HUMAN 1C Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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We are used to thinking of the world as composed of basic elements. Heisenberg claims that we are wrong in calling atoms by that name because atoms can be divided. Contemporary physics suggests that what if there are no basic things of which everything is made. It is rather energy that makes up the world. Energy can be changed into motion, heat, light, and tension. Quantum physics suggests that there is no stuff that the world is made of. That the world has no content, but mathematical structure/shape. The electrons are tiny bits of matter as to be massless. What makes the different between one atom or another is the configuration, not the material matter. Pythagoras and plato claimed that there is nothing to the world but mathematical structures/geometrical figures. Quantum does not just challenge traditional ideas; it also challenges the language in which those ideas were phrased.
