Wouldn't everything be distorted?

[Dillon_Reyna]

Considering the fact that everything is made out of particles small enough to be affected by Quantum Mechanics, shouldn't everything be randomly broken up and scattered across the multi-verse?

[mississippichem]

Considering the fact that everything is made out of particles small enough to be affected by Quantum Mechanics, shouldn't everything be randomly broken up and scattered across the multi-verse?

 

Care to explain the question in a bit more detail?

[Dillon_Reyna]

Care to explain the question in a bit more detail?

 

Exactly what details?

[mooeypoo]

Exactly what details?

 

I think you assume that behavior in quantum level is chaotic and unpredictable. That's not true, though. It is much more energetic (a lot more 'events' happen a lot faster in the quantum level) but there ARE rules of conduct so-to-speak. The main thing is that it's probability-based. So while if you look at a SINGLE particle you can't tell where it is 100% but rather where it is according to some probabilistic equation (also, either where it is or what it's velocity, if I simplify things a bit) -- still, these are probabilistic, and when you talk about billions and billions of particles, the behavior of the *system* in general goes towards the average.

 

It balances itself out.

 

 

Does this explain things better?

[Dillon_Reyna]

That actually put it into perspective for me pretty well! Thanks!

[questionposter]

Considering the fact that everything is made out of particles small enough to be affected by Quantum Mechanics, shouldn't everything be randomly broken up and scattered across the multi-verse?

 

Quantum mechanics deals much with the small scale. For this reason, things are not distorted. Particles have a wave-function which extends indefinitely through space, however, there are specific places where particles like jump around the most, and those places are only a few nano-meters big.

Edited August 26, 2011 by questionposter