Guest author, Thomas Kennedy, will feature a twice-monthly series, Quantum Leap, wherein he guides readers through the fascinating world of quantum mechanics.
With that work I backed into the world of Quantum Mechanics and the unique world that exists not based on certainty but probability. It is akin to living your life inside a Las Vegas casino. And yet, all of life that we see and experience each day, the nature of what we see as certain, shakes and shimmers and flies about in ways that are astounding. Things we take for granted from the world of high school physics, rules that we think are hard and fast, are beginning to be broken in ways we are only beginning to understand.
And with the start up of the Large Hadron Collider, the world of Quantum Mechanics is literally abuzz with possibilities. What better time to launch a blog on the subject of God (the God Particle), Creation, the nature of Space Time, and where to get a good hamburger …
Join me, here, on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month, for Quantum Leap.
Consider, if you will, the possibility of living in an alternate universe, where action does not lead to reaction, where outcomes are determined by a toss of a coin, a statistical probability. Imagine staying in bed all day and getting up to find $1 million dollars in your bank account. Or working like a dog only to be paid $1.00. (Well maybe in this economy that happens anyway.)
The literal world we live in, that we take for granted as being predictable, at the fundamental level , masks the craziness of the elements that make it up. It is as if you had a jig saw puzzle whose pieces danced and blurred and spun in circles on your coffee table as you sought to try and assemble the picture on the cover of the box that you poured the contents out of.
The world of Quantum Mechanics appears at times to be unapproachable but that isn’t always the case, it just depends on how one approaches the subject. My purpose here is to sort of lead a tour guide through the world of quantum mechanics and a way to think about the subject that can help to make sense of that world and what it means to our readers.
We’ll begin our tour with Issue #2. Watch for it, here, on November 20.
Tags: Astrophysics, Cosmology, LHC, Quantum Mechanics, Space Time