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True Chance is Quantum

"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts." Werner Heisenberg

 

I infer that the first time that Peter Ardipithecus raised his head and saw that Ethiopian sky, almost six million years ago, things hit.

The feeling of impotence, of smallness, in the face of that blackness, dotted with lights. For me, this is the best definition of the ancestral anguish that plagues us from time to time.

One of those terrible studies, carried out in the early to mid-1900s, found that, if left to fend for itself in early childhood, homo achieves two things: Sex and God.

Hence the intimate relationship of science with religion. Yes, even Einstein proposed —wrongly, given the context— that God doesn't play dice.

After all, there is the Great Watchmaker proposed by Cicero, who passes through William Palley, entangles Voltaire, Descartes, and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle; teeters with Charles Darwin and crumbles with Richard Dawkins, or is it all the work of chance?

In quantum mechanics, the concept of parallel universes defines true chance, or the supposed absence of a cause, even if it is indemonstrable since the consequences of uncertainty and those of deterministic chaos are impossible to distinguish.

If all choices have been made, chance ceases to exist. The same is true of the moral: If I kill someone in this reality, I can perfectly say -in front of the jury- that I didn't, in all or at least in most of my manifestations of the multiverses.

On the other hand, if the phenomena only exist through their interdependencies, it is impossible to separate them without them ceasing to exist, and then, the death caused by me in one of the multiverses simply dematerializes.

The tautochronous event of all possibilities defines true chance.

But how would it be possible to suggest the existence of such phenomena? No human being operating under the rules of Consensus, however extravagant, would take what has been put here as possible.

This is where the phrase by Werner Heisenberg, which opens this article, fits. Quantum mechanics is not about logic, reality, or Consensus. It's about the unknowable, the surprising, and the unimaginable.

It's about geniuses who have the humility to bow before the magnitude of Nature and observe. And learn. Nec spe, nec metu, nec frustratio.

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