Do you really believe that constantly renormalizing “our equations” is acceptable?



Are you comfortable with the implications derived from the so-called “Copenhagen Interpretation?



Have you realized that today’s atomic model has become increasingly obsolete?



Do you actually feel that reality at the quantum level is “determined” by our method of observing it?



Are you OK with the dualism offered by Dr. Bohr?



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If you answered YES to any of those questions [except for question number 3] I invite you to read my short story:



My name is “mister potato head.” [Don’t forget the mister!] I’ve been lately trying to make some sense in the way things are and I am deeply troubled with the results.



Long time ago, “great Max” found out that energy wasn’t a continuous “thing” that would be allowed to “dissipate” itself as it sort of “spreads” across space. Someone called them “quantum” years later. The “Old Man” came up with a paper that assigned some “particleness” to those quanta of light someone else named photons. Now! The whole thing was not clear to me since a particle has to have mass and the “Old Man” said the they were “mass-less corpuscles of light.”

Then it was the other guy… What was his name? Oh, yes! “The matrix guy”! He was young and full of mathematics. He fell in love with “particles” and hated everything it had to be with waves.

Anyways! Around those years another wise guy came up with an equation trying to explain how those particles called electrons were spinning in the atom; I know him as “The wave-packet guy.”

Things became too complicated to the potato nature of my intellect when “The French guy” proposed that particles could also behave as waves. “The matrix guy” was mad since his mathematics was disregarded by “The wave-packet guy’s” equation. I almost forgot! There was another guy I called him “Half and half” who was obsessed with the paradox. I believe that he was absolutely sure that particles were real. He, as well as the bunch of guys involved in the story, couldn’t say where those particles came from. They believed that electrons, protons, neutrons and a bunch of other particles were created different… but that’s not important right now!



All I could find then was that it was a place… I think it was the name of a restaurant… OH! “The Copenhagen Interpretation.” I was told that potatoes like myself were better than our fries. The point is that it was a kitchen controversy [or so I’ve heard] between “The Old Man” and “Half and half” over a theory called “kitchen mechanics”… Wait! “Quantum Mechanics” that’s the name!



“The Old Man” was concerned about the policy of the restaurant that considered that particles were actually created out of the act of a measurement. “Half and half” along with “The Matrix guy” got a way with the controversial interpretation of matter and the others [“The French guy,” “The wave-packet guy” and “The Old Man”] were considered mistaken. I have my own version of the story and this is very different than the official one.

You may read my articles at TOEQUEST.COM or search in the NET under HUMANBYDEFAULT and find out!

Mr. Potato Head.