08Complement

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Why God Doesn't Exist

Fortunately, Niels researched this formidable question

extensively

for us and found a

series of

answer

that

commands

our

utmost

respect:

" Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and

observable only through their interaction with other systems."

Niels Bohr, Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature, 1934

" There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong

to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what

we can say about nature."

A. Petersen, 'The philosophy of Niels Bohr',

Bulletin of the Atomic

Scientists

19, 7

(Sep. 1963)

Niels Bohr emphasized that Science is concerned with the predictions of experiments,

additional

questions are not scientific but rather meta-physical.

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]

Since after spending his entire life on the subject Niels couldn't figure out

what

light

, he decided to use

his valuable time

brainstorming alibis and preparing to trash the first reporter who confronted him.

I prefer to go with

Poincaré

a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

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]

Bohr was able to convince the gullible suckers of the world not to inquire further

...

and no one did.

o add insult to injury, the mathematician suggests that it is the student who is confused and needs to

to the psychologist:

The student is then left with the impression either that we do not really understand the

true nature of light or that physics is simply a collection of tools for solving problems.

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It's this type of idiotic closing statement that drives me up the walls!

It is

not me but

the

stupid and idiotic

professor who doesn't have a clue regarding

the

nature of light and

tries to

convince you that

have a problem. Who does this guy think he's fooling?

The mathematicians

do not in fact

really understand the

true nature of light

and

Mathematics is indeed

simply

a collection

of tools for solving

problems

without any

lation

or concern for

physical reality!

]

Another quote from

Poincaré

gives us a clue

is appropriate as a closing argument:

" Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects; to them it

a matter of indifference if these objects are replaced by others, provided that the

relations do not change. Matter does not engage their attention, they are interested

in form alone."

This explains why the idiots of Mathematics never brainstormed the correct nature of light. A

mathematician has no business

talking about Physics because he is not interested in the subject. He

should stick to talking about the bullshit they talk about

at the Funny Farm of Mathematics!

The idiots of Quantum
say that light is both a
particle AND a wave !

1.0 How important is t

Principle of Complementarity to Quantum Mechanics?

Niels

Bohr

devised the 'Principle' of Complementarity in 192

8 after h

became

exasperated

with

Mother

Nature's

teasing. Today,

it is considered to be a fundamental part of Quantum Mechanics.

" Complementarity or wave-particle duality is considered to be one of the distinguishing

characteristics of quantum mechanics, whose theoretical and experimental develop-

ment

has been honoured by more than a few Nobel Prizes for Physics. It has been

discussed by prominent physicists for the last 100 years, from the time of Albert

Einstein, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, onwards."

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]

Without Complementarity, all of Quantum disintegrates overnight like a house of cards

. In

Wheeler's

words,

" Bohr's principle of complementarity is the most revolutionary scientific concept of this

century and the heart of his fifty-year search for the full significance of the quantum

idea."

J. Wheeler, 'Niels Bohr and Nuclear Physics',

Physics Today

16, 10 (Oct. 1963)

pp. 36-45

Therefore, it is important to understand th

e nature of th

is principle if you wish to understand Quantum

Mechanics and

establish

whether either have merits.

2.0

What does the Principle of Complementarity say?

Complementarity holds that light is physically both,

corpuscular

(discrete)

and

wave-like

(extended)

Light and all EM radiation are composed of small parcels called photons. Photons are

now thought to be carriers of EM force. They are called parcels (or packets) rather than

particles or waves because, depending on their interactions with other matter, they have

either particle or wavelike behaviour" (Nature of Light)

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A particle that carries a force? Sounds frightening already! But notice that the author

falls back on the strategic word 'parcel' to characterize a photon. He is saying that light

is a group or collection of something.

The mathematicians routinely give lip service to

the wave! In Quantum Mechanics, they don't accelerate waves. In Quantum, light is

treated exclusively as a particle.

]

You wonder how it is possible for a physical object to look simultaneously like a golf ball and like a

stretched bedspring

(

Fig. 1

)

What is it that the mathematicians are talking about?

Fig. 1 Quantum logic

According to Bohr, a photon naturally looks like a
bedspring and a golf ball simultaneously. The
experiment determines which of these two aspects
Mother Nature reveals to us. Some experiments
indicate that light is a wave and others indicate that
light is a particle. If you ask how this can possibly be,
Bohr tells you to see a philosopher or a psychiatrist.

the
war
within

Let me teach you a thing or two about Quantum, Bill.
When the whip shakes like this, it simulates the wave
nature of light. When the whip leaves stripes on your
back, it simulates the particle behavior.

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