Having recently been exposed to this, I have to ask-how legit is Quantum Physics?

Question

I've just been exposed to this idea(ideas really) and they seem to make a heck of a lot of sense as far as nature of reality, but I'd like to ask people who are more in the know about science than I would, what is your take on Quantum Physics and how it relates to the nature of reality(and to answer a potential question, it was watching the movie "What the Bleep do we know" that got me thinking about this subject.

Answer 1

We use technology based on quantum physics every day. From your computer processor to MRI machines, it's been very useful. However, we're not done formulating it completely - we know it works, but there are many different versions that are mostly completementary that produce the same results, and we still need to figure out how they fit together.

That said, "What the Bleep do we Know" is mostly crap. From the parts that I saw, I wouldn't trust that movie to explain anything about science. For instance, writing words on bottles of water and expecting it to change the taste is obviously nonsense. I'm shocked they tried to pass it off as science.

You might just want to open a physics book instead if you want to know more about QM - don't trust the movies.

Answer 2

Quantum physics has been around for a long long time. Bohr, Plank,Shrodigner and many of Einstein's contemporary and freinds debated and experimented on it. It is an awsome and facinating science, it is not easy to grasp because it is abstract and the hiden variables defies logic as we know it! Many progress has been made tough. I think the hissed variables Einstein talked about are hidden in another universe perhaps made of four dimentions of space where time would also be affected (angular time) so that an object could move in two directions at the same moment (like an electron...) Wich could be why in our 3d space we can only determine its position OR its momentum.

Answer 3

The legitimacy of quantum physics is demonstrated by the tool you are using to read this message. Modern micro processors would not be possible without an understanding of what happens with electrons and how they react at quantum scales. We are not yet at the point of full quantum computing but we are headed there.

Answer 4

I don't know. It all makes sense when you read about it. But somehow my reality hasn't changed at all. In fact, most of it sounds like a lack of a better answer than real answers in the physics world.