Showing posts with label thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thoughts. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 October 2010

Thoughts provoked by late night reading.

OK random, but one of places I send my mind when I am bored is on an imaginative tour of Quantum Mechanics. I try to imagine such weirdness as the schrodinger's cat paradox. I tell my pupils at school that imagination is everything in science. Unless you can imagine it, then you don't really understand it. I don't understand an 11 dimensional universe because I can't imagine it. But quantum physics, the nightmare of my university degree, does seem to make sense really late at night just before I go to sleep. When it crystallises into a picture that I can explain I will write a bit more about it. Until then let me leave you with this quote from C. S. Lewis's "God in the Dock"

"If a man doubts whether he is dreaming or waking, no experiment can solve his doubt, since every experiment may itself be part of the dream"