“A giant telescope three times the size of current observatories is in the works. It’ll be the first in a new generation of monster scopes that will peer deeper into space than ever before.” Truth is, in deep space and in deep quantum, scientists tend to find what they’re looking for. Via Wired.
Sub-atomic — quantum — physics has shown us the influence the viewer has on the viewed and that in both particle physics and astrophysics, scientists had better be careful what they ask for because psysics tends to show you what you are looking for.
In this case, it is less Schrodinger’s Cat than it is Schrodinger’s Telescope.
Atoms — of electrons, protons, neutrons — are vacuum. They’re so light on the mass that they’re nothing. They’re just tendencies and probabilities. You and I are just tendencies and probabilities.
The further one gets outside one’s human scale, the easier it is to make perception patterns rather than interpret or recognize them.
In other words, astrophysicists and quantum physicists spend most of their rigorous professional career projecting as opposed to perceiving.
Of course, their rigorous scientific training is supposed to restrains them but when one enters the wilderness, one oftentimes carries along many unavoidable preconceived notions — preceonceptions — along.
We’re only human, scientists doubly so.
It must me amazing to have that much power over perception. In the spaces of wilderness, in the world outside of the strictly-defined (such as cities and practical maths and physics), there is an undefined universe that still needs to be named.
Telepscopes and micrscopes allow us to truly define our hypotheses because there is no predefined.
