OUR REALITY According to QUANTUM PHYSICS

The study of our reality as seen from the lens of Quantum Physics, particle science, string theory, Schrödinger Boxes and a raft of other disciplines ultimately fitting within the general term Science and Cosmology creates a different view of what we consider to be Reality.

A simple way to describe it would be it’s all a collection of Algorithms applied to the unique dimension of time and space that we are occupying.

What is an Algorithm? Wikipedia offers this simplified definition along with a raft of information defining and describing Algorithm: "A set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations” This says it. Using a computer’s operation as an empirical demonstration in the application of an Algorithm gives us a good example.

Much of the computer operations are managed by built in Algorithms. When their short-cut identifier or its macro is clicked the formula of the algorithm automatically inputs into the computer processer and this directs the computer to whatever program or function is actuated. This simplifies the process from those days where each formula would have to be entered anew to gain input to the function.

Looking at this procedure as a mirror action between God and the material world, or the Cosmos and our time/space dimension one can surmise: There is a specific formula that is inputted into the world which somehow triggers whatever it is that directs the particles, or the waves, or the photons, neutron, quarks or whatever, to pull together within an order by which they are caused to have qualities that can be sensed by us. We in turn have also been put in play by the same process of material creation by way of another Algorithm. Our Algorithm designed us with the ability to discern the results of the application of the second Algorithm. By virtue of this programming we can sense the after product that is produced by the second Algorithm, sensing its material size and makeup, its quality and properties, the place and passing of time of that product.

If the new object produced is not in itself hard, or fast, or hot, or any other quality we might attribute to it, we sense it to be hard, or fast, or hot and/or some other quality. Our design and the design of the material by the second Algorithm together instill the perception in us that it is of this quality.  It is in this that we produce the reality of the second object, we do so by our observation of it.  

Caveat! This is no more than the way I understand it. Scientifically it may be way off the mark.

Science theorizes, hypothesizes, and suggests all of reality is made up of different arrangements of matter at their minutest discernible or indiscernible level. What is lowest keeps changing. It started with particles that now seems to break down into photons, neutrons, quarks, waves any number of lower units and finally into movement as a wave. This movement is closely associated with the extent of our observation of it as the movement passes by within the purview of our observation. It depends on that observation for its consequence.

Is that consequence its reality? Is it limited to that momentary observation? Does it require continuous observation by someone to keep it existing in this reality? Whether or not it has further consequence starts getting way beyond my ability to understand. What has revealed itself in testing is the causal affect observation has on the movement and its involvement in reality.

Schrödinger’s Cat offers us good illustration of the foregoing as it relates to observation. Said simply, at least as I understand it: Schrödinger put his cat in a box. The box also contains a Geiger counter containing a small amount of Radioactivity. He places a blanket over the box. He knows the radioactive material will eventually dissipate. When it does it will kill the cat.

The cat is left in the box for a measurable amount of time, any measure, the extent of time is not important. What is important is the quality of radioactivity contained in the Geiger counter. The time that it dissipates and kills the cat is not known. That time is purely random.

When the cover is taken off the box, the cat is then observed. If dead as ascertained by the observation of it, it obviously stays dead. If alive it stays alive. From this it is determined by the scientists who cite it that it is the observation of the cat that keeps the cat dead or alive.

In my lay understanding of this I can say if it’s dead it stays dead unless a cat really has nine lives which I’m told is myth. The nature of dead is to stay that. If it is alive it stays alive. There has to be more to this that I do not understand because the constancy of dead is explained by the nature of death. In turn if it is alive, the cover is removed after which the radioactivity dissipates from the Geiger counter, the cat could be delivered from death if the radioactivity dissipated into the air outside of the box.

It may be the observation was through a lens through the closed and covered box where no air is allowed in or let out. The experiment could then have more meaning.

More meaning is not as important as the fact that the Schrödinger’s Cat was the first to validate the theory as it regards observation made of the separate minute part of so-called matter to give it existence. The scientists say until that time it merely is probability.

This was followed by many experiments and further speculation that at this minuscule level it is not clear that the existence of whatever it is being observed, whether it is a material object or is a material movement, its existence depends on an outside observer to give it reality.

Some time ago I wrote a series of essays one of which is the following. It is found in my Archive where I have posted it under the title: Is There More That We Might See? Click on it to go there.

What I speak of in that essay is all that is, we know it is, but we cannot reach the all of it with our material senses. We just know it to be. Gravity is an evident power in our space time universe. Does anyone deny it is there? This runs the gamut to Black Holes and Dark Matter. We don’t see it, we can’t measure it. We just know it is there, there substantially, as arrived at by calculation and reason.

There is much in our world not seen, accepted on facts validating the separate existence of it, the validation of which gives no clue to its material, immaterial, make up. An example of this is following a series of cairns up a mountain side, accepting the cairns give evidence of the existence of a path to follow to go up that mountain side. We know a cairn, a pile of rock placed in a semblance of order, did not happen at random, some hand must have intervened giving the rocks an evident order, the order of which is impossible at random.

This cairn has the significance of someone having to arrange its order, why? Perhaps one is not enough but a series of them winding up the mountain side would suggest the intention of someone building them there, serially separating them, placing them in elevation one after another, being done with purpose. We then speculate on “For what Purpose?” Concluding it marks a trail up the mountain side is a good conclusion.

I cite all of the examples and explanation to give credence to the proposition there is more to this world we are in than we can see and accept as valid and existing in it. I do this to tie in its significance when dealing with Dementia.

With Dementia we lose our power to think. That loss seems to be caused by the minute, slow, gradual course of our disease damaging our brains. It goes to the point where we become incompetent in intellect and an entire spectrum of things we once were able to do that was managed by the brain.

The brain, one of our body parts, loses its abilities. Do we lose these abilities? The answer seems to be universally “NO!” There is more than meets the eye, more than the brain is able to transmit into our own world. The mind, the spirit, the soul, our consciousness is not embedded in this dimension of space and time. Its existence transcends this dimension, most believe it continues after our material death, many believe it preexisted our life lived between birth and death here in this world.

What we need to realize and apply in dealing with our Dementia is this: We, the essential of what and who I am, isn’t changed by Dementia. The only change to occur is of our access to that thinking acting  part of us. The access is interrupted and impeded by the brain damage.

This opens the door to all the possibility of learning how to reclaim that access. It is this that makes some understanding of the foregoing so important.