This week, I read pages 71-73 , which discussed at first the seemingly impossible ideas of the new physical world, in comparison to the ideas of the old Newtonian world. I was asking myself questions like, "How random is random?" after I read this section. They left me with a sense of wonder and enticement.
"Could the dance of subatomic matter be improvisational? Can Reality be determined by a probability curve?" (71) |
| A typical probability curve. |
Our authors go on to say, "In the classical Newtonian world, the answer to such questions is 'No!'" (72) The idea that these almost philosophical questions can be put into an idea, when they still can't be entirely sure of, is scary. To make certain the uncertain is the kind of science that Quantum theory discusses.
They go on to give a list of things that seem random-incalculable, like a coin toss, or the lottery. In order to compensate for these, "scientists create theories of probability and measurement error." (72) Many ideas come from the old science in the Newtonian world, that today we question. Many descriptive words came about to illustrate these ideas, and in the words of a famous Historian David Lindley, as quoted in my book, - [you] "could know the blueprint"..."but not the shape and color of every brick" (73). The idea that maybe things that seem uncertain or practically impossible, or maybe that seem valid every time are not actually valid, is the ideas expressed in this quantum theory. Confusing, yet awesome and interesting.
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| Mind blown, right? |
They say,
"Human figures, arising from random rods, poems compiled by wandering sheep" that one is a long story... "and reality from probability are some instances where form is arising from randomness is called "quantum. How did this happen?" (73)
-Griffin Carlson, 2/7/2015
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