Quantum Physics & Spirituality

Physics can be divided into two sub fields: classical mechanics and quantum mechanics.

CLASSICAL MECHANICS is the science that concern itself with physical laws describing the motions of bodies under the action of forces.

QUANTUM MECHANICS is the science that concerns itself with the principles underlying physical systems at the atomic level.

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According to thinkquest.org, these are the five main principles of quantum physics.

1. Energy is not continuous, but comes in small but discrete units.
-- Yes, that's the way I feel sometimes.

2. The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves.
-- I'm a Gemini, so I really get this.

3. The movement of these particles is inherently random.
-- Oh yeah.

4. It is physically impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time. The more precisely one is known, the less precise the measurement of the other is.
-- Keeps life interesting!

5. The atomic world is nothing like the world we live in.
-- Hmmm, what kind of world do we live in?

* Every breath you take contains an atom breathed out by Marilyn Monroe.
* There is a liquid that can run uphill.
* You age faster at the top of a building than at the bottom.
* An atom can be in many different places at once, the equivalent of you being in New York and London at the same time.
* The entire human race would fit in the volume of a sugar cube.
* One percent of the static on a television tuned between stations is the relic of the Big Bang.
* Time travel is not forbidden by the law of physics.
* A cup of coffee weighs more when it is hot than when it is cold.
* The faster you travel, the slimmer you get.

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Rupert Sheldrake - (b. 1942) one of the world's most innovative biologists, is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.

Murray Gell-Mann - (b. 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.

Richard Feynman - (May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.

David Bohm - (December 20, 1917 - October 27, 1992) was an American-born quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project.

Niels Bohr - (7 October 1885 - 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

Werner Heisenberg - (5 December 1901 - 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory.

Albert Einstein - (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."[1] Here is an essay by Einstein, titled "The World As I See It"