Holographic Universe
In autumn of 1992, one of the world's greatest contemporary physicists passed away. David Bohm, whose work inspired many people all over the world, died in London. David Bohm's contributions to science and philosophy are profound, and they have yet to be fully recognized and integrated on the grand scale. David Bohm was born on December 20, 1917, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Bohm was fascinated by the dazzling concepts of cosmic forces and vast expanses of space that lie beyond our understanding.
Bohm began his theory with the troubling concern that the two pillars of modern physics, quantum mechanics and relativity theory, actually contradict each other. This contradiction is not just in minor details but is very fundamental, because quantum mechanics requires reality to be discontinuous, non-causal, and non-local, whereas relativity theory requires reality to be continuous, causal, and local. This discrepancy can be patched up in a few cases using mathematical "re-normalization" techniques, but this approach introduces an infinite number of arbitrary features into the theory that, Bohm points out, are reminiscent of the epicycles used to patch up the crumbling theory of Ptolmaic astronomy. Hence, contrary to widespread understanding even among scientists, the "new physics" is self-contradictory at its foundation and is far from being a finished new model of reality. Bohm was further troubled by the fact that many leading physicists did not pay sufficient attention to this discrepancy. Seeking a resolution of this dilemma, Bohm inquired into what the two contradictory theories of modern physics have in common. What he found was undivided wholeness. Bohm was therefore led to take wholeness very ...
... middle of paper ...
...uld speculate that all that we hold as real is nothing more than the playful dance of light, light that has no dimension and limitless dimension. The radical implications of Bohm's implicate order take some time to fully grasp, especially for Western minds, but whether Bohm's holographic paradigm becomes accepted in science or not remains to be seen. We must realize that any model is just that, a model. Anyone willing to make the appropriate observations can see for themselves whether any particular claim about the structure of the universe is true or not. No one has to take anybody's word for anything. No scientific claim can be conclusively confirmed, however, because there will always be a more comprehensive theory to follow it, and perhaps disprove it or encompass it. That is evolution of consciousness, and I suspect we will never reach the top of that climb.
During the crisis of modern science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the postulates of early scientific discoveries had been refuted. In one of science’s most defining moments, an undisturbed photon of light was found to exhibit both wave-like and particulate qualities. The relationship between these two qualities would later be termed complementarity by Niels Bohr, one of the scientists at the forefront of this discovery. As Thomas S. Kuhn notes in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, “Before [the theory of quantum mechanics] was developed by Plank, Einstein, and others early in [the twentieth] century, physics texts taught that light was transverse wave motion” (12). So staggering was this discovery that in his autobiography, Albert Einstein recounts, “All my attempts to adapt the theoretical foundations of physics [to the new quantum knowns] failed completely. It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere upon which one could have been built.” Not surprisingly, this arrest of the fundamental postulates of classical physics sparked a reevaluation of the “world view” by the ...
It seems, then, that the HUP is an accurate depiction of matter at the atomic and subatomic level. The consequences for causality are devastating as a result. It seems that we can never know the true nature of a system or the universe at large.
Even though modern scientists are able to produce many technologically new products from the application of the principles involved in quantum mechanics, they are still struggling to explain the phenomena in the form of an acceptable theory. The above question remains unanswered. It is the aim of this study to provide some reasonable arguments from the Islamic science perspective that at the end hopefully could lead to the answer to the questions.
...ually throughout the processes of the theory, certain words and definitions need to be decided on and kept. Confusion prevails when the terms and ways to understand the theory are continually changing.
... of the fuss about the validity of string theory and the difficulty in proving it, there are many promising implications and applications of string theory –– among the most interesting is the possibility of higher universes and worm hole travel. String theory is also very mathematically sound, which makes it very likely that at least parts of it are valid and true. Though the fundamental part of string theory is vastly different than anything else in physics, the behavior and nature of objects larger than strings stays the same and that is what makes string theory so unobtrusive and perhaps welcome in the physics community. Despite its acceptance, string theory should also be known as a radical idea that unifies the universe’s matter and forces, explains the big bang and higher universes, and finally completes the quest for unification that is so pursued in physics.
... function does not provide a complete description of the state of an individual system, however, "it is an explicit model allowing a unified description of microscopic and macroscopic objects". In addition, quantum science can be regarded primarily as a way of looking at the world as a whole rather than "as absolute true knowledge of how things are". This functional identity of the individual is a structure of information consistent with experimental findings. Bohm also believed in a continuous infinity of minds where "the nature of some wholes is not determined by that of their parts". Bohm concluded that "individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change".
Imagine a you are sitting next to a pond. Now imagine such as how the fish in that pond would view the world around them. Living their entire lives in the pond, the fish would believe that their “universe” consisted of the murky water and the lilies. Spending most of their time foraging on the bottom of the pond, they would be only dimly aware that an alien world could exist above the surface. The nature of that world would be beyond their comprehension.
In 1700's, one of the most brilliant minds of physics, mathematics and medicine was born. Daniel Bernoulli was born into the family of the leading mathematician Johann Bernoulli on February 8, 1700. Since the beginning, Daniel Bernoulli was surrounded by mathematics and great talent from his father and his brother—also his archenemy—Jacob Bernoulli. Albeit, one would think his father would have given him plenty of support for being a mathematician, he didn't. Johann Bernoulli forced his son to study medicine for he believed that being a mathematician brought no good fortune; nevertheless, Daniel Bernoulli beat all odds. After convincing his father to give him a few lessons in mathematics, he became one of the greatest physicists of the century; publishing many discoveries.
Informative Speech Scientists Einstein and Heisenberg A. Introduction My Speech is about the scientists who had the main influence on our current time and have shaped our contemporary view of the world (Also called in Theology the "Zeitgeist"). I have chosen two of them who are in many ways just opposites. One is extremely famous and the other is almost unknown, except to specialists. The most famous is, of course, Albert Einstein.
Digital technology has become the latest byword in entertainment and computers. Records and analog cassette tapes have been supplanted with Compact Discs, and now VCRs are being challenged by Digital Video Discs. Multimedia applications such as these consume enormous amounts of storage space, and are challenging the limits of today's storage devices. Many solutions are being put forth in an attempt to keep pace with the growth in demand for digital data storage. Some are evolutionary changes in existing media, which can incrementally increase speed and capacity, while others attempt to circumvent the limitations of present media by using new methods, and promise to leapfrog over conventional technology. Holographic data storage is one of these attempts at creating a new type of high density storage device. However, scientists have been trying to develop a holographic storage device for the past 30 years, when the idea was first proposed. There have been few commercial holographic storage devices released since then, but recent developments in the field and the inertia behind the search for solutions promise to eventually make holographic storage a commercially viable reality.
At the beginning of the 20th century Quantum Mechanics theory was established. It starts with the discovery of electromagnetic [EM] energy quantization by Max Plank (1900) [1] needed to explain black body radiation distribution as a function of frequency and temperature. He explained it by a model where resonators (latter identified as harmonic oscillators) can emit radiation only by quanta of energy. Later Bohr [2] found the Quantum Mechanical model for the Hydrogen atom, using Planck’s constant as a measure for angular momentum quantization. An important concept in his work was the correspondence principle. According to this principle the quantum mechanical results should coincide with classical calculation at large quantum numbers.
Stephen Hawking has been hailed as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Albert Einstein. Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, which as he likes to point out is the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. Hawking originally studied at Oxford University in England studying physics even though he would have preferred math. He moved onto Cambridge University to work on his PhD in cosmology. Hawking's career has focused upon the cosmic entities known as black holes, and has extended to specialized areas such as quantum gravity, particle physics, and supersymmetry.
ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the problem of understanding what mathematics contributes to the exceptional success of modern mathematical physics. I urge that we give up the Kantian construal of the division between mathematics (synthetic a priori) and physics (experimental), and that we ask instead how algebra helps synthetic a posteriori mathematics improve our ability to study the world. The theses suggested are: 1) Mathematical theories are about the empirical world, and are true or false just like other theories of empirical science. 2) The air of artificiality in mathematics lies exclusively in the use of algebraic method. 3) This method is constructive much like all fiction is, but this construction is for the purpose of experimental investigation of the physical world to the extent that anything in the world has objects like those in the fictional world of a particular algebra. 4) This is why algebraic techniques are successful even when the assumptions of the system are false: they may still be applicable to some things considered from some perspective. 5) The success of mathematical physics is also due to Descartes' discovery of a remarkable truth: we live in space and time which can be described as a whole. 6) Therefore, what distinguishes modern science from earlier and later philosophy is not a general method of science, but the fact that it happened to find a truth, and a particular way of studying reality which bore fruit.
Classical physics is basics of all physics that says matter and energy are two distinct concepts according to newton’s law and theory of electromagnetic radiation. Classical physics is centred on these assumptions, position and momentum of particles can be calculated at any instant when it travels in a trajectory, the energy of a particle may adopt any arbitrary value and waves and particles are separate concepts. However classical physics failed to explain those assumptions on atomic scale because those assumptions made on macro scale which caused some big problems by end of 19th century. Nevertheless problems in classical physics resolvable by modern mechanics which known as quantum mechanics. [1, 2]
important to this discussion of the origins of modern physics is the fact that some ancient