Tuesday, October 23, 2007

So... this implies that........ Awe CRAP


Watch this. Think about this. Tell me what it means.

I think I know what it means..... but....... the implications
are so large it's scary. And awesome. And..... very cool.

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LBJ said...

Actually DeBroglie stated that all particles have a wave and particle nature. It's a direct outgrowth of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the fact that the more precisely you know where a particle is, the less precisely you know how fast it's moving and vice versa, and the order of the uncertainty is what manifests itself as wave nature. Our language is completely inadequate for explaining what's really going on. I don't know if there are any human languages that are.
(Actually my former father in law at U. of PA would probably be able to. . he wrote SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and C. and developed WAVE robot language - Any time I start feeling big for my britches I pull that out some of his work and open and immediately feel like a complete moron :-)

But even without the language, I know the science and THAT scares the crap out of me in the realm of nuclear weaponry.

Because of it we have the uncertainty principal.
(1) The position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously
measured with arbitrarily high precision.
(2)There is a minimum for the product of the uncertainties of these two measurements.
(3) There is likewise a minimum for the product of the uncertainties of the energy and time.

And this my friend arises from the wave properties inherent in the quantum mechanical description of nature - Wave-Particle Duality

Even with perfect instruments and technique, the uncertainty is inherent in the nature of things.

Now picture Iran and North Korea with potentionally unstable nuclear technology.

Yup.

On the plus side I can use it to explain my last grouping.

October 24, 2007 at 8:52 AM
Carteach said...

I think I almost understood what you wrote.

Well..... I understood some of the words. I pretty much got "the", "but", and "friend".

I can grasp the limited ability to observe and measure at the same time (at those levels). What tosses my boat is the act of observing changes the nature of the observed, even when it shouldn't be possible within my understanding.

Looking up a bit of info on the double slit test, apparently the classic 'observation' is of the electrons striking a phosphor screen, by a scientist visually watching the screen. Watched, the electrons behave as particles. Unwatched, they behave as waves.

I can almost grasp the concept of duality as described, yet the thought that mere observation changes the nature of the experiment is that way....

Is the same effect noted if it's a mechanical observation? How about in a magnetically and electromechanically shielded environment?

Awe Crap.... another brain cell just died!

October 24, 2007 at 3:43 PM
Carteach said...

Oh... and I don't have a huge issue with Iran and NK having unstable nukes, as long as they are small and hopefully confined to military bases... (g).

October 24, 2007 at 3:45 PM

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