Tradition
Quantum Physics
Era · 1900 — presentRegion · Global scientific community
The empirical science of the very small — where the classical, billiard-ball picture of reality dissolves into probability waves, observer-dependent measurement, and non-local connection. For many it's also a doorway: the place where rigorous science begins to rhyme with what the traditions have long whispered.
Core beliefs
- 01Reality at small scales is probabilistic, not deterministic.
- 02Wave-particle duality: matter behaves as both wave and particle depending on how it's looked at.
- 03The act of measurement participates in what is measured (observer effect).
- 04Entanglement: once-correlated systems remain instantaneously linked across any distance.
- 05Superposition: a system holds many possibilities until interaction collapses them into one.
Practices
- Experiment + falsification
- Mathematical formalism (Hilbert space, operators)
- Thought experiments (Schrödinger's cat, EPR, double-slit)
- Quantum computation + information theory
- Interpretive philosophy (Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Bohmian, QBism)
Key figures
- · Max Planck
- · Niels Bohr
- · Werner Heisenberg
- · Erwin Schrödinger
- · David Bohm
- · John Bell
- · Anton Zeilinger
Bridges to other traditions
- Observer effect ↔ consciousness as participant (Vedanta, Idealism)
- Entanglement ↔ Indra's Net ↔ interbeing
- Superposition ↔ pre-manifest potential (Tao, Ein Sof)
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