“Islam and The Quantum Theory”
Dr Triq Abdelhaleem
It is amazing! When you find that the God of modern civilization, science, is collapsing as a "God" in its own hands. It is saying, loud and clear: “I give up, find your true God!” And here is how I found it. Just follow the logic.
I will use layman's terms to make the read easy and enjoyable.
How science perceived the Universe before:
The wisdom, until the first quarter of the twentieth century, was based on Newton’s Laws of Physics, which stated that patterns repeat themselves, under the same conditions, exactly. A linear relationship between the cause and the result was how scientists dealt with the world phenomena. Apply a force to gain speed or acceleration; otherwise, things stay static. Simple and straightforward. In a nutshell, Newton’s mechanics is completely deterministic. What goes in, comes out.
However, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, Einstein opened the door for new perception, with his “general” and “special” theories of relativity, where he introduced the relationship between energy and mass, speed, as well as the time dimension. More importantly, his work on the Quantum Theory[1].
Over the same period, studies of heat waves and the behavior of sub-atomic particles led to a new understanding of how particles establish their position. It was found that Newton’s mechanics doesn’t support what was observed. That was when Shrödinger's wave equation for matter was introduced. This has shown that the predicted position of any particle is neither accurate nor determined. Rather, it can be anywhere other than what was predicted, over a probabilistic equation. It can actually be in two places at the same time. Thus, the Quantum theory, which deals with the behaviour of the sub-atomic particles, established a non-deterministic mechanics, or dynamic mechanics.
That progress has been accompanied by some related concepts which helped to understand a closer view of the facts of the Universe, such as Dark Matter, Complex Systems, Split Similarity, attractors and strange attractors, incompleteness theory, and other concepts.
We will introduce each of the relevant concepts that we think are related to the subject of this essay.
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[1] Although he believed in the Quantum Theory, he did not believe that it is complete as of his time. This has been proven the case since that time. The latest studies of the Cosmic Bell Test at the university of Vienna ( Alan Guth, Anton Zeilinger and colleagues at MIT), suggest that the Einstein prediction on the “weirdness” of the Quantum Theory is not to be solved.