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2006-12-03 20:08:32 · 4 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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In the following excerpts taken from source, thinking on quantum and its related works to theology has been discussed. The idea quanta is a birthchild of this discussion. The full text can be had from the source:
Modern quantum theory is now over seventy years old, and many authors have considered its religious implications.8 Quantum physics, however, has not played a major role in serious theological reflection, and has not provoked anything like the religious debates which have surrounded biological evolution, the big bang, or genetic engineering.

The scope of quantum theory is not always appreciated. It involved first simply the idea of a discrete or "quantized" character for some phenomena. To deal with the thermodynamics of radiation, Planck in 1900 introduced the idea that electromagnetic radiation of frequency f could be emitted or absorbed only in "quanta" of energy hf, where Planck's constant h is very small on the scale of everyday phenomena. (h has dimensions of energy multiplied by time, or action.) Then Einstein suggested that light actually existed as such quanta or photons, though many well-known observations indicated that light was a wave phenomenon. Bohr applied Planck's constant to explain why atoms could exist only in certain states. And de Broglie's proposal, that wave-particle duality extended to all matter, was confirmed.
There is little debate about the correctness of quantum theoretical descriptions of phenomena which have been subjected to experimental test. The equations of the theory agree with observation. But when we seek a philosophical interpretation of the theory, arguments arise.
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2006-12-03 20:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by sarayu 7 · 0 1

Are you defining ideas in terms of Quanta? Quanta in Physical science means a packet of energy, or some quantity of an entity. An idea creates thoughts. Thoughts are power and can cause powerful actions. You can email me with details of what exactly you are hitting at.

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2006-12-03 20:23:41 · answer #2 · answered by Sandy 2 · 0 0

In 1957, a pupil named Hugh Everett pronounced that possibly the reason that a particle's effect won't have the ability to be estimated isn't by way of fact of randomness, yet by way of fact each a threat effect does ensue. this concept led to the "many-worlds interpretation" (MWI) which postulates that on the quantum point, each little thing which could take place does take place, and that each and each a threat effect branches the universe into yet another that's in the start same apart from the substitute effect. So the probably "random" effect is actual only representative of the only a threat effect one's present day universe occurs to be based upon. The overlapping universes, between which no innovations can bypass, might then proceed to enhance in my opinion, each and each of them branching for ever and ever as nicely. between physicists international, this "multiverse" concept has grow to be between the main extensively standard interpretations of quantum physics. In this way of way is the argument for Quantum Immortality made. some say that regardless of the reason of demise, if the various-worlds interpretation is real, then there'll continually be a minimum of one branch the place the "extraordinary survival" subject is located out, and that version of "you" will in no way die. of direction the possibilities are overwhelmingly against the possibility that any one in this universe is a perpetual extraordinary survivor. even with the undeniable fact that the entire concept is wildly speculative, quantum immortality violates no accepted rules of physics. Quoting Allen Bellows

2016-10-13 23:27:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

You are not allowed to move onto new vocabulary words before you understand the first bunch.

2006-12-03 21:12:50 · answer #4 · answered by -.- 4 · 0 1

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