A brief history of quantum mechanics from Newton to the “Theory of Everything” and what it means to Christians.
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[__ Science __ ] Quantum Mechanics and Creation: A Brief Overview
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You just hit upon my passion. I'm ready to do a talk on how God is not just infinitely big--but infinitely small.
Computer science has this concept of "lazy evaluation". For example, I might have a data structure like this:
typedef data {
int a = 2;
int b = 5;
int c = a*b;
}
myObj = new(data);
...
myNumber = myObj->c + 1;
...
secondNumber = myNumber * 2;
Now, it takes compute cycles to evaluate c; multiply is a relatively expensive operation. So rather than evaluate c at the beginning, when you first create the data, we instead evaluate it at the last minute, when we actually need it (in this case, only . That way we don't take the time to evaluate it more often than we have to. For example, if the variable "secondNumber" never even gets used, then multiple lines of code here are not even necessary. So we don't.
Quantum wave mechanics seem to be a natural phenomenon which mirrors lazy evaluation. A photon doesn't decide which waveguide to go in to unless it is observed and it has to decide. Otherwise it just goes in them both. Very odd. Especially when a photon doesn't even have mass--let alone intelligence.
What does this say about nature? Do supernatural powers (such as God, or even the devil or angels) lazy-evaluate nature, until nature is observed by us and they have to make up their minds what to do?
My personal leaning is "no". I think there is more to this that we need to learn through experimentation. But I can't prove it.
Computer science has this concept of "lazy evaluation". For example, I might have a data structure like this:
typedef data {
int a = 2;
int b = 5;
int c = a*b;
}
myObj = new(data);
...
myNumber = myObj->c + 1;
...
secondNumber = myNumber * 2;
Now, it takes compute cycles to evaluate c; multiply is a relatively expensive operation. So rather than evaluate c at the beginning, when you first create the data, we instead evaluate it at the last minute, when we actually need it (in this case, only . That way we don't take the time to evaluate it more often than we have to. For example, if the variable "secondNumber" never even gets used, then multiple lines of code here are not even necessary. So we don't.
Quantum wave mechanics seem to be a natural phenomenon which mirrors lazy evaluation. A photon doesn't decide which waveguide to go in to unless it is observed and it has to decide. Otherwise it just goes in them both. Very odd. Especially when a photon doesn't even have mass--let alone intelligence.
What does this say about nature? Do supernatural powers (such as God, or even the devil or angels) lazy-evaluate nature, until nature is observed by us and they have to make up their minds what to do?
My personal leaning is "no". I think there is more to this that we need to learn through experimentation. But I can't prove it.