Section 2 Risk Evaluation

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**Abstract**

*Marek Rozycki*

related to human activity.

**1. Introduction**

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**Keywords:** risk assessment, quantum physics assumptions

Application of Quantum Physics

Assumptions for Risk Assessment

Risk assessment is the result of assumptions of people performing it. Therefore, its use may be limited, because in principle it is difficult to predict events that we are not aware of. A certain solution to this problem seems to be the application of inception theory and quantum physics assumptions to describe future phenomena. The aim of the study will be to demonstrate the experience of risk assessment attempts using quantum physics assumptions. The current application of new assumptions for risk assessment in the case of road infrastructure allows for the thesis that a change in the approach to risk assessment is necessary in all areas

With the formulation of the theory of relativity, we gained a new tool with which to explain the world. It appears that the laws of quantum mechanics explain the processes governing the deepest layers of reality, operating at the levels of the smallest particles of our world. Through experiments and analyses, we can assume that these laws explain phenomena both on the micro- and macroscale. Rules different from classical physics explain the heretofore unexplained and, crucially, allow us to design new experiments within a world entirely unavailable to our senses. The analyses of the visible outcomes of interactions between components that is to say, events in the real world—return little information about the structure of the observed reality. By interpreting outcomes (events), instead of images of detailed relations, we project our expectations; the mathematical structures we use to explain outcomes are merely an attempt to fit our model to reality, and we can only determine the model's applicability when, and insofar as, the observable reality confirms our reasoning. Nevertheless, the fact remains that mathematics allows us to draw conclusions as to the rules governing the functioning of the world. The more appropriate the model we use, the better will be our results. If reality is like music, then the tools of analysis are our music score [1]. The notes we use will be the substance of music, but not the music itself. Similarly with analyses, a model of reality used for analysis is the score whose reality is created with many unspecified or loosely defined components. This may lead us to conclude that reality can only perform a score once it has been written. Such an anthropocentric approach leads us

to believe that we can influence and shape events. This is especially clear in analysing risk. We usurp the right to assess risk and event probability and expect

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