Thousands of years before Christ, humans lifted their gaze to the sky and asked: "How did all that we see come to be?"
In the clay tablets of Mesopotamia and the papyri of Egypt, a common narrative prevails: The universe was born from a "void," a sea of chaos, or the thought waves of a divine mind. The human mind back then read the language of the universe through symbols and gods.
Millennia later, when we step into the laboratories of modern quantum physics, what is the landscape we encounter?
Curiously enough, the ancient sages' intuition that "everything is bound together by invisible threads" confronts us today as the concept of quantum entanglement. The idea in ancient cosmology that the universe is shaped by the observer's mind, by a divine consciousness, nearly mirrors the "observer effect" in quantum mechanics. In other words, at the subatomic level, particles exist as a cloud of probabilities until we look at them just as in ancient mythologies, the creation of order (cosmos) from chaos is brought about by a "gaze" or a "word."
While searching for the mind of the gods, ancient humans were actually sensing the nature of matter and the indivisible fabric of the universe on an intuitive level. Mythology is not a fairy tale; it is the language of humanity's first and purest intuitive bond with the universe. Quantum physics, on the other hand, rewrites this very same language, this time with the sharp pen of mathematics and the laboratory.
Perhaps the universe has been whispering the exact same story from the very beginning: We are merely a part of the universe that observes, thinks about, and comes to know itself. What they called the mind of the gods is perhaps nothing other than the colossal, entangled, and infinitely probabilistic universe itself.
Welcome to our Quantum series (3) post :)
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