2012, Helsinki. We spent the evening with two of my friends in my wonderful apartment in Helsinki. We were talking about my late father and one of them wanted to borrow a couple of books he had written. My father was a philosopher, mathematician and physicist. Professor of particle physics at the University of Helsinki, who at one time separated theoretical physics into its own subject and founded a department of nuclear physics alongside it. Theory and research.
During his retirement, he wrote several books about the 'loophole' introduced by quantum physics, which in its 'probabilities' enables God's intervention. He spoke of 'particle's free will'. The behavior of one particle cannot be mathematically predicted, but with the help of statistical calculation (quantum mechanics) we have been able to create things like laser, transistor and microprocessor.
Quote from Google 2019: 'The quantum computer completed the calculation in 200 seconds, when a normal 'classical supercomputer' would have taken 10,000 years.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9bsO7NLY7A Born in 1916, my father studied quantum mechanics under its founders in Denmark. So a big 'fan' already from the early days, when there weren't many believers in it and Einstein was opposing the whole idea of 'probabilities' theory was based on.
I was in the kitchen cooking when suddenly there was more light. A light was coming in the hallway. The light switch there had been out of order for the entire duration of the previous tenants, i.e. at least 17 years so far. During their 15 years of living there, the light had only come on twice: When a close relative and good friend died. Now my father was there to listen to what was being said. It didn't stay on for long, maybe half an hour and ended up in the same state as before: Nothing happens when I flicked the switch.