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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin

randomness of quantum physics is fundamentally different from the randomness of classical systems

 

 

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Editor's note:

Dr. Frederico Faggin is one of the heavyweight scientist-inventors of the 20th century. In 1971 he developed the first silicon chip, the microprocessor at the heart of all electronic devices today. He also produced the new touch-sceen technology.

Currently, he is writing, lecturing, and advocating what he feels to be an even more fundamental revolution in science - that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all reality.

 

 

randomness of quantum physics is fundamentally different from the randomness of classical systems

Irreducible, pg. 62:

Classical randomness corresponds to the lack of knowledge of what could be known by solving the deterministic equations of classical physics; quantum randomness is instead non-algorithmic because it is indetermined prior to the measurement that creates it.

For example, the exact position of an artificial satellite at a specific time two days from now can be known in a few minutes because it can be calculated… The value of a spin of an electron (“up” or “down”) two seconds from now, however, cannot be known before the measurement because there is no law or algorithm that can determine it.

In other words, the randomness of quantum physics does not correspond to the ignorance of a reality that is knowable, but to a reality that has not yet been created, and therefore is unknowable in principle.

 

 

Editor's last word:

Also see youtube interviews of Dr. Faggin, for example, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Q_W6H_nZk 

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5REKKkKZpY

wherein Dr. Faggin makes comments, such as, "The structure of matter is isomorphic [“equal form”] to the cognitive structure of consciousness, which can reflect itself [in matter]"; our "bodies reflect the accumulated learning of consciousness; matter is the ink with which consciousness writes its own self-knowing."