Thanks for all of the information. :-)
When I say kids... I mean 10 or 11 year olds. I am trying to keep a complex topic as simple as possible but still have some validity. I think kids need a basic grounding in how to visualize some of these concepts before they start diving into a lot of...
The reason I am asking is that I want to be able to explain EM waves to young kids in a way that makes logical sense using things they can experience and understand. I think it is important for younger kids to picture some of the concepts before diving into the math. You always see EM waves...
I am not looking for formulas or references to theories... this is just a general question about how to visualize/explain EM waves.
Are EM waves such as light, radio waves, etc. really more like pulses and we just measure their intensity from a static point as a wave line? I thought I...
I am looking for a fairly simplistic answer to why different "shells" in atoms can only hold a specific number of electrons. There is so much based on valence electrons and how many electrons make a full shell but, do we know why atoms "seek" a full outer shell? It seems like there should be a...
So, maybe I have found my visualization... The host might be a little dramatic but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yWv5dqSKk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
As well as...
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/quantum-mechanics-1020.html*
If find the pilot wave idea very interesting...
I guess what I am trying to get straight in my head is... If we call a particle a "packet of waves" then a particle is basically made of waves (some how different from EM waves)... Unless i am missing something. If a particle is basically made of a packet of waves (and a particle is a thing)...
I am trying to think of a way to visualize the dual nature of particles. If a particle can be represented as a wave and if that wave collapses when measured... would the following be a decent analogy? If not, does anyone have a good way of visualizing this?
A summary of what I am trying to...
I think it's awesome.
So, in my mind I think about how we can represent things with mathmatical equations but - does that equation equal a "thing" or just a representation of how that thing acts? You can have an equation for a wave but would a wave "as a thing" exist as something to be...
I found this info interesting... http://open-site.org/Science/Physics/Modern/Luminiferous_Aether
Maybe there is no medium *required* in our mathematical equations but if dark matter is so prevalent ... what prevents the idea that EM waves might propagate through dark matter?
So, I have been doing a lot of reading. I have an 8 year old girl that has renewed my interest in physics, chemistry, biology, etc.
I find it interesting that we say that Electromagnetic Waves travel through a vacum. We know that mechanical waves like those propagated in liquids and gas...
But would CMBR cause such large structures? Or, is it gravity that takes over and makes the Universe the way we see it today? That was my understanding. I have no background to validate or test any of this but, I think it is interesting to think of gravity as something that is not a force in...
I have seen a few other similar posts but wanted to add my thoughts. Is gravity the space between bubbles of dark matter. Matter that we know and dark matter are like oil and water? Gravity is the force created in the structures between the bubbles. Is that why we see the current structure of...