Terry,
Quantum Physics can become religion when you lose track of that which you seek to describe and the manner in which the description bleeds over into metaphor.
The strange conclusion of the QM theorists are not inventions to support their beliefs. They are an honest attempt by the greatest minds to explain their data, the results of their experiments. What they found inside the atom was not expected, it is NOT MATTER as we know it in the macro world. Our world reality IS NOT made up of the stuff we perceive it to be, at the subatomic level. It is NOTHING BUT ENERGY interactions that we PERCEIVE to be solid.
WHAT IF MATTER CAN COME INTO BEING?; Yes, if matter could increase or decrease IN TOTAL my concept would be wrong.
But, then--if pigs had wings they could probably fly.
It does, Terry. If you believe that atoms are matter and the particles the make up atoms are small bits of matter, then matter does 'pop in and out of existence' constantly. Although atoms are constantly exchanging parts with each other, sub-atomic particles are emerging from no where and also disappearing into no where all the time. This is the kind of data QM has to deal with and come up with a theory to explain it. They do not sound strange because it has become a religion. It sounds strange because what they try to explain defies Newtonian Physics, which we experience in this (what we call) real world.
Steve
