American scientist and author Robert Lanza has a new book out, Observer, incorporating his ideas into a science fiction novel with award winning author Nancy Kress. From an interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast:
"One of the premises of the novel is that death isn't the terminal event we think, 'rather it's just a break in our linear continuity of space and time,' he remarked. Lanza compared our experience of time to a record album, where we can only hear the music in the present where the needle is playing, yet the past and future exist simultaneously on the whole LP.
In another metaphor, he explained the observer effect as like a TV set – if you have it turned off, you don't see the image, yet if a neighbor has their set turned on, the picture exists for them...Lanza argues that time is actually created by the observer, and the way that we process and remember information. One fascinating possibility he related to the observer effect is the development of time travel, which he speculated might come into existence within the next 20-100 years.”
(Observer has been added to the ever grow list of books I want to read.)