Physics Drill for Senior High School Pack 5

"A whiff of a quiff is enough of a sniff to cause quite a tiff though quixotic the riff."
-- Author known but intentionally not revealed
At the subatomic level some really strange things start to happen: new worlds of thought and curiosity are opened up, the improbable becomes highly probable, and the usual becomes quite the unusual. In fact, it is at this level that man starts to contemplate the reality of his own existence since quantum physics dares one to ask the question, "Is reality real, or just a figment of my imagination?"

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This quantum physics stuff is all the rage especially since a lot of new age thinking is using the precepts of this discipline to usher in a period of self-empowerment for individuals. The best-selling book "The Secret" has as its foundation the idea of creating our own reality through the law of attraction. This pseudo-scientific concept is linked to the quantum physics idea of "popping a quiff." A quiff is a quantum wave function such as the image of a star, whose light propagates throughout the universe, waiting to be observed. The existence of the star is in question until someone actually "pops its quiff" by observing it. Once this is done, the star has come into this person's sphere of reality.
Thus by using this idea, a person can choose a reality based on a choice of observation or not. By seeing the light of the star, the person has, in essence, validated the existence of the star. But what if the person had not seen the light of this particular star? Is the star still there? This becomes an interesting philosophical question and hearkens back to the old, "If a tree falls in the forest but nobody is there to hear it fall, is there any sound associated with the fall?" Before you give a knee-jerk answer, you should contemplate this quiff stuff a little more carefully. This field in particular explains what goes on in the transistor as well as predicting the outcome of two different elements under chemical bonding. Without an adequate knowledge of the inner workings of the transistor we would not have all the nice electronic gadgets that we do, and without understanding chemistry at the level we do, we would not be able to harness the power of chemical synthesis to get all the important compounds that we have in all the different industries we have. Need I say more about the importance of the quantum field!
As we continue this series of articles on quantum physics, we will look more deeply at some of the eccentricities that we encounter within its unorthodox domain. By the time we are done, you too will realize that math may be strange, but the quantum realm is far stranger.