Quantum weirdness
Good ol' Chuck Missler. Weird science from a Biblical perspective!
Quantum teleporting article, part 1: http://khouse.org/articles/2002/388/
Quantum teleporting article, part 2: http://khouse.org/articles/2002/398/
From part 2:
In 1906, J. J. Thomson received the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are particles. In 1937 he saw his son awarded the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons were waves. Both father and son were correct. From then on, the evidence for the wave/particle duality has become overwhelming. This chameleon-like ability is common to all subatomic particles - called quanta, they can manifest themselves either as particles or waves. What makes them even more astonishing is that there is compelling evidence that the only time quanta ever manifest as particles are when we are looking at them .
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr pointed out that if subatomic particles only come into existence in the presence of an observer, then it is meaningless to speak of a particle's properties and characteristics as existing before they are observed. But if the act of observation actually helped create such properties, what did that imply about the future of science?
Anyone who isn't shocked by quantum physics has not understood it.
-Niels Bohr
Emphasis his.
What's even weirder is to compare this to this essay about the nature of reality, by Philip K. Dick. http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm He hit on some of the same concepts by trying to figure out what reality is from a writer's perspective.
So tastily bizarre!
Quantum teleporting article, part 1: http://khouse.org/articles/2002/388/
Quantum teleporting article, part 2: http://khouse.org/articles/2002/398/
From part 2:
In 1906, J. J. Thomson received the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are particles. In 1937 he saw his son awarded the Nobel Prize for proving that electrons were waves. Both father and son were correct. From then on, the evidence for the wave/particle duality has become overwhelming. This chameleon-like ability is common to all subatomic particles - called quanta, they can manifest themselves either as particles or waves. What makes them even more astonishing is that there is compelling evidence that the only time quanta ever manifest as particles are when we are looking at them .
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr pointed out that if subatomic particles only come into existence in the presence of an observer, then it is meaningless to speak of a particle's properties and characteristics as existing before they are observed. But if the act of observation actually helped create such properties, what did that imply about the future of science?
Anyone who isn't shocked by quantum physics has not understood it.
-Niels Bohr
Emphasis his.
What's even weirder is to compare this to this essay about the nature of reality, by Philip K. Dick. http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm He hit on some of the same concepts by trying to figure out what reality is from a writer's perspective.
So tastily bizarre!