TED-Ed
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One of the most amazing facts in physics is that everything in the universe, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. But how did physicists arrive at this mind-boggling conclusion? Chad Orzel recounts the string of scientists who built on each other’s discoveries to arrive at this ‘central mystery’ of quantum mechanics.
Lesson by Chad Orzel, animation by Joana Bartolomeu.
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Wait so particleS behave like waves but a particle behaves like an object?
Only problem with rutherford model is It does'nt work
Nice!😑
From my modest knowledge, the experiment is that, when left alone, the electron behaves like a wave, but when it's observed the electron acts like a particle, spooky isn't it? The idea is that, the reality of everything isn't yet real until it measured, and that's true, but in this one, you need to dig a bit deeper the meaning of everything…🤔
When science starts feeling smart , scientists throw a stone at it
Baby got an atom bomb…..one motherfu*king atom bomb…22 megaton…I ain't never seen so much fun…
Quantum Physicists are like Philosophers. Their theories have more to do with truth (in their ability to start all over and question first principles) than any other deterministic scientists.
Please, someone, tell me that I am not the only one who understood nothing from the video
Everything is wave and it has infite possibilities and when seen through an instrument its seem something else, that instrument is anything including your body .
If there are infinite instruments, infinite world can be seen in that wave.
scientists are the real life superheroes that we dont deserved but we needed.
To be or not to be
What happened
TED-ed shows in another video how in the slit experiment each electron passes through both slits at the same time. In this video they show the electron passing through just one slit at a time. Can you make your mind up what is happening?
I felt an electron in my heart!
WAVE OR PARTICLE; Psy Phy Physics from a science fiction writer
Why do I look at waves not particles? Looking at waves, not particles shows the weaknesses and problems yet to be solved in quantum mechanics, also the clues to move forward.
More and more I see the particle as a SUBSET of the wave. The particle is most probably in the crests and troughs, that means it is part of the wave. The particle is almost never in the nodes of the waves. There seems to be some type of duality here where the particle seems more mass like, and the wave, more energy like. Could almost say one is in space time, the other in a dimensionless point.
The quantum world is never cut and dried – so that for me means spin, superposition of waves, destructive interference of waves, virtual particles, magnetic properties, direction of the waves, orbitals, binding energy, charge properties and particle wave duality: they are all going on at once, and everywhere in the atom at the same time.
Well, this is just informative and not very detailed. The double slit experiment represents for me the point at which human knowledge stopped. Maybe, it is more acceptable when executed with light, photons. But more difficult to accept when executed with particles with mass like electrons, atoms and even molecules. They exhibit the same mysterious wave behaviour (atoms and molecules only if put inside vacuum). Now: to act "as a wave" it means literally "to be ubiquitous". If something is here cannot be also there.
But the universe works exactly in this way: this is called "superposition".
Matter acts like energy. In fact it is just very concentrated energy.
At this point basically science came to a stop. There is no way to study quantum particles in a deterministical way. The Heisenberg indeterminacy principle shows that it is not possible to determine the position and speed of one particle at the same time. But to say this is like admitting defeat. To say "We cannot determine" is like saying "We do not understand", "We do not know".
Basically, reality at its very fundamental state is not knowable (!) This means that humanity loses and the Creator wins. Period.
Human mind is simply not capable enough to understand certain phenomenons. Rebus sic stantibus, humanity went on studying particles, with success, with a probabilistic theory, called Quantum Mechanics, which was able to explain many scientific mysteries dealing just with probabilities, not with certainties.
Quantum Mechanics is a very successful theory but the point is that it doesn't contain any mysteries… on the contrary, it deals with mysteries.
It is basically just a workaround. A well working workaround.
Smart people
I'm in 11th grade and knowing that every particle is a wave and vice versa, blew my mind.
And of course, I am reading my Chemistry book right now.
I think particles are like fast submarine creates front wave through oxygen
Particle & Wave – watch …
https://youtu.be/nnkvoIHztPw
Electrons and Photons are vortexes, sometimes inside each other.
i thought this is some high level of knowledge until i realise i learnt this back in high school …
I'm probably gonna be hated for this but if you drop a rock into an ocean it creates waves, right… Could photons be something more essential that creates one or the other during different circumstances? I always liked this concept but I get laughed at since this defy everything we know about standard models
Indian education system is so advanced that we are taught all of this before 12th grade
but… why waves? why not behave like… stars? or rectangles? or triangles? hmm…
I feel smarter AND dumber at the same time, that’s quantum learning I guess…
… or not.
The more I learn, the less I know.
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Ohhh, really, how can you possibly shut one single electron out of this thing? They are immensely small! How can you even see them on that board behind the barrier? Please, explain this to me.