Posted on 11/30/2012 11:27:15 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
What is the difference between Quantum and Physics?
Can you demonstrate in a repeatable experiment a physical proof of a Quantum Theorem?
In my opinion, all penny and a half worth, Quantum Physics ranks right up there with the “science” of many branches of Psychology and somewhat below the practical value of a Doctorate in Advanced Basket weaving. At least with basket weaving, you can prove your theorem. And as a bonus, you can gather nuts that you can eat!
Bonus Question for extra points... How many Quantum Theroems and Psycological evaluations can fit in a nut shell, and how many calories are they worth?
No personal slight intended cause I am just kidding, all are retorical questions, no extra points are available and when TSHTF two out of three courses of study have no practical value in producing calories for consumption. Simply because after the SHTF there will be no leftist masters to channel production into the wasteland of mere speculation via the mighty grant.
Gerald Schroeder, The Science Of God: The Convergence Of Scientific And Biblical Wisdom
As the overall mass of the universe was limited to successivley smaller volumes (density=m/v) in its earlier histories we know by Relativity that time would have passed at successively slower rates therein from the viepoint of Earth today. Thus it can be said that 15 billion years≈6 days.
“Does something ever come from nothing?
We just need ONE example!”
Yes. Study “virtual particle pairs”.
In a vacuum, a particle/antiparticle pair can emerge from, well, nothing. Happens a lot actually. The two usually attract and annihilate, leaving nothing behind. Given a slight perturbation, they can avoid each other and survive. One notable case is “Hawking radiation”, where a black hole absorbs one particle leaving the other to look like it did the impossible: emerge from the black hole.
This has actually been captured and leveraged in a lab.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110603/full/news.2011.346.html
By moving a pair of mirrors fast enough, these particle pairs can be disrupted and dispersed, generating light from nothing.
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It was sneezed out of the nose of the Great Green Ocklseizure.
Beware the coming of The Great White Handkerchief.
Quantum Theory is utilized in the operations of transistors and semiconductors. It was also realized that QT could be used to smooth out the quantum noise in atomic clocks. Furthermore, laser technology stems directly from atomic energy levels being discrete and not continuous, emitted in discrete amounts termed quanta. Additionally the idea of quantum entanglement seems supportable by many experiments confirming Bell's Theorem which will also likely lead to advances in quantum computation....
'Seems pretty real to me.
The particles still don’t emerge on their own behest out of nothing; God has something to do with that process! The existence of “nothingness” itself was also created!
“The two usually attract and annihilate, leaving nothing behind”
A speculative thought!
How God continually pumps energy into the whole of the universe!...think of these pairs occuring and disappearing, sometimes scattering when conditions are right, but on a vast scale across creation...each giving off bursts of gamma and xray energy as they annihilate each other or light energy when special conditions separate the particle pairs. Each pair by itself winking in an out would hardly warm an electron but we could never imagine in the aggregate the total amount of energy these pairs would impart across the universe. Who says these pairs occur only in vacuums? They would occur in solid matter, vacuums, liquid, gas ect... inside of our own bodies, everywhere continuously!
“In Him we live and move and have our being.. He is not far from any of us” the Bible says. These virtual particle pairs may well be one direct physical signature of God’s influence in our universe! ( Christ, of course, being God’s thumbprint pressed directly into our matter universe)
Now you say these pairs leave nothing behind...well they leave energy signatures or else they could never be detected!
Shockley and Bardeen in 1947 would never have had an ability to ever guess how to make a semiconductor/transistor without quantuum physics theory having been established. You and I would never have met on FR without quantum physics.
This quantum stuff is unbelievable.
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