Bernd
2021-10-16 04:49:58 ⋅ 2y
No. 124910
Explain me superposition of elementary particles.
Bernd
2021-10-16 07:25:52 ⋅ 2y
No. 124917
Particles don't exist. It's just a conventionality invented to make people imagine processes easier. In reality on such a small scale matter and energy (i.e. waves) are the same thing - if you can call it a "thing" (it's not). We are used to think that energy is just a property of some matter. You cannot say - hey, it's not an atom, it's a vibration. Because naturally it begets a question "vibration of what?" Our brains just not wired to think in such unnatural (for our worldview) manner.
PS: Yeah, I pulled it completely out of my ass because I'm bored.
Bernd
2021-10-16 07:38:02 ⋅ 2y
No. 124919
you can think of it this way, you can not measure quantum state of a particle without actually affecting its state, so quantum superposition is something like range of probabilities of what the state of particle will be when you actually mesure it.
Bernd
2021-10-16 08:02:31 ⋅ 2y
No. 124921
>>124919
so it actually has some unidentified state or it's kinda simplification because scientists are too stupid to measure it without "touching" it?
Bernd
2021-10-16 08:20:06 ⋅ 2y
No. 124923
>>124921
who knows, thats why there are so many theories trying to explain quantum world, probably those particles are just way too tiny and because of it too fast to be measured by anything that can pass that information back to us.
maybe its even physically impossible.
Bernd
2021-10-16 08:28:55 ⋅ 2y
No. 124926
>>124923
okay now explain experiment with 2 slits and wave function discontinuity
Bernd
2021-10-16 09:01:57 ⋅ 2y
No. 124928
>>124926
well its the same explaination, particle acts like a wave when not interfered with and shows particle properties when you observing it, act of observation effectively modifies its state.
Bernd
2021-10-16 10:40:29 ⋅ 2y
No. 124930
>>124921
>because scientists are too stupid to measure it without "touching" it?
there are methods for that btw, it's called "soft measurement" and it allows you to slowly extract information from a particle while disrupting it very little
it works because of the square between wavefuction and probability distribution: if you measure a particle fully, you will also disrupt it fully, but if you measure it say only 1/100 you will disrupt it only 1/10000