Introduction to quantum Physics.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=quantum+Physics - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=quantum+Physics

 

 

 

1 hour and 45 min vid. blew my mind.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1022317287422673112&q=quantum+Physics - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1022317287422673112&q=quantum+Physics

 

the girls are anoying as hell tho.

 

mmmm me too.

 

No doubt the connection between eastern philosophy and quantum mechanics has been a great interest to me (you should see my book collection). It has even led me into the great works the classical philosophers.

 

I suppose it's the main reason for choosing my college major.

 

p.s. ...I just love these pictures from inside of a bubble chamber. Physics is great ^_^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ever see that Episode of  'Doctor who' i think it was.. with those little blue men that basicly 'create' evre seen in your life. guess what, its been going on all along, for all of us ;)

 

and i sat down and though about.. how it was possible that somthing reacted a difrent way because we where checking on it.. the only anser that came to me was
' we are all gods Imagination ' and im athiest :p

 

 

funny thing tho, the day i watched that, i asked myself, i wonder if all of that i really true, i dont think ive ever had a sing. i went down and grapped a pop out from my basement, i came back up and put it on my desk, a few seconds later i went to open it, only to notice it was upside down.

 

now, i know that sounds stupid, but ive done that at least 5,000 times befor, and NEVER befor have i accidenly put it upside down, and i never have done it again either. Concidence? yes, but a freaky one.

 

 

Ps. i would LOVE to get into all that stuff Fayaz was talking about. but i aint got money, ( or the grades ) for it. :(

Hehe Fayaz, how about double or nothing

 

 

 

 

It's a big step from the thinking we've been taught our entire lives "material realism" as some call it, to more of a mystic interpretation of the universe..but from what I've studied, all signs point to the latter.

 

The 'mind over matter' is exactly what we're talking about here..how some people (usually preforming religious ceremonies) can perfrom acts that would seem to defy reality.

 

As for good ol' Newtonian physics, nothing in quantum mechanics will say that it is somehow invalid, it's still real and practical to use..quantum mechanics mearly picks up where Newton left off. The real problem is trying to unify Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, but we have people like Brian Greene and Stephen Hawking to work on that

 

One of my favorite "applications" if you will is the awkward dilema of Schrodinger's Cat. For those who haven't read or heard anything about it.. picture a cat inside of box with a bottle of poision and a hammer ready to smash the bottle. The release mechanism for the hammer depends on the decay of 1 atom of a radioactive material. Because the decay is based merely on probability..one can neither say that the cat is alive or dead, or that it exists as a Wave function. UNTIL!! (and I love this part) a determination is done by a person..that is to say lifting the box, collapsing the wave function and finding out if you have dinner for tonight. You can read up more about it as I'm sure I left out (or f**ked up) some stuff

 

But, this situation describes the overall interaction of consciousness on the physcial enviornment..you can't "look" at a particle without messing up it's position..Heisenberg will tell you more though 

 

So, what have we learned through this long and difficult to comprehend material? Well, that science is no longer a mere observer of the universe, but an active participator.

 

I think the world looks much brighter with it...or perhaps you would rather be a machine like the classical physicists once believed, hehe.

 

oh, and +1 for making one of my posts look like Fayaz's