A host
of technologies that define life today, from cell phones to space exploration, ariseout of QM
It is probably the most powerful, accurate, and predictive scientific theory ever developed
. But … the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.” (Vacca, 2005) p116
For the models that work make no physical sense, e.g. in Feynman's sum over histories an electron travels all possible paths between two points at once, but how can one electron do that?
Theory should increase understanding, but in physics it seems to take it away. In wave-particle duality particles morph into waves, denying the very sense of what waves and particles are.
Quantum theory still isn’t taught in high schools because who can teach what makes no sense
For an electron to suddenly appear outside a field barrier it can’t penetrate is like a coin in a perfectly sealed glass bottle suddenly appearing outside it.
Our local reality appears real to its inhabitants but is inside another reality that generates it
Entangled photons maintain opposite spins no matter how far apart they go because quantum collapse works instantly across the universe. An objective reality limited by the speed of light can’t do this, so Einstein called entanglement spooky action at a distance
Time dilates. In Einstein’s twin paradox, one twin travels the universe while the other stays on earth, and the first twin returns after a year to find his brother an old man of eighty!
In an objectively real world time is fixed but in our virtual world it slows down as we go faster.
Randomness occurs. In our world, radioactive atoms emit alpha particles randomly, i.e. in a way that no prior physical “story” can explain. Randomness implies a physically uncaused cause that isn’t possible in a complete physicality
In Young’s two-slit experiment, one electron goes through two slits, interferes with itself to give an interference pattern, but still always arrives at one screen point
Every electron is identical. In our world, every photon, electron and quark is indistinguishable from every other one, just as if the same code generated all of them
. Quantum superposition. In quantum theory, currents can simultaneously flow both ways around a superconducting ring (Cho, 2000), and an electron can spin both up and spin down – until observed.
Every electron is identical. In our world, every photon, electron and quark is indistinguishable from every other one, just as if the same code generated all of them
It is probably the most powerful, accurate, and predictive scientific theory ever developed
. But … the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.” (Vacca, 2005) p116
For the models that work make no physical sense, e.g. in Feynman's sum over histories an electron travels all possible paths between two points at once, but how can one electron do that?
Theory should increase understanding, but in physics it seems to take it away. In wave-particle duality particles morph into waves, denying the very sense of what waves and particles are.
Quantum theory still isn’t taught in high schools because who can teach what makes no sense
For an electron to suddenly appear outside a field barrier it can’t penetrate is like a coin in a perfectly sealed glass bottle suddenly appearing outside it.
Our local reality appears real to its inhabitants but is inside another reality that generates it
Entangled photons maintain opposite spins no matter how far apart they go because quantum collapse works instantly across the universe. An objective reality limited by the speed of light can’t do this, so Einstein called entanglement spooky action at a distance
Time dilates. In Einstein’s twin paradox, one twin travels the universe while the other stays on earth, and the first twin returns after a year to find his brother an old man of eighty!
In an objectively real world time is fixed but in our virtual world it slows down as we go faster.
Randomness occurs. In our world, radioactive atoms emit alpha particles randomly, i.e. in a way that no prior physical “story” can explain. Randomness implies a physically uncaused cause that isn’t possible in a complete physicality
In Young’s two-slit experiment, one electron goes through two slits, interferes with itself to give an interference pattern, but still always arrives at one screen point
Every electron is identical. In our world, every photon, electron and quark is indistinguishable from every other one, just as if the same code generated all of them
. Quantum superposition. In quantum theory, currents can simultaneously flow both ways around a superconducting ring (Cho, 2000), and an electron can spin both up and spin down – until observed.
Every electron is identical. In our world, every photon, electron and quark is indistinguishable from every other one, just as if the same code generated all of them
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