Fuzzy Truth and Strange Fiction

Quantum reality is the world of the very small, made up of objects that defy the imagination. The elementary objects that make up atoms are not things in actuality, but events or happenings in a world of ever-changing dynamic interactive psycho-physical processes. One cannot separate what these subatomic entities are from what they do. Instead, what they are can only be inferred from what they do. Instead of an elementary world of "being", the foundation of our reality is built upon a world of "doing". In other words, all of the material world that we perceive is built upon actions, processes, and events outside any sense of time or space in some abstract realm that is very strange even to the very brightest of quantum physicists.

With Einstein's theory of relativity, the more one comes to understand it with study and application, the less strange it becomes. With quantum theory, in contrast, the more deeply we entangle ourselves in an understanding of it, the stranger it becomes. Newton's world was built upon solid particles with measurable mass, but with the advances of quantum physics we have come to understand that the solidity of the world is entirely illusion - there are no elementary particles, no fundamental building blocks of reality, nothing solid to measure, really. In fact, there really is not even a quantum world - only an abstract quantum description. The quantum entities behind everything are not real in the sense that we define "real". They don't have any sort of independent, intrinsic existence in which they exist apart from those observing them.

Without boundaries, elementary particles exist in somewhat of a state of open-ended potentiality. If one wants to pinpoint a locality of their existence it can only be concluded that they exist in every possible universe outside of time. So the atoms that make up everything and whatever comprises them are not real, existing only withing a framework of a world of potentialities, rather than as facts or things. Elementary particles don’t “exist” as a thing in its own right, but if physicists treat them “as if”’ they exist, then they manifest “as if” they really do exist, and the physicists then get the right results in their equations. Everyone is happy, as long as no one asks what it all means.

So the entire world we live in is no more than a construct, a heuristic way of talking about something that is nothing more than a set of mathematical relations concerning different observations. Because atoms don't have any kind of independent, per-existing reality, it is meaningless to even ask what an atom really is. Atoms are only concepts physicists use to describe the behavior of their measuring instruments and the outcomes of their experiments. Atoms emerge out of the interaction between an observer and what is being observed as mediated through some measuring device to make sense of the observation. Properties are inferred from whatever measuring device is being used and are treated "as if" they are real. In the end, all that one can conclude to is a model of what is observed, and not something intrinsically real in and of itself.

An energy waveform that we perceive does not exist apart from our perception of it. It is an event within a universe of probabilities. It takes an observer to chose which probability she or he wishes to call real to bring it into existence. Something has to stand in the middle of a quantum event and what is termed "real". That is us. We make it "real". A waveform is passive and cannot stimulate action on its own without an intervening agent to make a conscious choice between probabilities to cause it to manifest in three dimensional "reality". A waveform is purely abstraction, as is every atom. They are ideas that do not exist outside of the ideas themselves. The primal stuff of the quantum realm is all dreamlike, born only of our own ideas. Quantum physics informs us that the great mystery of the universe and how is all works is more mind-like than matter-like. Its wonderful revelation is that it lifts the veil of our understanding of how our minds and the world of matter around us are connected, and how we, in "reality", are the only creators of all that we perceive as real through our own mysterious consciousness.