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Sparky: You are falling to a common fallacy of quantum mechanics. People who think they understand quantum mechanics (unlikely, as the “father” of the science, Werner Heisenberg, stated that nobody fully understands it) like to apply all sorts of metaphysical aspects from it. Truth is, its just another branch of physics, like momentum, gravity, or nuclear power. There’s nothing “special” about it, and certainly nothing that proves that there’s a Ribono Shel Olom. “Observing” a particle is just a fancy way of saying “shooting smaller particles at it”. If the particle is small enough, the smaller particles (usually photons) knock it off course making it impossible to measure. Hence the Double Slit Experiment and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Theorom.
Do you know why Chazal say that looking up from Torah to say ?? ??? ???? ?? is chayiv misa? Because the person is learning the wrong way! How do we know? Because he sees the beauty in a tree, but not in Torah! If you need to look to science to see the “proof” of Hashem Yisborach, you are looking in the wrong place.
Joseph: Read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time or Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe
Special Relativity: There’s no such thing as “how fast is it going?” There’s only “how much faster than the other thing is it going?” All speeds are relative to something else. In our context, that’s usually the Earth. The one exception is light. No matter how fast you are going, the photons that make up light will always be traveling 299,792,458 meters per second faster than you.
General Relativity: Everything in physical existence is in a four dimensional medium called “the space-time continuum” (our three dimensions, plus time which in higher physics is treated as just another dimension). Picture it as an endless sheet of rubber. Everything with mass “bends” space-time, bigger objects bend it even more. So when you come near a really massive object, you start slipping down the a slope in space-time. That’s what we call gravity.