You and I live in the real world, I believe you must agree with this. Every day we see the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, day and night constantly alternating, everything is so real.
If someone says to you: This world is illusory, you will definitely think that person is a madman.
However, with the development of quantum mechanics , various strange phenomena in the quantum world have to make people doubt the authenticity of this world.
How weird is the quantum world? The most prominent point of
is that in the quantum world, everything is unpredictable and can only be described by probability. microscopic particles can appear in two different places at the same time.
is so weird, it makes people think about it and it’s terrifying! Considering that the macroscopic world we live in is composed of microscopic particles, the weird phenomena in the quantum world should also apply to our macroscopic world.
If this is really the case, we need to re-examine our real world. Scientists have also proposed a crazy explanation: the multi-world explanation. The
multi-world explanation believes that the reality we think of is not the real reality. There is not just one universe, but countless universes, which is called " multiverse " ( parallel universe ). All combinations of atoms and in our universe may actually exist in the multiverse.
For example, the reason why you and I are different is because the atoms that make up our bodies are composed in different ways. Since there are countless multiverses, the composition of atoms is limited, which means that there must be exactly the same you in a certain universe. We have exactly the same earth, solar system, and even the same universe as me!
In the quantum world, there is another important feature: the microscopic particles there behave like both particles and waves, and they all have wave-particle duality . Everything looks so blurry and unreal. At the same time, the relationship between cause and effect is completely confused in the quantum world, and we can’t even tell the difference between cause and effect.
If the characteristics of a single atom are so weird and vague, how can we be real if we are composed of countless atoms?
What we think of as reality may be just an illusion. Behind the illusion is the truth that drives us crazy.
Regarding the "illusion" in the quantum world, some scientists even put forward the view that "our universe is simulated." If this is true, various strange phenomena in the quantum world can be well explained, but at present So far, the theory of "virtual universe" is still more of a science fiction level, and it is difficult to support it with evidence.
No matter what, the weird quantum world has opened our eyes. Quantum mechanics has been developed for more than a hundred years, but no one has fully understood it yet.
