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>Request: if 'quantum' means the quantifiable degree of something, why is quantum physics associated with random possibility?<
i'm not qualified to answer your question, but i'm not satisfied with the other responses, so i?m gonna lay it down like this:
an apple fell on newton's head. he looked up, and bang! gavity came to exist. this led to all kind of fucked up events. suddenly, the earth started to revolve around the sun!
which gave rise to an astonishing universe. a universe that was based on mathematics and order. all this shit is actually predictable and, indeed--quantifiable.
at some point in all this, a big daddy of physics named einstein said jeeringly, ?well you didn?t think god was just rolling the dice, did you?'
interestingly, at the time, god was actually looking for a corner to hide in.
folks were also looking at very small things called atoms. atoms! the smallest building-block of which all the universe was made. and hot damn do the little fellas pack a punch!
upon hearing about this, all the physicists ran into the room. 'it is simple,' they exclaimed. 'check it: you simply need to apply the same scientific method *we?ve* used so effectively in understanding the cosmos and we'll have it all down!? and they split.
?hold up!?, said some other peeps. ?atoms are made up of even smaller homeboys and homegirls?.
the physicists ran back into the room. ?yeah yeah yeah.,? the said. ?just study it, like we told you? you can call it quantum physics'.
you have to understand, at the same time as this there are some really good drugs going around. like, they?re all over the street. everywhere! you can imagine: now these quantum guys are trying to use all these well sensitive instruments and intricate algebraic equations, but every time they look at something it would just do a jig and jump off the table.
then all this other stuff happens, which i will never understand (so don?t ask me about it). next thing you know, all these quantum physicists are spending more time at beach parties in california then they are in the lab with decent folk.
while high on some particularly rad reefer one night under the moonlight, one quantum dude says, ?hey bros, did ya?all ever stop to think that, like, maybe there?s more than 3 dimensions? maybe there?s, like, eeleevaaan, maaan!?.
?ooohh ooooh dude!,? said another quantum surfer. ?and, like, there could be mul-ti-puule uuuniverses too!?
i heard that everyone got so blasted that night that one guy ended up sticking his cat in a box as some kinda ?scientific experiment?!
?you seen that bunch of wack-jobs down there on that beach, man?? asked one physicist to another? ?i think they all lost their heads for real, you know what i?m saying?.?
?for real man. i hear about them peeps be talkin ?bout multipule universes and shit, and i?m like: yo. i represent the *big* universe, straight up a'right, and there?s only *one* of *that* shit?you better believe it!?.
things started to get really tense around the scene. for a while it looked like there was going to be a huge battle between the quantum physicists and the old-school ones. i actually thought it was going to get rough.
lately though, there?s these new guys coming up: i think maybe they listen to a lot or marley or some shit and they?re like, ?man? can?t we all just *get* *along*?!!?
and now i heard that some playas are gearing up to promo a gig called unified theory or something like that. basically, the big dogs get to have their big bang and all the little homies get to bang around endlessly like mad and everyone will be just grooving like that.
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Stevland
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posted 12/06/05
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