Download or read book The Nature Of Reality And The Universe A Solution to the Measurement Problem of Quantum Mechanics written by Jonathan Sumber and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hypotheses within this book were not developed as a result of anything that occurs within our day-to-day lives, for the physics that create the fabric of our reality are so perfect that there is no reason for anyone to doubt that the universe and our perspective of it, is any different than how it seems to be. But, as we explore into the ultra-small-scale fabric of the universe, we have found that the universe seems to know if we have obtained certain knowledge about how it works at this extreme small level of order and changes its behavior from the way it functions within our day-to-day lives as an effect of what we have been able to know. Along with this, it has been demonstrated that the universe doesn't change its behavior as an effect of what had been done that created the knowledge, but rather; it's solely as an effect from the creation of knowledge that can be passed on to a conscious observer. This is called the measurement problem of quantum mechanics and the solution to how and why it occurs, continues to be a conundrum within the global physics community. Along with certain quantum behaviors such as retrocausality, quantum entanglement and quantum tunneling that defy the laws of physics that we function within, the measurement problem of quantum mechanics suggests that the universe and the nature of our reality may be quite different than what they seem to be. The hypotheses in this work embody a detailed explanation from within a metaphysical methodology, for how the measurement problem of quantum mechanics can be solved, while also defining the true nature of the universe and our reality.

Download or read book Nature Loves To Hide Quantum Physics And The Nature Of Reality A Western Perspective Revised Edition written by Shimon Malin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is naturally important for any of us to have a correct view of the universe we are in. Having realized that the Newtonian world-view is untenable, this book joins others that are searching for an alternative world-view. It is unique in using quantum physics to promote this search.One aim of the book is to present a lucid exposition of quantum mechanics in terms accessible to the general reader. Another aim is to show that realism (the belief that the outside world exists “from its own side” regardless of acts of consciousness) and locality (the belief that nothing moves faster than light) are invalid, and should be replaced by a new paradigm according to which the universe is alive. A third aim is to show that the thinking of quantum physicists evokes the philosophies of Plato and Plotinus.The revised edition will include a conversation between two fictional characters to elucidate the discussion of the meaning of wave functions.

Download or read book God Nature Science written by Jonathan Sumber and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions concerning the existence of God and the nature of the relationship between God, Nature and science have been topics that philosophers have been pondering over since the days of Plato and Socrates. In more recent years an interest in these topics have been rekindled, as the nature of reality itself is being questioned by many quantum physicists and philosophers as a result of what is being revealed in quantum research. While we are still a long way from being able to answer these questions through scientific methodology alone, quantum research continues to create information that has resulted in many researchers questioning if the universe within our perspective is the same as how the universe exists in the absence of it. For example, the worldview shared by most people is that our realities are created within a corporeal universe, and through the gathering of information by our five senses; our minds process the information into a conscious perspective which allows us to have an awareness of ourselves and of the universe that is truly “out there” just as we perceive it to be. But, if the universe within our perspective is a function of our conscious awareness, consciousness may be creating what we perceive rather than being passive by simply allowing us to perceive a corporeal universe that is truly out there. If so, it creates the likelihood that we will not be able to answer questions concerning the relationship between God, nature, and science until we have a much better understanding of the true nature of consciousness and from where all that we perceive within it, originates. This work explores how the fundamental character and qualities of God, nature and science as we presently conceptualize each to be, along with how their relationship with one another would be altered if consciousness was not passive in the creation of our reality, while proposing a philosophical system of physics that defines how this could occur.

Download or read book Science and Ultimate Reality written by John D. Barrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a fascinating snapshot of the future of physics, covering fundamental physics, at the frontiers of research. It comprises a wide variety of contributions from leading thinkers in the field, inspired by the pioneering work of John A. Wheeler. Quantum theory represents a unifying theme within the book, along with topics such as the nature of physical reality, the arrow of time, models of the universe, superstrings, gravitational radiation, quantum gravity and cosmic inflation. Attempts to formulate a final unification of physics are discussed, along with the existence of hidden dimensions of space, space-time singularities, hidden cosmic matter, and the strange world of quantum technology.

Download or read book Quantum Reality written by Jonathan Allday and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably the most successful scientific theory ever created, quantum theory has profoundly changed our view of the world and extended the limits of our knowledge, impacting both the theoretical interpretation of a tremendous range of phenomena and the practical development of a host of technological breakthroughs. Yet for all its success, quantum t

Download or read book The Non Local Universe written by Robert Nadeau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical physics states that physical reality is local--a point in space cannot influence another point beyond a relatively short distance. However, In 1997, experiments were conducted in which light particles (photons) originated under certain conditions and traveled in opposite directions to detectors located about seven miles apart. The amazing results indicated that the photons "interacted" or "communicated" with one another instantly or "in no time." Since a distance of seven miles is quite vast in quantum physics, this led physicists to an extraordinary conclusion--even if experiments could somehow be conducted in which the distance between the detectors was half-way across the known universe, the results would indicate that interaction or communication between the photons would be instantaneous. What was revealed in these little-known experiments in 1997 is that physical reality is non-local--a discovery that Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos view as "the most momentous in the history of science." In The Non-Local Universe, Nadeau and Kafatos offer a revolutionary look at the breathtaking implications of non-locality. They argue that since every particle in the universe has been "entangled" with other particles like the two photons in the 1997 experiments, physical reality on the most basic level is an undivided wholeness. In addition to demonstrating that physical processes are vastly interdependent and interactive, they also show that more complex systems in both physics and biology display emergent properties and/or behaviors that cannot be explained in the terms of the sum of parts. One of the most startling implications of non-locality in human terms, claim the authors, is that there is no longer any basis for believing in the stark division between mind and world that has preoccupied much of western thought since the seventeenth century. And they also make a convincing case that human consciousness can now be viewed as emergent from and seamlessly connected with the entire cosmos. In pursuing this groundbreaking argument, the authors not only provide a fascinating history of developments that led to the discovery of non-locality and the sometimes heated debate between the great scientists responsible for these discoveries. They also argue that advances in scientific knowledge have further eroded the boundaries between physics and biology, and that recent studies on the evolution of the human brain suggest that the logical foundations of mathematics and ordinary language are much more similar than we previously imagined. What this new knowledge reveals, the authors conclude, is that the connection between mind and nature is far more intimate than we previously dared to imagine. What they offer is a revolutionary look at the implications of non-locality, implications that reach deep into that most intimate aspect of humanity--consciousness.

Download or read book Reality vs Quantum Mysticism written by R. Curtis Arthur and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science has made tremendous advances in overcoming superstition and replacing “revealed truth” with proven factual truth. Quantum mechanics and the Theories of Relativity have contributed immensely to these advances. But, in spite of this, certain absurdities, referred to as the “quantum enigma”, have emerged from the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. This has been recognized by some physicists, but the absurdities have been largely ignored by most to the detriment of our understanding of the creation, evolution and nature of the universe. Albert Einstein himself felt quantum mechanics was incomplete and spent the last 3 or 4 decades of his life fighting the proponents of the absurdities. It has been claimed that Einstein lost this battle, but the author disagrees and provides proof of the opposite. Einstein may have made slight mistakes in developing his Theories of Relativity, however, that may have unintentionally contributed to the absurdities and the author’s work supports the statement that "Einstein may have been wrong just where most thought he was right and right just where most thought he was wrong." The author provides a new analysis of space and time and corrections to aspects of quantum mechanics and the Theories of Relativity that may eliminate the absurdities. This could provide a new understanding of the birth, evolution and nature of the universe and possible explanations for dark energy and dark matter. This is presented in a manner that can be understood and appreciated by all curious folks, not just physicists, and will help them understand their universe and the amazing things physicists have accomplished.

Download or read book Interpreting quantum mechanics a historical approach written by Favio, Vitery Cala and published by Editorial Tadeo Lozano. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book condenses some of the critical features of the discussion about the interpretative problems of quantum mechanics, pointing out some possible ways out of the conundrum. In order to set the road for these matters, chapter one introduces a conceptual history of the theory and its alternative interpretations. Chapter two profiles a taxonomy of the interpretative problems and some possible solutions, focused in the so-called measurement problem. Chapter three questions the thesis of quantum mechanics becoming what it is due to historical contingency. Finally, in chapter four, an argument is advanced to consider one particular interpretation –the causal account- as an alternative view that may help with the solution of the interpretative knot.

Download or read book Reality and the Physicist written by Bernard D'Espagnat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the nature of reality from the viewpoint of a physicist.

Download or read book The Quantum World written by New Scientist and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how real is reality, anyway? Forget everything you thought you knew about reality. The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behavior according to whether they are being watched. This is not some alternative universe but the realm of the very small, where quantum mechanics rules. In this weird world of atoms and their constituents, our common sense understanding of reality breaks down - yet quantum mechanics has never failed an experimental test. What does it all mean? For all its weirdness, quantum mechanics has given us many practical technologies including lasers and the transistors that underlie computers and all digital technology. In the future, it promises computers more powerful than any built before, the ability to communicate with absolute privacy, and even quantum teleportation. The Quantum World explores the past, present and future of quantum science, its applications and mind-bending implications. Discover how ideas from quantum mechanics are percolating out into the vast scale of the cosmos - perhaps, in the future, to reveal a new understanding of the big bang and the nature of space and time. ABOUT THE SERIES New Scientist Instant Expert books are definitive and accessible entry points to the most important subjects in science; subjects that challenge, attract debate, invite controversy and engage the most enquiring minds. Designed for curious readers who want to know how things work and why, the Instant Expert series explores the topics that really matter and their impact on individuals, society, and the planet, translating the scientific complexities around us into language that's open to everyone, and putting new ideas and discoveries into perspective and context.

Download or read book The Conscious Universe written by Menas Kafatos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion resulted from a dialogue which began some seven years ago between a physicist who specializes in astrophysics, general relativity, and the foundations of quantum theory, and a student of cultural history who had done post-doctoral work in the history and philosophy of science. Both of us at that time were awaiting the results of some experiments being conducted under the direction of the physicist Alain Aspect at the University of Paris-South. ! The experiments were the last in a series designed to test some predictions based on a mathematical 2 theorem published in 1964 by John Bell. There was no expectation that the results of these experiments would provide the basis for developing new technologies. The questions which the experiments were designed to answer concerned the relation ship between physical reality and physical theory in the branch of physics known as quantum mechanics. Like most questions raised by physicists which lead to startling new insights, they were disarmingly simple and direct. Is quantum physics, asked Bell, a self-consistent theory whose predictions would hold in a new class of experiments, or would the results reveal that the apparent challenges of quantum physics to the understanding in classical physics of the relationship between physical theory and physical reality were merely illusory? Answering this question in actual experiments could also, suggested Bell, lead to another, quite dramatic, result.

Download or read book The Universe Beyond the Standard Model written by Jonathan Sumber and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this work is to introduce a system of physics that supports the possibility that rather than our physical essence and our consciousness existing within a universe that is corporeal; the corporeal nature of the universe and our physical essence exist solely within our consciousness. Quantum research and experimentation have demonstrated that information is shared between our consciousness and the universe within the quantum level of order and under certain conditions the universe will change its behavior according to what has been made possible for someone to know. This is the basis for the measurement problem of quantum mechanics. Although these findings alone do not support the conclusion that the corporeal nature of the universe is a fabrication of consciousness, it does suggest that there is much that we do not understand about the nature of the universe and our reality. Aside from it being much more efficient for the physical expression of the universe to be created within our consciousness rather than our consciousness existing within a universe that is corporeal on its own, along with the fact that a quantum particle for space and gravity have not been found nor is there any evidence that one exists creates the possibility that the spatial property of the universe does not exist within the same Standard Model that matter and electromagnetic energy function within. This work will address why there is a connection between consciousness and the quantum level of the universe and why a quantum particle for space and gravity does not exist within the Standard Model. In doing so, a system of physics that involves the merger between two slightly different versions of the Standard Model that work together to simulate the universe within our consciousness will be introduced as well as proposing a possible solution to the measurement problem of quantum mechanics and a way that quantum mechanics and general relativity can be unified within a single system of physics.

Download or read book Quantum Reality written by Nick Herbert and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clearly explained layman's introduction to quantum physics is an accessible excursion into metaphysics and the meaning of reality. Herbert exposes the quantum world and the scientific and philosophical controversy about its interpretation.

Download or read book The Nature and Purpose of Reality written by Gary O Nickolaus and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to interpret the nature of reality as it is concurrently described by quantum physics, but its concern is that which cannot be described with physics or mathematics, it is about the first fraction of a second after the big bang when all physics and mathematics breaks down, a big bang that was not a onetime occurrence but is rather an ongoing activity, it is about the Planck length and Planck time where no measurements can be taken, no observations can be made and deductive reasoning and subconscious awareness is our only means of understanding. It is about the dual nature of reality described in Quantum Physics and interpreted by Theology. It attempts to define how the finite and infinite combine to complete the purpose of the Absolute Reality of the Singularity. It attempts to describe the nature of reality as a mosaic in which all the concepts fit together to form an Absolute Reality that has meaning and that has purpose, where God is not an abstract principle or a separate being but is rather an integral part of the nature of Physics which is the nature of God. It attempts to explain the concepts that have been demonstrated by scientific experimentation in a way to match these observations with that which we have previously assigned to theology and God. All incorporated as the nature of existence and as such integral parts of Quantum Physics and Theology. Physics is the study of the nature of our spacetime; however, Quantum Physics describes limits beyond which our science and math have no meaning. The physics of spacetime is related to the physics of the finite. While our physics can only describe with certainty the nature of spacetime extrapolations can be made as to the nature of the quantum wave as it exists in the infinite Singularity. God cannot be separated from the physics for He is the Physics. He is the nature and purpose of reality. The dual nature of the universe demonstrated in quantum physics describes spacetime as a projection of the quantum probability wave. With the actualization of the probability wave into spacetime all that we know is created. How is this spacetime created? How does the creation of spacetime form the attributes of this universe? These are the questions Quantum Physic attempts to answer, but more importantly; what is the purpose of spacetime? and what is the function of conscious beings within that purpose? That question has been regulated to philosophy and theology, but the answers are demonstrated in physics.

Download or read book The Physics of God written by Gary Nickolaus and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has spent his life in an obsessive quest to understand the nature of reality and the purpose of existence. Many would say this is a symptom of Asperger’s syndrome, a high functioning form of autism. While I certainly fit this profile I believe there is a different more amazing reason. If an individual actualizes their potential in this space-time it is also actualized in the “Singularity” the space-less, time-less part of the dual universe at the quantum level. Each step of my life has led to find the answers because in the “Singularity” I had already found them. Here are the answers to God, the universe, and everything, I give them to you now because you are in desperate need of them, do with them what you will. Buy the book or not, read the book or not, I do not care, for I have completed my task and fulfilled my destiny, and that is all that matters. But if you do read the book be prepared for a remarkable vision of the nature of reality, and a magnificent purpose of existence illustrated with poetry and painting.

Download or read book Not Even Wrong written by Peter Woit and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not. In Peter Woit's view, superstring theory is just such an idea. In Not Even Wrong , he shows that what many physicists call superstring "theory" is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. Not Even Wrong explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today and shows that judgments about scientific statements, which should be based on the logical consistency of argument and experimental evidence, are instead based on the eminence of those claiming to know the truth. In the face of many books from enthusiasts for string theory, this book presents the other side of the story.

Download or read book Mindful Universe written by Henry P. Stapp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was essentially mindless: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with conscious experiences entering only passively. In the last century these classical concepts were found inadequate. In the new quantum mechanics theory, conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by physically described aspects alone.