29. The Quantum Boundary

Chemistry: The Quantum Boundary

Chemicals are definitely physical, but chemistry is the boundary between the physical and the quantum mechanical.

Because the chemicals themselves are physical there is always a physical part of chemistry. But the actual process of chemical bonding is quantum mechanical. In the bonding process there are a number of issues that are related to orbitals from two combinants developing into a single molecular bond.

According to the Schrodinger equation a "particle" (another word for the electron in a bond) follows a distribution based on the constrictions (contextual rules) it is under. The probability distribution has to fit these constrictions much like the limitation on possible notes in various musical instruments based on physical constrictions in the instrument. The probability distribution of a particle or the particles in a constraint (including the bond constraints) are based on solutions to the Schrodinger equation. But if "measured" the particle "measures" to be at one particular place.

In a chemical bond we have these probabilities involved in the bond. Note that in a bonding and bond formation the particle does not ever need to be in one particular location. It is not being measured, ever, for location but is just present following the probabilities that the bond and bond changes allow. The particles - here electrons - dance to the constrictions that define the bond or the forming bond. Their presence seems to be necessary (like the child to be seen and not heard) but the bond is defined by the constrictions that the electrons are under not the specific position of the electrons. The exact position of any electron does not effect the bonding process, just that they are in the correct probability distribution.

If we create a particle through some nuclear experiment, the event that causes an apparent particle creates a set of constrictions (limitations, division of form, or the like). The constrictions form a probability distribution in line with the constrictions. This probability distribution is the particle we "see". But the reality is the constrictions. These constrictions are the building blocks (object) of the quantum world. The particle is just a property (attribute) of the constriction building block.

What does it look like for the constraints to be the building blocks rather than the particles? With particles as the building blocks the constraints are surmised to grow mathematically out of the presence and context of the particle. If the constrains are the building blocks then the particles are what grows out of the constraints. Then the "creation" of a particle is the creation of a set of constraints that grow a particle or the splitting of something into twinned particles. The constraints are created out of a large energy burst that causes something we can "see" like a particle or twinned particles but the real thing created was some kind of constriction that is provided by energy being concentrated in narrow limits (through limitations or separations). The particle is a seen property of the real existence, the energy constraints of the process. The particle is a property, the entity is the constraints.

Jerome Heath