Quantum bodies have certain characteristics. Pinning those characteristics down to a series of constants and constraints proves impossible to do without the addition of Normality. In physics, the renormalisation process takes place largely to get rid of infinity, a particular problem harboured by the Universe in which all sorts of things from atoms to neutrinos can become neatly entangled.
One of the effects which quanta have to negotiate is the condition known as entropy. In all the various guises in which it appears, entropy can be said to be the arrow on which our concept of time is hinged. Entropy dictates the state of a material degrading into something else, as cowpats become slurry and hot coffees become cool. There is only one direction entropy can take, cold coffees refusing to become hot again and cowpats being unable to return to their former singular (if rather sloppy) state. Time moves forward into the future and entropy chunters along with it.
One of the effects which quanta have to negotiate is the condition known as entropy. In all the various guises in which it appears, entropy can be said to be the arrow on which our concept of time is hinged. Entropy dictates the state of a material degrading into something else, as cowpats become slurry and hot coffees become cool. There is only one direction entropy can take, cold coffees refusing to become hot again and cowpats being unable to return to their former singular (if rather sloppy) state. Time moves forward into the future and entropy chunters along with it.
In the blackbody problem, tackled by physicists in the early 1900s, it was found that the second law of thermodynamics (the transference of heat energy into a dissipative state) went through many permutations as a body, a hot iron poker in the original thinking, was heated and then left to cool as entropy took over. Heated up to the blue-white glow you can't safely look at, at ridiculous temperatures, emissions in the ultraviolet spectrum were found, while at a cooler state when the red glow wore off, emissions in the infra-red range became apparent. Photons, it was deduced, are not confined to visible light but can exist at other levels beyond sensory perception. So the nature of quanta brought itself to the fore, refusing to be constricted to the most basic of experimental observation. Soon scientists would find that the very act of observation itself will affect the outcome of quantum processing.
Our lifetimes in this dimension equate to around 29,200 days, assuming an 80 year span. That's 29,200 opportunities to oscillate, most of which we readily accept. We wake up to a certain day feeling a certain way and that's the day generally forecast, not much you can do about it. Strength of will pervades to bring the balances to rights on a general level, and mini-oscillations to switch mood can easily take place, but up days and down days are a feature of living to the human race. Perhaps all other races are the same.
80 years isn't long to a Sun. In fact if the Sun were to be renormalised into human years it would be 62 million, 500 thousand years old by now, divide that by 80 and you get 781,250 Sun-years for every one of ours. A Sun year divided into 365 days gives you
2140.4109589
80 years isn't long to a Sun. In fact if the Sun were to be renormalised into human years it would be 62 million, 500 thousand years old by now, divide that by 80 and you get 781,250 Sun-years for every one of ours. A Sun year divided into 365 days gives you
2140.4109589
which is probably significant to someone somewhere, but not me. Enough playing with the online calculator, thanks.
Time and light - photons and entropy - have a powerful place in our daily existence. The more we understand the truth behind 'every day is a new dawn' and the opportunities to oscillate which we don't always appreciate (for better or worse), the easier life seems to be, for it is within our power, if not our nature, to let go of reins now and then and let the Universe have a chance to sow some seeds of its own. We have bright days, and dark days. We're never out of the equation, we form a molecule of mankind, and what we do with our minds is far more important in the great pool of evolutionary schematics than what we do with our bodies.
We are quanta, we are small, and when physicists get a head-wrap around the fact that they are what they seek to understand, we'll have a supernova target-race towards a Theory of Everything that actually means something to everybody.
Time and light - photons and entropy - have a powerful place in our daily existence. The more we understand the truth behind 'every day is a new dawn' and the opportunities to oscillate which we don't always appreciate (for better or worse), the easier life seems to be, for it is within our power, if not our nature, to let go of reins now and then and let the Universe have a chance to sow some seeds of its own. We have bright days, and dark days. We're never out of the equation, we form a molecule of mankind, and what we do with our minds is far more important in the great pool of evolutionary schematics than what we do with our bodies.
We are quanta, we are small, and when physicists get a head-wrap around the fact that they are what they seek to understand, we'll have a supernova target-race towards a Theory of Everything that actually means something to everybody.
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