In our view of the state of things, we see stem cells as being the undifferentiated cell. Most of us are familiar with the concept of cells, which we used to think of as the smallest unit of biological life. In the human body an undifferentiated cell simply means that the cell does not have a defined and fixed function and place in the physical structure of the body. In the body, in its physical structure, differentiation allows for a variety of activity, having a different basis in function, to take place. In other words brain cells have nervous system function and heart cells have pumping contractile function. White blood cells have immune system function. This is the way we see this in our scientific study and this is how we make sense of it. Thus a stem cell is one that has yet to determine what it is going to be when it grows up.

But looking at it from a Quantum Mechanics perspective, what is a stem cell?

What does a stem cell represent?

An undifferentiated cell from the perspective of Quantum Mechanics is a cell that contains all the possibilities without expressing any unique possibility that becomes likely in a probability. It is in essence a ‘zero’ cell. This ‘zero’ cell contains all the probabilities and all of them exist within the cell. In fact all the probabilities exist within each stem cell. The manifestation of a different probability does not negate all the other probabilities. Our conventional view which sees everything as individual and separate would lead us to believe that the unique expression of the differentiated cell is fixed. This is to say that once a cell is a heart cell it is always a heart cell. Once a skin cell is formed is always a skin cell. This would lead us to believe that a skin cell cannot become a heart cell. (In fact stem cells have been produced from skin cells)

In the Quantum Physics model all the differentiated cells possess within them all the probabilities of being other expressions of all other differentiated cells and the stem cell. The problem is that to get from the probability of one differentiated cell to another the cell has to return to the zero probability first.

This zero probability state is the state in which it is possible to choose another unique probability. Thus the cell must return to the stem cell state, and from this state it is possible to manifest any of the other states possible for the cell.

At this point we are aware of how to get stem cells to manifest their potential to become unique cells. At the present we are not aware of how to return differentiated cells to the stem cell state, though some promising work has been done with skin cells. This understanding is important because it will allow a more widespread application of Quantum Mechanics principles.