God Does Play Dice With the Universe: A Startling New Picture of the World
Conjecture Saturday, May 12, 2007 by quantummotion
We live in a classical world. Yet, there is a ghostlike atomic world underneath. Everyone knows that a ball is composed of atoms. But nobody knows what atoms look like, and especially, how in hell atoms move. They don’t look like small balls at all; for instance, a single atom can pass through two slits at the same time. The more stunning fact is that we don’t exactly know how a ball moves either. It appears to move in a continuous way. This, however, is a mere illusion. Even the greatest scientists Newton and Einstein were also deluded by the appearance.
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Life is transitory. Everyone is a mere mote in the universe. But God gives us mind; thus we can see and understand the real world. The most happiness is not beyond this. As the great Chinese sage Confucius taught us, “Hear the Tao in the morning, and it would be all right to die that evening.” I hope that this book will not only tell you a startling new picture of the world, but also bring you a colorful life.
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5 Responses to God Does Play Dice With the Universe: A Startling New Picture of the World
June 14th, 2007 at 4:21 am
I am wholly unsure of this item but several regulars have given it the thumbs up for hitting the front page, although several have voted it down. I think it’s a worthy effort, but I am totally unsure of its validity. I’d like to see it on the front page if only to spark some commentary from the readers who voted it down.
db
htc
June 15th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Interesting, this guy has managed to get at least 2 papers published in at least semi-respectable journals,
Title: A model of wavefunction collapse in discrete space-time
Author(s): Shan G (Shan, Gao)
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL
PHYSICS 45 (10): 1965-1979 OCT 2006
Cited References: 35
Times Cited: 0
Title: Quantum collapse, consciousness and superluminal communication
Author(s): Shan G
Source: FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS LETTERS 17 (2): 167-182 APR 2004
Cited References: 65
Times Cited: 0
So, he got a couple of papers past the referees, but so far no citations. What nails it, I think, is this site, the front page looks like a some kind of sci-fi hoax page, but it contains a bio of Gao Shan, that claims, among other statements,
Their breaking news page is actually quite funny.
All I want to know is, what special precautions are we supposed to take now that the Spacetime Threat Assessment Level has hit SEVERE? Break out the transporter inhibitors and reverse the polarity of the Heisenberg compensators, perhaps?
sockpuppet
June 18th, 2007 at 5:28 am
I had glanced at it, but was uncertain as to the aim & quality of the content.
Looking at it fresh, I see this prize quote on the homepage:
“They don’t look like small balls at all; for instance, a single atom can pass through two slits at the same time.”
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve studied physics or chemistry. Obviously I need to brush up with these new advances.
June 18th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Great find! I knew it was “Controversial Conjecture” material, but that nails it.
db
htc
June 18th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Well, that goes to show how easy it is to fall into a trap. That statement is, in fact, completely correct. There are plenty of references other than Wikipedia for the double-slit eexperiment, such as this PhysicsWeb review, or even try google, there will be plenty of quantum physics 101 lecture notes around.