Does quantum physics give support to the idea that what we think is real is only illusion?

Answer 1

Quantum physics seriously challenges our comfortable ideas of what we think is reality, how everything has its time and place, and how it all seems so straightfowardly logical, until you study the results of certain experiments in quantum physics. The first reaction is always denial, the next is always, "there must be a simple, rational explanation", followed by, "the equations of quantum physics only expresses our ignorance of underlying processes". After a while, there's the depression and the resignation, something that even Albert Einstein himself had to endure. Many of the originators of quantum theory, including no less than Erwin Schrodinger himself, have expressed regret and disgust on how things have turned out. What may be illusionary, however, are our older concepts of what we take for reality, and what needs to be developed is a conceptual model that's consistent with the well established equations and findings of quantum theory. Check "Quantum Interpretations", a subject that's been discussed since the early days of quantum physics.

Answer 2

Not really, but that's what these disingenuous newagers (pronounce it as if the 'n' were an 's') want you to believe. Deepak Chopra is the worst at confusing people with his airy-fairy nonsense. No, Deepak, just anything doesn't happen - there are rules for how reality behaves. Some of them are strange, but none of them say "it's all illusion and we know nothing."

At our scale, we can detect quantum and relativistic effects with our instruments but we didn't evolve with any natural awareness of either. It's hard enough to grow organisms that can deal with a limited range of the stimuli that surround us. Because we don't experience radio waves directly, for example, does not mean we live in an "illusory" world - we live in *our* world, with enough awareness to survive.

And of course we only have experiences of these stimuli through the filter of our brains. What they "really" are is a somewhat absurd question, as they certainly produce different experiences in different creatures.

An example of quantum uncertainty is radioactive decay. We can say with astounding accuracy how long the half life of a particular isotope is, but we have no idea *which* individual particles will decay at any one time. However, the particles are so small and there are so many of them that taken statistically quantum effects are frequently anything but uncertain.

Answer 3

If what we think is only illusion than the concept of quantum physics (which humans thought up) must also be an illusion. Real is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 4

No.
Although you can find many pseudo-scientfic "proofs" denying any existence of "reality" whatsoever, which conveniently refer to Quantum Physics (especially Principle of Uncertainty and chaos theory being their pet) as their basis, if you really have some knowledge about these theories, you can immediately find the logical flaws in their 'reasoning'.
Don't believe them.
The subject is too vast to be explained here, but I am sure you can find loads of stuff online. Please do not fall prey to such misleading 'theories'.