The quantum theory embodies principles that are familiar to us in everyday life.
Our actions are not only based on past facts, they are also influenced by possibilities we expect, fear, or hope for.
A whole is often new, different, and more than the parts of which it was formed.
Quantum theory shows how in nature, if described very precisely, the effectiveness of possibilities becomes recognizable, even though they have not yet become facts.
Quantum theory explains how wholeness can arise in nature as something new, something different.
Quantum theory as the physics of possibilities
Our thinking and acting is not only based on past facts, it is also influenced by possibilities that we expect, fear or hope for.
We are very familiar with being influenced by mere possibilities.
The classical physics calculates with facts only. Possibilities are only understood by her as unknown facts, like a die that has already been thrown under the cup.
Quantum theory, on the other hand, shows how, with a very precise description of nature, i.e. of the processes in both the living and the inanimate realm, the effectiveness of possibilities becomes recognizable, although none of these possibilities has yet become a fact.
These possibilities lie in the things and in the processes happening with them themselves.
The simplest experiments on this concern the passage of a quantum, e.g. an electron or a photon, through a double slit. They behave differently, depending on whether or not there is a possibility of getting behind the columns uncontrolled.
Quantum Theory as the Physics of New Wholes
A whole is often new, different and more than the parts from which it was formed.
Quantum theory shows how something new, different, a wholeness, can arise in nature.
For example, a molecule has completely different properties than the atoms from which it was formed. (Think of water as well as of hydrogen and oxygen.)
In classical physics, complex structures are merely put together like „Children bricks“. Thereby the parts retain their identity.
In contrast to classical physics, the quantum theory is the fundamental theory which shows how actually new things can arise. In the new, the original parts dissolve like the flour in the dough.
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