4 ms·
If you view a body of water as a single thing, would you think it odd that its wave interferes with itself in the double slit? The issue isn't unintuitive pheno
by __s 5y ago
If you view a body of water as a single thing, would you think it odd that its wave interferes with itself in the double slit? The issue isn't unintuitive phenomena (intuitive being patterns in microscopic/macroscopic scale which match by analogy to patterns you've learnt all your life from phenomena at your scale), but inadequately modeled phenomena
https://youtu.be/citY6G8ePJw?t=223 https://youtu.be/citY6G8ePJw?t=223
> But what can I call it? I can say they behave like a particle-wave or they behave in a typical quantum mechanical manner. There isn't any word for it, if I say they behave like particles, I give the wrong impression if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way. Which, technically, could be called the quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is nothing like anything you have seen before. Your experience with things you have seen before is inadequate, is incomplete. The behavior of things on a very tiny scale is simply different ... Well, there's at least one simplification, at least electrons behave exactly in this respect as photons, that is they're both screwy, but in exactly the same way ... But the difficulty really is psychological, and exists in the perpetual torment that exists from your saying to yourself "But how can it be like that?" which really is a reflection of an uncontrolled by say an utterly vain desire to see it in terms of some analogy with something familiar. I will not describe it in terms of an analogy with something familiar. I'll simply describe it
- mabbo 5y agoBefore opening the link, I read the text and thought "This sounds like Feynman!" The man truly had a way of speaking that is instantly recognizable.