Recent content by Ross D

All of the other fundamental of forces of nature, such as electromagnetism, are mediated by what's called gauge bosons. These things transfer energy between particles, thereby creating the forces we see. However, all attempts to view gravity in this fashion have failed, probably due to the fact...

The wave function is not measured directly, but instead it is defined in terms of three things that can be measured directly: energy, probability, and frequency. The wave function has defined mathematical relationships to all of these, so you can use measurements of these to determine the wave...

What I mean by that statement is not that you can't use imaginary numbers in modeling, but that they are not what is actually happening in the real world. For example, you cannot have an imaginary amount of ducks, but it is possible to create a complex function that gives you the amount of...

Personally, I think that it is real. This can be demonstrated by the relationship E=hv, where v is the wave function's frequency. If the wave function was not real, it would be very hard to explain why it's generating a real energy. Therefore, the wave function is probably real, and this can...