Wave Particle Duality & Super-positioning
" I am the Alpha, and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end”
Revelation 22: 12-14
There were two schools of thoughts in the field of theoretical physics that had developed different theories of the nature of Matter between 19th and 20th century. There is what is referred to the “Classical physic” theory of matter, and the “ Quantum Mechanics ” theory of mater. The “Classical Theory” is basically associated with Isaac Newton. Classical theory approached matter and reality from a commonsense perspective. It treats matter as something real, measurable, and definite. It proposes that there are things out there, occupying a real space, and there are observers who examine the reality of this disconnected matter. They exists in space and time, and are localized. This is the theory that influenced scientists and philosophers up to the early part of 19th century, referred to as Rationalists.
To the scientists of 19th Century, who espoused this classical theory of matter, the reality of matter was something undeniable. They held a materialistic view of matter was something real, that could be touched. It had definable attributes. It could be measured. In general, it has properties that could be reduced, dissected, analyzed, and observed. Its reductionist and materialistic in nature. Classical physics, did not predict consciousness, or for that matter, the mind. Nor did it explore a way of studying it. It was generally held that mind, or consciousness, was some kind of peculiar chemical property, of some type of matter. Therefore, scientists and philosophers presumed the reality as existing as a duality. It’s a philosophical idea espoused by Rene Descartes. This thinking held that there was matter, appearing out there, independent from the mind. And there was the mind, which apprehended and studied this matter. That also inferred that reality and observers were disconnected. This was a dualistic approach to reality and mater by science and philosophy.
Quantum Mechanics was developed later from what was referred to as the “Copenhagen interpretation” of subatomic particles. It’s a theory of Matter developed through the efforts of Neil Bohr, Warner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and Max Planck. As scientists probed the true nature of matter deeper and deeper, matter showed peculiar properties, which forced a rethinking, not only of the true nature of matter, as it were, but also the true nature of reality as it were, that was made of this matter and the role of the observers of reality. Two scientists Danish physicist Neil Bohr and Warner Heisenberg while investigating the nature of matter at quantum state, found that the parameters of subatomic particles such as particle position , angular momentum, velocity, and energy polarization existed in pairs such that the position of the particle and its momentum are delocalized, such that there did not exists a definite position, or a definite momentum of these particles. And that the more precisely you attempted to measure one pair of parameter, such as its position, the more imprecise you could know the state of the other pair of parameter such as its momentum. This is what led to the famous “Copenhagen interpretation” upon which “uncertainty principle” is founded . This principle explains the impossibility of measuring the position of a subatomic particle together with its momentum at the same time. It states that the more precisely you try to measure the position of a sub atomic particle, the more imprecise it would be to know its momentum. Therefore there exists an a wave structure of the subatomic particle, which assumes a particle characteristic only when its being observed and collapses back into a wave structure when not being observed. It exists as a “wave packet”
Austrian Mathematician, Erwin Schrödinger was able to developed a mathematical model that showed this Wave function. This “Schrödinger Equation” a partial differential equation, is still used today in mathematics and quantum physics. Scientists found that the mare physical measurement of the state of subatomic particle, forces it to take a definite state. However, when the same particle is not being measures, it exists in a state of supper positioning, smeared in the quantum realm as a wave of probability. Therefore, the Quantum Mechanic posited that its observation that forces this wave structure of the subatomic particle to assume a definite state. But in reality, this definite quantum state does not exist. That before the quantum particle was measured, it existed everywhere. Therefore it stated that there exists a quantum indeterminacy of the nature of the particle which exist in a super-positioned state. It’s a wave of probability, in a state of de-coherence, or quantum super-positioning and until an observation is made, which then, forces it to take a definite state of being, it exists everywhere at the same time. Only when an experimenter shines a photon of high frequency light on a particle, for example an electron, does it assume a particle nature. Otherwise, it’s smeared in the quantum realm as a wave of probabilities. Consequently, there is no way that one can give a physical location, of a dispassion-less quantity of matter that is free of statistical fluctuation. And since we cannot measure a subatomic particle with accuracy, the true nature of the subatomic particle is meaningless until its measured.
The dynamic attributes that arise from its measurement, i.e the position, momentum, velocity, energy polarization, etc, are not really an intrinsic property of the particle being measured, neither is it a property of the observing system, of the observer, but rather, a property of both. The mare act of observing determines the state it takes. Observers therefore compel the subatomic particle to assume a definite state. Meaning that observers influence the result of experiments. Therefore according to Copenhagen interpretation of matter at quantum state, there develops an intrinsic connection between quantum reality and observer, in that the object being observed, and the observer become indistinguishable, each influencing the other. Therefore accordingly, there is no reality of matter, unless there is an observer! Quantum Theory proposes therefore that reality arises from observation.
" I am the Alpha, and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end”
Revelation 22: 12-14
There were two schools of thoughts in the field of theoretical physics that had developed different theories of the nature of Matter between 19th and 20th century. There is what is referred to the “Classical physic” theory of matter, and the “ Quantum Mechanics ” theory of mater. The “Classical Theory” is basically associated with Isaac Newton. Classical theory approached matter and reality from a commonsense perspective. It treats matter as something real, measurable, and definite. It proposes that there are things out there, occupying a real space, and there are observers who examine the reality of this disconnected matter. They exists in space and time, and are localized. This is the theory that influenced scientists and philosophers up to the early part of 19th century, referred to as Rationalists.
To the scientists of 19th Century, who espoused this classical theory of matter, the reality of matter was something undeniable. They held a materialistic view of matter was something real, that could be touched. It had definable attributes. It could be measured. In general, it has properties that could be reduced, dissected, analyzed, and observed. Its reductionist and materialistic in nature. Classical physics, did not predict consciousness, or for that matter, the mind. Nor did it explore a way of studying it. It was generally held that mind, or consciousness, was some kind of peculiar chemical property, of some type of matter. Therefore, scientists and philosophers presumed the reality as existing as a duality. It’s a philosophical idea espoused by Rene Descartes. This thinking held that there was matter, appearing out there, independent from the mind. And there was the mind, which apprehended and studied this matter. That also inferred that reality and observers were disconnected. This was a dualistic approach to reality and mater by science and philosophy.
Quantum Mechanics was developed later from what was referred to as the “Copenhagen interpretation” of subatomic particles. It’s a theory of Matter developed through the efforts of Neil Bohr, Warner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and Max Planck. As scientists probed the true nature of matter deeper and deeper, matter showed peculiar properties, which forced a rethinking, not only of the true nature of matter, as it were, but also the true nature of reality as it were, that was made of this matter and the role of the observers of reality. Two scientists Danish physicist Neil Bohr and Warner Heisenberg while investigating the nature of matter at quantum state, found that the parameters of subatomic particles such as particle position , angular momentum, velocity, and energy polarization existed in pairs such that the position of the particle and its momentum are delocalized, such that there did not exists a definite position, or a definite momentum of these particles. And that the more precisely you attempted to measure one pair of parameter, such as its position, the more imprecise you could know the state of the other pair of parameter such as its momentum. This is what led to the famous “Copenhagen interpretation” upon which “uncertainty principle” is founded . This principle explains the impossibility of measuring the position of a subatomic particle together with its momentum at the same time. It states that the more precisely you try to measure the position of a sub atomic particle, the more imprecise it would be to know its momentum. Therefore there exists an a wave structure of the subatomic particle, which assumes a particle characteristic only when its being observed and collapses back into a wave structure when not being observed. It exists as a “wave packet”
Austrian Mathematician, Erwin Schrödinger was able to developed a mathematical model that showed this Wave function. This “Schrödinger Equation” a partial differential equation, is still used today in mathematics and quantum physics. Scientists found that the mare physical measurement of the state of subatomic particle, forces it to take a definite state. However, when the same particle is not being measures, it exists in a state of supper positioning, smeared in the quantum realm as a wave of probability. Therefore, the Quantum Mechanic posited that its observation that forces this wave structure of the subatomic particle to assume a definite state. But in reality, this definite quantum state does not exist. That before the quantum particle was measured, it existed everywhere. Therefore it stated that there exists a quantum indeterminacy of the nature of the particle which exist in a super-positioned state. It’s a wave of probability, in a state of de-coherence, or quantum super-positioning and until an observation is made, which then, forces it to take a definite state of being, it exists everywhere at the same time. Only when an experimenter shines a photon of high frequency light on a particle, for example an electron, does it assume a particle nature. Otherwise, it’s smeared in the quantum realm as a wave of probabilities. Consequently, there is no way that one can give a physical location, of a dispassion-less quantity of matter that is free of statistical fluctuation. And since we cannot measure a subatomic particle with accuracy, the true nature of the subatomic particle is meaningless until its measured.
The dynamic attributes that arise from its measurement, i.e the position, momentum, velocity, energy polarization, etc, are not really an intrinsic property of the particle being measured, neither is it a property of the observing system, of the observer, but rather, a property of both. The mare act of observing determines the state it takes. Observers therefore compel the subatomic particle to assume a definite state. Meaning that observers influence the result of experiments. Therefore according to Copenhagen interpretation of matter at quantum state, there develops an intrinsic connection between quantum reality and observer, in that the object being observed, and the observer become indistinguishable, each influencing the other. Therefore accordingly, there is no reality of matter, unless there is an observer! Quantum Theory proposes therefore that reality arises from observation.