Universal Journal of Physics and Application Vol. 2(1-2), pp. 39 - 48
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CONSIDERATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE WORDS "IS" AND "EXISTS"

AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION: Janik J.A.

ABSTRACT

Two roads of thinking are presented in this essay concerning the word “IS”. One is suggested by quantum mechanics, which introduces into physics considerations what does it mean that something IS. The second road was in the past discussed by philosophers, of whom three are presented: S. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Heidegger and Edith Stein. Both roads show a lack of duration of NOW, which in quantum mechanics may be connected with the reduction of the wave packet. A series of reductions (or of NOW) leads to creation of time. “Something IS” is being distinguished from “Something EXISTS”. Existence contains a fate produced by the time evolution.