Friday, May 22, 2009

Quantum Mechanics - Changing the World

In many scientific circles the idea that quantum mechanics is dead prevails replaced by superstring theory. Your average world citizens from that giant mass of billions walking the earth probably would look at you with a confused expression if you tried to explain even a basic example. As a layman myself, let me try and break it down.

Say you go to shoot some pool at the local hall. If you haven’t ever tried pool you should it’s very much a combination of physics, tobacco smoke and alcohol. Today we are going to look at the physics part of it. When you hit the cue ball you give 2 things: Spin and Velocity. When it hits another ball it transfers a portion of those elements to it. The bumpers of the table keep all the balls in play but let’s expand this concept.

Atoms and molecules to a certain degree act like those pool balls. They can have Spin and Velocity. Maybe you’ve seen the movie Butterfly Effect. The concept is that a butterfly flaps it’s wings in China and the chain reaction of those molecules bouncing in exactly all the right spots eventually causes a tornado on the other side of the world. This problem is that to determine the exact Spin and Velocity of a given atom means that you would change it. I will relate this to needing to take a bite out of a chocolate cake to see what it tastes like but in taking a bite you don’t have the exact cake you started out with (It‘s Chocolate Cake minus 1 bite you now have and not sellable at that).

Many people think that rational logical scientific thought will invariably lead to atheism but I think that the opposite is that you progressively reach questions that only have two illogical answers. There’s a simple principle that matter/energy can’t be created or destroyed(It can be changed but it has to exist in some form). The bottom at the end of the chain becomes: “Where did all this matter and energy come from in the first place?” From some tests and measurements they say that the total amount of energy is equal to zero and that the entirety of our known universe is a fluctuation of symmetry (Makes your head hurt just trying to read that sentence don‘t it).

Back to the main point.

Since I’m Christian I believe God exists (It‘s a real time saver no sleepless nights thinking about stuff I can‘t change only stuff I might change). I think the depictive Genesis 1:3 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” is a simple example. It’s like poking a blob of Jello it jiggles. In this case it was a much bigger object but with the knowledge of knowing just exactly where to poke to cause stuff to happen. Effectively God knew the right state of enough energy/matter and sent it bouncing around in a predictable way. Isn’t Quantum Mechanics awesome?

In posting this it displaces exactly the right atoms to propagate a beneficial chain in my favor.

Good day and God Bless.
Taskmaster Cyning

The request:

(Edited for Epic Fail.)

Amen!

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