Quantum mechanics does not describe the motion of photons, that is left to maxwells equations, which do an adequatly good job. Show me the Schroedinger equation for massless particles please.
The profoundity of the double slit experiment comes when you replace the beam of photons with a beam...
I have the solution to a particular D.E. (Airy's D.E.) which is in terms of Airy functions, namely a linear combination of Ai(x) and Bi(x), to which I have to fit to the boundary conditions. Both Ai(x) and Bi(x) can be cast into a form which involves both modified Bessel functions of the first...
What has the first law of thermodynamics got to do with anything. To recap the first law of thermodynamics is;
The internal energy of a system tends to increase if energy is added via heat and tends to decrease if energy is lost via work done to the system.
Paradox
If you went and measured the speed and position of every atom or particle at the start of the universe, where would you store this information and how would you calculate the time evolution of this system, as every particle would need at least another particle to store this information...
what about radioactive decay.we can only give an expected time of decay, and a half life of an amount of substance. No matter how closely we observe an excited atom, or how much information we obtained from it, we cannot predict with certainty when it will decay. Take in place of the coin toss...
The definition of randomness I have come to is this
A complete inability to predict the outcome of an event. I.e. one outcome has the same probabilty of occurance as any other. Thus a single coin tos is totally random. A dual coin toss may be random depending on what you are observing. If...
probability
How wrong is that! Even though HHH is not the event we are looking for, it can still happen and thus must be included in our calculation. The question maybe easier to understand if reformulated. What is the probabilty in 3 coin tosses of obtaining at least one H and one T. The...