Cosmic Womb by Chandra Wickramasinghe Ph.D

Author:Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ancient Mysteries
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2017-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

The Double-Slit Experiment

In the double-slit experiment, what caused the wave pattern? At first it was thought that the electron had somehow become “extended” or “smeared out.” Such an explanation only provoked endless debates, until the German physicist Max Born (1882–1970) showed that the wave pattern was not caused by a smeared electron or anything else so far known in classical science but rather by something even more bizarre: a “probability wave.” This conclusion, and the mathematics that supported it, won Born a belated Nobel Prize for physics in 1954. In a nutshell, Born showed that the size of the wave at any location predicts the likelihood of the electron being found there. This means that a single electron could be a “jumble of possibilities.” This implied that the universe and everything in it is some sort of cosmic “game of chance,” to which Einstein protested that “God does not play dice” and to which Bohr said, “Stop telling God what to do.” Today all scientists agree that Einstein was wrong and that “God” does indeed play dice or, to use the quantum physics jargon, that the subatomic particles from which all physical matter is made behave probabilistically. Yet in a minipoll conducted in 2011 by physicist Maximilian Schlosshauer of the University of Portland, the results showed that there is still no consensus among scientists and philosophers on what quantum physics is. In fact, there was a striking disagreement among them.58

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