https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...you-think/

So if I understand correctly, the theory here is that particles seemingly being in more than one place at once (quantum superstition) is really just the particle quickly "oscillating" between different locations.

It's sort of like how the old cathode ray tube TVs create their images. Even though it's only lighting up one part of the screen at once, it looks like it's doing every part of the screen at once because it oscillates so fast.

If this can be empirically demonstrated in multiple experiments, I would think this demonstrates that quantum phenomena that we ascribe to randomness is really deterministic oscillations within space.

Honestly, the article talks about weirdness but the whole idea of wave-particle duality has never really made sense to me. Ultimately, I think we'll find the universe is really a bunch of 3D pixels that can either contain or not contain a fundamental particle.

(05-27-2018 01:53 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...you-think/

So if I understand correctly, the theory here is that particles seemingly being in more than one place at once (quantum superstition) is really just the particle quickly "oscillating" between different locations.

It's sort of like how the old cathode ray tube TVs create their images. Even though it's only lighting up one part of the screen at once, it looks like it's doing every part of the screen at once because it oscillates so fast.

If this can be empirically demonstrated in multiple experiments, I would think this demonstrates that quantum phenomena that we ascribe to randomness is really deterministic oscillations within space.

Honestly, the article talks about weirdness but the whole idea of wave-particle duality has never really made sense to me. Ultimately, I think we'll find the universe is really a bunch of 3D pixels that can either contain or not contain a fundamental particle.

Lite Brite, making things with light.

(05-27-2018 01:53 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...you-think/

So if I understand correctly, the theory here is that particles seemingly being in more than one place at once (quantum superstition) is really just the particle quickly "oscillating" between different locations.

It's sort of like how the old cathode ray tube TVs create their images. Even though it's only lighting up one part of the screen at once, it looks like it's doing every part of the screen at once because it oscillates so fast.

If this can be empirically demonstrated in multiple experiments, I would think this demonstrates that quantum phenomena that we ascribe to randomness is really deterministic oscillations within space.

Honestly, the article talks about weirdness but the whole idea of wave-particle duality has never really made sense to me. Ultimately, I think we'll find the universe is really a bunch of 3D pixels that can either contain or not contain a fundamental particle.

So instead of quantum mechanics, Occam's razor.

Theoretical physics is just really not understandable to anyone not in the field. Yes, I get the dual universes and all that, but that doesn't mean it makes sense.

Photons are pretty weird....

This is a little off topic from the OP, but I always thought this was mind blowing. When photons are produced in the heart of the sun, it typically takes anywhere between 10,000-200,000 years bumping around the various layers of the sun, until one day... they've escaped the sun. From that point on, they obviously travel at the speed of light (duh).

But since the closer you travel to the speed of light, the slower time is perceived....And since photons travel at the speed of light, they essentially do not experience time. They are perpetual.

Once that photon breaches the surface of the sun, it (relative to the photon) instantaneously travels billions of billions of light years in what said photon perceives as no time at all.