{"id":457,"date":"2016-01-07T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/?p=457"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:41:53","slug":"the-illusion-of-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/2016\/01\/07\/the-illusion-of-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illusion of Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If we look at something, it appears physical, made out of some stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The stuff of course is made of molecules, combination of atoms which bind together by exchanging electrons or by electrostatic forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The atoms, made of electrons, protons, and neutrons.\u00a0 There are fundamental particles, the electrons, and composite particles, protons and neutrons, which are made up of quarks, conservative particles that are never seen naked and free.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These particles, if we try to observe them closely we find that we can not determine both their exact velocity and location simultaneously.\u00a0 This is because particles have a dual nature, they also have a wave-like nature and it is that wave-like nature that makes it impossible to determine exactly where a particle is and know it’s velocity simultaneously.\u00a0\u00a0 We can only get probabilities of where it is likely to be, the wave seems to be a sort of probability wave.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And that wave isn’t really physical stuff, it’s a perturbation in some sort of field.\u00a0 And what exactly is a field?\u00a0 Well, it seems to involve some kind of force but no actual substance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So here we are, the substance of our being really quite an illusion, or at least our physicality in the way we normally think of it.\u00a0 Instead we’re some kind of complex waves in a number of fields, that somehow is able to think, comprehend, even create.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Personally, I think we are all just God thought, and if God stops thinking about us, forgets us, we cease to exist.\u00a0 Fortunately, God doesn’t suffer from ADHD or we’d all be toast.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If we look at something, it appears physical, made out of some stuff. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The stuff of course is made of molecules, combination of atoms which bind together by exchanging electrons or by electrostatic forces. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The atoms, made of electrons, protons, and neutrons.\u00a0 There are fundamental particles, the electrons, and composite particles, protons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}