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Mystery of Spinning Atomic Fragments Solved at Last

5 points by LinuxBender 6y ago

peter_d_sherman 6y ago
I submit a simple thought experiment to all of the quantum researchers out there... I give you the smallest of small subparticles... Just one of these, mind you! Not two, not ten, not thousands or millions, but one, just one! Your goal (your mission, so to speak, if you choose to accept it!) -- is to take this one smallest of all small subparticles, and have it emulate all other particles, including much larger sub-particles and particles! Including groups of sub-particles, and groups of particles! And mixed groups of particles and sub-particles! That is, more than one of these entities -- at the same time! Could you do it? Could you make that single, smallest of small sub-particles -- emulate all of the others, including non-homogeneous groups of other types of sub-particles and particles? ? Impossible you say? Well, OK, maybe it is! But, let's take the simplest of all of these tasks, and look at it; reason about it a little bit, and see if it doesn't get us somewhere! Let's consider what would need to be done if our "challenge" -- was to only get our single smallest of sub-particles to clone itself; that is; as our first task, all we want to do is take that single smallest of sub-particles -- and clone it. Just once. So we'd have, in effect, two of the smallest of sub-particles. Could we do that? Well, maybe that too is impossible... But, what if instead of saying "clone it", we said "we wanted it to exist in two places at the same time"... Would that better? That's a little bit better; but it still doesn't get us to our goal... But now, how about if it were permissible to be just at different places at different times? Well sure, why not! We can do that fairly easily. Just move it to a different place, and we're done! Two different positions at two different points in TIME. Not exactly a clone; a "duplication" of the original particle, but in TIME not in SPACE (which is what we want!) -- but otherwise not too bad! But now, suppose we could do two things... Suppose we could subdivide time itself into infinitely small slices... And... Suppose we could get that smallest of small sub-particles -- to move at infinite speed... Well, if we could do that... we could get that smallest of small sub-particles -- to alternate back and forth between two places at speeds so fast that it would sure look like there are two particles even though in actuality there was only one... Perhaps that understanding would be a good theoretical starting point -- for solving this challenge...

5 points by LinuxBender 6y ago

I submit a simple thought experiment to all of the quantum researchers out there... I give you the smallest of small subparticles... Just one of these, mind you! Not two, not ten, not thousands or millions, but one, just one! Your goal (your mission, so to speak, if you choose to accept it!) -- is to take this one smallest of all small subparticles, and have it emulate all other particles, including much larger sub-particles and particles! Including groups of sub-particles, and groups of particles! And mixed groups of particles and sub-particles! That is, more than one of these entities -- at the same time! Could you do it? Could you make that single, smallest of small sub-particles -- emulate all of the others, including non-homogeneous groups of other types of sub-particles and particles? ? Impossible you say? Well, OK, maybe it is! But, let's take the simplest of all of these tasks, and look at it; reason about it a little bit, and see if it doesn't get us somewhere! Let's consider what would need to be done if our "challenge" -- was to only get our single smallest of sub-particles to clone itself; that is; as our first task, all we want to do is take that single smallest of sub-particles -- and clone it. Just once. So we'd have, in effect, two of the smallest of sub-particles. Could we do that? Well, maybe that too is impossible... But, what if instead of saying "clone it", we said "we wanted it to exist in two places at the same time"... Would that better? That's a little bit better; but it still doesn't get us to our goal... But now, how about if it were permissible to be just at different places at different times? Well sure, why not! We can do that fairly easily. Just move it to a different place, and we're done! Two different positions at two different points in TIME. Not exactly a clone; a "duplication" of the original particle, but in TIME not in SPACE (which is what we want!) -- but otherwise not too bad! But now, suppose we could do two things... Suppose we could subdivide time itself into infinitely small slices... And... Suppose we could get that smallest of small sub-particles -- to move at infinite speed... Well, if we could do that... we could get that smallest of small sub-particles -- to alternate back and forth between two places at speeds so fast that it would sure look like there are two particles even though in actuality there was only one... Perhaps that understanding would be a good theoretical starting point -- for solving this challenge...