Monday, February 20, 2017

Thoughts on the Andorian basis of Quantum Reality


We can try to place the andorian basis for quantum reality within a number of possible schemas in space, one in which an electron's location is viewed in relation to the other, and another in which we view andorean forces as affecting the electron's relationship/location to itself.

The first is relatively simple and straightforward.  The and is moving the electron toward another and the or is moving it away from another.  If we viewed the "and" and "or" as forces that pull, it is possible to view them as canceling each other out and the electron as not moving at all, something that quantum physics says is not the case. Thus, this schema does not work.  If, rather than seeing the and and or as pure movement, rather than force, the electron is simultaneously moving in two different directions, one towards another particle and the other away from it.  Under this schema, the electron is in any number of different places at the same time given the relative speeds of the and and or.  This does allow for both a particle and wavelike quality and could coincide with quantum reality.

 The other possible schema, its relation in space in relationship to itself, (rather than to another) takes some more vigorous thinking but seems to work best.  The or doesn't "want or allow" the electron to be wherever it seems to be at any given time. Rather, it refuses to be in any given place at any given time, but wants to be or tries to be somewhere else.  Since it refuses to be anywhere at any given time, but is always trying to be somewhere else, at any given time it exists, when unaccompanied by the and,  as poor possibility.  In essence, it doesn't have a corporeal existence but only exists as possibility or probability.  The electron's andness, on the other hand, wants the electron to be somewhere and elsewhere, or more accurately everywhere, at the same time.  Thus the "and", when unaccompanied by the "or", makes the electron be everywhere, and thus be everything at any given time.     Since the andorean schema provides that both the "and" and the "or" are operative, the electron's orness is making it exist nowhere at any given time but only exist as possibility, while the electron's andness is making it exist everywhere at any given time.   This weirdness, this simulaneous existence and nonexistence, this being everywhere and nowhere at the same time seems to correspond more with fuzzy quantum reality, and is more likely the best schema within which to place it. Of course, we have to trust our senses to some extent, and our senses tell us that matter exists.  And in a sense, the "or", taken alone, is not saying that the electron does not exist; it is simply saying that it doesn't exist here.   While the "and" is saying that it exists everywhere.  Thus, this schema weighs more heavily, overall, in favor of existence, but a more fuzzy existence.

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