The essence of the scientific method is that it is based on being able to repeat results. If you get the same results every time you do the same operation, and when anyone else who repeats it get the same result, you can safely conclude that you have a scientific explanation. But quantum mechanics says no, you have to assume everything happens with a probability but not with a 100% certainty. It's always statistical only. The two views are not compatible. Now that gives us a problem, because QM breaks science. Yet physicists tell us that QM is real. Basically they are implying we cannot trust science anymore. I realized this tonight when I realized that quantum connectivity might mean that sympathetic magic might have a real basis, but would be very hard to prove as it would be probabilistic in operation. Holy smoke. Might we want to rethink parts of old-time magic after all? Something to ponder.
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IMO quantum mechanics doesn't break science --- it may break a model of the universe.
Well, it may do both - but it certainly opposes the process of science, which depends on making conclusions about causality. If we cannot depend on cause and effect producing consistently reliable results, then we lack a means of reliable reasoning.
For example, with the two-slit experiment, it has been shown that we cannot predict exactly where a single photon goes. Therefore we cannot formulate a predictive equation, only a statistical one. But if we use only a statistical prediction, that result is not repeatable. This says we have to change the fundamental way we do science to include accepting different results each time we run an experiment. But that breaks ability to trust hard value predictions.
I don't view a photon a as a hard little ball.
I view it more like a boat and wake going through the water --- except the boat itself is a tangled wave.
When you "destroy" a particle ---- you just untangle the wave.
It's a wave packet with a spread, but the thing is, experiments with the two-slit mechanism provably show that while single photons end up at statistically random positions in the target plane, streams over time of single photons repeatably accumulate in wave patterns, and these patterns show that single photons pass through both slots and on the other side interfere with themselves.
In my old copy of Griffiths introductory book on QM, second edition figure 1-4 from a Hitachi CRL experiment clearly shows the single-photon behavior weirdness. The photons are not little hard balls, but they are single objects, where each object is a wave packet, which is a fuzzy little ball-ish thing.
Most of what goes into a computer is to control and regulate that statistical process aka raw energy.
If it werent for these quirks, we wouldnt have the technology that we do now.
Just because something is unpredictable by its very nature doesnt make it impossible to understand, just harder. It's neat how math can model pretty much everything by the way, thats why I say it really is a universal language.
Any technology built with this would certainly seem like magic to someone who didnt understand how it works. Im sure having a smart phone would have got you burned as a witch 400 years ago.
I also believe that at the end stage of evolution, like many others do, that you can control these processes with your mind, instead of having to use technology to do it. Humans are likely still billions of years away from this happening haha. The internet interestingly enough seems to be a rudimentary form of the ability to speak telepathically.
People are proably tired of me bring this up, but I cant look at a bubble chamber, where they smash particles together to break them apart and not think how there has to be some underlying structure on a scale so tiny we cant see it. As above, so below.
Does this disprove god? If anything it strengthens the case for him/her.