tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897235423812277683.post4469777212819241117..comments2022-05-03T15:16:51.392+01:00Comments on Ramblings of a Short Fat Failed Physicist: Interpretation of quantum mechanics part I (Again)Chris Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03530660309554429226noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897235423812277683.post-72667084815739235492012-05-26T17:48:20.632+01:002012-05-26T17:48:20.632+01:00Thanks for the thumbs up Beware I do stress the st...Thanks for the thumbs up Beware I do stress the statisitcal aspects a lot more than most people would. So you are not getting the orthodox view.Chris Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03530660309554429226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897235423812277683.post-89541112561797293612012-05-25T08:17:27.021+01:002012-05-25T08:17:27.021+01:00I love this post Chris. I'm going to bookmark...I love this post Chris. I'm going to bookmark and then review it once I have finished The Quantum World, next year. Hopefully be able to provide a more intelligent response then.<br /><br />Excellent stuff though<br /><br />DanThe Particle Jedihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05246950374445940520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897235423812277683.post-67215414046737295842012-05-24T21:47:31.130+01:002012-05-24T21:47:31.130+01:00Well the reason why I subscribe to the view that e...Well the reason why I subscribe to the view that electrons are essentially particles and not waves is because<br /><br />i) They have properties that are essentially individualistic namely mass and charge and intrinsic spin<br /><br />ii) When one actually looks at the interference pattern it is the cumulative build up of individual events whicn only after a significant number have built up is interprable as a wave pattern<br /><br />iii) OK of course that implies the trajectories that an electron traverses is not a classical trajectory but then either the Bohm theory or Feynman's path integral approach would claim that was the case anyway.<br /><br /><br />So my bottom line is that 'quantons' behave individually as particles but collectively as waves. Given that an approach such as Marcella's spells that out in detail then thats good enough for me. All the usual talk of a particle splitting in two just does not make any sense. Of course that means one has to move away from seeing the 'wavefunction' of quantum mechanics being applicable to an individual particle or pairs of particles. Just as eg the Binomial probability distribution only applies to a number of events and not an individual event. Of course as I explained (or at least demonstrated) on my earlier posts about two state systems in order to account for quantum physics. one has to make the move from probabilities being real numbers to being the square root of probability amplitudes once that is done all the allegedly bizzare effects associated with quantum mechanics can be explained.Chris Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03530660309554429226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897235423812277683.post-37236394906342285862012-05-22T21:54:00.463+01:002012-05-22T21:54:00.463+01:00Ah, I can!
Perhaps you can explain something that...Ah, I can!<br /><br />Perhaps you can explain something that I've never been able to understand: given that an electron can behave as a wave or particle, why do we assume that it must be either?<br /><br />Why don't we treat it as something else entirely?<br /><br />arb mate<br /><br />nellieWebmaster@Boroughmuirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04398432289763628399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897235423812277683.post-45820157595254017072012-05-22T21:48:16.808+01:002012-05-22T21:48:16.808+01:00Hmm, let's see if I can comment...Hmm, let's see if I can comment...Webmaster@Boroughmuirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04398432289763628399noreply@blogger.com