Can Reality Vanish?
Quantum Mechanics deals with incredibly small objects and this makes it difficult to visualize what's happening. But let's bring a quantum object up to desktop size and see how it might behave.
Sitting on your desk is a sphere. As in mathematics, let's assume an axiom - your sphere is an information void. What's that? It's a closed surface which allows absolutely no knowledge of its interior. The interior of the object is off limits to any form of investigation. Think of its surface as an information barrier that stops any information about the interior from getting out.
So what properties does your sphere have?
Well, if you can never have any knowledge of the interior you come to a simple conclusion, the object is totally defined by whatever is on its surface. The object certainly looks 3D but can be fully described as if it was 2D. Interesting object!
Your sphere has no reality inside - just like bubbles in a liquid have no liquid inside. If you own one please handle it carefully!
Do such objects really exist? I'm not sure, but a Black Hole may be a good approximation. An elementary particle such as an electron may be another example.
Content written and posted by Ken Abbott abbottsystems@gmail.com