THE HARD PROBLEM OF PRECISION IN QUANTAM MECHANICS

 PREFACE

In quantum mechanics what we know is limited and what we don’t know is unlimited, and we can only understand it by lessening the non-truths. But this branch of physics has itself made us sceptical about truth and non-truth, so only questions exist with bizarre answers and more sophisticated questions with no definite answers.

TOPIC- THE HARD PROBLEM OF PRECISION IN QUANTUM MECHANICS

A. Observation vs Interaction

Whatever I can understand about quantum mechanics, and particularly quantum superposition, is more about interaction than observation. It says that one electron, when observed (when light falls onto it), behaves like a wave or behaves differently. So the process of observation becomes part of the experiment.

Let’s say a human sitting in a dark room would behave differently when left alone and differently when you would talk to him or even look at him. Not because observation changes the result, but because you interact with it. You can both be an observer and an interactor, like when a psychologist interacts with a student, they also observe the patterns.

B. The Role of Self-Interaction

It makes us understand that observation or perception of something leads to interaction of some kind and makes you part of the experiment. That’s why interaction matters the most—because when the quantity is not in its smallest form or quantum form, it can interact with itself and change.

Let’s say I can interact with myself in a room and create something (write a poem or a song). But when there is one single electron, it still interacts with itself and interferes in the double-slit experiment both when observed and unobserved—but observation leads to interaction. Interaction can be both creative or destructive.

C. Wave-Particle Duality and the Cat

When something of quantum size or an electron exhibits duality, I feel it is trying to interact with the observation but is constantly failing at it. Wave-particle duality or the Schrödinger’s cat experiment explains that when the cat is looked at or interacted with, it appears in one form not because it wants to but because of the nature of the experiment.

D. Philosophical Paradox of Naming and Reality

When Kierkegaard said “if you name me, you would negate me,” or when Hegel said “what is real is not rational and what is rational is not real,” it puts us to think that absurdity, entropy, or failure of being something has caused science and physics to seek the ultimate one position. Superposition is real not because it exists, but because disorder lets order sustain in unsustainable ways.

F. Potentiality, Actuality, and the Failure of Certainty

The cat is not dead because it appears so, but it is projecting to be dead because of the failure of the duality it can portray. It might appear that the cat should not be in superposition when unobserved—but the actuality is that the potentiality of anything can make more than one position available.

When the potentiality gives you one actual form it becomes actuality of a certain kind, but the same potentiality can give you more than one result. Unless we examine the failure of our simulation experiment and think more profoundly about the erraticness of certainty, we will keep saying quantum mechanics is irrational.

G. The Illusion of Rationality

The limits of our rationality exclude what cannot be one. Rationality is a sham in an adamant qubit equation and mirage becomes truth. The fallacy of singularity is one of the primary causes of non-comprehension and its mind-boggling non-sensibility.

H. Quantum Illusion and the Limits of Prediction

The nature of quantum mechanics can be called a quantum illusion. How can you predict the exact actuality of the potentiality of the future when you cannot be exact about the triggers of actuality?

Not only is correlation not causation, but precision in how an event occurs has more to do with intent than with cause or correlation. Sometimes a small trigger looks like a death nail in the coffin, and sometimes even a compulsive rational decision fails terribly.

I. Indeterminacy, Stochasticity & the Question of Accuracy

The indeterministic notion of quantum, “to be or not to be,” throws us into a pool of randomness but also tells us that stochasticity is the most definite cause of actuality. It is not wrong to predict, but unscientific to expect prediction to be accurate.

Who are we to predict the accuracy of the cat’s state when we don’t know the precise intent of the perceiver looking for her in the box? And we would never know unless the exact moment arrives.

J. Conclusion: Playing Dice With the Universe

So let time speak for itself, and let’s agree to disagree with Einstein on this: “God didn’t play dice with the universe.”

Because God was bored, so He chose to play, and then He lost the dice and slept on it, till He finally woke up to play again with new dice.

— Leeza