What You See is What You Get...Or Is It? Quantum Uncertainty Rules

Does What You See Create What You Get? 

Excerpt from Reading Between the Lines, The Hidden Power of Language

“We need to understand the effect that ‘looking’ has on our surroundings.  To do this, we need to understand some basics of quantum mechanics.  I’ve used the term ‘collapse of the wave function’ several times previously, but let’s now explore what it really means.

To fully comprehend this quantum physics lingo, we must consider some very perplexing aspects of quantum mechanics.  The first is known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, named after the famous physicist, Werner Heisenberg. 

You probably recall being exposed to the concept of atoms, protons, electrons and neutrons in grade school science?  Protons, neutrons and electrons are all examples of particles.  And you might remember the diagrams showing the electrons spinning around the nucleus of the atom, like planets orbiting the sun? 

Heisenberg proved this was not the case at all.  His experiments showed that sub-atomic particles (electrons in this example) do not occupy a specific position in time or space; they exist as a potential of positions around the nucleus. 

His principle states that at the moment we attempt to measure the exact speed of an electron, we affect its location, and conversely, at the moment we attempt to determine its specific location, we affect the velocity of its motion.

The very act of measuring them has an effect on these particles. 

This discovery provided the emerging science of quantum mechanics a measurable quantum effect, and forever changed the way science perceived our physical world.  Particles, like electrons, were now described as existing in a state of ‘superposition’, meaning they were not in one exact spot or another, but existed as a wave of potential positions, sometimes called ‘electron clouds’.

One way to describe these particles is as a ‘quantum wave function’, or a state of potential possibilities of position. This is caused by the fact that a single particle can be in multiple locations at the same time!

How can that be?  The reality is we can never be sure where an electron is, until it’s actually measured through observation.  Only when it’s physically observed does the particle stop existing as a quantum wave function and starts existing as a single particle in a specific position.  The measurement “collapses the wave of possible positions” into a single position.

I understand how bizarre this may seem to you.  It’s a challenge to figure out how this stuff works, but when you understand the riddle you become empowered. 

In his book, A Brief History of Time, modern physicist Stephen Hawking describes the Uncertainty Principle as an ‘inescapable’ aspect of the world we live in, and something still not fully understood by scientists or philosophers, even today.”

Taken out of context, this excerpt is describing how you actually formulate the world as you observe it, but more importantly than that, you formulate your world based on how you expect to observe it.

What you see is what you get.  What you get will change, once you expect to see something different.

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