Saturday, December 13, 2008

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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