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VAST INFLUENCE. “Quantum mechanics is an immensely successful theory. Not only have all its predictions been experimentally confirmed to an unprecedented level of accuracy, allowing for a detailed understanding of the atomic and subatomic aspects of matter; the theory also lies at the heart of many of the technological advances shaping modern society – not least the transistor and therefore all of the electronic equipment that surrounds us.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

THE TATTERED HUMAN PSYCHE. “Darwin seems to me to be the Copernicus of the organic world. In the sixteenth century Copernicus put an end to the anthropocentric theory by doing away with the Ptolemaic spheres and bringing our earth down to the rank of an insignificant planet.” (du Bois-Reymond, 1882). https://lnkd.in/e2_HpJsY View in LinkedIn

PARADIGM CHANGE. “Niels Bohr’s 1913 atomic model was a revolutionary step in a development which culminated in the mid-1920s with the theory of quantum mechanics. Ever since then, physicists and philosophers have been discussing what the theory means for our understanding of the world.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends on a consideration of some of Bohr’s ideas about quantum reality. It has been over 100 years since these ideas were introduced, and humanity is still struggling over them. “Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.” (Bohr) sums up how we humans have such deeply embedded and inflexible frames of reference that make understanding the quantum world so difficult. https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

MEASUREMENT. “Bohr’s view of quantum mechanics has traditionally been seen as opposed to quantum fundamentalism, not least because he insisted on a classical (not quantum) description of the measurement apparatus. This amounts to dissolving the measurement problem from the outset, since the apparatus and its pointer should not be thought of as being in quantum superpositions.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

TWO WORLDS. “Classical physics is causal; complete knowledge of the past allows computation of the future. Likewise, complete knowledge of the future allows precise computation of the past. Not so in quantum physics. Objects in quantum physics are neither particles nor waves; they are a strange combination of both. Given complete knowledge of the past, we can make only probabilistic predictions of the future.” https://lnkd.in/ebDJ4MfS View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS 3. “Neutrinos and antineutrinos are vortex condensations in an electromagnetic field. Neutrinos and antineutrinos form the rest of the particles. Neutrinos carry out their vortex streams of the electromagnetic field outward in compound particles and fragments of matter.” https://lnkd.in/eWv3eyi5 View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS 2. “The electromagnetic field is a dispersed vortex medium that fills all space. The field forms the structure of matter and provides fundamental interactions. Electric and magnetic fields are vortex flows of this medium. The smallest particles of the field - gravitons - represent vortex condensations in the prematter environment. Gravitons move continuously at the speed of light.” https://lnkd.in/eWv3eyi5 View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS 1. “Matter consists of three embedded fundamental phase states – Prematter (Dark Energy), Electromagnetic field (Dark Matter) and Substance. Prematter is a basic dispersed medium that fills all space. In the nuclei of Black holes, the prematter is in a superfluid superhard state.” https://lnkd.in/eWv3eyi5 View in LinkedIn

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