Monday, September 04, 2006

Classy?

I m just more CLASSY than I am QUANTA!
Why is that I search for truth in the Classical concepts when the Quantum concepts answer questions which the other cant explain? Why do I sense more beauty in Classical behaviour of systems?

"Henry Stapp (1995) argues that "classical mechanics is not constitutionally suited to accommodate consciousness, whereas quantum mechanics is" (abstract). This, he asserts, is because of "certain logical deficiencies" that are not present in quantum mechanics (1.3). The ground advanced for this claim is that classical mechanics holds that a "physical system is to be conceived of as fundamentally a conglomerate of simple microscopic elements each of which interacts only with its immediate neighbors" (2.12). In particular, a classical description of a system will include a description of field values at points in the system, but these descriptions record only what is going on at each of the points, and not features of the system as a whole."

okay, I dont know who Henry Stapp is, just happened to stumble upon this article..

Well.. "physical system is to be conceived of as fundamentally a conglomerate of simple microscopic elements each of which interacts only with its immediate neighbors".. hmmn.. but then its done to simplify the behavior of that particular system and arrive at solutions.. Seeing the whole picture [which is non-classy] is very very difficult if you are close to the picture.. Cuz then the picture becomes too large n complicated..


Its practically very difficult to appreciate the Quantum beauty.. maybe because, my intution is better than my mathematics.. And the mind happens to favor the intution!
Should really do something about it..
cuz..
I m just more CLASSY than I am QUANTA!

--Shruti

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