{"id":23578,"date":"2017-04-14T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23578"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:25:44","slug":"23578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23578","title":{"rendered":"If an electorate falls in the forest, is their voice heard?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If an electorate falls in the forest, is their voice heard?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Quizzically-inclined quantum physicists quench their intellectuality by quoting philosophers first, then their fellow scientists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is in fact questionable whether quantum physics would have come into being if not for George Berkeley\u2019s 1710, \u201cA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.\u201d<\/a> Berkeley\u2019s most famous saying is, \u2018esse est percipi,\u2019 or, \u2018to be is to be perceived.\u2019 He elaborated using the following examples:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objects of sense exist only when they are perceived: the trees therefore are in the garden, or the chairs in the parlour, no longer than while there is some body by to perceive them.\u201d So matters of matter exist only in our mind. It is critical to note that Berkeley never posed a question but rather he made a statement of the world view through his metaphysical personal prism.<\/p>\n

It was not until the June 1883 publication of the magazine The Chautauquan<\/i> that the question was put as such: \u201cIf a tree were to fall on an island where there were no human beings would there be any sound?\u201d Rather than pause to ponder, the answer followed that, \u201cNo. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion.\u201d<\/p>\n

A vexatious debate has ensued ever since, one that eventually stumped the great Albert Einstein who finally declared \u201cGod does not play dice.\u201d In recognizing this, Einstein also resolved himself to the quantum physics conclusion, that there is no way to precisely predict where individual electrons can be found \u2013 unless, that is, you\u2019re Divine.<\/p>\n

Odds are high that the establishment, which looks to ride away with upcoming European elections, is emboldened by quantum physics. The entrenched parties appear set to retain their power holds, in some cases by the thinnest of margins.<\/p>\n

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If an electorate falls in the forest, is their voice heard? Quizzically-inclined quantum physicists quench their intellectuality by quoting philosophers first, then their fellow scientists. It is in fact questionable whether quantum physics would have come into being if not for George Berkeley\u2019s 1710, \u201cA Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.\u201d Berkeley\u2019s most famous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15114,10726,14875,15113,15115],"class_list":["post-23578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-demartinobooth","tag-establishment","tag-metaphysics","tag-quantum-physics","tag-sense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23580,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions\/23580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}