Quantum Physics - Discovery that Disarms Materialism Scientifically
The quantum model of the universe is an attempt to purge Big Bang's theory of its creationist implications. The proponents of this model base it on the observation of quantum physics (sub-atom). In quantum physics, the observed subatomic particles arise and disappear spontaneously in the vacuum. Interpreting this observation, that matter can begin from a quantum level, that it is a material attribute of some physicists trying to explain the birth of matter from nothing, at the time of the creation of the universe, as an attribute of matter and presenting it as part of the law of nature. In this model, our universe is interpreted as sub-atomic particles inside (larger sub-atomic particles).
Yet this syllogism is certainly impossible and in any case unable to explain how the universe came into being. William Lane Craig, author of The Big Bang: Theism and Atheism, explains why:
The quantum mechanical vacuum that gives rise to material particles is far removed from the standard "vacuum" (meaning naïve) idea. In fact, the quantum vacuum is a sea of particles that are continuously formed and dissolved. The particles borrow energy from the vacuum for their brief existence. This is not "nil", and hence, the material particles do not materialize from nil.
So in quantum physics, matter does not exist when it did not exist before. What happens is, the energy around suddenly becomes matter and suddenly vanish into energy again. In short, there is no requirement of existence from kenihilan as claimed.
According to Isaac Newton, light is a flow of substance known as the corpuscle. The basis of Newtonian traditional physics which is recognized until the invention of quantum physics is that light consists of a collection of particles. However, James Clerk Maxwell, a 19th century physicist, stated light demonstrated wave action. Quantum theory reconciles the greatest debate in physics.
In 1905, Albert Einstein claimed light had quantum, or small energy packets. These packages are named photons. Although described as particles, photons are observed to behave in a wave motion put forward by Maxwell in the 1860s. Therefore, light is a transitional phenomenon between waves and particle states that reveal great contradictions when referring to Newtonian physics.
Shortly after Einstein, Max Planck (German physicist) investigated the light and astonished the whole world of science by determining that light is a wave and a particle. According to this idea, which he proposes by the name of quantum theory, energy is dispersed in discontinuous and discrete forms, rather than straight and constant.
In a quantum event, light exhibits particle-like and wave-like attributes. Particles known as photons are accompanied by a wave in space. In other words, the light moves through space like a wave, but behaves as an active particle when encountering an obstacle. In another phrase, he adopts the form of energy until it encounters an obstacle, which he instantly assumes a particle shape, as if composed of small material objects like sand grains.
Post Planck, this theory is increasingly expanded by scientists such as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Louis de Broglie, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac, and Wolfgang Pauli. Each was awarded the Nobel Prize for their findings.
In light of this new discovery of the nature of light, Amit Goswami says this:
When light is viewed as a wave, it is able to be in two (or more) places at the same time, such as when it pierces the umbrella cracks and produces diffraction patterns; but when we catch it on a photographic film, it appears discreetly, point by point, like the particle's highlight. So, surely light is both a wave and a particle. Paradox, is not it? The bet is one of the old physics bastions: the lack of language description. Also at stake is the notion of objectivity: what is the nature of light that light depends on the way we observe it?
Scientists no longer believe that matter consists of dead and arbitrary particles. Quantum physics has no materialist significance, since there are non-material objects in the material essence. While Einstein, Philipp Lenard, and Arthur Holly Compton investigated the structure of light particles, Louis de Broglie began to notice the wave structure.
The findings of de Broglie are remarkable: in his research, he observed that subatomic particles also exhibit wave-like attributes. Particles such as electrons and protons also have wavelengths. In other words, in atoms described as absolute matter by materialism there are waves of non-material energy, as opposed to materialist beliefs. Like light, the tiny particles inside these atoms occasionally behave like waves, and exhibit particle attributes at other times. Contrary to materialist expectations, the absolute matter on the atom can be detected at certain times, but disappears at other times.
This great finding shows that what we think of as the real world turns out to be a shadow. The material has deviated entirely from the realm of physics to metaphysics.
Physicist Richard Feynman describes interesting facts about subatomic particles and this light:
Now we know how electrons and light behave. But how do I call it? If I say they behave like particles, then I give the wrong impression; so if i say they behave like waves. They behave in an inimitable way, which technically may be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way you never witnessed. Atoms do not behave like a load that depends on the spring and then oscillate. Nor is it like a mini-representation of the solar system with small planets orbiting. Nor is it like a cloud or fog that surrounds the nucleus. He behaves in a way you've never seen before.
There is at least one simplification. In this case, the electrons behave exactly like photons; they are both odd, but in exactly the same way.
Therefore, to understand how they behave, we need a lot of imagination, because we will describe something different from what we know. No one knows how it can be like that.
In conclusion, quantum physicists say the objective world is an illusion. Professor Hans Peter Durr, head of the Max Planck Institute of Physics, sums up this fact:
Whatever it is matter, it is not made of matter.
All the leading physicists of the 1920s, from Paul Dirac to Niles Bohr, Albert Einstein to Werner Heisenberg, attempted to explain the results of this quantum experiment. In the end, a group of physicists at the Fifth Solvay Physics Conference held in Brussels in 1927 Bohr, Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, and Wolfgang Pauli reached an agreement known as the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. This name is taken from the workplace of the group leader, Bohr, which states that the physical reality proposed by quantum theory is the information we have about a system and the estimates we make based on that information. In his view, the estimates made in our brains have nothing to do with external reality.
In short, our internal world has nothing to do with the outer realm which has been the main subject of physicists since the time of Aristotle to this day. Physicists throw away their old ideas on this view and agree that quantum understanding simply symbolizes our knowledge of the physical system. The material world we feel only exists as information in our brain. In other words, we can never gain material experience directly in the outside world.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry at the University of California, described the conclusions arising from this Copenhagen Interpretation:
As John Archibald puts it, "There was no phenomenon before it was observed."
In summary, all conventional interpretations of quantum mechanics depend on the existence of the responding entity.
Amit Goswami extends this view:
Suppose we ask, "Is the moon there when we are not looking at it?" If the moon is a quantum object (made up entirely of quantum objects), we must say there is no such thing as the physicist David Mermim.
Perhaps the most important, and most dangerous, assumption we encounter in childhood is the assumption about the material world of objects that exist out there independent of the subject, the observer. There is indirect evidence supporting this assumption. Whenever we look at the moon, for example, we find the moon where we think, on a classically calculated track. Naturally we project the moon always in the space-time there, even though we do not look back there. Quantum physics says no. When we are not looking at it, the possibility wave of the moon is spreading, albeit with very small quantities. When we look at it, the wave instantly collapses; so the waves are not in the space of time. So it makes more sense to adapt the idealist metaphysical assumption: there is no object in space-time without the conscious subject observing it.
This, of course, applies to our perceptual world. The existence of the Moon is real in the outside world. But when we look at it, what we encounter is actually our own perception of the Moon.
Jaffrey M. Schwartz inserts the following line, with regard to the fact demonstrated by quantum physics, into his book The Mind and the Brain:
The role of observation in quantum physics should not be overemphasized. In classical physics [Newtonian physics], observed systems have an independent existence of the mind that observes and investigates them. However, in quantum physics, only by observing the physical quantity so have an actual value.
Schwartz also summarizes the views of various physicists:
As Jacob Bronowski wrote in The Ascent of Man,
"One objective of the exact sciences is to give the right material world a picture. A 20th century physics achievement is proving that goal can not be achieved. "... Heisenberg states that the concept of objective reality" has thus evaporated ". Writing in 1958, he acknowledged that "the laws of nature we formulate mathematically in quantum theory no longer deal with the particle itself but with our knowledge of elemental particles." "It is wrong," Bohr once said, "if we assume that the task of physics is to find out how the state of nature. Physics takes care of what we can say about nature."
Fred Alan Wolf, one of the guest physicists in the documentary What the Bleep Do We Know?, Illustrates the same fact:
The things that make up things are not other things. But ideas, concepts, information.
Following the astonishing and sensitive experiments that the human mind can devise over the past 80 years, there is now no opposition to quantum physics, which has been firmly and scientifically proven. No objections can be raised against experimental conclusions. The quantum theory has been tested in hundreds of ways found by scientists. He has brought the Nobel Prize to a number of scientists, and still continues to do so.
The material, most fundamental Newtonian physics concept and once regarded as absolute truth, has been abolished. The materialists, proponents of the old belief that matter is the single and definitive block of existence, are utterly puzzled by the fact of the lack of matter in quantum physics. They must now explain all the laws of physics in the realm of metaphysics. The shocks of the materialists in the early 20th century far outstripped what can be expressed in this paper. But quantum physicists Bryce DeWitt and Neill Graham describe it:
There is no development of modern science that impacts more deeply on human thought than the arrival of quantum theory. Squeezed from centuries-old patterns of thought, physicists of the last generation were forced to embrace new metaphysics. The misery caused by this re-orientation continues today. Basically physicists suffer from great loss: a grip on reality.
In conclusion, the truth revealed by science is this: matter and time are created by the owner of a great power of independent standing, by the Creator, God.
Source:
- William Lane Craig, Cosmos and Creator, Origins & Design, Spring 1996, vol. 17, page. 20
- George Gilder, http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.17078/article_detail.asp
- Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe, page. 31
- David Pratt, http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/prat-mat.htm
- Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, Modern Library Edition, New York, 1994, page. 122-123.
- Thomas J. McFarlane, The Illusion of Materialism, http://www.integralscience.org/materialism/materialism.html
- Peter Russell, The Primacy of Consciousness, http://www.peterussell.com/SP/PrimConsc.html
- Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley, The Mind and The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, Regan Books, 2003, page. 272-273
- Ibid. page. 274
- Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, page. 1031
- Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe, page. 59-60.
- Schwartz & Begley, The Mind and The Brain, page. 264
- Nick Herbert, Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics