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Quantum MechanicsDouble Hole Experiment ConclusionsQuantum mechanics is the world turned upside down. Tiny particles seem to react in very different ways than larger objects.In the double hole or double slit experiment, it is observed that a photon (tiny article) can travel as a wave and also as a particle at the same time. The experiment concludes that the photon wave is probabilistic. That means that if you increase the probability, for example, by looking at the photon or using detectors that you will destroy the probability wave. Once the wave is destroyed it will then arrive as a particle. In effect, look at the wave to destroy it and then the particle will arrive as a particle. What does this mean? The fact of observing the wave destroys it. The suggested conclusion is that nothing is real unless observed. In other words, if nobody sees it then it doesn’t exist. Much like the movie Matrix, the implications for our lives are huge. There are probably lots of things around us that would exist if we could merely observe them. Again, they don’t exist now, but will exist when we observe them. Cat in a BoxImagine a box with a partition inside. It is the same as the hole experiment except that you can fit a cat in either side of the box.Once you observe the particle the wave disappears and there is a 50% probability that the particle will be on either side of the box. Assume further that a detector will release poison gas on the side that the particle assumes after observation. One of the questions this thought experiment brings up is do you count the cat as an observer? No cats were harmed in this thought experiment. EPR ParadoxIf you take a particle and spin it, the adjoining particle will spin the opposite way: kind of like Yin and Yang. Then, if you take a particle and split it, even if it is light years away, it will instantly spin in the opposite direction in the same way. Thus, scientists think that particle communication travels faster than the speed of light.For further information, please visit http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Quantum%20mechanics.htm |
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