Tuesday, October 8

General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics


General Relativity 
is the basic idea is that instead of being an invisible force that attracts objects to one another, gravity is a curving or warping of space. The more massive an object, the more it warps the space around it.


Quantum mechanics is the study of how matter and light behave at the atomic and subatomic level. It explains how particles can have both wave-like and particle-like characteristics, and how they interact with each other and with electromagnetic radiation.


Many scientists are trying to combine both these concepts to create what they call A THEORY OF EVERYTHING...

If physics controls the large universe and the small universe as well, it can be logically concluded that physics controls them both simultaneously so that they are interdependent upon each other.

It makes a little bit of sense to the non-scientific layman until one looks off into the horizon and sees a clear delineation between the sky and the ground.

By looking at this horizon one can clearly see a line between the two, indicating what is on top and what is on the bottom.  In so doing, one can also see that the sky operates the way the sky does, and the land operates the way the land does, even though the two entities can and often do, influence each other.

Where there is lots of gravity, time moves slower so one might conclude that space seeks out gravity.  Whereas in the quantum world of sub-atomic particles there is electromagnetism which causes an acceleration in these particles as they move closer together, increasing the passing of time in order that atoms and molecules are combined faster.

This horizon line can also be detected when we see solid objects in front of us, but not so much as we feel wind pass by.

Perhaps it is a similar force (seen or unseen) that pulls the quantum world into the general relativity world in which we are currently living, balanced in some kind of suspended animation while we brief exist in spacetime. 

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