Physics

Ever since I was recommended "Chaos" by James Gleick, I've begun a love affair with scientific philosophy. I stumbled across this article about Quantum Mechanics in Scientific American about new views of space relationships and nonlocality. The first few pages were sort of introductory, but it was the final paragraphs that grabbed my Architects' waning ADHD attention.

Follow the link below the few poetic excerpts I've highlighted.

"We believe that everything there is to say about the world can in principle be put into the form of a narrative, or story. Or, in more precise and technical terms: everything there is to say can be packed into an infinite set of propositions of the form "at t1 this is the exact physical condition of the world" and "at t2 that is the exact physical condition of the world," and so on. But the phenomenon of quantum-mechanical entanglement and the spacetime geometry of special relativity—taken together—imply that the physical history of the world is infinitely too rich for that."

"...we need to take seriously the idea that the world's history plays itself out not in the three-dimensional space of our everyday experience or the four-dimensional spacetime of special relativity but rather this gigantic and unfamiliar configuration space, out of which the illusion of three-dimensionality somehow emerges. Our three-dimensional idea of locality would need to be understood as emergent as well. The nonlocality of quantum physics might be our window into this deeper level of reality."

(Albert and Galchen, SA, 3.09)



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