When I hear the secretary of homeland security, the President, or other democrats and their minions in the media speak about the border without acknowledging the bad policies emplaced by Biden in 2021, I wonder whether or not I have left the macro world of everyday existence and entered the strange world of quantum mechanics, where particles can be waves, and waves can be particles, where cats are alive and simultaneously dead, and light traveling to any place in the universe takes all possible paths to get there—much like the many paths taken by migrants from all over the world to reach America's southern border.
Superposition
In his famous thought experiment, Erwin Schrödinger imagines a cat in superposition, that is, both dead and alive. The cat in both states sits in a box with a radioactive substance that upon randomly decaying, releases a poisonous gas. Is the cat dead? Is it alive? There’s no way of knowing the cat’s status short of opening the box to look. No one knows the fate of the cat until someone makes that observation. Erwin’s Gedankenexperiment calls to mind the duality of light demonstrated in the two-slit experiment: Light is an electromagnetic wave when you want to observe it as a wave and a particle called a photon when you want to observe it as a particle. In other words, the observer plays a fundamentally important role in determining the quantum reality of cat and light.
The Box
For the past 3 1/2 years, the secretary of homeland security has gone before Congress to claim that the border is secure. Essentially, he has said repeatedly that there was no crisis, but mostly he obfuscated or skirted the direct questions that only
Republicans seemed to ask. He has not led a bipartisan group to observe the border, especially at key crossing points for migrants. Few, if any Biden supporters, have looked into "the box.”
The Observation
In the case of quantum physics, the observer does not have to be human. It can be a detector of some sort affixed to a recording device, just like the detector you call a radio which detects or “observes” radio waves that you cannot see and reports the “observation” to you through amplified sound. If you leave the radio on in your absence, it will still detect the radio waves. If the radio is attached to a recording device, you can find out later what had been broadcast.
But let's stick with a human observer, one that is unbiased and logical who goes to the border, sees hundreds to thousands of illegal migrants entering the country, and videotapes what he sees. Can he demonstrate that superposition exists, that is, a circumstance in which there is both runaway migration and simultaneously no migration? Remember that the act of observation essentially seals the reality.
To determine whether or not, the cat was alive or dead, an observer has to look into the box. Now consider Joe Biden to be the observer. What did he see when he went to Brownsville Texas, where the Lone Star state through the efforts of its Governor had reduced the number of illegal migrants crossing into the country? Joe thought he was looking into the box with a cat, but in fact, he was looking into a different box, a box without a cat—live or dead. That same box, which is the elongate border of the United States, was observed about the same time by Donald Trump. What Trump saw when he looked into ‘the box” was a different state of existence. He saw the migrant situation very much alive, whereas Joe Biden saw the migrant situation very much dead.
The quantum world is radically different from the macro world in which we live our daily lives; Superposition and entanglement make that fact clear. By comparison with our macro world, the quantum world is bizarre. But is it so different? Has the Biden administration emplaced superposition and entanglement in the macro world? The members of that administration look into the box and see one thing, whereas the rest of us look into the same box and see something entirely different. Most of us see thousands of immigrants rushing the border, invading sanctuary, cities, and using resources that would otherwise be devoted to citizens.
What if there's a flaw in our powers of observation. Certainly, most Americans do not see what the Biden administration's officials see. Most see live migrants; the Biden administration believes the issue is dead unless it can use it for political purposes to fault Republicans for Joe Biden's actions.
Bizarre World
Quantum mechanics has led to the “many worlds” interpretation of existence. You have probably seen the concept portrayed in movies. The Biden administration has made the “many worlds” interpretation a reality for Americans. As in those movies, the beings in one “dimension” or “world” have little or no contact with beings in another dimension. The world Joe Biden observes might be contemporaneous with the world that you observe, but it is different by an unknown number of orders of magnitude from your world.
Bizarre, isn't it?
Superposition
In his famous thought experiment, Erwin Schrödinger imagines a cat in superposition, that is, both dead and alive. The cat in both states sits in a box with a radioactive substance that upon randomly decaying, releases a poisonous gas. Is the cat dead? Is it alive? There’s no way of knowing the cat’s status short of opening the box to look. No one knows the fate of the cat until someone makes that observation. Erwin’s Gedankenexperiment calls to mind the duality of light demonstrated in the two-slit experiment: Light is an electromagnetic wave when you want to observe it as a wave and a particle called a photon when you want to observe it as a particle. In other words, the observer plays a fundamentally important role in determining the quantum reality of cat and light.
The Box
For the past 3 1/2 years, the secretary of homeland security has gone before Congress to claim that the border is secure. Essentially, he has said repeatedly that there was no crisis, but mostly he obfuscated or skirted the direct questions that only
Republicans seemed to ask. He has not led a bipartisan group to observe the border, especially at key crossing points for migrants. Few, if any Biden supporters, have looked into "the box.”
The Observation
In the case of quantum physics, the observer does not have to be human. It can be a detector of some sort affixed to a recording device, just like the detector you call a radio which detects or “observes” radio waves that you cannot see and reports the “observation” to you through amplified sound. If you leave the radio on in your absence, it will still detect the radio waves. If the radio is attached to a recording device, you can find out later what had been broadcast.
But let's stick with a human observer, one that is unbiased and logical who goes to the border, sees hundreds to thousands of illegal migrants entering the country, and videotapes what he sees. Can he demonstrate that superposition exists, that is, a circumstance in which there is both runaway migration and simultaneously no migration? Remember that the act of observation essentially seals the reality.
To determine whether or not, the cat was alive or dead, an observer has to look into the box. Now consider Joe Biden to be the observer. What did he see when he went to Brownsville Texas, where the Lone Star state through the efforts of its Governor had reduced the number of illegal migrants crossing into the country? Joe thought he was looking into the box with a cat, but in fact, he was looking into a different box, a box without a cat—live or dead. That same box, which is the elongate border of the United States, was observed about the same time by Donald Trump. What Trump saw when he looked into ‘the box” was a different state of existence. He saw the migrant situation very much alive, whereas Joe Biden saw the migrant situation very much dead.
The quantum world is radically different from the macro world in which we live our daily lives; Superposition and entanglement make that fact clear. By comparison with our macro world, the quantum world is bizarre. But is it so different? Has the Biden administration emplaced superposition and entanglement in the macro world? The members of that administration look into the box and see one thing, whereas the rest of us look into the same box and see something entirely different. Most of us see thousands of immigrants rushing the border, invading sanctuary, cities, and using resources that would otherwise be devoted to citizens.
What if there's a flaw in our powers of observation. Certainly, most Americans do not see what the Biden administration's officials see. Most see live migrants; the Biden administration believes the issue is dead unless it can use it for political purposes to fault Republicans for Joe Biden's actions.
Bizarre World
Quantum mechanics has led to the “many worlds” interpretation of existence. You have probably seen the concept portrayed in movies. The Biden administration has made the “many worlds” interpretation a reality for Americans. As in those movies, the beings in one “dimension” or “world” have little or no contact with beings in another dimension. The world Joe Biden observes might be contemporaneous with the world that you observe, but it is different by an unknown number of orders of magnitude from your world.
Bizarre, isn't it?
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