Thanks MKIRKPATRICK! Your comment is very generous and I really appreciate it. I'd like to hear your opinion and the others about what I'm going to write here too, if that's not too much to ask...
IF matter was actually made up by PARTICLES [electrons,protons,neutrons,quarks etc] and those particles were REAL! Which also means that they exist across time and never disappear like rabbits inside a magician's hat then all that B.S. (Bohr school of thought) has to be true... (you know americans... they love abreviations!). Think about it! A PARTICLE IS A PARTICLE BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE ERASED FROM EXISTENCE!
If deep inside your heart you believe that "sub-atomic particles" are what they say they were then you have to accept uncertainty, probabilities, chaos and look no further a way out of the MESS!
Forget about hoping to find an answer to the "Two slit experiment"! Forget about understanding what "tunneling" actually is! Forget about EVER explain yourself why "neutrons" decay in the lapse of time you use the restroom and "protons" behave with such stubborness and refuse to do it!
There is NO WAY OUT of a conflict derived from a wrong REALITY. Do you actually believe that those guys [Einstein, Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, De Broglie and the rest of the physics community of the thirties] were arguing non-sense? Do you find those deep discussions part of the "charm" of being a theorist? I tell you one thing: Pack your "bags" and choose another discipline cause you're wrong!
In "IMAGINATION" I was prety articulate with respect to a different physical reality. I wasn't proposing a new version of QM. All I was saying is that QM worked because it empirically formulates a different reality than the one "we" proclaim to be real. Can't you get it?
We hear phrases like "complimentarity" "probability" and "duality" and we accept the roll of stupid little beings that have been put in ridicule by the universe. Let me help you see my point here! Think mass to be your shadow. You stand on front of the sunlight and you see it against the wall. If you move away from the wall the shadow gets bigger [energy increases] if you approached the wall the shadow will "shrink" smaller [less energy]. It's just an ANALOGY do not missundestand my words. In a quantum as photons, the greater the energy involved the greater the mass [dust] participating in the propagation across space. The same process will occur with "charged particles." If [as I said before] the process of compensation mass-energy elapses at a speed [velocity] faster than light, we SEE it as something GIVEN.
It makes perfect sense to believe that we exist in a universe made up by particles but we don't! It's just our incapacity to prove otherwise that keep us "stuck" in the mud of empty paradoxes and endless arguing.
Take a moment and think about all this. There is much more at stake here than just a stupid discussion about what's first "the chicken or the egg" type of "thing."
HUMANBYDEFAULT
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