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Simulations of particle interactions play a significant role for physicists/engineers working in accelerators. See: https://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archi

• jiggawatts 5y ago
  That's a good start, but still fundamentally a cartoon. There's no visualisation of what goes on at the interaction point. Just an idealisation of what goes on far from it. Where in that diagram can I see diffraction? Interference? Entanglement? The particles interacting? Or can I not see any of that because it's a cartoon representation that shows the classical measurements only?
  • forgotpwd16 5y ago
    Not sure what you mean with cartoon representation. It's classical measurement (position and velocity) which is what those building the accelerators need (trajectories and energies). This is very similar to satellite orbits simulations. But at the scale of interactions reality is dominated by probabilities. Each particle is basically a wavepacket. For an interactive animation of two colliding particles check: https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/CollidingPackets.html https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/CollidingPacket.... For an interactive animation of diffraction and interference check: https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/QuantumScattering2D.html https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/QuantumScatteri....