Paradoxes and us(part 2)

Here are the next 3 paradoxes I have mentioned in my previous post.If you didn't read it please do it before you continue.

   4. Infinity hotel paradox

Infinity is full of paradoxes and could drive a man to madness!!Infinity is one of the most philosophical idea among  other similar ideas and it’s clearly integrated with our view of the universe. This idea is used in almost every science and philosophy yet it’s one of the hardest concept to grasp. I think mathematics(and physics) are the  only subjects that were able to surrender this mysterious entity and it has become an essential concept when we do maths or physics.

When I think about this paradox ,the only thing I have trouble to understand is that  how can a hotel with infinity  rooms can be filled? Other arguments that build upon this could be true, at least I think it has to be true but this rooms filled with infinity number of guests are really gives me a headache. but the arguments that are based on this is really mind blowing and put our imagination to it’s limits. If you are really interested in infinity try this BBC documentary(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtMwAUaftSU) about the concept of infinity.(warning: this documentary may cause you dizziness or headaches JJ.)

I believe that Infinity is a concept that never be understood by  finite minds like  us and it’s an evidence of our ignorance no matter how smart we are. If you think you are smart, just try to understand how can there  be different sizes of infinities when each one is infinite. It is really deserves to be called as the king of all paradoxes.

5.The twin paradox

The twin paradox is a good example of discovering of some useful knowledge using paradoxes. Paradoxes are normally dead ends but this has given us more clear view of the true nature time and space. Even though it’s obvious that the rate of the  time flow differs from  observer to another yet it’s very hard to starting to believe this idea because we can’t this effect in our day to day chores. It’s the cleverness of Einstein to come to such a controversial conclusion just using his theories and logics while I’m sure even himself was amazed of what he has discovered. according to Einstein ,speed is not the only one that effects the rate of time flow, gravity effects time. Scientists did experiments and proved that time slows down near to a gravitational field and they take this effect into account when they design space journeys. This time dilation concept once again arouse the potentiality of time travel but no one knows how it happens.(Einstein’s theories do not reject time travel and his theories consider time as another dimension just like other 3 and there is nothing that stopping us travelling along that dimension.)

6. Schrodinger’s Cat

This is one of the first paradox I came across when I was at school and I had no idea even after I read the article about this several times. You also shouldn’t shame of yourselves if you couldn’t understand or give an explanation to this unusual phenomena because even the pioneers of quantum physics don’t have any explanation what’s going on.Once the famous scientist and the father of quantum physics Neil Bhor said” Anyone who says that he has understood quantum mechanics has not understood it.”It shows that incomplete understanding is a part of quantum mechanics .  although scientists can use quantum mechanics in their tasks in a very good manner nobody can’t give an satisfactory interpretation why sub atomic world and it’s members behave very strangely .It’s the real mystery here. The origin of this paradox is the famous and most fascinating experiment (according to meJ) double slit experiment which demonstrates the particle-Wave duality. In very small scale the world/things we know become very weird and our language(and our way of thinking) is very inefficient to explain these phenomena. The cat experiment is also something like that although it helps to get some idea about what’s going on it’s not completely capable of illustrating the true nature of nature.

Schrodinger’s thought experiment shows us something strange .If classical entities (like cats, humans, rocks etc..) can be at superposition what does it really implies? someone like Einstein would say it’s not possible at all. A quantum physicist will say although classical objects may act like particles it’s irrelevant or negligible in our world but some scientists might say a very strange thing. This duality is caused by parallel universe. It may sound like crazy but I think it’s no more crazier than saying the cat is both dead and live same time.The interpretation for this thought experiment from that parallel universe team is the experiment creates two universes that in one the cat is dead and in the other it is alive .we only can’t observe both only the one that happens in our reality. But I think this idea is conflicting the basic idea of pure randomness in quantum physics. Anyway, If you are interested in these ideas I mentioned above try this BBC documentary BBC documentary(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ds47ozzSrU) about the nature of reality .