Title: A Quantum Leap of Faith
Headings: A Quantum Leap of Faith
A Quantum Leap of Faith
Weird Science
“ Is quantum weirdness an unavoidable aspect of Nature, or can we somehow make sense of it?”
Back on Earth
Believing Impossible Things
More Impossible Things
Leap of Faith
“ The mind of God lies behind the deep order of the world; the order expresses God’s nature.”
Einstein remarked that “Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

Content: the particle and wave conditions are superimposed so they exist simultaneously. But looking at light “collapses the wave-function” so the experimenter registers either blips of energy (quanta or particles) or an interference pattern of interacting waves. Welcome to the exceedingly strange world of quantum physics. Here the act of conscious observation turns probability into knowledge. Knowing collapses the wave function from what was a haze of probability: nothing becomes something. Perhaps not surprisingly, this explanation isn’t universally accepted. But to disagree, as did physicist Victor Stenger, is certainly the minority (if commonsense) position: “ The idea that properties are brought into being by the act of their measurement clashes with our intuitive notion that the universe possesses an objective reality independent of the observer.” Weird Science
But this connection between observation and experimental outcome seems real enough.