Blacknad wrote:
"I am very conscious that I am trying to grasp at concepts that are beyond me, but I have to try."

Actually you are trying to grasp concepts that are beyond everybody. That is why the effort to understand belongs to the most brilliant of those among us. A category to which I do not, alas, belong. But why not aspire to be the best you can be?

We can link cause and affect at a macro, non-quantum, level. But it seems that there is a point at which, as things get smaller and faster, quantum effects become more important until at the level of the photon they are about all there is.

I'm not sure that I could define a law of quantum anything and collapsing wave functions is more a point of view than a serious theory in 2007.

DA Morgan