Science Geeks (Quantum Style)

[QuantumPhysics]

Calling all geeks! LOL! Well I'm looking for some online science buddies to converse with. Quantum Mechanics/Physics is amazing. The idea of superposition is brilliant. -post edited. -Emerald Dream

[Magus]

What do you know of Superposition? Can you tell me more of it?

[Human]

I love to read on Quantum Physics. I have quite a lot of books on it :D

[sqishy]

If you need someone to converse with, I'm here. I know most of the general stuff about quantum mechanics, but not all the formula/algorithm/actual-mathematics stuff.
Wikipedia only taught me so much- it's incomprehensible articles on the subject drew the line for me. BBC Horizon and Michio Kaku offered some redemption for my education.

[Magus]

If you need someone to converse with, I'm here. I know most of the general stuff about quantum mechanics, but not all the formula/algorithm/actual-mathematics stuff.
Wikipedia only taught me so much- it's incomprehensible articles on the subject drew the line for me. BBC Horizon and Michio Kaku offered some redemption for my education.

Dude, tell us then!

[QuantumPhysics]

I love to read on Quantum Physics. I have quite a lot of books on it :D
What books do you recommend?
What do you know of Superposition? Can you tell me more of it?
Of course I can. Imagine there is a cat in a box with some gunpowder. There is a 50% that it will die and a 50% chance tht it will live. Until we open the box we cannot know. So it is claimed to be both. This is superposition. MinutePhysics on youtube can explain this. Click on Schrodingers Cat. And look at some others if u want to. They really help. I hope i've helped:)
If you need someone to converse with, I'm here. I know most of the general stuff about quantum mechanics, but not all the formula/algorithm/actual-mathematics stuff.
Wikipedia only taught me so much- it's incomprehensible articles on the subject drew the line for me. BBC Horizon and Michio Kaku offered some redemption for my education.

Exactly like me. I dont know the formula/ algoritm/actual-math bits as well. BEWARE: WIKIPEDIA MAKES IT EXTREMELY HARD:):)

[Gigablue]

Of course I can. Imagine there is a cat in a box with some gunpowder. There is a 50% that it will die and a 50% chance tht it will live. Until we open the box we cannot know. So it is claimed to be both. This is superposition. MinutePhysics on youtube can explain this. Click on Schrodingers Cat. And look at some others if u want to. They really help. I hope i've helped:)

That's not quite the exact way the problem was posed, but it gets the general idea. Wikipedia does a good job of explaining.

One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

I suggest anyone interested read the full article.

However, I don't agree with the interpretation that states that the cat is both dead and alive. I think Bohr's explanation is the best. Basically, the wavefunction collapses as soon as the particle hits the Geiger counter, and therefore doesn't apply to the cat. The system is observed by the Geiger counter long before the box is opened.

[QuantumPhysics]

If you know the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle read on:


a quantum physicist is stopped on the highway by a police officer who says "Sir, are you aware that you were going over 80 miles per hour", to which the physicist responds, "Great, now I don't know where I am"

Man:When Did You Become An Expert In Superposition?
Quantum Scientist: Both Yesterday and Tommorow
LOLO

-merged double post. -Emerald Dream