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Question Re: On The Development of a Theory of The Universe - 05-24-2006, 08:07 PM

It occurs to me that we cannot be certain of anything. The Uncertainty principle (see definition below) suggests that we cannot even be sure where a certain atom in our body actually is.

Now imagine this on a global scale and then a galactic scale and we must conclude that the Universe is illogical. So trying to solve the TOE it would seem is an impossibility. But there must be an underling principal to the order of things.

In society the rules are manmade. On a Global scale the rules (or Laws) are different for each Country and continent. This is further divided into the haves and have not’s, meaning that a technological society is more advanced than a primitive society? Isn’t it ? What if there was suddenly no Electricity ?

The Observer effect however (see definition below) can blur the boundaries of our perception of the Universe. We are trying to discover the rules of a chaotic system, much like here on Earth. Are we making them up as we go along? Just on the information available at this present “Time”. Are we sure that the speed of light or Time is constant? Or in fact that everything we know must have some measurement. Are there more than 4 dimensions ? As we progress with our knowledge of the Universe our views will change and the new school of thought will reign supreme until a newer version comes along.

I probably haven’t explained this as clearly as I would have liked, but it will have to stand. I’m Uncertain !!!

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle or just Uncertainty principle states that one cannot measure values (with arbitrary precision) of certain quantities, which are pairs of observables of a single elementary particle. These pairs include the position and momentum. Mathematics provides a positive lower bound for the product of the uncertainties of measurements of the conjugate quantities.
It is often confused with the observer effect.

In science, the observer effect refers to changes that the act of observing has on the phenomenon being observed. For example: observing an electron will change its path because the observing light or radiation contains enough energy to disturb it.
In quantum mechanics, if the outcome of an event has not been observed, it exists in a state of superposition, which is being in all possible states at once. The most famous example is the thought experiment Schrödinger's cat, in which the cat is neither alive nor dead until observed — until that time, the cat is both alive and dead (technically half-alive and half-dead in probability terms).


Steve . W here has all the time gone ? Your Time is my Spacetime.

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