Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space-time, as well as all applicable concepts, including energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines, perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy. Over the last two millennia, physics had been considered synonymous with philosophy, chemistry, and certain branches of mathematics and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 16th century, it emerged to become a unique modern science in its own right. However, in some subject areas such as in mathematical physics and quantum chemistry, the boundaries of physics remain difficult to distinguish.
Math Can Be Strange but Quantum Physics is Even Stranger
John von Neumann, the famous mathematician, had it right when he said that you never really understood things in mathematics, you just got used to them. This is indeed true when you consider the infinitesimal calculus and how we can subdivide an area into an infinite number of rectangular strips to get the exact area (see my article Why Study Calculus? – Area of Irregular Shapes), or how we can find the instantaneous velocity of a speeding bullet. Moreover, when you consider that there exists a whole order of infinities and that we can only exemplify the first two orders or so, you start to realize that the realm of mathematics is a very weird one.
And yet, as strange as things get in the world of mathematics, they seem quite normal when we put them into perspective with, let us say, the realm of things in the world of quantum physics.
When we invoke the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, we see that the electron can be in multiple places at one time, rambling about of its own accord, and only leaving trace evidences of where it has been. The eerie part of this whole thing is that this uncertainty of the electron’s location is exactly what gives us the certainty of so many things, as for example, the certainty that two elements will react in a certain way and form a certain compound; the certainty that a drug will produce a desired result, or the certainty that a poison administered to a person will bring a certain death.
So with all this certainty and uncertainty at the atomic level, are the things we stumble upon in mathematics all that strange? Stay tuned as we explore this most curious topic.
At the subatomic level some really strange things start to happen: new worlds of thought and curiosity are opened up, the improbable becomes highly probable, and the usual becomes quite the unusual. In fact, it is at this level that man starts to contemplate the reality of his own existence since quantum physics dares one to ask the question, “Is reality real, or just a figment of my imagination?”
This quantum physics stuff is all the rage especially since a lot of new age thinking is using the precepts of this discipline to usher in a period of self-empowerment for individuals. The best-selling book “The Secret” has as its foundation the idea of creating our own reality through the law of attraction. This pseudo-scientific concept is linked to the quantum physics idea of “popping a quiff.” A quiff is a quantum wave function such as the image of a star, whose light propagates throughout the universe, waiting to be observed. The existence of the star is in question until someone actually “pops its quiff” by observing it. Once this is done, the star has come into this person’s sphere of reality.
Thus by using this idea, a person can choose a reality based on a choice of observation or not. By seeing the light of the star, the person has, in essence, validated the existence of the star. Is the star still there? This becomes an interesting philosophical question and hearkens back to the old, “If a tree falls in the forest but nobody is there to hear it fall, is there any sound associated with the fall?” Before you give a knee-jerk answer, you should contemplate this quiff stuff a little more carefully. This field in particular explains what goes on in the transistor as well as predicting the outcome of two different elements under chemical bonding. Without an adequate knowledge of the inner workings of the transistor we would not have all the nice electronic gadgets that we do, and without understanding chemistry at the level we do, we would not be able to harness the power of chemical synthesis to get all the important compounds that we have in all the different industries we have. Need I say more about the importance of the quantum field!
As we continue this series of articles on quantum physics, we will look more deeply at some of the eccentricities that we encounter within its unorthodox domain. By the time we are done, you too will realize that math may be strange, but the quantum realm is far stranger.
Spiritual Quantum Physics and the New Paradigm of Mathematics
The new Laws of Spiritual Quantum Physics, the new sciences of Radionics and Orgone generation and a very important new paradigm of Mathematics.
Our country desperately needs a better understanding of the importance of Mathematics in our lives. I taught Math for 18 years and watched in horror as the math skills of our college students dropped lower and lower.
The Age of Aquarius is the Age of Science and the Mind. The root of all our sciences; the father-mother of all our sciences; the mega science from which all sciences are birthed is Math. The seed source and infinite fountain which true Math is; is the bringer of order, stability and peace, security and knowledge into our life, These are only a tiny part of what Math does and is.
Plato said, “God Geometrizes.” The Greeks wrote that all worlds and universes are created through the proper use of sound, rhythm, number and proportion. The stability of all our daily services, functions, work and recreation are assured by Math. Without a sound knowledge of mathematical principles, it becomes impossible to build a secure, satisfying and balanced life.
Math is to our lives what seed, soil and machinery are to the farmer. None of the myriads of benefits of civilization could be without Math. Our present afflictions, decay, problems and chaos are indirectly and directly caused by a lack of or misuse of mathematical principles. Math correctly used is the tool by which we can build orderly stable lives.
To use Math properly we must train ourselves to become more conscious. To perceive coolly and unemotionally. To record precisely and from adequate measurements. To properly synthesize the needed elements into a functional and congruent whole relevant to our original purpose. To keep all hasty, impulsive emotions, thoughts and actions to a minimum or to eliminate.
Algebra comes from the Arabic Al-Jbr; the bringing together of disunited parts. Very important in these super chaotic days of massive electronic inputs into our lives. Geometry is the study, measurement and classification of forms and shapes.
The entire manifested universe is made up of mass, motion and electrical charge. To order, direct, store, structure and create any object or materialize any plan necessitates the accurate use of force, functions and forms. The Age of Aquarius could be called the Age of Mathematics.
Physics, Complexity, Gravity and the Universe
Physics is much about the nature of things in this realm we live. In this dimension there are laws and those laws as far as we can see seem to be consistent throughout our universe, perhaps everywhere for all we know. Perhaps, you have heard of Murphy’s Law, well there is a good amount of reality behind complex systems, mathematically speaking, they more things you have running the more chances of one of them breaking. And maybe you have heard the thought that; simplicity breeds complexity, which in observation seems to be very true to our realm. To help illustrate these points and other topics which intersect this concept; I’d like to recommend this book;
“At Home in the Universe – the search for the laws of self-organization and complexity” by Stuart Kauffman. 1995
If you are looking for a book that takes all the observations, natural laws and known science and then poses the question and looks for the ultimate answers in complexity, chaos and natural self-organization from atoms and molecules to complex bio-systems and planetary systems. The author makes some great points in the book and takes the reader into deep thought.
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