This morning, while taking the breakfast, I read a couple of interesting articles on quantum physics (the physics of infinite probabilities). I was actually thinking to myself, in one of my very many imagined conversations with someone, that the implications of Quantum Mechanics theory for the way most people see their lives are quite a few. According to our perception of reality, everything has a definite position, momentum and time of occurrence. However, in a given space in a finite time, the Quantum Mechanics theory can’t give us the exact values for the position and momentum of a certain particle, instead, it provides a range of probabilities of where that particle might be (position) and where it might go (momentum). We can only know the position of that particle or its momentum but not both the position and momentum at the same time. These particles can even change spontaneously their position from one place to another for no apparent reason (it’s a strange behavior of nature). In other words, we can’t even be sure about the existence of things. Particle physicists have discovered that within the matter an object contains, there is actually much more empty space than matter, since the quantum effects constantly produce particles out of nothingness which disappear few moments later. The true nature of nature at the smallest scales seems to be so complicated to understand for the common human mind. For example, at this moment, I’m writing this blog entry into my laptop computer whose matter (small particles: protons, electrons…) appears and disappears all the time, however, there’s a high probability of its existence itself, at least as an object according to the perception of the human mind. Then, what the hell is reality? Life is not at all what most of us believed. I, myself, think what we see as reality is just a manifestation of our perceptions, just an illusion of the human mind.I’m not an expert at this subject but I enjoy spending time reading things involving mathematics in some way. Quantum Mechanics (quantum physics) and General Relativity (astrophysics) are the most important theories in modern physics, but there are apparent incompatibilities between them, especially within their fundamental assumptions. The resolution of these incompatibilities is an area of active research where the main goal is the formulation of a complete theory of quantum gravity, a unified theory involving the Quantum Mechanics theory and General Relativity theory.

By the way, I actually read an interesting book called “Faster than the Speed of Light” by Joao Magueijo which is an easy-to-read book on astrophysics (General Relativity and his own theory called VSL). I really recommend it to you.