The magic of physics
2022
René Staritzbichler
Guiding question
How real is reality?
Opposites of real
- dreams
- hallucinations
- deceptions
- projections
What means 'reality'?
All we perceive, the way we perceive it
- size
- weight
- color / taste / smell ...
- solidity
- age
- consistency
- lastingness
- causality
- nature = appearance
- independence
- objectivity
- individuality
- variety
The bricks of the castle of reality
Reality is not the way we perceive it
$ \text{"nature} \ne \text{appearance"} $
q,e have no size
Puffing up
Solidity and permanence result from our time-window
Collapsing variety
ALL objects consists of mainly
- electrons
- up and down quarks
- exchange particles = forces
Perfect equality
Absolutely no differences in the microcosmos
Thus there is no such thing as age
Quark
James Joyce 1882 - 1941
Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for muster mark"
Together forever
Quarks cannot exist alone
The great misunderstanding(s)
Particles do not have mass, they receive it
from interacting with the all-pervading Higgs field
Sensual qualities
- vision / taste / smell / sound / touch
Any perception is a product of our brain!
Good bye 'reality'
size
weight
color / taste / smell ...
solidity
age
consistency
lastingness
causality
nature = appearance
independence
objectivity
individuality
variety
The magic
- total transformability
- no separation
The magician
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
The formula of magic
$E=m\cdot c^2$
"No" limits
Any particle can be transformed into any other kind
The next level
Read this with kinetic energy:
$E=m\cdot c^2$
"Mass is motion, motion is mass"
Motion to mass
Elastic $e^-, e^+$ scattering events at CERN
Large Insane scale transformations
Insane precision
Ligo: $\quad \Delta x < \frac{\oslash_{proton}}{ 10000}$
Insane proportions
- 35 & 30 x $ m_{sun}$, 1 bil. years ago
- 3 x $m_{sun}$ 'disappeared'
- 1 mio x $m_{earth}$ transformed into gravitational waves
- 2 kg in biggest explosion on earth
A scientific singularity?
The illusion of separation
Albert Einstein: "God doesn't throw dice"
He was wrong ... but opened the door to magic
Interaction = exchange
Repulsion
The EPR Gedankenexperiment
IF quantum mechanics is right
THEN there would be an instantaneous interaction
THUS quantum mechanics must be wrong ...
Entanglement
Anton Zeilinger
The real ghost interaction
Zeilinger: between canary islands
China: 1200km via Micius satelites
The cat that was never there
Picture taken with entangled photons,
that never interacted with Zeilinger´s cat
Space is no nothingness
$E_0 > 0 $
$\Delta E \Delta t \ge \frac{\hbar}{2}$
The cosmic joke
- zoom in
- reality fades
- magic appears
- zoom out
- magic hides
- reality unfolds
- do it again
Dual reality
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- things appear as real
- complex interplay
- projection
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- the nature of all appearances
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simultaneous & inseparable
Same insight
without giant devices
Thank you very much for listening without turning into a rubberduck!
Sources of images
- slide 5: desy.de
- slide 6, : wikipedia.org
- slide : ligo.org
- slide : sciencenews.org
- slide : cern.ch
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