- #1
- 3,012
- 42
In the 1999 paper published in Nature by Markus Arndt et al entitled "Wave-particle duality of C60 molecules" he states:
Couple questions:
1. Is this drop of 0.7 mm identical to what any object would experience?
2. If there were 2 of these fullerenes in a superposition out in space (ie: isolated), would they experience a gravitational attraction to one another?
3. If the 2 fullerenes are attracted to each other, how in principal (please omit any math) would one calculate this attractive force? The point being that these two particles don't have a specified location, so there would seem to be a logical problem with the two particles being able to interact through gravitational attraction.
The fullerenes are of course in this funny state of superposition as they are 'falling'.The effect of gravity also had to be considered in our set-up. For the most probable velocity (220 m s-1), the fullerenes fall by 0.7 mm while traversing the apparatus.
Couple questions:
1. Is this drop of 0.7 mm identical to what any object would experience?
2. If there were 2 of these fullerenes in a superposition out in space (ie: isolated), would they experience a gravitational attraction to one another?
3. If the 2 fullerenes are attracted to each other, how in principal (please omit any math) would one calculate this attractive force? The point being that these two particles don't have a specified location, so there would seem to be a logical problem with the two particles being able to interact through gravitational attraction.