The Split Experiment

Discussion in 'Science and Nature' started by Timesplasher, Aug 29, 2014.

  1. How can such a minor conflict in observation open the way for so many major hypothetical realities?
     
     

     
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    Few people appreciate that fact! It is amazing. And to think, the guy that started it all with his 1905 Nobel paper on the photoelectric effect later was to argue against many of its implications.  :eek:
     
    I've always been amazed at not only this particularly fruitful example, but the multitude of conjectures and seeming mental leaps out into the almost speculative unknown that have turned out to be correct and fraught with implications. The history of working out the fundamental (and fairly deep) principles of genetics and molecular biology are yet another excursion into wonder and admiration for the researchers' insightful abilities.
     
  3. You call that minor? 
     
  4. because people over think things and somehow think the double slit experiment proves something that iit doesn't.

    All the double slit experiment proved is. Particle/wave duality

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    yes it was a pretty minor discovery

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  5. Particle-wave duality is a very big thing to some.
     
  6. I always considered it obvious even before the double slit experiment.

    I don't understand why its such a big deal. All matter moves in waves. Its self evident

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  7. The idea is that it was properly proven now. What this means for our world is still being called into question.
     
  8. it means nothing. Its science.

    Its just discovering how shit works. The meaning to life is what we chose it to be. For some its discovery.

    Discoveries by themselves have no meaning without it being given

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  9. Indeed.
     
  10. Sometimes the particles of our brains are on the same wave pickled. Sometime not :wub:

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  11. Open hearts and open minds are all we can hope for, in others and ourselves. I do enjoy your way of looking at things yuri.
     
  12. the experience of life can change drastically when experienced from a different perspective

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  13. How was it obvious for you?
     
  14. see above I explained it.

    Its self evident

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  15. You mean this "All matter moves in waves"?
     
  16. To me, the double slit experiment is important, not because of the fact that it proves the reality of duality being the archetypical template for the actual world's existence, but because it entails the avowal of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
     
  17. OK you got me there.

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  18. If anyone wants to gain some deeper insight into the mysterious quantum realm, check out Richard Feynman's book, "QED - A Strange Theory of Light". It's an explanation for the general reader of his 1965 Nobel Prize winning "Sum Over Paths"  approach to quantum photon interactions with matter (electrons) which gave rise to QED (Quantum ElectroDynamics). It easily handles the double slit and many other quantum photon related phenomena while giving the reader a mental image/tool that's useful for picturing in your mind how light can interact with itself - the example used for this is the phenomena of colors observed on an oil film and why and how they occur..
     
    QED has become the most precise physical tool ever developed for predicting subatomic scale physical phenomena, or any other phenomena, for that matter. A great deal of insight can be gained from reading that book. It's a classic intro, kind of like Bernard Schutz's,
    A First Course in General Relativity. I used to study this stuff - for decades - and can point any truly interested party toward some excellent sources for blowing your mind (in a good way).
     
    If you'd like an introduction into how the mathematical formalism (Dirac notation) works, check out Dr Physics on Youtube
     
    [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBh7Xqbh5JQ[/media]
     
  19. I don't mean to be a dick but how is it self evident? We don't really observe the wave pattern that occurs in matter so I don't see how it's self evident. What about it is self evident?
     
  20. #20 yurigadaisukida, Sep 5, 2014
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    Wave patterns are apperent in matter and everywhere you look.

    I noticed this at a really young age.

    It caused me to question what I knew about states of matter.

    Think about the difference between a solid anand.liquid. then realize its relative.

    Look at the sand.in the Sahara desert. Its an ocean literally. Same.with the rings of Saturn and even the movement of celestial bodies as.a.whole.

    An individual grain of sand is "solid" but on a macro scale move like a fluid.

    What happens.if you crash a car into a wall? The kinetic energy causes waves on an aatomic level.

    All energy is movement and its relative to matter. The consequence is that aall things move in waves.

    The double slit experiment proved this observation. The electrons are moving in waves. That is why when they fired single elecetrons they had a different result. Because a "wave" is a description of relative movement.

    The thing that one.must realize is that a "wave" in water is no different that a radio "wave"

    Its a wave of particle movement relative to eachother

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