Understanding God - The Uncertainity Principle
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I am an athiest, why? for a simple reason- " I fail to understand the concept of god". The misleading definitions, the confusing attributes, the impractical examples and the analogy. The concept of god is very different to me as the limits of my belief are exactly coincident with the limits of my understanding. In this article I'll refer to the term 'god' in a different manner. I would try to state what my confusions are and why?
I was never able to explain certain happenings where I was just saved from disasters very closely. These are the moments in life where you wish to stop for a while and thank the one who saved you. But I never believed in god, so I had no one to thank. Scared of being ungrateful to the mystical power that saved, me I came up with the concept of sub-consciousness I named it my 'guardian angel'. In my life I have very often felt the presence of a guiding force that seems to drive my life in a soothing way. I believe in a guardian angel that helps me whenever I need help, saves me whenever I need to be saved and is around when i need it to be. This is the fact, and supposedly a very basic fact in life.
I read the 'law of attraction' and 'power of mind' in a newspaper lifestyles section, many things were apparently co-incident with my own life. And just started to believe the old saying-" god resides within oneself." This saying was assisting my beliefs of my guardian angel, so I stuck to it. This gave birth to the thought that me and my god is the same thing, inseparable, just the form is different. Trying to decipher the concept of god, I encountered many myths; it was easy to discard them as I never blindfoldedly believed in them anyways.
With the help of examples and analogues, I would now start and try to shake your mind,
What do you analogue god with, light or darkness?
Think for a minute or so and just keep the answer is your mind,
It is light,
God can be attributed to one self, as sub-consciousness it just resides in you. Light is a state of flux between matter and energy, the particle of light 'photon' is continuously changing its state from 'mass to energy to mass'. So at a point, either it is mass or it is energy, both states can not exist simultaneously. Isn't this the same case with our body and soul? probably that is why no-one can explain the concept of god, because when you are body, you do not know what is god, and when you understand god, you are no longer the body that can explain the concept to anyone else... You are god himself. Their remains a confusion, that if we can change from one form to another the why does the cycle end? or if it is the re-inca
ation you believe in, then how does god (your own sub-C) show his presence in the real world? If it is not showing its presence in the real, how come every person in this world believes in him, in one form or the other?
Now, the other analogy, god is darkness,
Remember your mom telling you always, god is everywhere, he is even there where there is nothing, god is self reproducing, he is omnipotent and supreme, no one can see him yet he is in front of your senses can not feel him, he is the biggest and he is the smallest... now think about this. In this complete universe what is the only thing that is everywhere? What is the largest of all? The smallest? What is there where there is nothing? I hope you nhave already got the point. So if any of this is true then god closely resembles 'darkness' or should I say god is ‘black’.
While meditating you tend to blacken your mind, is it god you wish to see and experience? In hindu mythology god 'shiva' is treated as the destroyer, he is referred as 'darkness'. We celebrate 'Shivratri' as the night of lord Shiva. Shivratri is the darkest night of the year. Even not many hindus are clear about this, I was interested in all this as I was born on the darkest night of the year, yes, it was a Shivratri '17/2/85' and my parents named me 'Shivam' as an austerity to the great 'Shiva'.
So now the same question again,
What do you analogue god with, light or darkness?
Still having trouble sorting out the answer? It is simple, God is darkness with attributes of light. He has all the characteristics of both. Everything has a dual nature. Imagine the basics of computers, 'binary'- everything can be answered in a 'yes' or a 'no'. The concept of duality says that if you mix yes and no, then it becomes everything, and there is no definity to the practical world if you do not consider duality. It is scientifically proven by 'the theory of uncertainty'. The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
--Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927 n "Uncertainty relation" between the position and the momentum (mass times velocity) of a subatomic particle, such as an electron. This relation has profound implications for such fundamental notions as causality and the determination of the future behavior of an atomic particle. Because of the scientific and philosophical implications of the seemingly harmless sounding uncertainty relations, physicists speak of an uncertainty principle, which is often called more descriptively the "principle of indeterminacy."
Uncertainty principle- A revolution in quantum mechanics-
In the summer of 1922 Heisenberg met Niels Bohr, the founding father of quantum mechanics, and in September 1924 Heisenberg went to Copenhagen, where Bohr had invited him as a research associate and later as his assistant. In 1925 Werner Heisenberg laid down the basic principles of a complete quantum mechanics. In his new matrix theory he replaced classical commuting variables with non-commuting ones. Heisenberg's paper marked a radical departure from previous attempts to solve atomic problems by making use of observable quantities only. He wrote in a 1925 letter,
"My entire meagera efforts go toward killing off and suitably replacing the concept of the orbital paths that one cannot observe." Rather than struggle with the complexities of three-dimensional orbits, Heisenberg dealt with the mechanics of a one-dimensional vibrating system, an anharmonic oscillator. The result was formulae in which quantum numbers were related to observable radiation frequencies and intensities. In March 1926, working in Bohr's institute, Heisenberg formulated the principle of uncertainty thereby laying the foundation of what became known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Albert Einstein was not happy with the uncertainty principle, and he challenged Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg with a famous thought experiment (See the Bohr-Einstein debates for more details): we fill a box with a radioactive material which randomly emits radiation. The box has a shutter, which is opened and soon thereafter shut by a clock at a precise time, thereby allowing some radiation to escape. So the time is already known with precision. We still want to measure the conjugate variable energy precisely. Einstein proposed doing this by weighing the box before and after. The equivalence between mass and energy from special relativity will allow you to determine precisely how much energy was left in the box. Bohr countered as follows: should energy leave, then the now lighter box will rise slightly on the scale. That changes the position of the clock. Thus the clock deviates from our stationary reference frame, and by general relativity, its measurement of time will be different from ours, leading to some unavoidable margin of error. In fact, a detailed analysis shows that the imprecision is correctly given by Heisenberg's relation.
The term Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was often used interchangeably with and as a synonym for Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle by detractors who believed in fate and determinism and saw the common features of the Bohr-Heisenberg theories as a threat. Within the widely but not universally accepted Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (i.e., it was not accepted by Einstein or other physicists such as Alfred Lande), the uncertainty principle is taken to mean that on an elementary level, the physical universe does not exist in a deterministic form — but rather as a collection of probabilities, or potentials. For example, the pattern (probability distribution) produced by millions of photons passing through a diffraction slit can be calculated using quantum mechanics, but the exact path of each photon cannot be predicted by any known method. The Copenhagen interpretation holds that it cannot be predicted by any method, not even with theoretically infinitely precise measurements.
It is this interpretation that Einstein was questioning when he said "I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." Bohr, who was one of the authors of the Copenhagen interpretation, responded, "Einstein, don't tell God what to do." Niels Bohr himself acknowledged that quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle were counter-intuitive when he stated, "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word."
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Einstein and Bohr (including Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) was that Einstein was in essence saying: "Of course, we can know where something is; we can know the position of a moving particle if we know every possible detail, and therefore by extension, we can predict where it will go." Bohr and Heisenberg were saying: "We can only know the probable position of a moving particle, therefore by extension, we can only know its probable destination; we can never know with absolute certainty where it will go."
Einstein was convinced that this interpretation was in error. His reasoning was that all previously known probability distributions arose from deterministic events. The distribution of a flipped coin or a rolled die can be described with a probability distribution (50% heads, 50% tails), but this does not mean that their physical motions are unpredictable. Ordinary mechanics can be used to calculate exactly how each coin will land, if the forces acting on it are known. And the heads/tails distribution will still line up with the probability distribution (given random initial forces).
Einstein assumed that there are similar hidden variables in quantum mechanics which underlie the observed probabilities and that these variables, if known, would show that there was what Einstein termed "local realism," a description opposite to the uncertainty principle, being that all objects must already have their properties before they are observed or measured. For the greater part of the twentieth century, there were many such hidden variable theories proposed, but in 1964 John Bell theorized the Bell inequality to counter them, which postulated that although the behavior of an individual particle is random, it is also correlated with the behavior of other particles. Therefore, if the uncertainty principle is the result of some deterministic process in which a particle has local realism, it must be the case that particles at great distances instantly transmit information to each other to ensure that the correlations in behavior between particles occur. The interpretation of Bell's theorem explicitly prevents any local hidden variable theory from holding true because it shows the necessity of a system to describe correlations between objects. The implication is, if a hidden local variable is the cause of particle 1 being at a position, then a second hidden local variable would be responsible for particle 2 being in its own position — and there is no system to correlate the behavior between them. Experiments have demonstrated that there is a correlation. In the years following, Bell's theorem was tested and has held up experimentally time and time again, and these experiments are in a sense the clearest experimental confirmation of quantum mechanics. It is worth noting that Bell's theorem only applies to local hidden variable theories; non-local hidden variable theories can still exist (which some, including Bell, think is what can bridge the conceptual gap between quantum mechanics and the observable world).nnsome, inferences from the uncertainity principle,
In the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, chaosticia
Ian Malcolm claims that the effort "to observe and document, not interact" with the dinosaurs is a scientific impossibility because of "the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, whatever you study, you also change."
"The mere act of observing a phenomenon changes its nature."n- reference wikipedian
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