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Without being too redundant of previous articles, what Quantum Mechanics has shown is that at the quantum level of reality what happens there does not correspond to what our senses detect about our physical reality. The conflict is of course that the physical reality arises from the quantum one.
The Uncertainty Principle says that by knowing the characteristics of one state of matter, we have to sacrifice knowing anything about its other state we call energy. To observe matter comes at the expense of not knowing anything about that matter's energy at the instant of an observation, and visa versa. Yet, in the macro world, the one of physical senses, we have no trouble viewing both the material and energy characteristics of things at the same time; in the same instant of observation.
For example, we can see the sun. It has dimension and a specific location in space and time. At the same time we can also feel its energy or the heat it gives off. We can measure its dimensions and energy at the same time. Yet, at the quantum level, the level from which the sun and everything else in the universe is first structured, we can only measure its material characteristics, or its energy characteristics, but not both together at this instant of observation. Further, by measuring one of these characteristics, we cannot be certain the other characteristic even exists during this measurement. This same phenomenon is true for all the atomic structures in the universe, and possibly even the molecular structures.
For clarity's sake, this structure being referred to is that which makes matter appear material. At our sensory level, we detect matter in the form of what we call compounds. These are the material things we perceive and are made up of one or more molecules. Molecules in turn are made up of two or more atoms. Atoms are the elements we learn about in chemistry class. A molecule of water is made up of two hydrogen atoms combined with one oxygen atom. We can detect water with our senses as a compound, which consists as millions of molecules all grouped together, but not individual molecules of water. They are simply too small for our senses to detect.
Again molecules are made of two or more atoms. Just about everything we can detect with our senses is made of two or more atoms in numerous combinations from the 88 naturally occurring stable atoms so far discovered. Take an atom of sodium and bond it to an atom of chlorine, and presto, we have table salt. Take a carbon atom and bond it with four hydrogen atoms and we get methane. This is the way matter that we detect with our senses is structured.
Each atom is made up of subatomic particles. Primarily it is the proton and neutron (each being structured by Quarks) that makes up an atoms center or nucleus, which is orbited by electrons. The number of these particles in an atom determines which element it is. The element of hydrogen has one proton and one electron. It is also the only element with no neutron. The next element, helium, has two protons, two neutrons, and two electrons. The next element is Lithium and it consists of three protons, three neutrons and three electrons. This progression continues all the way to Uranium, which has 92 protons, 146 neutrons, and 92 electrons. While the number of protons, neutrons and electrons are always equal in stable elements, the number of neutrons can vary. Uranium is not a stable element, and eventually turns (decays) into lead.
OK, so now we have a pretty good picture of what we and the universe are made of, and the levels of structure involved. It also becomes obvious why we have a science called Quantum Mechanics; it's the study and discovery of how reality's most fundamental structural state works. The problem however is that, again, what Quantum Mechanics has discovered makes no sense in relation to the other levels of reality's structure this quantum level one supports. Or does it?
If an electron or photon, or proton or neutrino, or whatever quantum particle will only show their material characteristics when we observe them, but not their energy characteristics, and these particles know when we are observing them and when we are not, creating what we call the Collapse of Wave Function (the term that describes changing energy into matter), isn't this in fact telling us something very specific about the quantum world of reality, and therefore every level of reality?
It is specifically telling us it is the fact that we observe things that forces wave functions to collapse. It's specifically telling us we cannot under any circumstances ever observe energy, but instead only energy's effect on matter. One of energy's four forms is defined by what we call the Electro Magnetic Spectrum. Here is where forms of energy are defined according to wavelength. At the lowest end of this scale is what is called the Long Wave forms of energy. Next up the scale is radio (and TV) Waves. Next comes Microwaves, then Infra-Red, then Visible Light (which really isn't visible at all), then Ultraviolet, X-Rays, and finally Gamma Rays.
These are the forms of energy that consist of wavelength. We can detect and measure their wavelengths, but only with instruments specifically designed to do this. Otherwise, there is no way for us to be able to observe these energies. We cannot see radio waves or gamma rays or infra-red or ultra violet or even visible light. All we can see, or feel, is the effect these have when they interact with matter. They are completely invisible otherwise. You use your micro wave oven, but you cannot see the micro waves. All you can see is the effect they had on whatever you put in that oven. You turn on your TV, and it works because of the radio waves bringing you the programming. You cannot see these waves, just the effect they have on your TV's components.
There are three other forms of energy, which are gravity, and the strong and weak forces within atomic structure. They are separate forms of energy and not really understood. Only the effects they have on matter is what is known, but that at least is consistent with what we know about the electro magnetic spectrum. Like these wavelength energy forms, gravity and the strong and weak forces also are not observable. They are just as invisible as any other form of energy. We only know about them because of their effect on matter.
Energy is unobservable, and quantum Mechanics proves it. Collapse of Wave Function is not some bazaar discovery after all, but a fundamental principle of reality. Reality would not work otherwise. Only when we observe matter in this instant of observation, do wave functions collapse so that all we can see is the material form of reality. If this didn't happen, then reality would be invisible, again, because we cannot see energy.
In theory, Quantum Mechanics (QM) claims any "thing" can collapse wave function, or act as an observer. In other words, light can be an observer and therefore collapse wave function. So can the particle created by this collapse from light's "observation". So can the instruments we design to detect the atomic level of reality. The reason for this theory is to avoid taking QM into the metaphysically realm, or worse, the Religious one. If nothing physical can exist until observed, and we are physical, without this theory means that there would have to be an Observer that precedes all things physical including us.
This remains a problem for QM however, because there is no way to confirm this theory without our observations, which in turn cancels out any possible observation ability of the above "things". In other words, if light (energy) could cause itself to collapse into a particle (matter) independent of our involvement, how could we ever know about it beyond theory? If our instruments can collapse energy into matter, it would be impossible to tell because we have to observe the data our instruments provide, and that causes energy to collapse into matter.
This is the illusion then; matter is not what it appears to be in the first place. It is structured of "particles" that themselves have no real material characteristics, just characteristics that appear to be real in this instant of observation, and then only because energy refuses to be observed in this instant of observation. Science fiction you say? Look around you; you and all you see is this science fiction.
If you take the hydrogen atom as an example, and scale it up so its proton nucleus (made of Quarks) is about the size of a basketball, its electron would be no bigger then a pencil dot. Electrons orbit the nucleus according to their sate of energy. The less energy an electron has, the closer it orbits the nucleus. If our electron here was in the lowest energy state an electron can attain and therefore the closest it could ever orbit the nucleus, it would be about 12 miles away from the proton in this scaled up example. Where is the solidity of matter in this? Couple this with the fact that neither the proton or electron exhibit any material characteristics, except during a measurement or observation, then matter is just so much empty space, regardless of how permeated it is with energy.
Now take into account the means we have for detecting the material world. We are totally dependent upon our physical senses first detecting something, then translating that something into a specific electro-chemical code, then relaying that code to the appropriate brain center via our nerves where the code is translated and matched to other coded experience, so that when a match is finally found,then, and only then, can we realize the senses actually detected something. Then, and only then, can we have any recognition of whatever is being detected.
To further "muddy" the issue, no experience or any observation can even occur except in this instant. This instant is the only point in which reality can be observed as real. It is the only "time" that exists. Everything else is either memory or imagination. All experience is completely subjective.
Examine this present instant. While we perceive it to be "real", to be hard core reality, it is in fact nothing more then our focus on this present instant that makes reality appear so real. No matter how you slice it, this instant's recognitions are 100% subjective experience of our minds. It only appears to be objective experience because that's how energy shows itself in the present instant of observation. We cannot observe anything, nor have any kind of experience outside this incomprehensible present instant, including the obviously subjective observation of our own thoughts. This is the Grandest Illusion of all.
What about space and time? They only serve to give physical reality the illusion of validity. Space and time are conditions necessary for a reality to appear physical, even as an illusion. Without a place for things to exist in or a means for processes to occur or evolve, physical reality could not appear physical. Quantum Mechanics and Physiology however both clearly show all experience is both subjective and instantaneous.
Physical reality is all Illusion of the Grandest Kind. This is the Reality Code. Quantum Mechanics and the illusion of our biological Physiology confirm the collapse of wave function as a fundamental aspect of our observational ability, functional only in this present instant.
