65 Years of Priestly Life. The history of a Journey 28 “Quantum facts forced physicists to admit that the world almost certainly rests on some bizarre deep reality.” Everything in the world is pure quantum reality a physical union of particles and waves. The particle aspect of gravity is called ‘graviton’. The particle aspect of light is called ‘photon’. The particle aspect of the strong nuclear aspect is called ‘gluon’. No term exists for a generic quantum object and Nick Herbert proposed the term “quon”, any entity that exists that exhibits both wave and particle aspect in the peculiar quantum manner. “All solutions to the measurement problem that the physicists have so far come up with, either lead to bizarre realities and/or sanctify some aspects of the measurement act. There is something philosophically fishy about a measurement-centred cosmos. How the world appears to us must certainly depend on how we measure it, but it’s absurd to believe that how the world actually is, is determined by human observational capacities. Measurements are happening …but they are the least of the happenings that go on in the world. It demeans physics, not to mention the world, to shackle physics with its own instrumental tools through any linguistic implication that measurement is all that happens in the world. It is instructive to know what scientists measured and the theories they come up with; however, that’s not reality. The reality, as far as we know today, is that everything in the world is quantum reality. That does not change our daily routine. The application of the quantum physics, however, has revolutionised our daily life. We now live in the era of digitalization. TV sets and other gadgets needed to be changed with the new ones. Nick Herbert ends his book with the following passage. Religions assure us that we are all brothers and sisters, children of the same deity; biologists say that we are entwined with all life-forms on this planet: our fortunes rise and fall with theirs. Now, physicists have discovered that the very atoms of our bodies are woven out of a superluminal fabric. Not merely in physics are humans out of touch with reality; we ignore these connections at our peril. Albert Einstein, a seeker after reality all his life, had this to say concerning the illusion of separateness. “A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’: a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our persona desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but the striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and foundation for inner security.” I am not a physicist, my field is phenomenology of religion, specialized on primal religions - gatherers, digging stick cultivators and shepherds, but that specialization led me to apply reason to deepen my faith and the study of the Big Bang and Evolution are steps in that direction. Lately in my journey of faith I added quantum physics. My relationship with the Eternal Love and with the incarnation of that Love in Jesus has been deepened. Maybe, my brand of faith might shock some believers but it might be more understandable to the younger generations who went through the new type of education which is not based on learning by heart but on asking questions, on challenging traditions. My relationship with the Eternal Love and with the incarnation of that Love in Jesus has been deepened.
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