QUANTUM RARITIES. (Chapter 5. Part 3)

From de book: Quantum Mysticism. THE SPIRITUALITY OF QUANTUM PHYSICS. Second Edition 2021.

Author:        Luis Eduardo Sierra S.

President of Universal Alliance – Director ARIEL Magazine - Senior Instructor at the Spiritual University in Colombia.

Chapter 5 – Part 3

QUANTUM RARITIES

The Double Slit Experiment – Wave-particle differences – The Wave-Particle Dual Behavior – Einstein Was Confused, Not Quantum Theory – Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics – Nature Is Absurd – Is It Possible That Nature Is So Absurd? – Quantum Superposition and Schrödinger's Cat – Interpretation of Copenhagen Quantum Theory – The Quantum Leap or Entanglement – Bohr and His Revolutionary Atomic Model – Bilocation – Quantum Computing – EPR Experiment and Spooky Action at a Distance – Aspect and Entanglement – Grinberg and Nonlocality in Brains – Wheeler's Ray – Bell's Test – BIG Bell Test – Connection Between Emotions and DNA – Cleve Backster and His Experiments – Poponin and Biology Quantum Entangling – Invisible Clinics – Glein and the Affectation of Biological Systems – Experiences in Universities Testing Quantum Entanglement – The Chinese and Teleportation or Quantum Transportation – China, a Pioneer in Quantum Technology in Space – Connections in the Non-Local Domains of Consciousness – The Cosmos as a Network – Fields of Physical and Mental Interaction – Global Quantum Internet, Quantum Cryptography – The Uncertainty Principle – Pollak and the tunnel effect – Nature doesn't care if we understand it or not – Microcosm and macrocosm are radically different in their behavior – Chaos theory and the butterfly effect.

Quantum superposition and Schrödinger's cat

The photoelectric effect showed that light has the properties of particles. The double-slit experiment shows that light possesses the interference properties of waves. Together they show that light has the properties of waves and particles at the same time. The so-called quantum superposition is the fundamental principle of quantum mechanics of simultaneity as wave and particle, disobeying the laws of cause and effect. Photons can be all things and be in all states and places at the same time. Scientists at the University of Vienna (2017) have experimentally proven for the first time that a quantum process does not possess a causal order. This "causal disorder" allows them to advance in areas such as computing and communications.

The property of quantum superposition only occurs in the subatomic world; it cannot be exported to the macroscopic world. Physicists from the University of Calgary and the Russian Quantum Center (Lvovsky, 2017) performed a superposition of two coherent light waves, under conditions of "enlarged" superimposed states, a method that would allow us to transcend the limits of the quantum world and discover if there really is a boundary that separates it from the ordinary physical world.

A classic example of overlapping, which curiously became very popular, was the famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat, which leaves us on tenterhooks and not knowing where to hide in the face of such madness, if you consider it literally. Schrödinger built an opaque solid box, and added a device to it that when activated had a 50% chance of emanating a poisonous gas.

Another example used to illustrate this experiment is, instead of gas, two containers, one with food and the other with poison. Then he imagined a cat locked in that box. The chances of dying or living would be 50%. The box is sealed with the cat inside; If the poisonous device is activated, then the cat will be dead. As the box is opaque Schrödinger cannot see if the cat is alive or dead, so he has to open the box to find out what happened.

According to the label "Interpretation of the Copenhagen Quantum Theory", our observation determines the result, that is, it depends on the observer whether the cat is dead or alive, to which a good part of the scientific community was not convinced, as expected. According to quantum reality, the cat is alive and dead at the same time, in a superposition of states, until an observer (the scientist) opens the box to see what has happened and one of the two probabilities is realized, the observer makes one or the other possibility real.

Another consequence of quantum superposition is that the order of events is itself undefined. It is as if the cat could be dead (poisoned) before tasting the poison. And although Schrödinger already pointed out in his day that a cat cannot actually be alive or dead at the same time, regardless of whether or not it has tasted the poison, Austrian researchers have shown for the first time that in the quantum world this superposition is real.

Another interpretation points out that the collapse of the wave function (the living or dead cat) is produced by the effect of the measuring device, which is the one that actually reduces the various states of probability to a specific one, discarding the role of the observer that Schrödinger intended. This interpretation is known as quantum realism.

For the Copenhagen School, quantum physics should not go that far. He considers that these interpretations refer not to reality itself, but to the knowledge we have of it. This knowledge is described by the wave function and it is normal for the wave function to be altered by measurement, since by acting we modify our knowledge of reality.

"It must be emphasized at the outset that there is by no means unanimous agreement among physicists, least of all among philosophers, about nature or about the existence of reality, or even about its very significance or about the extent to which quantum characteristics undermine it. However, for about fifty years, certain problems and paradoxes have been in the air and, although they have not been solved to everyone's satisfaction, they highlight the profoundly strange qualities that quantum theory has brought to our world" (Davies, 1983).