Year-end Party🍻 and Quantum Study Group⚾️🌊 (Part 4)

The ultimate simplification of leaving the slit to 1 atom💁‍♀️

Yesterday, I had a year-end party and quantum study group with my Zoom friends, looking back on our activities over the past year.

Since I had two in-person year-end parties this week, a Zoom year-end party where we can gather and drink casually is also quite nice ☺️ (in the sense that it's easier on the body 🤣)

Reflecting on the study group

What I felt once again is that learning is not about "acquiring" new knowledge, but rather,

that the process of continuing to try to learn itself is what's important ☺️

It's not about understanding one thing and saying, "Yes, done."

When you climb one step, another question appears, and you pause.

At that moment,
instead of saying "that's enough" and climbing down the stairs,

it's about whether you can think, "Let's aim one step higher."

And honestly, I truly feel that

it's easier to take that next step
when learning with friends

than when learning alone ☺️

The reason I said at the end,

"I feel that the more you delve into science, the closer you get to philosophy and religious views,"

is because I had this feeling through the study group👇
While it is important to pursue

"what is correct"
regarding facts and phenomena,
just as much as that,

as the protagonist of your own life,
the question of "what do I subjectively value?"eventually arises.
Because of that,

even when looking at the same world,
the way people feel and perceive things changes individually.
That is that person's own
"personal axis."And in other words, that personal axis is

values,
and there is no "correct" or "incorrect" answer there.From the perspective of Adlerian psychology,everyone acts in pursuit of
"good (=what they believe to be beneficial),"


and the accumulation of that shapes a person's values,and we live our lives relying on that axis.Even actions that might look like "evil" at first glance,in many cases,are mistakes or inappropriate means
in the process of trying to achieve a goal,
and are not born from fundamental malice,

is how it is perceived.
That is why
science and philosophy, ethics, and religious views are continuous,
and the feeling that "when you master science, you get closer to philosophy and religion"
is not a retreat or an escape,
but just that the layer of the question has gone up one level,

that is how I feel now ☺️

Wave-particle duality (compatibility)

Electrons and photons are also,
if we force them into our common-sense perceptions,

waves🌊 and also particles⚾️ as well.

We feel like we "understand" that somewhere, but in reality,


they are neither waves nor particles.I think electrons and photons are just


"quanta."They are nothing less and nothing more than that.Quanta are phenomena occurring on the other side, beyond the reach of human thought and imagination,and stepping into the micro world,
obsessing over whether it is "a wave or a particle" itself,

might not have much meaning.

"Understanding wave-particle duality"

feels less like having completely understood it as a logic,

and more likewhether you have been able to accept it sensually as such.
☺️

The macroscopic world we live in and the
microscopic world governed by quantum mechanics
have fundamentally different rules.

Even in the double-slit experiment,
waveif you observe it like ainterference pattern appears,
particleif you observe it like ainterference pattern disappears🫥

That is because,
even though it looks like the same experiment,
the moment the observation conditions differ,
thevery nature of the electrons or photons changes.

In other words,
the different results are neither strange nor contradictory,
but rather it means that from the start,you are performing a 'different experiment'.

Double-slit experiment

Finally, I would like to summarizemy own subjective understanding of how I intuitively accepted the double-slit experiment✍️

<<FIN>>

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