The title of this blog post is what I have up as my "Religious Views" on Facebook. These views are baffling to many, intriguing to few, and understood by a small majority that has expressed wavelengthness as a response. Wavelengthness will henceforth be the term used to refer to the state of being on the same wavelength as someone.
QPK is not so much a religion as it is my view on religion itself. Religion tries to explain something outside our realm of comprehension. In the compression process that the information must go through to be understood by us, there is inevitably:
- Distortion: loss of meaning as the information is translated into simpler form
- Variation: different choices on how to simplify the information
Say we were to take two quantum physics professors to teach their material to two different kindergarten classrooms. As with religions attempting to explain Truth:
- There is an intrinsic, shared Truth to what they teach
- This Truth will be incomprehensible to the audience
Then, in a completely subjective procedure, each takes their best stab at creating a model that the children will be able to grasp and that will be most representative of the actual Truth. These are essentially metaphors. Every religion is a metaphor for Truth, and it's all about finding the one that resonates with us.
The best thing for the kindergarteners to do is to hear the simplified lesson from as many different professors as possible. Then they can choose which explanation gives them the greatest feeling of Understanding, and accept that the other kids may better understand the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle with M&Ms representing particles. Mutually accepting different preferences for understanding waves - now that's wavelengthness.