Sunday, July 12, 2015

Who is the Paradoxicality?

Well, I should probably begin with defining a paradox. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a paradox is something that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible. What inspired me to choose this title was a book I just finished, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics by Jim Al-Khalili. The book gave solutions to several influential paradoxes in physics. Al-Khalili emphasized that most paradoxes, both in and outside of physics, has a solution that can be found if one thinks about it long enough and hard enough. I want to emphasize the fact that I am in no way qualified in any subject discussed on this blog including mathematics, physics, astronomy and computer science. This blog will mainly focus on the aspects of such subjects that I stumble upon in books or school that I find interesting,

For my first post, I would like to quote a particularly enlightening paragraph from Jim Al-Khalili's book that talks about the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle which relates to quantum mechanics (which I know very little about but find fascinating none the less).
                  "Heisenburg was forced to conclude that the atomic world was a ghostly, semi-real place that only crystallized into sharply defined existence when we set up a measuring device to probe it--and even then this device would only reveal to us those features it was specifically  designed to measure." (Paradox Jim Al-Khalili)

The Paradoxicality

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