Some philosophical thoughts

Before I start I want to state that I dont know enough about quantum mechanics for everything I write here to be accurate and what I do write are just thoughts that I have that I wish to share, I could be totally wrong but you cant always be right.


Last night before sleeping I was watching what the beep do we know it's a very skeptical film about quantum mechanics and the reality of our existance.  In the film it suggests that we should be able to be in more than one place at once, this is a awesome idea I can think of many times when I've wanted to be in more than one place at once.  This idea is based on a theory in quantum mechanics which states that any particle (this is a general term and I'm applying it loosly so it can mean quarks or actual particles) has the probablilty to be in a number of states at a certain time and that in fact the particle exists in all these probabilities until it is observed.  So we should be able to exist in all our probability states and then choose which one to experience.  It's quite a crazy thing to think and it's quite strange that quantum mechanics, an area of physics, can explain our reason for existance, 'god' and everything else that goes on around us.

I've always disliked quantum mechanics, being a recent graduate of physics it was on of the modules I hated.  It's just not natural and it makes alot of assumptions which means that they've gone well it kinda does this there's no proof of it but if we assume it to be always true then we can come up with this theory.......I know it doesn't sound like the most convincing way to make a theory, but I have never tried to delve that deep into physics so as to derrive principle conditions and come up with new solutions to the world around me.  I am so impressed as to how much we have learnt so far.

But what I'm concerned with and this is what the film made me think about.  What if what we see is just how we want to see it, as in we in our brains produce the materialistic world around us and that in actuality we dont see what really exists but what we want to exist.  Bah it hurts my head to think about it, it really is one of those things where the more you question it the less you know and the more confusing everything becomes.  I choose to do physics because I like to understand the world around me, but now that I have graduated I just feel I know alot less about everything.  

Really it all comes down to the ultimate questions like why do we exist, where did we come from, what is the point in our existance and so on.  Though I do feel that physics is getting closer, but then we have thought we've been getting closer for hundereds of years and we are still no where near the end.

If quantum is right and we are able to be in many places at once and the rest at the position we want to exist at then I am gutted that I wont live through that age where our brain has adapted to see this way.  I dont think that we can ever know until we change to be better at seeing what is really around us and by then the experiences that occur will be so different from what we know now that they will never understand us and we will never understand them.  

That's alot of deep thinking for this time in the morning and I've been up since 6am :( I think I'm going to have a nap