{"id":157931,"date":"2023-02-14T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/theorizing-the-basis-of-our-world-a-reading-list-on-quantum-reality"},"modified":"2023-02-14T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:22:27","slug":"theorizing-the-basis-of-our-world-a-reading-list-on-quantum-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/theorizing-the-basis-of-our-world-a-reading-list-on-quantum-reality","title":{"rendered":"Theorizing the Basis of Our World: A Reading List on Quantum Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theorizing-the-basis-of-our-world-a-reading-list-on-quantum-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum Mechanics is the science behind nuclear energy, smart phones, and particle collisions. Yet, almost a century after its discovery, there is still controversy over what the theory actually means. The problem is that its key element, the quantum-mechanical wave function describing atoms and subatomic particles, isn\u2019t observable. As physics is an experimental science, physicists continue to argue over whether the wave function can be taken as real, or whether it is just a tool to make predictions about what can be measured\u2014typically large, \u201cclassical\u201d everyday objects.<\/p>\n<p>The view of the antirealists, advocated by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and an overwhelming majority of physicists, has become the orthodox mainstream interpretation. For Bohr especially, reality was like a movie shown without a film or projector creating it: \u201cThere is no quantum world,\u201d Bohr reportedly affirmed, suggesting an imaginary border between the realms of microscopic, \u201cunreal\u201d quantum physics and \u201creal,\u201d macroscopic objects\u2014a boundary that has received serious blows by experiments ever since. Albert Einstein was a fierce critic of this airy philosophy, although he didn\u2019t come up with an alternative theory himself.<\/p>\n<p>For many years only a small number of outcasts, including Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger and Hugh Everett populated the camp of the realists. This renegade view, however, is getting increasingly popular\u2014and of course triggers the question of what this quantum reality really is. This is a question that has occupied me for many years, until I arrived at the conclusion that quantum reality, deep down at the most fundamental level, is an all-encompassing, unified whole: \u201cThe One.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum Mechanics is the science behind nuclear energy, smart phones, and particle collisions. Yet, almost a century after its discovery, there is still controversy over what the theory actually means. The problem is that its key element, the quantum-mechanical wave function describing atoms and subatomic particles, isn\u2019t observable. As physics is an experimental science, physicists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,873,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}