Recent content by ynon

Bhobba: Thank you. I seek clarification and see why the term wave-particle is outdated. Still in lab at U of H and SWT light appeared to behave like waves or particles whether they were or were not. Maybe wave-appearing / particle-appearing duality would be more appropriate.Is there a word to...

Bhobba: I guess I felt the controversy recent because of older texts on the matter I do agree it is best not to get hung up on it though.Funny how people interpret things differently.Is a glass half full or half empty? A car accident can elicit many different but honest versions of the same...

rooton: Sorry about that . My source was 1977ub. I incorrectly remembered him saying large % instead of small and didnt notice as I was discounting them altogether anyway. I will double up on the ginko biloba. Works if you remember to take it. I don't believe consciousness causes wave function...

1977ub: I like to think my approach to QM is commonsensical though common sense may not always apply to QM at this time. I don't know the transition between QM and classic reality or if there even is one but I don't think consciousness has anything to do with it. The principles of QM were...

Mfb: " I don't see a realistic way how to change the orientation of the axis of rotation." You are largely correct of course but you may find this interesting. "It's not totally correct to say that nothing acting from on or within a planet can change its rotation. There are some things about...

Graw: Evolution is of course ongoing but I get your drift. Impossible to establish a time frame. We may evolve to a new similar species as we become extinct and live side by side for several thousands of years. There is precedence for this.If the extinction is part of a mass extinction the next...

1977ub: The accepted interpretation? Get a bunch of physicists, doctors, preachers or lawyers together and you get many so called " accepted interpretations". The state of your body or brain is not affected by someone or some thing by simply observing, visual or otherwise. Whatever state it is...

Atyy: "Ocean waves can be counted using integers, would it be equally as proper to refer to an ocean wave as a particle?" No, nor is that a valid analogy. A bowling ball has a wave function { no excuse for gutter balls} but it is not a particle.

atyy: "Ocean waves can be counted using integers, would it be equally as proper to refer to an ocean wave as a particle? " I don't see how one could do that but that doesn't preclude wave-particle duality at the quantum level. A bowling ball has a wave function but I don't think of it as a...

Orodruin: Thank you for the clarifications though it wasnt what I expected. What appeared to be contradictions that confused me were the fact that key words like mass and energy and relativistic mass have different meanings depending on context, convention and convenience. Photons have momentum...

[Moderator's note: Thread moved to Quantum Physics since it is more appropriate there.] O.K., I'm confused: According to How Stuff Works http://science.howstuffworks.com/higgs-boson1.htm "Can't matter just inherently have mass without the Higgs boson confusing things? Not according to the...

Nick666: It seems counter intuitive but is simple according to Relativity.How about this? To people on the machine the machine went around 7 times. According to people on the Earth it went around 7*5200 times, both opinions are equally valid.Neither opinion is preferential.Time slows to protect...

Scheuerf ; You asked: Why do objects that are farther away appear smaller. The moon for example looks small from earth, but I don't understand why. Reference https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-do-farther-away-objects-appear-smaller.822290/ An object's apparent size{ visual angle...

Jaropat: Steve Lajoie said: ↑ There is no wave. The graph of the probability distribution looks like a wave, and follows the similar math as a wave (but with phase differences that require in the most general case complex and not real solutions), but there is no medium to this wave, it is a...

Scarletpete: I think you nailed it. Wikipedia seems to agree with you and says:".Wave–particle duality is the fact that every elementary particle or quantic entity exhibits the properties of not only particles, but also waves. It addresses the inability of the classical concepts "particle" or...