach for a sponge? — or do you look for somebody to blame?
Does each day fill you with gratitude and celebration? — or bitterness and criticism?
The simple fact is:
— one cannot sell gratitude
— one cannot sell a secret as simple as a half-full wineglass.
Now that we are past all this —
Welcome, my new friend! — Has anyone brought a corkscrew?
— Oh, wait, I see, it’s champagne! —
Physicists are not thinking about these ideas at all.
At least not before they (we) reach certain age, when they (we) stop being physicists.
Amit Goswami's ideas are not physics. The are something else, and I am not qualified to say what they are. Philosophy? Art? Poetry? I don’t know.
So, better judge these ideas by their own standards, whatever they are.
Again, this is not physics.
