Jimmy Bornhoeft Mikkelsen (Jimmybm@post3.tele.dk)
Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:52:14 +0100
First of all let me say that I do find it possible to find other
levels. In Lila P. sayes that the intellectual level is quite new.
But I also think that new levels will be new. Something that devellops
from the intellectual level.
But lets return to the question about the quantum level.
I have snipped something from a discussion of Quantum theory that
I have been observing.
(To make a very short and very simple resume: When the subatomic
particles are not observed, they "do not exist")
-snip
Measurements are always, in principle, repeatable. Once a measurement is
carried out and a result is obtained, the state of the measured system
must
be such as to guarantee that if that measurement is repeated, the same
result will obtain (given no "tampering" in the interim). Sub-atomic
"particles" are, when not observed, in a state of superposition. When
measured, or observed, the effect of measuring an "observable" (QM lingo
for "measurable properties of physical systems") must necessarily be to
CHANGE the state of the measure system, to "collapse" it, to make it
"jump"
from whatever it may have been just prior to the measurement into some
particular state. Which such particular state it gets changed into is
determined by the outcome of the measurement. And what determines what
state? According to another tenent of QM, probability. It is at this
point
in QM, and at no other point other than this one, that an element of
pure
chance enters into the evolution of the state vector of an observable.
We
CANNOT repeat the measurement and get identical results. Since we cannot
know how the state vector of an observable will collapse, except is
probabilistically, we must be uncertain of the outcome.
-snip
This must mean, if I understand it correctly, that before we measure
the particle it is in the superposition.
We might say that before it is measured it does not exist, as nothing
but pure dynamic quality (This might sound mystical...), but when we
measure it (give it value, it springs into existance as a inorganic
value pattern. This means that quantum scientists look at particles
that are formed from nothing(Some eastern philosophers says that the
universe is made of nothing)/quality into matter, and back again.
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