Quantum Physics Basics 3

 Some think scientists must just accept that quantum physics explains the material world in terms they find impossible to square with their experience in the larger, “apparent world.” Others think there must be some better, more intuitive theory out there that scientists have yet to discover.

   Even given all of the above, quantum theory has not been able to explain the second of the five fundamental forces of nature—gravity.

   Gravity remains the exclusive territory of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, a firmly non-quantum theory that does not even involve particles. Every intensive effort over the decades to bring gravity under the quantum umbrella and so explain all of the fundamental physics within one “theory of everything” has come to nothing.

   Meanwhile cosmological measurements indicate that over 95 percent of the universe consists of dark matter and dark energy, phenomena for which scientists have no current explanation within the “standard model,” and conundrums such as the extent of the role of quantum physics in life itself remain unexplained.

   What is known so far is that the “apparent world” is at some level quantum, but what is demonstrably clear is that quantum physics is by no means the last or best word about how the “apparent world” or the other worlds that I have not discussed—alternative universes or states of matter and being that quantum physics experiments allude to, or by implication, predict or confirm their existence.  

   If the quantum world behind our “apparent world” is not objective—i.e., it does not exist in isolation from our observation of it, but rather is influenced by our attempts to measure it—then the “apparent world” must not be objective to that same degree.

   This means not only that our engagement with the invisible quantum world influences how it behaves under certain circumstances, but also it means that our engagement with the visible “apparent world” influences how it behaves under certain circumstances.

   So, it must be said that if you cannot “see through and past” the visible all around you, it is extremely doubtful that you will have complete insight into the invisible world that is also all around you through strictly scientific means. You will need something more.

   You will have noticed that I left the elephant in the room undisturbed and unexplored—Spirit, the Original Cause of everything—without discussing Him. I will bring you back to the Alpha and Omega later.

   Suffice it to say that I have raised these challenges in quantum physics to lay the foundation for a fuller discussion of how you can take advantage of what quantum physics has taught you, and use that knowledge (or lack thereof) as a launching pad for initiating your own personal expansion as a human being, who has been called by God to be an ever-expanding, ever-evolving human being, in rank just slightly below that of angels…and so says the Scripture.