My Beliefs – Quantum Physics
We stand on solid ground.
That’s not true.
In effect we are standing on a force-field that our force-field, our the force-field of our solid body, cannot penetrate. There is relatively more ‘space’ between atoms that there is between the stars. If it wasn’t for the force-fields holding things in place the atoms would simply slide past each other without a single one touching.
That’s weird. You think of solid things hitting something solid but there is no solid thing to hit.
But that is as nothing to the world of Quantum Physics.
This is a world where nothing makes sense. Things can be in two places at once. This is a world explained by mathematical theories. It is the world of energy, atoms, subatomic particles and atomic forces. It does not behave like the universe we inhabit.
I believe the universe we live in is an illusion.
I believe we only see it partially.
I believe we are living in a sandwich of ‘reality’. The macrocosm, full of quasars, black holes and dark matter, full of galaxies, neutron stars and astronomical size, is a universe of incomprehension of Newtonian Physics, Einstein’s magic and String Theory. The microcosm with its neutrinos, Higgs-bosun, quarks and particles that go back in time, is another world that you couldn’t make up.
I believe the reality we live, suspended between the two, is much more peculiar than even we can imagine. We don’t know half of it.
I don’t understand it but I am fascinated by it.
I believe the human mind is amazing. We have invented maths and we have invented tools that enable us to learn and understand to levels that are stupendous.
We stand on the backs of giants.
Our knowledge and understanding expand beyond all comprehension (except for a few).
I believe our understanding of Quantum Physics makes the religious fundamentalists, like ISIS, look like primitive savages. They would have us chuck aside all of our knowledge for the sake of a medieval book of dubious ramblings.
The next time I hear one of the ignorant fools tell me that evolution is not true I will think on the minds that worked out the mysteries of the microcosm and macrocosm and feel sorry for them.
I know we are far from understanding it. But we do know that the earth is billions of years old and that the ark was never a reality.
Today’s science estimates we only see 4% of our universe.
I wonder what percentage we understand?
So do they – them that’s doing the discovering!
That harks back to Rumsfelt.
What, no Noah’s Ark ?
Blimey, you’ll be having a visit from all the Creationists out there.
Could be fun!
They’ve been and gone! They are fossils in the blog strata!
BBC 4 Dec 16th 10pm – Horizon : Secrets of the Solar System
BBC 4 Dec 15th 2:30am – Inside Einstein’s Mind : The Enigma of Space and Time – general relativity etc.
Both programmes essential viewing.
How can they be secrets if lots of people already know about them and they’re about to tell everyone else?
Perhaps I should email the creationists and get them to tune in?
Crikey – that Einstein one will probably come out all warped, red-shifted and at the wrong speed.
I’ll be sure to catch it. The more I find out about space time and the universe the more psychedelic it becomes. I’m waiting for Syd Barrett’s answer to Quantum mechanics. I think it’s done by gnomes on bikes.
The Einstein one is actually on first a bit earlier – Monday 14th at 9pm. Sorry, I hadn’t read the planner chart too well.
I told you he’d mess with time! I was right!
Can he transport me back to before I needed these bloody reading glasses?
I’ve got to put them on for the laptop, take them off to watch TV, put them back on to read the TV planner thing, etc. Aah!
I’ve got varifocals. I used to have that off and on problem. All solved now. I love em.
Aha, that’s because you’ve got to the stage of acceptance that you DO need them. I’m still a relative newbie, just toying with the idea that I might just need them for a few things, when in fact ….
What do they cost?
I started having to wear glasses at the age of fourteen when I couldn’t find my girlfriend in the high-street. You become accustomed.
Depends if you want the Elton John variety. Mine cost about £90 from specsavers. I recognise all my girlfriends now!
That seems pretty good. I keep thinking all that stuffs still really dear because I can remember my mum getting them when they first came out.
No – they churn them out now. Not too bad.
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The world is a lot weirder than we could ever imagine.