MYSTICAL MECHANICS

The consequences of Quantum Mechanics
Were unacceptable to many physicists
Including Albert Einstein.
Experiments were devised to demonstrate
Their ineluctable absurdity.

Nils Bohr used to say that
The significance of QM
Always made him dizzy.*
Wrenched from the balm of common sense
Cast adrift from the calm of classic determinism.

If randomness, complexity and irreversibility
Prevail in the sub-atomic world, the impossibility
Of a single divine point of view
Surveying the whole of reality
Is made ever more manifest.

When we sunder the connection
Of the world to its description
We enter the realm of Quantum Mysticism:
Where the sensations of our body
And of our minds are taken to be illusory;

Where the world is a dream
And our dreams are the world;
Where the phantasms of aging, sickness and death
Are renounced in the pursuit of a Reality
That transcends the physics of the quotidian.

*Order out of Chaos, 1984, Ilya Prigogine