Quantum Mechanics

It's very hard for me to make an intelligent comment about quantum mechanics because I really don't understand it. I guess I'm not really supposed to understand it. Really, though, all I am able to comprehend is that it doesn't really make a lot of sense, and is not something that is easy to imagine in our known world. I don't know how to perform the math associated with electron energy levels and quantum mechanics. I'll try to find something interesting that is relevant, though... I searched quantum mechanics in google and was surprised to see the term as an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The entry looked more like a few pages out of a math or science textbook than a philosophic definition, though. The page involved vectors and many complex mathematical operations, all of which were well over my head. It is interesting to see quantum mechanics as a philosophy, because I guess it is something that isn't as solidly acceptable as other aspects of science or math. It definitely causes the mind to stretch.

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Wow... that was an awesome video! It sort of heightens the phobia I have of infinity... or just really, really large numbers or ideas. The entire thing was remarkable; it's hard for me to pick just one aspect of it to talk about. It was pretty interesting to see the statistics of China and India vs. the U.S... it shows that however populated our country may be, it doesn't even come close to the drastic overpopulation in other countries, those two in particular. The idea of the enormous amount of information that is constantly being gained and provided is also pretty crazy. (There are 5x more words today than there were 400 years ago? That's insane.) As for how this makes me think about my classes... I guess school really is a waste of time, isn't it? If half of the stuff we are learning is going to be wrong in 2 years, we really shouldn't even bother coming to school... ? That's probably not true. But the statistic is still pretty incredible. When you think about the world growing exponentially, it's pretty scary. When are the resources going to run out, and the population growth is too much for the world to handle? I don't want to think about it. Hopefully it's not for a while.