Spooky Physics, part 1

Here's a compilation of written thoughts/things I want to remember as I read this...

Human brains are meant to understand middle concepts, nothing too complex or too small.

Newtonian physics says the universe is mechanical and predictable, so if we figure out certain things about the stars or universe, it is constant and can be indentified

Qunatum Physics nit picks and breaks down everything into the tinniest molecules, which leaves our mind in a wonder when we try to interpret our findings.

A quanta is the smallest unit you can measure, much like a penny is our currencies smallest monetary value.

Is light a wave , or particle? in richard feynman's double split experiment, shows how light is displayed depends on the application. It can be seen as a beam of light, and also as a quanta -- it depends on our measuring device.


Quantum mechanics is just a probable model that can help us to figure out outcomes, probablities, odds, outcomes and trjectories.

If you toss a coin, whats the odds it will be heads 100 times in a row? if its out of a 1,000 tries, not a good bet .. but if its a trillion, much better odds

a cat can be alive and dead in a box, only when you open the box is the cat's fate shown

Quantum theory says there is nothing existing past what we see.

Eistein didn't like the final idea of quantum theory, and disagreed ..


CHAPTER 2

eisntein said the moon is there, even when I am not looking at it

He later said there is so much human error and uncertaintly, even when we are in a measuring device (which already alters what is known) - Like the radar gun

Einstein beleived there was a real model that could explain reality, not just a model that gave probabilities and outcomes, but he wanted something more concrete