What.....
This is Heisenberg's "principle of uncertainty" in action?
I read somewhere that there is so much fudge factor in some of these theories they are meaningless ?
Apparently the only “settled” science is climate science.
There's a lovely irony in that statement...
Hmm. I could say that this is why I chose to study biochemistry, and not physics.
Except that biochemistry is also heavily governed by the laws of probability. And when you get down to it, every science is an application of physics. You just can’t get away from it.
Maybe some physicists don’t like it, but probability seems to be one of the fundamental mechanisms of how reality works.
“...the need to accept counterintuitive weirdness about reality...”
Yeah, such as the notion that an electron can be in two places at the same time.
Very nice. But when they say things like “the cat is both alive and dead” and “the universe pops in and out of existence “ you know they have lost their minds.
How does an observed particle know it is being observed? Why does it care?
QM is weird because the experimental results that are the basis of QM are weird.
B for later
Quantum mechanics and its predecessor theories will forever need to be updated by man as more and more is learned.
Heisenberg was caught speeding in town in his BMW. A cop pulled him over.
‘’Sir, do you know how fast you were going?”
“No, but I know where I am.”
It’s too bad that we cannot trust any of the ‘science’ coming from ‘Science News.’ There are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Global Cooling, Global Warming, Global Climate Change, Global Climate Disruption, Globull Gloaming crowd. I used to love reading all kinds of publications, but since there is no $$$$$$ in spreading the truth of the coming Ice Age, there is no point in real science. The Great Cold will return, and there is nothing we can do but prepare.
God DOES play dice and His dice are loaded.
One should have expected the appearance of probability, for in pseudo-randomness, God instead of man is free to determine all outcomes.
Dr. Heisenberg is somewhat uncertain about this. If you can see it, the process of seeing it just injected uncertainty in what you think you saw. :) :) :)
Magic helps, but Heisenberg was uncertainly but probably correct! And also there is entanglement at a distance. This is the God question and I suspect God will not tell us. He has a sense of humor.
Einstein said “God does not play dice with the universe.” He was wrong and I suspect God has a celestial crap table with which he amuses himself.
The future is waves, the past is particles.
Spent the last two hours reading the comments at the source. Not sure if I’m any smarter.
The above essay does not mention James Clerk Maxwell (the man who changed everything) whose 200 field equations gave us all we know about the electromagnetic spectrum (after four were converted into vector equations by Oliver Heavyside - a self-taught quasi-mathematician, who then discarded the rest {which are nearly impossible to find today}).
Without Maxwell’s converted four equations, Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dirac, and Born - as well as Nikola Tesla would have remained obscure. Without them civilization today would be very different.