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Contradiction between quantum and relativistic physics?

12 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Mars: Contradiction between quantum and relativistic physics?
I hear how Quantum physics and relativistic physics contradict to each other. Can someone please describe this in a “general audience” form (with a timeline or order of what led to what)?

Best answer:

Answer by oldprof
Eh, not so much contradict, but one technique cannot be used to solve problems usually solved by the other technique. That is, we can’t use general theory of relativity math on quanta sized systems and we can’t use quantum mechanics math on big stuff like galaxies and such.

And that’s where the physicists go bananas. They claim that if they are both correct, they should be able to use them both on the big stuff and the small stuff. It should be, after all, the same physics, large or small. But they can’t. Using QM math on gravity of galaxies results in silly answers and using relativity math of quanta results in silly answers.

Relativity came first but only a short time before QM. Relativity and QM are not related. In fact, Einstein thought QM was hokum. “God doesn’t roll dice” he is said to have said of probabilistic QM

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Q&A: What are some great books or documentaries about quantum physics?

11 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Kelly: What are some great books or documentaries about quantum physics?
Thanks you!

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Answer by debydete
My vote is for “The Quantum Physicists” by William H. Cropper. First published many yrs. ago but I believe is still in print.
Although it does go into some of the mathmatical theory, the best part of this book is the author’s description of the development of the theory and the many debates between Bohr and Born and Pauli and Schrodinger and Heisenburg and Einstein and others about what it all meant. The most entertaining book on quantum I’ve ever read.

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Q&A: Physics Universal Gravitation Please Help?

11 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by FrogmanCharlie: Physics Universal Gravitation Please Help?
Physics Universal Gravitation Please Help?
On a distant planet, the acceleration due to gravity is 11.60 m/s^2, and the radius is 4488 km. Use the law of gravitation to find the mass of this planet.

I put this into F=(Gm1m2)/r^2
but I got 3.5 x 10^12
and that was wrong.
Please Help?

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Answer by Paul B
For falling object mass m, force = GmM/r^2 and acceleration = GM/r^2

You need r in m, and should get M in kg.

Check your arithmetic.

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In the theory of Warp Drive, how can one expect to fold space without a true grasp of Quantum Physics first?

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Jeffrey S: In the theory of Warp Drive, how can one expect to fold space without a true grasp of Quantum Physics first?
Warp Drive is the theory of folding space as to cross a great distance in a time frame rather than a given speed. But how can we even entertain this theory since we don’t even fully understand Quantum Physics as of yet.

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Answer by Glenn S
We can entertain the theory because it hasn’t been proven incorrect yet. Part of science is keeping your mind open to any and all ideas, and only discard them once you know you have to.

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Quantum simulator brings hundreds of qubits to bear on physics problems

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

By Brian Dodson Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a quantum simulator that contains hundreds of qubits – quite a jump from the the 2-8 qubits found in state-of-the-art digital quantum computers.
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When people attempt to use quantum physics to support their religion or New Age ideas, where do they go wrong?

09 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Citizen Of The Cosmos: When people attempt to use quantum physics to support their religion or New Age ideas, where do they go wrong?
What errors have you encountered?

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Answer by gohabsgo!
the part where religion is all a bunch of crap.

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The Role of Physics in Society

09 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The Role of Physics in Society

If we could get into one of those wonderful Wellsian time machines, all shining oak and glass, with polished brass handles and instruments, and ride it back to some time in the latter half of the nineteenth century, we would encounter a very different world from the one of today. Especially for Americans, it is difficult to conceive of a world where the United States counted for relatively little on the world stage. The same applied even more to all the other countries of the Americas. Except for Canada and Cuba, the whole continent had won political independence from Europe during that century, but it was still perceived as an extension of European cultures, with limited input in world affairs.

The whole world was run, in effect, from a handful of Western European countries, led by Britain which, even without the United States, had an empire that covered about one quarter of the globe.

Furthermore, it was by far the leading manufacturer of machinery, armaments and textiles in the world, with the Bank of England holding most of the gold used in world trade. France also had a very large empire and so did some very small European countries, like Holland, Belgium and Portugal. Germany and Italy were occupied for many years during this period with unifying their countries under one central authority and therefore missed out on most of the empire building activity, but Germany especially was rapidly catching up with Britain as a leading manufacturing nation by the end of that century.

Looking at the size of all these European countires on the map, one can only wonder how it came about that they were running most of the world at that time. What made their influence so overwhelming when, only a few centuries before, they had seemed on the verge of extinction from the black death? The answer to this question leads into the subject of this article.

What made the small Western European nations invincible at that time were the practical applications of natural laws, contained in Newton’s monumental synthesis, the Principia Mathematica, published in 1687. Only four years before that date, Western Europe had been very nearly overrun by the Ottoman Turks and was only saved by the opportune arrival of the king of Poland, Jan Sobieski, who rode his cavalry to the aid of the beleagured Duke of Lorraine and his Christian coalition, fighting a desperate battle bfore the gates of Vienna. And a scant two hundred years later, the flood of inventions derived from applying the basic laws of physics enabled these same endangered little countries to rule the world.

Was that all there was to the story? If we had made our time machine land somewhere in England during this period, the latter half of the nineteenth century, we would have encountered some appalling and, to us today, totally unacceptable social conditions. But there would have been something else. English society at that time exuded an underlying confidence and certainty that we can only envy today. They were looking to science to solve all their problems by simply continuing along the same path they had been following for over a hundred years. And by science they meant the scientific way of looking at things, which meant not only building better steam engines, roads, railroads and ships, but also better social systems and laws, founded not on hereditary privilege but on usefulness to the community. They knew they still had plenty of work left but they felt they were on the right path and the coming twentieth century would bring very great benefits and solutions to problems.

Where did this “scientific way of looking at things” come from and why did it suddenly provide such an impetus to a few Western European nations? The answer lies not with Newton but beyond him, to Galileo. Galileo founded modern physics by providing the axiomatic postulates that defined this “scientific way” for the future. He first of all secularized science by removing God from the picture and installing nature and her laws in His place. Nature was all that was needed to explain the physical world in mathematical (scientific) terms. Then he concentrated the focus of his new physics on just matter and motion. What causes a change in motion is a physical force and these are the realities dealt with by Newton.

Galileo was a revolutionary innovator when it came to viewing the world. He looked at it analytically, without feeling any personal connection with the objects he was analyzing. This change from the medieval, participatory, experience of the world enabled Galileo and later thinkers like Newton to express natural phenomena and natural laws in mathematical, logical terms. The previously impenetrable laws of nature were explained in simple, rational ways that ordinary people could understand. They could see that, if you confined God and the upper world to a realm of belief only, the only reality you had to deal with in nature consisted of the physical objects that, in Lord Kelvin’s phrase, were “quantifiable” and “measurable”.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the whole of nature was becoming a well-lighted room, with every new advance in science adding to the brightness of the illumination. It was fully expected that physics would finish its theoretical work very soon. As the same Lord Kelin said in the 1880s: “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now; all that remains is more and more precise measurement”.

Here, then, is the origin of that confidence and certainty which was such a feature of Victorian society, which could be seen in any portrait of the plump and prosperous persons of the new moneyed classes of the time. There was complete harmony between the way people experienced the world as the only solid reality and the way science explained this world in laws that were predictable and logical, with causes leading to their calculable effects as certainly as billiard balls colliding on a table.

Then came the twentieth century and physics breached the atomic barrier. The solid reality of physical objects (which Newton dealt with) disintegrated in the subatomic world of particles. It became obvious that these particles were not just very small bits of the same matter that people were familiar with. As time went on and quantum mechanics kept gaining ground, the very reality of the existence of such particles as separate entities became doubful. One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Werner Heisenberg, put it this way:

“In the experiments about atomic events we have to do with things and facts, the phenomena that are just as real as any phenomena in daily life. But the atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than of things or facts”.

But any object in nature that Newton dealt with is simply composed of a very large number of these “atoms or elementary particles”. If these are not real and the objects themselves are real, where does reality begin? Is reality merely a function of the number of atoms you can put together? We can begin to see why we no longer enjoy that feeling of certainty and confidence in having the right answers which our Victorian ancestors laid claim to.

We still, or at least most of us do, feel the world as Galileo did. We still feel that the physical objects of nature are the only solid reality, and this includes gases, which may not be visible but which we know consist of just those same “atoms and elementary particles” whose reality can, apparently, no longer be taken for granted. Our science today no longer reflects the way we feel about the world. The old harmony is gone. However, most of us still have faith in science’s ability to explain the world to us. In Newton’s time, science was readily understood by educated people. His laws could be taught to schoolchildren. Even if he could not really explain what gravity actually was, Newton proved mathematically that its operation could be explained successfully by saying that it worked in direct proportion to the masses of the bodies involved and in inverse proportion to the square of the distance between them. Today, the mathematics of physics has become so difficult that only a small group of specialists can understand it. Ordinary people, even if they are reasonably well acquainted with science, can no longer contribute to the debate in terms of the mathematical work involved.

However, physics has now reached the point where in both theory and practice in, for instance quantum mechanics, the consequences and implications of the work done are philosophical as well as mathematical. This may have the effect of bringing this very remote and difficult science once more into an area of more public debate. The mathematics would, of course, remain off-limits to ordinary mortals, but the conceptual structure that Galileo bequeathed to later thinkers, especially with regard to reality, might need revision and others besides theoretical physicists might usefully be brought into the picture. Galileo, like most educated people of his time, was well versed in the Platonic concepts of reality. To Plato, the knowledge to be gained from the physical world was fleeting and unreliable, being merely the subjective result of our sense perceptions. Real, true knowledge, which did not depend on human senses and was therefore objective, was to him a property only of the upper, divine world. However, when Galileo came to stating his axiomatic postulates regarding future scientific methods, he felt that matter and motion – and only matter and motion – were suitable for science because they did not depend on any human presence or any human senses. He felt that these two “qualities” were independently (and therefore objectively) real. His thinking in this regard affected the course of the entire future of physics, though in time, not just matter and motion but all physical phenomena came to be regarded as independently (and therefore objectively) real, as we have seen.

However, physics, in its own, normal development in the last hundred years, has come to realize that all physical phenomena, perceived through the senses, must be subjective in nature. Even matter and motion involve the sense of sight and Galileo erred in thinking that these two qualities of the physical world could somehow be considered objective, or independent of man’s senses. But if everything we perceive in nature has, by definition, to be subjective, then no physical phenomena can have an independent identity or history of their own, which would cause very serious rethinking about the early periods of this earth, before the appearance of man. For these reasons, it seems reasonable to suppose that our concepts of reality in modern physics are the ones that most need new thinking, so that a revised framework of concepts might be worked out, within which the physics of the future can operate.

Werner Thurau was born in December 1927, in Havana, Cuba. In 1929, his family returned to his father’s native Germany. He spent the entire 1930s in Berlin, but came to England in 1939 and was then further educated in that country, ending with an engineering degree from London University. His further career took him all over the world on technical projects, moving first to Mexico and then to the United States, where he lives now. At school in England, he was exposed early in life to the world of ideas. Some of his teachers were friends of C.S. Lewis and Lewis’s Oxford group, the Inklings, and his father was a philosophical bookworm. Werner combined this background with a lifelong interest in physics, especially modern physics after it breached the atomic barrier. This interest extended to Galileo, the founder of our age, and what made him so different from others of his time, as well as to the effect physics has had on other related sciences, such as evolutionary theory (and its polar opposite, creationism). He came to see that the latest developments in physics bring in subjects not normally associated with a book on that science, such as consciousness, reality concepts and even ethics. It is the reality concepts of Galileo that have most haunted physics ever since and need revision.
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What God be impressed with your knowledge of quantum physics and microbiology and how you applied that?

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Neil: What God be impressed with your knowledge of quantum physics and microbiology and how you applied that?
knowledge? What kind of grade do you think God would give you?

Best answer:

Answer by Beulah
Only if you use it for His glory.

God does not grade you on what you know. Only on how you use what you know for Him.

Beulah

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Wonder carbon pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Wonder carbon pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize

Wonder carbon pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize

Two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, won the 2010 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering work on graphene, touted as the wonder material of the 21st century.

Both laureates began their careers as physicists in Russia but now work at the University of Manchester in Britain. Geim holds Dutch nationality and Novoselov is both a British and Russian national.

The Swedish Academy of Sciences hailed graphene — “the perfect atomic lattice” — for its glittering potential in computers, home gadgets and transport.

It lauded Geim, 51, and Novoselov, 36, for having “shown that carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.”

The prize honors a breakthrough that paved the way to graphene, a form of carbon touted as the next-generation super-material.

Just one atom thick, it is the world’s thinnest and strongest nano-material, almost transparent and able to conduct electricity and heat.

As a result, graphene is described as the candidate material to replace silicon semi-conductors.

Graphene transistors would in theory be able to run at faster speeds and cope with higher temperatures than today’s classic computer chips.

That would resolve a fast-growing problem facing chip engineers who want to boost power and shrink semiconductor size but without raising temperatures, the bugbear of computing.

Its transparency means it could potentially be used in touch screens and even solar cells, and when mixed with plastics would provide light but super-strong composite materials for next-generation satellites, planes and cars.

The Nobel jury acknowledged that most of graphene’s practical applications “exist only in our fantasies, but many are already being tested.”

The committee added the laureates believed research should be fun.

For instance, Geim managed in 1997 to make a frog levitate in a magnetic field, the jury said, calling it “an ingenious way of illustrating the principles of physics.”

On Tuesday, Geim told the committee he was looking at emails and looking at archives when he got the call.

“I slept well, I didn’t expect the Nobel Prize this year,” he said, adding he was going straight back to work.

“In my opinion there are several categories of Nobel Prize winners, one which after getting the Nobel Prize stop doing anything for the rest of their life. It is a big disservice for the community,” he said.

The other category of people, which he said he belonged to, were “people who think people think they won the Nobel Prize by accident so they start working even harder than before.”

Last year, Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the physics prize for work on fibre optics and light sensing that helped unleash the Information Technology revolution

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07 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

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How do I put quantum physics in to practice in my life?

07 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by TrueWOW: How do I put quantum physics in to practice in my life?
Please tell me about it and how I use it in my life.

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Answer by Outside the box
Quantum physics………isn’t that like 3 gallon enemas……need I say more

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Q&A: Has quantum physics generated any practical applications, and if so what?

06 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by BIGgourami: Has quantum physics generated any practical applications, and if so what?
Oddly enough this is not a homework questions (sounds like one doesn’t it?)
I realize I’m not likely to understand it, but could you guys explain a little HOW QP was needed for their development?

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Answer by OldPilot
You are look at just one example, your computer. Any Electronic device that does NOT have vacuum tubes is built with quantum devices

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06 MAY
2012

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06 MAY
2012

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05 MAY
2012

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Can someone clearly and simply explain quantum physics?

05 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by up_on_cloud_nine: Can someone clearly and simply explain quantum physics?
I’d just like a clear definition of what it is, as im a little confused on the subject.

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Answer by Molly R
its based on the quantum theory: that certain properties occur only in discrete amounts.

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Law of Physics vs Law of Attraction? | Bloomin Loom

04 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

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Is Quantum Physics a “Religion” where only those who believe can understand it ?

04 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : Is Quantum Physics a “Religion” where only those who believe can understand it ?
Quantum Theory, according to scientists, is used to explain a great many phenomena, but so can religion and diety

Quantum Theory is understood by only a few people, as are many religions.

Quantum Theory has no proof, as do many religions.

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Answer by John
There are numerous mathematically equivalent formulations of quantum mechanics. One of the oldest and most commonly used formulations is the transformation theory proposed by Cambridge theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, which unifies and generalizes the two earliest formulations of quantum mechanics, matrix mechanics (invented by Werner Heisenberg) and wave mechanics (invented by Erwin Schrödinger).

In this formulation, the instantaneous state of a quantum system encodes the probabilities of its measurable properties, or “observables”. Examples of observables include energy, position, momentum, and angular momentum. Observables can be either continuous (e.g., the position of a particle) or discrete (e.g., the energy of an electron bound to a hydrogen atom).Generally, quantum mechanics does not assign definite values to observables. Instead, it makes predictions using probability distributions; that is, the probability of obtaining possible outcomes from measuring an observable. Oftentimes these results are skewed by many causes, such as dense probability clouds or quantum state nuclear attraction. Naturally, these probabilities will depend on the quantum state at the “instant” of the measurement. Hence, uncertainty is involved in the value. There are, however, certain states that are associated with a definite value of a particular observable. These are known as eigenstates of the observable (“eigen” can be translated from German as inherent or as a characteristic). In the everyday world, it is natural and intuitive to think of everything (every observable) as being in an eigenstate. Everything appears to have a definite position, a definite momentum, a definite energy, and a definite time of occurrence. However, quantum mechanics does not pinpoint the exact values of a particle for its position and momentum (since they are conjugate pairs) or its energy and time (since they too are conjugate pairs); rather, it only provides a range of probabilities of where that particle might be given its momentum and momentum probability. Therefore, it is helpful to use different words to describe states having uncertain values and states having definite values (eigenstate).

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Does anybody relate there whole life and existence to quantum physics and mechanics as I do?

03 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Flutter: Does anybody relate there whole life and existence to quantum physics and mechanics as I do?
I am all about how my life is constant and one, no one is seperate from me, and my thoughts are as alive as I am.

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Answer by Sparkle
I have tried to use a philosophy that states I am one, that all discord I experience comes from my self; but my reality denies it every time.

That’s just another way of blaming the victim, and allowing perpetrators free to wreck havoc elsewhere.

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How smart are people who study Quantum physics?

02 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Captain: How smart are people who study Quantum physics?
Not smart as street smart but can I get a ballpark? Do they earn good money too or do they work for okay money and the thrill of learning it?

Best answer:

Answer by DVOTA
Most of them are really smart. It takes a lot to understand things that complicated, especially when we can’t see them.

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Photons, Gravitons & Weak Bosons | Standard Model Of Particle Physics

02 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

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02 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

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Can someone give me a clear distinction between Quantum Physics and Particle Physics?

01 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by fastflashdk: Can someone give me a clear distinction between Quantum Physics and Particle Physics?
Well, dont the too have to do with the same idea at the grand scale? Please a detailed explanation.

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Answer by Jim
There isn’t necessarily a clear distinction. While quantum physics deals with the ‘rules’ that subatomic particles ‘live by,’ particle physics has to do with discovering what those particles are and how they interact with each other.

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Where can I get good reading material about quantum physics?

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by rabbit: Where can I get good reading material about quantum physics?
I am interested to learn more but cannot find good material.

Best answer:

Answer by pouli
you can log on into these website
1.www.wikipedia.com
2.www.cern.com

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A good quantum physics site to learn from?

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : A good quantum physics site to learn from?
With information about fermions, spin, the pauli exclusion principle, copenhagen (whatever), and so forth?

I am in uni, and would like to learn about this all before covering it in class (in a few years).
wiki explanations tend to make little sense unless you are already well versed in the topic.

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Answer by Larry G.
1. I would start with the “Standard Model” description in wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

I understand that you say the wiki explanations “aren’t very good”, but what specifically don’t you like about this particular wiki article?

2. For a less-technical overview, how about “History of Quantum Mechanics”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quantum_mechanics

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Physics: Why do "new age" people relate Quantum Physics to so …

30 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

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Q&A: How does Quantum Physics explain the big bang?

29 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by : How does Quantum Physics explain the big bang?
In many explanations of the big bang many say that a vaccum fluction caused particles to be created out of the absolute no energy. Now that gets me confused. I was always led to believed that matter could be only created with variations with energy levels. But whats even more confusing is that positive and negative matter can appear out of nowhere without the need of an accelerator. Like im confused help. Note: best explanation gets 10 points.

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Answer by godless
There are many well-respected physicists, such as Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Sean M. Carroll, Victor Stenger, Michio Kaku, Alan Guth, Alex Vilenkin, Robert A.J. Matthews, and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, who have created scientific models where the Big Bang and thus the entire universe could arise from nothing but a quantum vacuum fluctuation — via natural processes.

In relativity, gravity is negative energy and matter is positive energy. Because the two seem to be equal in absolute total value, our observable universe appears balanced to the sum of zero. Our universe could thus have come into existence without violating conservation of mass and energy — with the matter of the universe condensing out of the positive energy as the universe cooled, and gravity created from the negative energy. When energy condenses into matter, equal parts of matter and antimatter are created — which annihilate each other to form energy. However there appears to be a slight imbalance to the process, which results in matter dominating over antimatter.

I know that this doesn’t make sense in our Newtonian experience, but it does in the realm of quantum mechanics and relativity. As Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman wrote, “The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as she is — absurd.”

For more, watch the video at the 1st link – “A Universe From Nothing” by Lawrence Krauss.
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In Physics, the Arrow of Time Gets Bent

28 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor of Special Projects and Director, Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics, Chapman University Out of sight, and for most people out of mind, the physical world has been …
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Can end time scenario be due to quantum physics?

28 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by my_american_voice: Can end time scenario be due to quantum physics?
Where do you see quantum physics leading to?
Energy resource, war, etc…?

Best answer:

Answer by bikerdude
world peace

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Law of Attraction vs Physics Intl Starseed Network

27 APR
2012

Author: The Oracle

I had a silly question, The law of attraction implies that to manifest your ideal reality or situation you would want to put out similar energies, …
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