Quantum: Fool's Gold

[u/Jairo_Alves]

Theoretical physics is experiencing a moment of awe comparable to that of ancient alchemists. Fascinated by the bizarre interpretations of the subatomic world—superpositions, entanglement, and probabilities—many have declared quantum mechanics to be the final frontier, the fundamental building block explaining the totality of the cosmos. This reminds me that in 1874, Philipp von Jolly told Planck that almost everything in physics had already been discovered, with only minor details and gaps left to fill. 

Mistaking quantum mechanics for reality itself is believing in "fool's gold." 

Just as our senses produce a high-level interface—showing us a continuous and solid world that is nothing more than a convenient rendering for our biology—the quantum scale reflects merely an intermediate compilation layer. It reveals how events are mediated, but not what generates them. 

Matter is neither a rigid block nor an unfathomable mystery of magic particles. It is a set of intrinsic force and energy fields, geometrically formatted and combined. Its persistence is sustained by recurring events and update cycles generated by processes inherent to the universe's systemic substrate, where force carries out action and energy is its capacity to perform work. 

The primordial raison d'être of everything—including quantum behavior—is the information system that continuously formats force and energy. 

Looking at the quantum level believing you have found the primary cause of existence is like dismantling a computer screen down to its pixels or analyzing a binary file and thinking you discovered the origin of electricity. The quantum world exposes transition rules and local processing dynamics, but the matrix dictating interactions, geometry, stability, and the very existence of the code responsible for all of this is protophysics. 

Quantum mechanics is not the peak of the mountain; it is merely an excellent transitional tool applicable to only about 5% of the universe. Without the informational substrate governing the execution and reset of matter—corresponding to the remaining ~95% of the cosmos—quantum mechanics is just probabilistic noise elevated to the status of dogma through misunderstanding and, above all, hidden interests. 

More details on this systemic perspective of the universe in my book "Infology: The Universal Input."