Earth - The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics. "I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
" The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles and paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the theory physicists use to describe the tiniest objects in the Universe. But he might as well have been talking about the equally knotty problem of consciousness. Some scientists think we already understand what consciousness is, or that it is a mere illusion. But many others feel we have not grasped where consciousness comes from at all. Quanta Magazine. The theoretical physicist John Wheeler once used the phrase “great smoky dragon” to describe a particle of light going from a source to a photon counter.
“The mouth of the dragon is sharp, where it bites the counter. The tail of the dragon is sharp, where the photon starts,” Wheeler wrote. The photon, in other words, has definite reality at the beginning and end. But its state in the middle — the dragon’s body — is nebulous. The quantum theory of time, the block universe, and human experience. Read: Reality Is Not What It Seems – Jaya Ramchandani.
It is only in interactions that nature draws the world.
Carlo Rovelli, Italian physicist and author, starts the journey (Part 1) with the concept of reality being ‘granular’ following ideas of 450 BCE philosophers in Miletus, Greece, and tails out (Part 4) with current (international) efforts to define reality combining relativity, quantum, and information theory. It is written in poetic and accessible prose with a well outlined narrative. The heroes in this part of the story (in order of appearance) are Anaximander, Democritus, Leucippus, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Zeno, Lucretius, Pythagoras, Ptolemy, moving on to the comparatively contemporary Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Dante, Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell.
Carlo Rovelli — All Reality Is Interaction - The On Being Project. Krista Tippett, host: All of reality is interaction.
This everyday truth is as scientific as it is philosophical and political, and it unfolds with unexpected nuance in Carlo Rovelli’s science. He’s the author of the global bestseller, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Most recent answer: 11/16/2017 My question is--What is a magnetic field made of?
I’ve read a lot of things about magnets and the fields they generate, and even that electrons themselves have magnetic fields around them, but I haven’t as of yet come across anything saying what the field itself is made of. It is matter so it has to be made of something. Is there a name for these "particles"? Or are they simply electrons themselves? Matter and energy, below a certain size, seem to have some similar characteristics. Time crystals—how scientists created a new state of matter. Some of the most profound predictions in theoretical physics, such as Einstein's gravitational waves or Higgs' boson, have taken decades to prove with experiments.
But every now and then, a prediction can become established fact in an astonishingly short time. This is what happened with "time crystals", a new and strange state of matter that was theorised, disproved, revamped and finally created in just five years since it was first predicted in 2012. Crystals, such as diamond and quartz, are made of atoms arranged in a repeating pattern in space. In these new crystals, atoms also follow a repeating pattern, but in time. What Is Reality? Relation Between Time Mind and Consciousness. The block universe theory, where time travel is possible but time passing is an illusion - Science News - ABC News. Your birth is out there in space-time.
Your death, too, is in space-time. Every moment of your life is out there, somewhere, in space-time.