QUANTUM ALCHEMY
I owe a great deal of the concepts and terminology I'm about to use to the team that put together What The Bleep Do We Know and Dr. Amit Gaswami for his book The Self-Aware Universe. Anyone with the desire to further their understanding of the world of quantum mechanics would do well to pick up those two titles. They're beautiful Works worthy of closer study.
Sometimes it's best just to jump into the deep end of the pool and learn to swim. Max Planck came up with the mathematical formula E=hf. The most important value for our discussion is the h of this equation. This letter represents the energy value of the Mind observation that breaks the wave manifestation of light into a particle. Don't worry, I don't actually speak Vulcan either. All that really means is we have the power to affect our reality just by looking at it. If the H was smaller the wave wouldn't break making observation impossible. If the same value will higher our thoughts would spawn to life and drastically alter reality. What quantum mechanics has taught us is that our entire universe is so delicately balanced for our own sake that it almost screams of intelligent design. This perfection. is known as the anthropic principle. Paraphrasing Stephen Hawkins ",everything is exactly as it is because if it were any different we wouldn't be here to see it."
This paradox has rocked the scientific community since it's discovery over a century ago. It would appear that the more we learn the less we understand. Or as Socrates would say ",the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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