<<What is time? >>. That is the challenging question that has been asked by Antony to an irresponsive
audience during the last scientific research presentation. For most of the people, that was a simple
question part of a presentation but for me that was more than a random query: that was my first
contact with the fabulous world of Quantum Physics! the concept developed were not only grandiose
but also disturbing. Disturbing because they were against my formal conception of the world. Disturbing
because in a fraction of second, they destroyed years of physics study on which I had built a solid
conviction and model of the world. I spent the whole night reading physics books, watching videos on
quantum physics, questioning Jean on the nature of this new subject for me. i had a lot of questions
but not enough responses. At the end of the next day, a Sunday, I was “intellectually lost” due to all
the quantum theories I had “discovered”: consciousness, Schrodinger’s cat experiment, double slit
experiment, the measurement problem…. The implications were too difficult to admit. A particle
behave differently when we decide to look at it namely when we decide to be conscious of its existence,
otherwise it doesn’t exist! Since we are made of particles, does it imply that we are the ones creating
our own reality? I don’t know. I started at this moment to doubt about what I had considered as
reality since I “exist”. Beyond the consequences it has on my behavior, I saw a bigger implication for
Africa as an entire continent! It is written on the dollar: <<in God we trust>> as symbol of American
power. America imposed its reality (its power) to the world. it is now a superpower. It is said in Africa:
<<Africans have been cursed by God>>. a fact that most of the people9african particularly) believe
in. the common belief has become a REALITY! Africa is super poor. According to quantum physics, we
create the Reality. Does it mean that it can explain development? I don’t know. Does it mean quantum
physics can explain Africa’s situation. Nobody did a research on that! Unfortunately, my physics teacher
cannot help me because he didn’t know that much about geography and development. Also, My
Geography teacher cannot answer me because she doesn’t know anything about quantum theory. That
is the kind of answer that can only be found in a scientific research class and that I would be working on.
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