What are they and how can I make/take one?

Are they macrocosmic or microcosmic or both?

'quantum jumps' refers to discrete shifts in energy at small scales; i.e., the electronic states of an atom or molecule. The electron can only occupy a finite number of available states, and 'quantum jumps' from one to the next when absorbing or emitting the appropriate energy quantity.

What about at the macrocosmic level?

Jumps between dimensions/worlds/realities?

How do these jumps occur at this level?

Outside the box? Make the jump?

You believe that they do not?

there's no evidence that they do

Shouldn't occurances at microcosmic levels be repeated at macrocosmic levels?

why?

WHY?

As above, So below? The dictum of RTB via Hermes.

yeah, why? Why should occurrances at the microscopic levels be repeated at macroscopic levels?

Your the scientist I'm the artist.

String Theory? Quantum loop theory?

Eleven-dimensional universes and all.

How does one make the jump between these dimensions?

that's just fancy speculation, made by career theorists who need to produce

evidence is the key, and so far there isn't any evidence that string theory or quantum loop theory is necessarily true. It is basically inventing mechanisms that could do what the unseen mechanisms are doing. We still haven't seen the unseen mechanisms, so the invention is nothing more than speculation

Quite convincing speculation at that!

Have you read any Brian Greene?

evidence is convincing, speculation is interesting

green's just a popularizer of his field

Can quantum jumps be made psychologically where thougts are made and processed at the speed of light?

What is Quantum consciousness?

If speculation is interesting then RTB should be one of the most interesting guys that you've met?

What is your field in the realm of science?

physics generally and atmospheric electricity specifically

Atmospheric electricity eh? Sounds interesting. Finding, researching, or creating?

research, of course. this involves creating apparatuses to find the patterns

Dan wouldn't know a fact if it bit him during his night tremors or LSD trips.

a few more of those, and we might be even

I am working on the problem of lightning initiation, which amazingly remains unsolved

Theoretically speaking - could there be some sort of similarity/connection between lightning initiation and the Big Bang?

they are both physical events

That seemingly arise out of nowhere, no?

I heard a U.S. politician talking about 'Quantum jumps and quantum leaps of thought' a couple nights ago.

macrocosmically or microcosmically or somewhere in between?

the feature of interest is 'sudden shift from one distinct state to another'. Any process which exhibits such a feature may be said to be a member of a class of processes that exhibit this feature.

Sudden? Instantaneous? At the speed of light?

Class of processes that exhibit this feature? Members?

Please enlighten further.

Minutely minute?

something like that

Wave Theory - The grand unified theory of everything.

huh?

Duh!

okeydokey

smokie?

Dan,
I thought lightning was initiated by charged clouds reaching approx. 30k per cm and breaking down the air between those potential sources. This is based on my science learning from 55 years ago!
Has the info moved on?

observations of e-fields show that the fields are usually less than 1.5kV/cm. The trick is that there can be intermediate discharge processes that can occur in such weak fields such as cosmic ray-initiated runaway breakdown and positive streamer discharges from hydrometeor extremities.

Thanks for that- such low voltages surprise me.
It's no wonder I used to get belts when repairing tele's, even after discharging tubes!!!