Do you know what Quantum mechanics is? Well even if we do not know many things humans think that they are the most intelligent animals on the planet. Why? One reason that has constantly been cited as this potential difference is our ability to think. But, do we have freedom or free will, a choice that many may call it, to determine what happens to us or what we think is original? Well, it isn’t straightforward.
Quantum Mechanics- Things to Know About
1. Understanding the Start
It is almost as complicated as the explanation of the “start.” The start means the start of time or the universe. Many theories try to explain how the universe was formed, but none, sadly, have been verified. But let us stick to the most famous of all. The BIG BANG.
If we allow ourselves to believe that everything started with the big bang, time also did. We also simultaneously believe in Newton’s Laws of motion. Then this means, at that crucial point in the formation of the universe, the forces that were set into motion have since then and will, for billions of years to come, “determine” what will happen.
2. Understand the Forces
If, say, a particular set of forces existed just at the moment of the big bang, then those very forces are responsible for everything that will happen in the universe. After all, action equals reaction, right? If a particular set of forces existed at that time, those forces would have already set into motion a clock that would determine everything until the very end of the universe. This is called “Determinism.”
3. What do Determinists think?
Determinists believe that whatever happens or whatever we decide is how it was supposed to happen. This means that if you kill a person tomorrow, you will do it, and nothing else will happen apart from that. Conversely, if you were not going to kill a person tomorrow, you will not, since it was “determined” that you will not kill a person tomorrow. Now, because even Einstein was a determinist, a particular theory tried to disprove the deterministic theories, and obviously, he was agitated. This is called Quantum Mechanics.
4. What does Quantum Mechanics Tell?
Quantum Mechanics tells us that every event can diverge into many different timelines and that all of those can be possible, with only a certain sense of probability attached to them. For example, take Schrodinger’s cat experiment.
- If you put a cat inside a box and leave the room after that, you can never be sure once you come back if it is alive or dead.
- There is only a 50-50 probability.
- Until you don’t take the cat out of the box, you cannot certainly tell if it is dead or alive.
- No one has ever shown how these two timelines or many others in many different cases shrink into just one once you start observing them.
No one has been able to find the actual location; it has always been an electron cloud. So basically, if we are all made of these fundamental particles, and their state can be different at different times, we might have what we consider free will or choice.
But this, Quantum Mechanics, is the one thing that scientifically brings us closer to believing that we possess free will since the state of the universe cannot be known at any point in time with complete certainty.
But here is the catch. We don’t know if the deterministic theories or Quantum Mechanics are true. Well, because none of them have been proven yet. No proof or evidence has been gathered about the shrinking of different timelines into one. The only thing that is known for sure is that an electron cannot be spotted.
And maybe they never will be, or perhaps there is already a scientist somewhere who has found evidence, but he exists in a different timeline. Confused? And you thought you knew what you were doing? Think.
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