Just finished another book that was supposed to be a simple explanation of quantum mechanics. All I can say is that if it’s simple, then I’m really in trouble. But, From what I gather...
Everything is energy, or something like that. Or, more precisely, “particles” (or fields) that have energy. And what exactly is a particle? (This is where all the honest scientists just shrug their shoulders and leave the room in search of a good cup of coffee to share with all the other scientists who don’t honestly even know what gravity is.)
This is what I take from my readings in science: Everything is held together by energy. Quantized, wave packets of electrons, neutrons, protons, nucleons, photons, phonons, blah blah blah, in relationships that manage to pull together and make something of themselves.
Opposites really do attract.
These things pull together to make up molecules, which pull together to make up stuff, including people, who try to pull it all together to make something of themselves.
Things are made up of smaller things that are made up of even smaller things, until you get so small that no one can imagine or think of those things being made up of smaller things. We just call them “particles” (or you could make up your own word, who's to stop you) and hope for the best. What’s a scientist to do?
Well, there you go. Life is energy.
So why don’t I have any?
Psalm 139:14
Peace to you.
© LW Publishing 2010
heres something else amusing: at the atomic level we are empty. Atoms that make up particles and molecules and such are empty space mostly. So we are made of empty space that somehow forms solid objects. :)
ReplyDeleteYes. I've always known that about my brain, but it's apparently true about everything.
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