Uncertain Sciences

Uncertain Science & Physics

This Sentience Thesis proposes the consciousness is comprised of unique sub-atomic matter.  The consciousness captures and accrues that matter (electrons) from the physical senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing, etc.  The sensory content is supplemented with cognitive activity – deliberations, ideas, and choices, made while on earth.  The matter acquired from both sources sum to constitute the consciousness or soul.  The Thesis additionally asserts the content of the soul predicates a person’s eligibility for, and ability to survive, the eternal environment termed the afterlife.  The process of accruing matter is persistent and uninterrupted.  Each conscious and unconscious action and thought in life adds to the souls’ content.  It’s a remarkable process.

A variety of academic and secular disciplines were investigated to compose and validate the Sentience Thesis.  There are portions that require a thinking cap.  Be prepared.  I had to dumb some topics and concepts down to the lowest common denominator.  Frankly, I was initially unable to understand some postulates and hypothesis.  Reading… and re-reading… and re-re-reading… (Occasionally more times) was a process to which I grew accustomed.  Once the concepts and basics of quantum are understood, the principles and many details unravel.  Quantum physics is a marvelous study.  It tasks the brain and delves into the essence of matter and life on the smallest (known) scale.  Nothing exists without atoms and quarks - no matter, no energy, nothing.

Like most every discipline, or human endeavor, there are differences of opinion and divergent interpretations in quantum physics.  Some of the unresolved conflicts in quantum are strident and remarkable.  The disputed areas form fundamental and unavoidable concepts for physics and the Thesis.  They define “accepted and acceptable” properties and values associated with variables used in the equations that constitute essential principles of quantum physics.  Several critical assumptions in quantum were thus formed.  They are indispensable to the discipline.  Unbelievably, these differences remain unresolved one hundred years hence. 

“God does not roll dice.” was Einstein’s remark when one of the first “equation only” quantum assumptions arose - The Copenhagen Effect… The Uncertainty Principle.  Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg postulated the interpretation in 1927.  The Copenhagen Effect, or Uncertainty Principle, is an implicit quantum assumption.  It is central to comprehending quantum from a conditional, “ideological” view and it’s a doozey.  This assumption allows science to have reality both ways.  Incorporating uncertainty as reference standard assured absolutes are optional.  Absolutes required for other branches of science are conditional variables in quantum studies by design. 

  One component of the atom, the electron, is the focus of the Uncertainty Principle and the Thesis.  The electron is a curious and confounding sub-atomic component.  Words become very important here.  Component is used because science lacks the ability to determine if the electron is a wave, or a particle, or something else. 

Examining the atom is helpful to coordinate terminology.  The above image of the smallest atom, hydrogen, (above) reveals it contains one electron and one proton. The static image resembles a solar system – but it is crucial to know the electron is always in motion at light speed and it never stops.  In the image, the proton is larger.  It is the “sun” object for this purpose – and it is fixed.  The electron is the planet object orbiting the sun/proton.  It moves at the speed of light (maybe faster).  The image is almost correct.  But as you read above, the precise location of the electron has never been determined – not once.  Electrons, accordingly, remain an uncertain area of study and that is troublesome for several reasons.  When science began examining the generic atom, the electron’s location could not be determined – absolutely, precisely.  The size and relative location of each sub-atomic component is essential to comprehending the operations of each constituent part within the atom. 

To better comprehend the relationships within an atom, let’s enlarge our atom to the size of Yankee stadium. Enlarged, the proton is the size of a baseball on the pitcher’s mound/middle of the stadium.  The electron becomes the size of a BB – the ammunition used in a Red Rider rifle from the Christmas Story movie.  The electron is located at the bleacher farthest away from the pitcher’s mound in center field.  This enlarged example reveals the approximated size of the components and the distance between them. 

What appears a substantial empty space between the components of the atom may, or may not, actually exist.  Incredibly small objects moving at light speed in a correspondingly small environment, an environment where the objects are theorized to change states, and into other components, and, where the energy present influences the internal domain of the individual atom and the atoms with which they covalently congregate to form other matter and elements, is admittedly an extremely difficult task.   Physicists and scientists “discover” new components of sub-atomic matter – quarks with improved technologies and enhanced methods.  The potential for matter smaller than the sub-atomic components studied additionally exists.  What is known and accepted as fact is a temporary state.  New technologies regularly reveal new information, new facts; that are replaced once better technology and investigation methods enables that advance.  Conjecture and theory are established using the most current information that is believed substantiated and verified. 

When you touch a solid object, you actually make contact with the extremely small electron orbiting around the proton - at light speed.  What the human senses detect as solid matter is presumed a tiny object orbiting a proportionally vast empty space.  Our fingers do not sense movement because of the small size and speed of the electrons in the matter touched and within the finger.  The defects of human anatomy and biology delay transmitting the sensation instantaneously.  Detection of an object that small is not possible, owed to the imprecise qualities of the human body – fingertip.   The diameter of the hydrogen atom is calculated as approximately one million times smaller than the human hair. The diameter ranges from about 0.1 to 0.5 nanometers (1 × 10-10 m to 5 × 10-10 m).  The electron’s small orbit at light speed makes locating the electron, using the technology currently available impossible.  Science may eventually develop technology to locate the electron.  But science and physicists refused to wait.

When science realized they lacked the technology and ability to conclusively determine the precise location of the electron – they faced a choice. Admit they couldn’t do it, or, develop math expressions to approximate a guess on the electron’s location.  Science formed the equation - hence the Uncertainty Principle.  This principle uses calculated guesswork to offer several “potential” electron locations.  This choice infuriated some scientists and physicists.  They objected.  They demanded quantum adhere to the same restrictions imposed on every other discipline.  Obviously, their objections were noted, but not applied.  The Uncertainty Principle was incorporated, codified, and in conjunction with other math expressions, pressed the study of quantum forward.  Each subsequent guess on the electron further clouds reality and the actual information sought, and needed, to explore accurately… responsibly…  within the limits of the Scientific Method and basic philosophical truths.  What approximations miss (the errors present and created) stand to be significant.  The information lost and errors compound each time the calculation is used and a new equation is layered upon the previous equation(s).  In lieu of tangible, precise information, the exact properties of an electron cannot be determined by approximation.  Truth is masked.  A generic, utilitarian, approximated value makes due. 

The known and accepted properties and behaviors of the electron – as might be expected – are bizarre, maddening, and occasionally impossible – compared to classic physics and other tangible and accepted laws of science.  The electron’s uncertainty tortures “conventional” logic and rationality. 

Science wanted to discover legitimate evidence regarding the electron/photon and devised an experiment to collect the evidence – the Dual Slit.  This experiment exposed the disturbing and confounding properties of the electron and the “Uncertain” reality that partially defines it.  The Dual Slit experiment was one of the earliest quantum investigations designed. The outcome of the Dual Slit experiment must have blown the physicist’s minds – and frustrated their objectives.  The outcome has not changed since the first attempt.  When analyzed – the results continue to challenge rational evaluations and expectations.  It also redefines our perceived physical and metaphysical realities – depending upon your perspective.  The results display God’s remarkable ability to confound man and science in plain sight.  The answers are present.  At least one is glaring and obvious.  It is science’s prejudiced standards of evaluation that compromise and confounds their efforts.

The design of the Dual Slit experiment involves shooting a stream of electrons/photons through two barriers placed a few inches away from the device emitting the electrons.  The barriers and capture plate are staggered – each a few inches apart moving away from the electron “gun”.  The first barrier has one vertical slit.  A second barrier sits behind the first and contains two vertical slits.  The electron/photons passing thru the slits in both barriers impacts a capture plate where the electron locations are recorded, verified, and analyzed.

Any stream of electrons/photons used in the Dual Slit experiment are (assumed) waves of matter as they leave the gun.  This description of electrons is what science initially thought.  The results of the Dual Slit experiment recalibrated and re-defied what science thought.  The pattern the electrons/photons produced on the capture plate (in a rational world) should resemble the light waves shot through the double slits.  That did not happen.  Unexpectedly, dots, particles of matter (not waves) accumulated into groups that formed columns on the capture plate.  The far right portion of the image below shows how the particles arranged.  The electrons were presumed in waveform when released from the gun - based upon previous behaviors observed.  Defying expectations and rationality, when the capture plate was examined the anticipated collection of waves had changed, and became a collection of particles that formed an amazing pattern.

 

There are only two slits on the second barrier plate.   How these particles arranged themselves into columns of particles remains unknown to this day.  Amazingly, if a wider capture screen is used, there are more groups of rows.  It appears the waves/particles organize themselves into ordered groups.  The electrons also form a “graduated” image like shading.  The electrons gather into what may be compared to vertical cylinders in repeating gradations of intensity.  Columns of intense, compacted particles gradually fade to very few particles, then back to intense columns of particles - repeatedly. 

The capture screen is flat – essentially two-dimensional.  Nothing in the configuration of the capture plate contributes to the pattern produced; that science can determine. 

The act of experimentation - capturing physical evidence of the electron/photon using specific conditions, defied rational expectations.  Particles, not waves were produced.  The environment created by the conducting experiment, can be inferred to influence or determine the components quantum state!  The experiment, potentially, reveals the electron can exist in either wave or particle state, or perhaps some other state (currently unknown) contingent upon specific environmental conditions.  Is it plausible the act of experimentation, an observer examining the component – trying to detect or capture the component, influenced, or predicated, the state the component adopted, and, when the state was adopted.  The cause and effect dynamics attributed to the component’s alternative state expands the potential rational explanations available.  Implying the electron/photon chose its state contingent upon the actions of the observer is rational.  Sentience is rational, potential condition, or quality, of the component.  The first observation of sentience - defined by the component reacting to the environment is feasible.  The second observation implies the sentience present inspired a response, or reaction “learned” from its predecessors.  Assuming a divine context and contribution, the sentience proposed aligns with phenomenon, explains causality, and supports the premise for a comprehensive, intelligent design; a divine design - God. Science ignoring the potential sentience ostensibly eliminates the possibility of a divine presence and influence.

More strange behaviors were noted as the study of electrons/photons expanded.  The sentience potential increases as the number of other inexplicable properties and behaviors of the electron/photon accumulate.  (Religion should embrace the results of this experiment and demand the most obvious potential explanation be considered.) 

A review of the amazing and unpredictable properties and behaviors observed in the electron/photon includes:

The electron/photon is a sub-atomic component

The electron/photon move at light speed

The electron/photon is conditionally both a wave AND a particle.

The component can occupy the different states and locations - simultaneously. 

The components, when entangled, can share “information” faster than light speed across vast distances. 

Electricity is the flow of electrons.  Electrical energy present in a body is recognized by medicine and science as evidence of life.  The presence of life is determined using an electro-encephalogram, EEG.  The EEG detects and measures electricity in the brain.   An absence of this energy indicates no life - death. 

The photon/electron’s known, and potential behaviors, are why this study is termed Sentient.  The results arising from the Dual-Slit experiment indicates the electron/photon potentially changes its state based upon the conditions in the environment the experiment, and observation, create.  Rational analysis of the information produced by the experiment’s several outcome(s) must include the observed phenomenon that indicates potential sentience: “to sense”. 

When science conducted the double slit experiment and encountered this inexplicable reality that defies classic physics (and common sense) they faced a significant quandary.  All the baffling behaviors needed explaining.  At the time of the first Dual Slit experiment, science only had classic physics for reference and basic analog tools to enhance their investigations.  Science couldn’t entirely explain the phenomena with the tools and information possessed.  New interpretations, and conclusions, and postulates, were created trying to explain what the Dual Slit experiment revealed – from a secular perspective… poorly.  The analysis and resulting interpretations did not locate a documented opinion that considered the potential for electron/photon sentience, nor did science conclude the potential of an undetected dimension present within the boundaries of the electron shell, or BOTH!

The explanation chosen by science served one concern well.  Science chose expedience.  Exploring the quantum realm using Uncertainty preserved their authority as the holders and givers of truth and fact.  Science refused to admit not enough information was known to form a credible and legitimate conclusion that explained the electrons behaviors in the Dual Slit – based upon traditional standards.  Conflicts arose between physicists and other disciplines of physics and science.  Quantum physics was a relatively new field of research.  Professional opportunities awaited those who could provide explanations for very small pieces of matter.  With few, or no comparative benchmarks established, and fewer experts able to comprehend the mathematical expressions used to validate, or disprove, the assertions made; complex equations and calibrated conjecture sufficed.

Not every physicist or scientist was content with the “uncertain” conclusions drawn.  Albert Einstein was one of several who rebuked the uncertainty findings.  Another was physicist Edwin Schrodinger.  Uncertainty, the Copenhagen Effect, moved Schrodinger to posit the Cat Paradox: 

A cat is placed inside a box with a deadly compound, that, if released, will kill the cat.  When a person opens the box to examine the cat, the act may trigger the deadly compound.  The cat will be alive, or dead – depending upon WHEN, (or, as learned from photon behaviors: “WHERE and potentially HOW”) a person opens the box to investigate the cat. 

The Copenhagen Effect permits mischief and introduces chance for causality.  Chance in mathematical calculations requires special operators.  Schrodinger, a young physicist seeking fame and fortune, complied and delivered - Ψ.  Other physicists added their own operators when conventional math failed to deliver, or was unable to design, the desired results.  Predictably, Schrodinger grew unhappy with the direction of quantum physics; the absence of verifiable and tangible evidence and controls among other concerns.  Erwin Schrodinger was an immense intellect who provided the discipline a formula and math operator to quantify chance, or change, overtime.  Schrodinger’s amazing work is evidence of his considerable mind.  He made profound statements that detail his dissatisfaction with the indeterminate structure of quantum physics that “evolved” within the discipline.

“I don’t like it (quantum mechanics) and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.”

“The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”

"God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is."

Science continued trying to clarify the indeterminate, uncertain, state of the electron.  Niels Bohr calculated matrices of potential locations for electrons orbiting a nucleus in his work with Heisenberg – noted above.  Another physicist, Max Born, clarified Bohr’s analysis and suggested the electron/photon reside in a perpetual state of uncertainty.  Born’s Probability Density postulate suggests electrons/photons follow a predictable path, even if their location cannot be absolutely determined.  These behaviors form a “cloud” of probability density – see image below. 

The cloud metaphor is accurate.  It helps to visualize how the electron path creates the appearance and sensation of solid matter - when touched by a human hand or utilized.  Remember, though, the atom is presumed mostly empty space.  All matter on earth is comprised of atoms.  Concordantly, all matter is presumed mostly empty space.  Your body is no different.  Electrons whirling about at light speed in your finger tip make contact with moving electrons in any object touched and your brain comprehends a solid surface, or another state of matter.  Some matter, like a rock, is rigid and durable.  Other matter is fluid or gaseous.  Another stat is plasma.  Regardless of the state, all matter contains electrons spinning in an uncertain, indeterminate, orbit around various protons at light speed.  The number of protons, neutrons, and electrons determine the type, and weight of matter.  The more numerous the assemblies, the heavier it becomes.

Born’s postulate is significant because it implies “whole” electron particles are witnessed when the investigation of the experiment’s results is conducted. This contradicted Bohr’s conclusion that implied partial states, portions of electrons, are witnessed.  Both conclude the electron’s state is predicated on external investigation!  When acts of experimentation and examination seek to detect the electron, it changes its state in reaction to the investigation.   Science would term the most obvious explanation for the phenomena Super Natural.

The primary objective of the Sentience Theory is defining the human soul, or consciousness.  The soul consists of electrons/photons.  These objects of matter are essential and necessary for life - both human and animal.  Man enlarges his soul throughout a lifetime by accruing sensory experiences and conscious effort.  Combined with the behaviors acted out over a lifetime, man accrues and prepares his soul.  Per Einstein’s theory: Mass/Matter = Energy.  Further, classic science contends matter cannot be created nor destroyed.  This contention assumes all the matter in the universe was always present - a static assumption.  Additionally, the contention asserts matter cannot be destroyed or removed from the physical universe. 

The matter comprising a human consciousness, or soul, exits the body at death, or becomes undetectable.  Religion contends – the soul departs the body for an unknown location.  At future predetermined time, God interprets the content of the soul and judges the individual.  God then places the soul in an environment, and perhaps another vessel/body, where the individual continues on their eternal journey.  The consciousness, or soul, continues acquiring more data, information, expanding their intellect throughout eternity. 

 Relevant information arising from the study suggests the electron/photon is a unique component of an atom that contains and displays properties that are currently incomprehensible - due to technological limitations and the scale of the environment studied.  The Thesis asserts the electron/photon that provides life is an undetermined and unrecognized sub-atomic component.  The component exhibits sentience - a predictable response to external stimuli.  Evidence further suggests the electrons defy rational expectation and traditional classification.  An interpretation the electrons/photons are not universal, homogenous, sub-atomic components is cogent and stable -based upon evaluating the phenomena observed and available evidence. 

The uncertainty within the discipline of quantum mechanics suggests once investigation passes inside the atom shell (the orbit of the electron around the nucleus) many of the accepted laws that define classic physics change.  One component of the atom, the electron/photon, also displays characteristics that appear to defy classic views on reality and life - as we know it.  If conceptual reality, the reality bound to the laws defined as “classic (Newtonian) physics” - changes inside the atomic shell - the atom, the universe, the mysteries of God, our souls, and the continuity of the physical world - correspondingly changes.  If true, this infers the physical laws embraced by mankind and used in assessing the universe are not yet comprehensively understood.  A duality may exist in the reality recognized due to the limitations resident in perception.  Potentially, a different dimension, or the physical laws that order the sub-atomic domain, exists inside the boundaries of the electron shell!  Both conditions, new dimension and alternative rules are potentially accurate.   If the conditions predicated by the premise are valid, all the matter in the known universe is subject to, and influenced by, at least two sets of laws, and, life is far more complicated than currently assessed and presumed.  The Miller-Urey experiment and postulate infers and substantiates this conclusion.