Particles and Waves

What is the difference between a particle and a wave?
Particles have identity. You can name a particle. It is like a person having a cristian name. Say there are identical twins, but each will have a different name, we treat each as a seprate person. You see the difference of a particle and a wave, only when you try to observe it. When you observer a particle you observe it all the way. When it moves you watch it's path continously. The wave you can't do it. In a wave you see the starting point and end point only. You can name a particle, since you observe it all the way in it's movement you know that it is the same thing that moves. What you had in position A is the same when it moves to position B. We watch it all the way. It is causal or localised not logical. But when a photon moves we cannot watch it all the way. We use logic to identify it as the same photon imited. We do it logically. We prevent any other photon to enter in to that space. Then we know what arrived is the one that was emited. It is like sending a ball in a opaque tube. We see the ball entering the tube, then we see the ball coming out of the tube. How do we know it is the same ball? logically. It is not causal. We know no other ball entered, so we know what came out is the same ball that entered the tube.

Understand this and it will solve lot of current problems in physics. The observer effect, "the moon is shining even when we don't look at it" - Einstein. Seeing the moon is logical. Seeing a table in front of me is causal. I touch the table on top of seeing it and get the feeling that it is real and not an illusion.

Human Brain and Quantum Theory

Lot of philosophers have said that God is the super mind. Each human being have a mind. All these minds are different. And at the same time all these minds have lot of similarities. If we create the super mind with all the good qualities of all of humans we get a super mind - this is one of the interpretation of God.

This human super mind has to be different that of a lion or any other animal. Lions vision is catered to find a pray. This shows that the makeup of a lions brain is very different of humans. The male lion kills the cubs not sired by him, then the mother of the cubs willingly cohabit with it's cub killer. This behavior is nonexistent in humans. So configuration of brains of lions and humans are very different. God of lions will be different from God of humans.

The world is perceived by our brains. When we define the qualities and attributes of the world around us, we assume that we can do a good job doing it independent of our brains. This is a mistake. It is evident from the discoveries of quantum theory and connected subjects of physics.

For instance 1+1 = 2 or A and B is true if and only if A is true and B is true, these are eternal truths according to our brain. What if we are wrong! What if these are just constructs of our brains. suppose someone has a gut feeling that 1+1 is not 2. Then we say that he is a lunatic. We have a group of people who has a gut feeling that 1+1 = 2. These are the normal people, these are the scientists and so on.

These normal people cannot comprehend how two distant particles can be entangled in such a way when qualities of one is derived the distant other half derives the opposite. When it is observed entities behave like particles and when unobserved behaves like waves.

The classical theories that can be comprehended by our brains cannot explain these pronominal.

If at some stage we can come up with a theory that could explain these effects then we can put in our basket of understanding our environment, what is happening. Sometimes it may not be possible. At the time when people considered the earth is flat not a globe they could not comprehend certain phenomena. They could not in the beginning understand that world is a globe even after someone explained it. In this way gradually people started believing earth is a globe. Now if someone say it is flat he will be considered as a lunatic

Similarly try to explain the properties of a torus to a two dimensional creature. If the torus is vertical and cut by a horizontal plane we get only two circles. Suppose the torus is horizontal the the circles will be one inside the other. If the torus is slanted the circles will not have the same center. This is what a two dimensional creature will see. In no way you will be able to explain to this two dimensional creature, what a torus is. But there is a certain tool where it can be done. It is mathematics! Using a algebraic equation of a torus, a two dimensional creature will be able to know it's properties. In this way using mathematics we have come to know most of the intricate details of our surroundings. But we can never be able to know all the details. When a new theory in physics is formed we come to know certain details. But we miss a lot.

Human Brain and Space

Hither to unexplained phenomena, entanglement and wave particle duality, may have roots related not to some aspect of space but some aspect related to human brain.

These are observer related problems. Two far apart electrons having opposite spins but only realized at the time of measurement. When one particle is measured the spin of the entangled particle will be the opposite of the first measured result.

These are related to measurement or observation. measurement and observation is done by human observers. Their brains is the main tool used for these observations.

You can argue that, what if a computer does the observation, but even here the architect of the computer is a human.

Also there is an argument, if there is no human observer does the sun not rise? Therefore happenings of the universe should be independent of human observers. But in wave particle duality experiments when the experiment is designed to observe the photon the fringe pattern disappear and it acts like a particle.

The space exists independent of human observer, but, certain aspects of the space may be related to the observer. After all observation is poking the system. This effect of poking changes the system. Without poking there is no observation.

In classical physics the poking is assumed to be so minimal that the system is assumed to be the same. In reality this is not true. When the observation shifts to smaller and smaller levels, the effect of observer starts to affect the system that is being observed.

 We see space, we touch space, we live in space. So human brain interprets space. That is how we see, touch and live in space.

Current mathematics and physics may not give the whole picture of space. Mathematics and Physics are all human observer related.