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Chapter 14
Mysticism of Modern Physics
I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics.
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ’But how
can it possibly be like that?’ because you will go down the drain into
a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how
it can be like that...If your model contradicts quantum mechanics,
abandon it! ( Richard Feynman)
Modern physics is based on
• theory of relativity,
• quantum mechanics.
The dream of Einstein was to combine relativity and quantum mechanics into
a unified field theory including the four basic forces of physics (gravitation,
electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear forces), but his dream remains
unfulfilled.
The mysticism of modern physics thrives within both relativity theory and
quantum mechanics, as witnessed by all Nobel Laurates of physics: Relativity
theory and quantum mechanics cannot be understood by humans, but has
to be accepted as a gift from an all-wise mathematical Creator keeping his
Grand Unified Theory GUT as a secret.
Quantum mechanics is based on Schrödinger’s equation with wave function
solutions, formulated by Erwin Schrödinger in 1925. Schrödingers equation
is a linear differential equation over a continuum, which is not the usual
continuum of 3-dimensional space and time, but over 3N-dimensional space
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