My Beliefs – Quantum Physics – weird and wonderful.
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. No living person can embrace it all.
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 someone 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. The whole world did not flood. The flood that is taking place is the massive inundation of knowledge and understanding.
What? The Ark never existed? That was a great story! (Noah walks away shaking his head.)
You’re the historian John. From what I gather the great flood myth was a Sumerian tale. There might well have been an enormous flood in that area when the sea broke through from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea in earlier times that might have so catastrophic as to have been passed down. But there is some evidence of localised major flooding of Sumerian cities. Who knows? Certainly no world-wide phenomenon.
A nice story though.
You’re right, my study of history confirms that only localized floods happened in antiquity. Yet I also read an article written by a US Navy engineer that a vessel constructed to the specs listed in the Bible would be eminently seaworthy and able to withstand violent seas. That made me think.
What? Beyond the engineering knowledge of that age? They did have a seadaring tradition didn’t they?
Your beliefs, or anybody else’s have nothing to do with it. Interesting that those who deny science and quantum theory have no problem going to get a CAT scan when they’re sick or using a cell phone or GPS when they’re lost.
Bumba – you are right. ISIS want to drag everyone back to the Middle Ages but use assault rifles and plastic explosives.
Faith vs. Science? My money is on science. The simple answer of “God created it,” is not good enough. Well, “how did God create it?”, you might ask. “He just did,” says the religious person. Lol! He “just did,” huh? You got me, you won me over with “he just did,”.
Doesn’t wash with me either – it just pushes the unknown a step further away.
It’s easy to default to “faith,” when something is difficult to understand. The explanation for how we got here – from the beginning of time, until this very moment – is not easy to grasp. Trying to explain to someone how we are made of star dust, basically makes us sound crazy, lol! But, I’ll take the star dust explanation over the Bible explanation any day.
Me too. One day people will wake up to the fact that religion is made by men and based on medieval ideas – nothing more. There are many wonders and mysteries – the attempt by ignorant tribesmen to explain things was lamentable. God is a bad idea.