week two

Uncertainty; looking at life from a physics perspective only sure things are death and taxes so the uncertainty principle plays out all around us. Insurance companies want to give us security for our lives and our health. We can also buy (guarantee) it for our pets for a small fee. Retirement funds offer us rock solid futures. Although not a bad idea to save for old age, we have no idea what is around the next corner. Take for example in early March I'm walking the dog with plans to meet a friend later in the day for a movie. Boom, next things I know I have slipped on black ice that was covered by a thin blanket of snow and find myself heading to the emergency room and subsequent surgery to repair a badly broken wrist. That event wasn't on my calendar. So it shows that what we think is going to happen and what actually transpires can be eons apart.

Causality: Wikipeda defines causality or causation as having necessary relationship between one event (the cause) and another event (the effect) as the consequence. Okay seems pretty straight forward - but then the plot thickens - enter quantum entanglement. This explains that particles have an influence on each other so that what appears to be causing an event from one perspective - changes when viewed differently so that the view doesn't occur until after the effect has been caused. This whole theory holds lots of contraversy similar to the Bohr-Einstein debates. So it is that scientist postulate a theory and others try to prove it wrong until repeated experiments hold that something has relevance. Going deeper then is the idea of locality that says no influence is able to travel faster than the speed of light. So that any disturbance of the locality principle then causes vibrations in the normal assumption that cause must precede its' effect. Einstein refers to this as "spooky action at a distance" because there is no known way for such an interaction to occur. Whew. That's a lot to absorb - but then hold on because next comes synchronicity. More about that later.

Is the universe weird? My stars it is amazing. There's more that we don't understand than what we do understand. Typically, society says weird when they don't have a way of understanding, or don't want to, and just label something in the catagory of far out, no explanation available, etc. With each discovery of the patterns that are all around us (orbiting our nucleus) it is an awesome wonder of how could this be and where did it come from.