Abstract: In this work, from the EPR experiment, whose result demonstrates the non-locality of the physical reality, we develop a correspondence with synchronicity, and, consequently, an isomorphism between the unconscious and the quantum vacuum, concluding for the dimension of Quantum Physics as a psychoanalytic theory of the universe.

Human constructs are guided by the unconscious perceptions of the world, accumulated throughout the evolution of the species, due to the constant changes in the mental capacities. The unconscious contributions of creation in the artistic and scientific elaborations are imbricated in the new ideas and sensations that we are instilled and accumulated in the unconscious. It is from these unconscious perceptions that the physical phenomena and processes, perceivable by the human consciousness, are evidenced and rationalised, transforming in a continuous way the readings, interpretations and translations of the macroscopic world, object of the Classical Physics. Still by an unconscious factor, we are led to constructs of mediating models of communication, which are transmitted through a given language.

According to Lacan, all human inquiry is irreversibly bound within the space created by language. This certainty converges to the concept of the unconscious, introduced into psychoanalysis by Freud, and later reworked by Jung.

The different unfoldings of human inventiveness, though very diversified, have the same origin, the human mind and unconscious perceptions; hence the fact that distinct constructions possibly lead the thoughts to the same reference. There is a synchronicity in human constructions arising from this background common to all human beings.

One can thus think of the unconscious as a virtual universe of possibilities, the emptiness, where the context is atemporal and aspatial, which allows us an analogy with the quantum vacuum. The collapses occurring in this virtual universe, constructor of human realities, are brought about by events and by the various forms of language. It is the events that generate the temporalities and the spatialities, while this time-space context, together with the languages, construct the meaning.

For example, some theories were elaborated, in some cases in the same period, by people who did not know each other and lived in different countries, and had no rational, conscious knowledge of each other’s work. (The other’s work is a physical event, the construction of the theory is a psychic event, and this fact is a synchronic event.)

Some philosophers distinguish between creating and begetting; we must clarify that what is meant by creating is the potential and virtual manifestation of the essence in the form of existence, and by begetting, the transmission of a form of existence into another form of existence. History leads us to say that, in potential, a mathematician shares with a poet, painter, musician or writer the same creative principle, although their creativities precipitate different constructs of reality. These evidences build autonomously a bridge between the psyche and our interpretations for physical phenomena, since the theories that define them are human constructions. We have to locate this bridge and walk on its bases, exploring the whole panorama around, building in a more solid way the human reality.

We understand as human truths, elements and facts of the world or the universe, that have a repetitive form of manifesting before human consciousness.

And if today we seek to find a bridge between Quantum Physics and Synchronicity, it is because these transformations in the worldview, followed by their respective mental constructions, do not change the fact that creating minds possess the same mental properties, common to all, causing, somewhere, conscious minds to travel the paths pointed by the set of transformations involving mind, consciousness and human psyche.

The idea of the actualisations of the unconscious can be thought of as the result of the accumulation of events and excitations at the quantum level, since the unconscious is also a virtual space of possibilities, emptiness, something that corresponds to the concept of quantum vacuum present in quantum theory.

The human mind has the symbolic correspondent in consciousness by the actualisation of the quantum events and their respective excitations, because this actualisation is the genesis of the macroscopic world. Consciousness relates events in the classical world, and the ideas of Quantum Physics are alien to consciousness, but are realised as events and languages generating classical reality.

We are faced with a problem of scale, since consciousness is apt to analyse the macro world. In fact, consciousness and the unconscious are part of the same structure, the human mind, and are interrelated in a complex way, conditioning our activities and interpretations of physical and metaphysical events and phenomena.

Purely rational scientific paradigms will not lead mankind to the ultimate, absolute reality, for they are built up and worked with the boundaries determined by human brain and mental functioning, fuelled by an unconscious activity. So far, we have thought of science as a form of standardisation of perceiving the universe around us, macro and micro worlds, aiming at a better understanding of where we are immersed, and consequently, a better interaction with the environment in which we live, without this implying a knowledge where there is certainty. The perception of the microworld occurs in the unconscious in an unspeakable way, collapsing in the events resulting from human action.

The mechanistic and Cartesian way in which the impressions of the world are presented to consciousness leads us to question the things that emerge from the unconscious, but their manifestations are becoming more and more intense, leading men of science to innovations that result in scientific crises, and, consequently, to paradigm shifts. Thus consciousness and the unconscious self-organise, grow in their capabilities, modifying and adding new perceptions of the world that are manifested in human action.

We will call mental activity all transformations in matter, for any movement in space-time results from a mental activity. Certainly the human mind does not define all mental activities on the planet, nor in the universe, but it always maintains, in potential, the possibility of actualising them. There is in the potential and virtual universe of possibilities, the unconscious or the quantum vacuum, the immanence of the totality of the universe. The set of all minds and their connections constitute the Unus Mundus.

These considerations may justify the fact that the Einstein, Rose and Podolsky (EPR) paradox confirms the validity of Bell’s theorem, when in principle the opposite effect was intended, since a consequence of this theorem is the nonlocal character of physical events, implying that the quantum reality is spatially synchronised.

The EPR experiment was formulated by Einstein with the objective of obtaining a complete proof of the incompleteness of quantum theory, with the help of physicists Boris Podolsky, from Russia, and Nathan Rose, American. Einstein did not accept the fact that quantum theory attributed to the observer, and still is, the property of creating reality.

It is here to justify this consideration with the argument that human reality is truly constructed by the observer, and this is a fact that implies the non-absolutism of this reality.

This experiment originally refers to two electrons with correlated momenta. This experiment was modified using two photons with correlated polarisations. Experimentally, photon polarisation can be measured by using a calcite crystal that divides the light ray into two channels, one high and one low, depending on whether the photons are polarised respectively along the optical axis of the calcite or at right angles with this axis. A source of photons emitting them in pairs, of two distinct colours, and moving in opposite directions towards two conveniently spaced detectors, may provide measurements of polarisation of these photons.

The photon pairs leave the source in a particular state of phase shuffling, called parallel polarisation state. In this way, the phase of each photon depends on what the other photon is doing. Consequently, none of these photons is represented by a defined waveform, which according to the quantum theory implies that none of these photons has a defined polarisation; therefore, no measurement of polarisation will always give the same result. For each photon the polarisation measurement will give half to half for the two channels, high and low. Although each photon by itself does not have a definite mandatory wave — it is understood as a mandatory wave an undulatory behaviour associated to the photons, as individual entities, and that are waves that do not carry energy —, the state of the two photons as a whole is represented by a definite wave, which means that certain attributes of the two particles (corresponding simultaneously to the two photons) have a definite value. For photons in the state of parallel polarisation, one of these defined attributes is the parallel polarisation of the photons.

This experience, from the standpoint of synchronicity, makes it possible to attribute to this type of event something similar to the human psyche, that is, a virtuality, coexistent in the photons, and certainly in any quantum entity, and to explain it as being a synchronic event.

The implication that quantum reality is nonlocal forces scientists to search for new paths: the self-conscious universe, the Unus Mundus idea, the theory of Synchronicity.

As Jung says: