A few words about quanta plus one incredible hypothesis
– Quantum theory is a wonderful example of how the Universe (or maybe the Matrix?) plays hide and seek with us, like a skilled illusionist. Or in thimblerig. At least, if judged from the perspective of traditional science, based on the theories of Newton, Einstein, Niels Bohr, and others. Why is that? Let’s try to figure it out.
– Well, first of all, it is necessary to emphasize that quantum mechanics wonderfully differs from most other sciences in that it practically does not adhere to the principles of common sense.
– “Quantum theory is difficult to understand because it describes a world in which a particle can actually be in several places at once and moves from one place to another, thereby exploring the entire Universe. But, despite all this complexity, we have found that everything consists of many tiny particles that move according to the laws of quantum theory. These laws are so simple that they can be written on the back of an envelope” (“The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen”. Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw).
– So, let’s note: the first feature or “wonder” of quantum mechanics is that the same particle can, in the next moment, be anywhere, at any point in the Universe. Moreover, the aforementioned particle can be in different places at the same moment. As Cox and Forshaw point out, “it seems that this assumption violates all laws of common sense, and possibly even the laws of physics.” Our particle will be simultaneously at a nano-meter from the starting position and a billion light-years away, in the core of a star in a distant galaxy.
– Overall, it can be confidently said that quantum theory has revolutionized the world of science. After all, for the first time in history, serious and reputable scholars, the orthodox of modern science, were forced to agree with the key idea of quantum theory: namely, to acknowledge that some aspects of nature are essentially governed by the principles of chance. In other words, the quantum world deals with possibility, not certainty. With the probability of a particular event occurring in the future, rather than with the exact calculation or prediction of the parameters and algorithms of the event in advance, being 99 and 9 tenths certain of the final outcome.
– The second feature or “wonder” of quantum mechanics can be associated with movement in the space of the visible world. As Forshaw and Cox write in their book, the pioneer of the American approach to quantum theory is considered to be Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize laureate and, incidentally, a New York drummer.
“Feynman’s approach to quantum mechanics is as follows: a ball (for example, a tennis ball) flying thru the air ‘knows’ which trajectory to choose because it secretly explores every possible trajectory. Our perception of the uniform motion of objects from one point to another, according to quantum theory, is an illusion. It is more plausible to assume that particles move from point A to point B by all possible paths” (B. Cox, D. Forshaw, “The Quantum Universe”).
*Isn’t it true, it looks very much like The Matrix, whose main principle of operation is based on deceiving its own “passengers”?
From quantum mechanics, I want to smoothly shift the focus of your attention towards an intriguing hypothesis that I learned about just a few months ago thanks to the Internet. The idea is somewhat related to the quantum world. Without unnecessary preambles, the thought is as follows: those objects of reality that are not currently in the human gaze and on which the mind is not focused seem to not participate in the individual’s own life matrix as well as in the global Matrix (System).
So, if we accept that crazy hypothesis as true, then a person is entirely and totally alone faces the entire Cosmos: individual himself completely recreates, controls, and destroys the reality around him. Imagine, absolutely everything, down to the smallest details and nuances: including, for example, the pattern of individual bricks on the driveway to his house, the arrangement of waves on the river, or the pattern of fur on his pet!
This thought, if taken seriously, really “blows your mind.” Maybe Robert Heinlein was right when he wrote in his “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag” that the entire world could very well be a deception and an illusion, and that the whole world holds together only because you focus on it and believe in its existence? But as soon as you doubt it, paying attention to the small inconsistencies, the surroundings begin to fall apart.
According to this hypothesis, there is no future in principle — we live only here and now, in this moment! And the past is merely “processed material”: one of millions of realized combinations of the present. After all, how can one think about what will happen and even plan anything, if everything changes every second and this “everything” depends 100 percent on us?
As I wrote at the beginning of the third part, a man is the author and architect of his own world and reality, even if he sometimes doesn’t think about it, acting on autopilot and as if in slow motion. Moreover, we are not aware of and do not control most of the construction process.
What could that mean? The future, especially the distant one, is impossible to plan precisely also because then we would have to consider a multitude of all possible options and positions (analogous to quantum mechanics, summing up all the “yes,” “no,” and “maybe”) that could lead to exactly the specific outcome we envisioned. And this is not just an impossible, but practically unimaginable task! Because in the process of practically implementing our life plan, we encounter millions of different nuances and circumstances: with time, with the machinations of the Matrix, with ourselves, ultimately.
It goes without saying that calculating all the possibilities is not feasible even within the framework of probability theory. Despite the entire extraordinary and mysterious nature of the aforementioned hypothesis, there is still a strong feeling that we are moving in the right direction. And this is a very important…perhaps the most important discovery that could be, if we take into account the human, subjective factor of perceiving objects in the external world and the surrounding space.
The Book of Your Life
“Stepping outside the System is not an open, destructive war. It is the creation of an underground, far-reaching network of free people united by a single noble goal.”