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  by Tom 2 years ago

  I love the way you write about this. It makes it all seem so magical. However, I am big fan of Einstein's attack on the traditional approach to explaining this though. The Bohr Heisenberg interpretation I find has so little bearing on reality. Macro systems are only a function of layers of micro systems, hence the description of what happens at the micro level ought to have some bearing on the macro level. Interestingly David Bohm was at Princeton with Einstein before the McCarthy era made him leave for the UK. His view is that the universal wave function, the result of big bang, describes the movement of the universe. At the sub level wave functions can collaspe as molecules hit other molecules creating new sub wave functions, but they have no impact on the universal wave function. The main difference is that rather than having wave particle duality, the energy is transmitted in the waves, akin to soem ideas behind string theory, with matter itself riding on top of the waves. My interest is to do with increasing scale of collapsing wave functions tend to follow non linear patterns. At the quantum level, there is less matter to cause sub functions to collapse, hence linearity seems to be more standard at the quantam level. The non linear schrodinger equation I think fits well with many explanations of the implications of quantum mechanics. Over the last few years one thing that has struck me is that quantum physcis is taught like a subject that has all the answers, but the more I look into it, I see most of the interpretations in doubt. I guess this has been my frustration with economics too over the last 20 years.
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  by Johnnymoon 2 years ago

  What fascinates me is the timelessness of a electron or photon being that's why they are in many possible places at the same time...if you see what I mean.
  
  The piece below is what I'm trying to conceive.
  
  
  Matter is made of atoms, but an atom is not made of matter.
  
  We can only measure that part of the quanta that exhibits a material property (i.e. the position of it's particle). But when we stop measuring it reverts to a wave of probabilities which is not a property of matter, but more a property of the world of dreams where time stands still (the speed of light capability of a quanta puts it outside the laws of time) and place is multilayered and ever changing from one thing into another. In the dream world objects and place are not fixed in stone because a strong time factor is needed to stretch place out into a linear material substance.
  
  If the atom serves both the physical and the dream world and is the common denominator and building block of both, then dreaming must take place in some sort of electro-magnetic ether and not just be an hallucination in the brain. We must actually be somewhere when we walk in eternity in our dreams.
  
  The atom exists in neither of these two worlds, being neither matter nor spirit, though it can be called on to provide the setting for both.
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  by Johnnymoon 2 years ago

  What's up?