In Quantum Physics, Even Humans Act As Waves
“There are many pursuits in science that seem so esoteric that most of us have a hard time envisioning how they’d ever become useful. In today’s world, many fundamental endeavors — for new highs in particle energies; for new depths in astrophysics; for new lows in temperature — seem like purely intellectual exercises. And yet, many technological breakthroughs that we take for granted today were unforeseeable by those who laid the scientific foundations.
Heinrich Hertz, who created and sent radio waves for the first time, thought he was merely confirming Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory. Einstein never imagined that relativity could enable GPS systems. The founders of quantum mechanics never considered advances in computation or the invention of the transistor. But today, we’re absolutely certain that the closer we get to absolute zero, the more the entire field of atomic optics and nano-optics will advance. Perhaps, someday, we’ll even be able to measure quantum effects for entire human beings. Before you volunteer, though, you might be happier to put a cryogenically frozen human to the test instead!”
Think quantum physics is weird because of how light behaves? Where, depending on how you set up your measurement apparatus, sometimes it exhibits particle-like behavior, while other times it exhibits wave-like behavior?
Wait until you find out that it isn’t just light, but all forms of matter and energy. Even a full-grown human being is quantum in nature. Perhaps, someday, we’ll even be able to measure it.
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