Jagath Mithya

The implications of quantum physics on scientific community as well as human mind has far reaching consequences. The idea of abolishing an objective reality independent of the observer was the most interesting philosophical implication. It has always been a question still troubling many philosophical minds that why  this universe is diverse in nature. What really the universe is? The laws of physics as discovered by the physicists of the earlier centuries could explain certain phenomena which were under common observations. But the quantum behavior shook the world such that it explained in an unusual way. Universe seems to be  matter or energy  .Why we have so many elements in nature? Science says that it is due to the different arrangement of the sub atomic particles like electron. Physics is still searching the most fundamental particle whose various distribution or probability distributions causes the universe to appear like this.The elements appear different because the electrons are arranged in different levels in different ways. These levels are determined by quantum numbers. The quantum numbers account for energy momentum and spin of the electron. These are attributed by motion of electron.So universe appears as different because an electron has different ways of motion! Now what or how can we say about this motion? Physics uses the tool of mathematics to describe it. For describing the dynamics of the moving electron quantum physicist use Schrodinger equation (or relativistic Dirac equation). They say that we cannot stop a particle. It is always in motion. And interestingly these equations are operator equations. If we want to say anything about the moving electron we should operate the corresponding physical quantity on its wavefunction. Without measuring or observing an electron we cannot say anything about it. When we observe it its state is disturbed. Suppose we are measuring the momentum of electron and we get some result. That result comes from the very action of measuring. The electron has momentum since you measured it?!! Electron appears to move when you observe it? So the world appears or exist because of your observation? What was the state before observation? Since measurement disturbs the system nothing can be said about the unmeasurable state. The unmeasurable or the unknown is beyond comprehension. The world has reduced to a mere chance in the act of observation. 

Neils Bohr says "Observed is not independent of the observer". Heisenberg says  "Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible." Schrodinger says "The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real". Quantum physics has questioned the reality of this objective world. Physics has reached a level to say boldly the only appearance of matter. I am not sure about whether they will find a reality, the unknown.