The Cosmic and Copenhagen Interpretation
June 12, 2008
Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment illustrates the paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics: how can a cat be both live and dead? In short, it reveals the issues pertaining to the scientifically accepted idea of superpositioned states in combination to the natural world seen by the naked eye. While many interpretations of Quantum Mechanics exist, perhaps the most notable, is that of the Copenhagen Interpretation.
It is the writer’s opinion, his intuition and influence rather, by his previous philosophical studies, which allow him to resonate most agreeably with said interpretation. Indeed, within the Copenhagen interpretation it states that a system stops being a superposition of states and becomes either one or the other when an observation takes place. In relation to this experiment, this observation is merely a measurement, however, in relation to a knowing subject, much like the writer and the reader, this measurement is an observation.
As repetitive as it might seem one must give sufficient respect to what this scenario entails; what is the significance of such an observation? This significance implies both the ability to question and alter reality for if it were not for an observation there would be no reality.
Once again, the writer feels compelled to repeat the already stated to establish a proper understanding of what is acknowledgment, of what is observation, and what is reality. In accordance to what has been said and what the writer has studied it is evident to note that the significance of these simply repeated sentences reside within Schopenhauer’s definition and philosophy of the term will.
The purpose of physics in this case is to bring to the light the form in which this phenomena exists. Thus we return to the Copenhagen interpretation and Quantum physics. In regards to the double slit experiments we must now thank Neil Bohr and Werner Heisenberg for stepping beyond the realm of empirical observations and questioning through the form of mathematics and experimentations the essence of life.
Life, in all its many facets, for us, begins at the moment of conception. Our creation, thus (aside from the ecstasy of an orgasm which some fathom to be the ‘big bang’) begins in a moment of pure willing; semen swimming towards an egg striving to be an entity. It is important to note the resemblance between a beam of light and a sperm cell and touch upon the fact that between them both, a will is controlling and guiding the path our existence is founded on.
That is life and that is physics- this is them both:
Not only did the laboratory experiments of Neil and Heisenberg disclose the fact,
but the new theories predicted the consequences that:
Elementary particles are neither wave nor particle
(We are neither thought nor human)
Knowing the position of a particle,
(The position of our person in this moment with our knowledge and consciousness)
prevents us from knowing
(Where are we going? What are we doing?)
The direction and velocity,
That the very fact of detecting a small object, photon, or electron
(Thought!)
Passing through
(Life)
An apparatus by one
(Will)
Path or another can change the end result of
(Life)
The experiment when
(We)
That small entity
Reaches
(Reason of thought and will)
a detection screen.
The results of their own burgeoning understanding disoriented Bohr and Heisenberg.
And their results seemed to some people to indicate, for instance,
That the fact that a human being had
(Willed) &
Observed some event,
Changed the reality of an event.
“Our will changes the many possible realities which exist in the many-world interpretation of Quantum mechanics, for we are neither thought nor human but rather everything and everyone- the world exists as objects forming the basis of our perception forming a representation. These objects always exist in the relation to a subject, to us. Is this world nothing more than representation or is there something else? This something must be by its whole nature completely different from the representation, from the guidance of sciences and laws which merely combine objects & representations with one another. This something is a feeling, an energy, Odic Force, an elan vital, and a one unified soul.”
How do you live this life in accordance to what is thought to be right, moral and just?
Stoicism teaches us, the human freedom, the belief that virtue is all that is important to maintain a will that is in accord with nature. It teaches us the self control and fortitude as a means to overcome destructive and dark emotions; it is a philosophy that holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason.
The universal entity that is: us.