quantum mechanics: Kastner\'s brilliant blog (Introduction)

by rekastner , Thursday, July 18, 2013, 12:36 (4147 days ago) @ David Turell

See my book, especially Chapter 8. 'Spacetime' comes from the quantum level, via actualized transactions. The quantum level is timeless (since it is beyond space and time). So in a way, eternity is what supports 'spacetime'. - Yes, this is hard to visualize. I offer some models and illustrations in my book that may help.- We like to think of spacetime objects as stronger than 'mere possibility'. But consider an atom: the electrons (indeed all the components) in the atom are 'mere possibility', and yet they are what give the atom its stability and its ability to serve as a building block of matter. Without the 'possibility' (quantum) aspect of electrons, they would crash into the nucleus and there would be no stable matter.- When some stars undergo gravitational collapse, it is the 'mere possibility' of neutron quanta that resists the immense inward pull of all that star-mass. - Quantum possibility is the strongest thing in the world. So if we allow that quantum possibilities can't 'fit into' spacetime and therefore must transcend it (as even Niels Bohr reportedly acknowledged), there is certainly more to the world than mere spacetime.