Medical people are often confronted by cases that are potentially fatal (e.g. cancer). Yet those cases occasionally go on to recovering their health and having clear CT scans when such things aren't expected at all. It's a real puzzle … but a good one. Looking at these situations medically and scientifiically, what happens? I don't know but I can wonder ... does it all go back to Einstein's work in physics, and a recent discovery concerning the placebo effect? The surgery, as well as all the chemotherapy and CT scans, are obviously absolutely essential.

I saw a TV program about Professor Ted Kaptchuk’s work with the placebo effect a few nights ago (his experiments with patients show that placebos have beneficial effects even when the placebo is known to be such) and am wondering if this twist in the placebo effect could be involved. In "miraculous" cases, the placebo wouldn’t be a pill or other treatment but I think it might possibly be the way the patient thinks and feels.

Here’s a paragraph (assembled, and condensed, from parts of my 57 previous short articles at http://vixra.org/author/r...) that offers a few thoughts about how placebos might work (and not just for IBS).

1) Remember that Einstein said E=mc^2 (energy and matter can be converted into each other, and are related to the speed of light). So the energy of thoughts and feelings can affect physical matter plus all forms of energy if thoughts, energy and matter are all parts of Einstein's Unified Field*.
2) Also, remember that quantum physics says particles of matter can behave as waves of energy, and that waves of energy can behave like particles of matter. This also suggests thoughts and feelings can affect physical matter plus all forms of energy.
3) I believe immaterial gravity is the foundation of the whole universe. I think light and every type of energy is a modification of gravity; that gravity produces all the other fundamental forces (electromagnetism like light and X-rays etc., strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force); and that all particles of matter are composed of "wave packets" where G (gravitation) and EM (electromagnetism) mix to produce what we call mass (this implies the Higgs field is actually the G-EM field). This also suggests the immaterial energy of thoughts and feelings can affect physical matter plus all forms of energy.
4) Finally, realize that the emerging TOE or Theory of Everything (the modern version of Einstein's UFT or Unified Field Theory) unifies all things into one thing - the TOE/UFT therefore exists in physical reality, not merely as mathematics. Then, immaterial thoughts and feelings can affect material matter as well as other energy forms anywhere on Earth, anywhere in space, and anywhen in time.

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* In the 19th century, Scottish mathematician and physicist James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism into electromagnetism - A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism” by James Clerk Maxwell – Oxford: Clarendon Press (1873). Albert Einstein's equations say that in a universe possessing only gravitation and electromagnetism, the gravitational fields carry enough information about electromagnetism to allow the equations of Maxwell to be restated in terms of these gravitational fields. This was discovered by the mathematical physicist George Yuri Rainich (1886 -1968) - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 27, 106 - Rainich, G. Y. (1925). England’s Professor Penrose has argued that the gravitational fields, if known everywhere but only for a limited time, do not contain enough information about their electromagnetism to allow the future to be determined, so Einstein's unified theory fails - Mathematical Physics 3, 566 - Newman, E. T., Penrose, R. J. (1962)

Let’s slightly adapt a 1919 paper by Einstein - “Do Gravitational Fields Play An Essential Part In The Structure Of The Elementary Particles Of Matter?” by A. Einstein - submission to the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1919) ¬¬- to conclude gravitation actually forms particles of matter. If he was also correct about gravitation being the warping of space-time, it is logical that both gravitation and the warping of space-time that produces gravity would form elementary particles, their masses and the forces (nuclear and electromagnetic) associated with those particles. Therefore, time is unified with the gravitational field, which produces electricity and magnetism (the electromagnetic field – see Why Is Gravity Weak? and Digital String Theory in “Clarifying Previous Points Regarding Dark Matter” - http://vixra.org/abs/1408... - for a proposed explanation) If time is unified with the gravitational and electromagnetic fields, the gravitational fields are not known for only a limited time but do contain enough information and Einstein succeeded, just as John Wheeler and Charles Misner claimed - “Geometrodynamics” or “Classical physics as geometry” by Charles W. Misner/J. A. Wheeler – Annals of Physics 2, 525 (1957)

This overcomes the 50-year-old objection to Einstein’s Unified Field which was put forth by Penrose.

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Interesting ideas ... but can they be tested in a clinical trial of some kind? Or is the tremendous worth of clinical evaluations unable to deal with a circumstance in which the many, seemingly obviously separate, objects and events in our lives are really unified into one thing in physics' space-time? Perhaps this is comparable to a stream of binary digits (1's and 0's) ultimately causing pixels on a computer screen to be illuminated, unifying the separate elements on the screen because they all originate with one thing (a stream of 1's and 0's). Anyway, I don’t think it hurts to think “big”. When we’ve got a big puzzle to solve, thinking big might be just what’s needed.