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graham smetham - measurement problem
Thanks BenI was amazed to discover how crucial
the realization that the appearance of external
materiality is an 'illusion' or is
'illusion-like', the terminology differs between
schools, was in the Mind-Only Buddhist school
and, to a lesser extent, Madhyamaka. The
following is from Atisha in the Book of Kadam:
'Now I shall cast to the winds concepts of solid
objects with mass.' It is amazing that the
insight into the quantum nature of reality,
although that word was obviously not used, was
central - many Buddhists do not realize this. The
Jonang other-emptiness school clearly had a
conscept corresponding to the wavefunction - 'the
element of attributes'.Best Wishes - graham
jane re Julian Wontner
I agree totally - I read that Albert Einstein
kept a copy of 'The Secret Doctrine', which
relates to the vedic teachings, on his desk. Such
ancient Eastern concepts in a receptive, informed
and imaginative Western mind, could bear fruit.
To collate every scrap of information which might
hold a clue or a missing link seems basic common
sense to me....but maybe that's part of the
problem! Train of thought.....does awarding
scientists with Nobel prizes etc. help science or
does it create a situation in which humble
co-operation and truly free thinking are usurped
by a certain, if often unconscious, self-serving
ambition to achieve 'a result', to the detriment
of exemplary science? I still think the point I
made previously about understanding the 'agendas'
of scientists is incredibly important and not
generally accounted for at all. What a lovely and
appreciative email from 'An American & Discovering IOT'. Best wishes
...
At 09:06 AM 4/12/2009, you wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20090305.shtml
The most famous fruit in physics is an apple,
but the most famous animal in physics is a cat.
It belongs to Edwin Schrödinger, a theoretical
physicist who in the early 20th century helped
to develop the radical theories of Quantum
Mechanics. Schrödingers cat does not actually
exist it is the subject of a thought
experiment in which the rules of quantum
mechanics make it appear both dead and alive at the same time.
The problem of a cat that is both dead and alive
illustrates the challenges of quantum physics
and at the heart of this apparent absurdity is a
thing called the measurement problem.
The measurement problem arises because we dont
really understand how the atoms that constitute
our world behave. They are fundamentally
mysterious to us, even shocking, and they defy
our attempts to measure and make sense of them.
Possible solutions range from the existence of
multiple realities to the rather more mundane
possibility of an error in our mathematics - but
a solution, if found, could transform our understanding of reality.
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