I am completely fascinated by the alternate reality of Quantum Mechanics, the machinery beneath the matter. The inability to resolve Newtonian Physics with the subatomic world – and really, to even imagine how the two are even related – belies the only truth: we can never really know anything.
The Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman once stated, “If you thought science was certain – well that was just an error on your part.” Although we may never fully understand the machinations of the universe – currently, we understand extremely little. In fact, the matter we are made of is only five percent of the known universe. Thirty percent is dark matter and sixty-five percent has been coined with the equally ominous term, dark energy. The connotation of the word “dark” is perhaps too negative, it simply refers to the fact that we are unable to see them as they do not register within the electromagnetic spectrum. I wonder sometimes if these things which exist beyond the limits of our comprehension are perhaps more beautiful than light itself. Perhaps not. But the joy is within the process of observation and discovery.
Richard Feynman also said, “Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which ‘are’ there.” The further we move forward in our ability to observe our universe, the more complex and beautiful it becomes. Here are some scenes of the subatomic realm.
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