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Quantum Physics is the branch of physics based on quantum theory.
Quantum (Latin) = amount
Physics (Greek) from physikos = the things of the external, physical worldHaving been awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1918, the preeminent German physicist Max Planck is considered to be the founder, father, or originator of what later became known as quantum physics or quantum mechanics. On December 14, 1900, he declared at the Physical Society of Berlin that electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is emitted and absorbed in quanta. This smallest irreducible value in nature, this step, this discrete process, is called in his honor Planck’s constant and is denoted with the letter h. Quanta have a magnitude hv or hf - h denoting this constant of nature and v (the Greek letter nu, not the Roman letter v) or f representing the frequency of radiation.
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The 20th century witnessed the development of quantum theory which describes the behavior of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds, in which physical processes - such as atomic vibrations, energy and light waves, and the orbits of electrons - are quantized. Atomic systems are restricted to certain discrete, or quantized, or discontinuous energies. When an atom undergoes a discontinuous transition, popularly called a quantum jump or quantum leap (which is fact the smallest possible change in our gross-physical universe!), its energy changes abruptly by a sharply defined amount. In the process, a photon (particle of electro-magnetic radiation) of that energy is emitted when the energy of the atom decreases or a photon is absorbed in the opposite case.
Although quantum physics has been the foundation of extraordinary applications in high-tech and related fields during recent decades, the fathers of quantum physics of the past century have referred to the implications of quantum phenomena as mysterious, counter-intuitive, and incomprehensible, just to mention a few expressions they used. The blessed fathers of quantum physics of the past century did their very best to explore the basic mysteries of quantum physics, among them: the wave-particle duality; the double-slit experiment (or in Feynman’s words "the experiment with the two holes"); Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle; the collapse of the wave function; quantum superposition; vacuum and zero-point energy; the Casimir Effect and virtual particles; Bell ’s Theorem, EPR and nonlocality; the Copenhagen
Some quantum effects observed in physics laboratory experiments could be interpreted to demonstrate that the physical world of matter and EMR (electro-magnetic radiation) exhibits knowing and intelligence. This will soon lead to a drastic revision of the conventional scientific distinction between animate and inanimate matter. Science will discover what the Great Ascended Masters and the mystics of all ages have known all along, that Universal or Cosmic Consciousness is at the heart of matter/EMR and that it is creating and maintaining our physical reality as well as all the finer vibrational worlds. Through introspection and recognition my own personal experience has been that: "To me, matter is crystallized energy or condensed vibration." To the more traditionally-trained and -minded quantum, sub-atomic, and particle physicists this might be a very strange and even unacceptable way of putting it.
Without nature’s phenomena which are beautifully captured in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, our known universe (matter/energy) would not exist. In his book "Physics for the Rest of Us," Roger S. Jones writes: "... Heisenberg confronts us with something entirely new in scientific law: an ultimate theoretical limit on knowledge. No improvement in experimental technique, no refining of the methods of observation, no brilliant ingenuity can ever eliminate the uncertainties in measuring the trajectory of an electron (or any other subatomic particle, for that 'matter'). For the first time in the history of science, a natural law tells us that there is a fundamental limit on what we can know. The uncertainty principle reinforces the idea that quantum theory gives us no picture of the inner workings of nature...."
Quantum physics demonstrates that the impact of the interaction with the object of observation (matter/EMR) cannot be made arbitrarily small. Therefore, researchers cannot investigate the world without unavoidably affecting and changing it in some way. Experimenters are no longer objective and disconnected from the objects of observation - they become part of the world they are trying to explore. As a consequence, the innermost nature of physical reality, its non-physical core or essence, must in principle remain hidden from complete scientific investigation and understanding. (There you have it, traditional Western scientists of the world, directly form the horse’s mouth of the non-traditional Western scientists. If only you would pause a bit to understand its significance, you incurable smart alecs, you (= persons regarded as obnoxiously self-assertive and impudent – Wikipedia. My interpretation: a person with mucho ignorance).
In addition, when not observed, quantum particles appear to be wavelike. In fact, nothing can be said about the physical world between observations (e.g. the jumps of electrons between different energy levels), which led some physicists like the German Nobel Prize winner Max Born and his colleagues in Goettingen (Germany’s Cal-Tech, Pasadena, CA, at the time) to postulate that the physical world cannot even be considered to be real when unobserved. These ideas were later incorporated by their strongest and most outspoken proponent, the Danish Nobel Prize laureate Niels Bohr, and eventually came to be known as the famous/infamous “Copenhagen
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Niels Bohr, Max Planck – American Institute of Physics |
Contemplating these issues (including the Copenhagen Interpretation), Deepak Chopra, M.D., proposes beautifully that the whole world is being transformed "within us" into solid, physical reality through what he calls the mechanics of perception or a trick of our senses. He surmises that in our normal waking state of consciousness we will never know the true texture of reality. Deepak believes that only in higher states of consciousness we would literally see that this whole world is a projection of our own subjective consciousness. "Out there is the quantum soup, in here is the world created." How the process of sight really takes place I will add here soon because otherwise you’d all faint. Those of you who can’t wait, please read the book of a wonderful person I know: Peter Russell’s “From Science to God: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light”.
Similarly mind boggling are experiments, which indicate that every electrically charged particle (such as electrons and protons) 'senses' or 'knows' (for lack of better words) the existence of every other charged particle due to its sending out photons whose electro-magnetic forces are considered to be infinite in range. Apparently, there seems to be a profound interconnection of all matter/energy in the entire universe. To blow everybody’s mind even more, the Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory of Radiation tells us that waves may travel not only forward but also backwards in time, a truly tantalizing concept. The Ascended Masters could tell a word or two about this.
Equally phenomenal is John Bell's Theorem, put into experiment by Alain Aspect, which leaves us with such fascinating notions that either travel exceeding the speed of light is possible or that the universe is non local and information can be communicated instantaneously across space producing "spooky action at a distance" in Einstein's words (though he was very unhappy with this notion and with quantum physics in general). Of course he was happy about his marvelous theory of relativity that declares that matter and energy are interchangeable, that matter can be converted into energy and vice versa.
Although good old Mr. Onestone really disliked quantum physics with its uncertainty (“god does not play dice”, except that he didn’t say it that way) and although he lost every argument with the good old Dane Bohr, Einstein was a quantum physicist par excellence.
Since I can be a mischievous little thing I used to ask my audience very innocently: (as a triple Leo acting comes of course natural to me) “Btw, does anyone happen to know whether Einstein received the Nobel prize for his special or general theory of relativity…? Big eyes are upon me. Darn, they think, I should know that. No response. Silencium. You could hear a pin drop. Throats are cleared, feet are shuffled. They sense there’s something fishy here and nobody wants to be the fool.
This is a trick question for the non-physicist if there ever was one.
The answer is neither. Before meeting Paul, my former QP memtor I had no clue. Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect. If you don’t believe me, check it out:
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