Top 10 Most Uncomfortable Physics Facts
While physics can show us amazing things about our universe, it doesn’t always agree with how we think things should work. Sometimes, physics can be very counter-intuitive, and often unsettling. So, here’s my list of physics facts that can be a bit unnerving. 10: Wei…
The Copenhagen Interpretation: Wave Function "Collapse"
This state of existing in all possible states at once is called an object's coherent superposition. The total of all possible states in which an object can exist — for example, in a wave or particle form for photons that travel in both directions at once makes up t…
The Uncertainty Principle
Quantum mechanics states what the universe is made of while not giving an explanation of why it is that way while relativity give us an explanation of why it is what it is but does not tell us what is it made of. For example, a quantum world is defined in terms of th…
Quantum Universe
"A lot of Nobel prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought." -Stephen Hawking. One of the most bizarre ideas about the quantum Universe is the notion of indeterminate states. In our conventional, macroscopic Un…
A Temporal Wave in Schrödinger’s Cat’s Box
We can consider a quantum wave as an area of space where a particle might be found. Schrödinger thought that this idea was silly and that the natural state of particles *is* the wave form. So we can say a particle-like interaction could occur somewhere in an atom’s ele…
Eletron Orbiting the Atomic Nucleus
"If you think you understand Quantum Mechanics, then you don't understand Quantum Mechanics" -Richard Feynman (You are not mostly empty space & Quantum Rule That Makes Our Existence Possible) If you were to look at what your body is made of, at small…
Quantum Suicide Experiment & Quantum Immortality
Forget nine lives; if one interpretation of quantum mechanics is right, the cat might have an infinite number of them. You've never seen a half-dead, half-living cat. You might even want to say, "well clearly quantum mechanics doesn't work because I've…
Hawking vs Holography Part 1
“If you can’t explain it simply, that means you don’t understand it well enough” says Einstein on understanding and explaining things. Richard Feynman, another brilliant physicist, was famous to make people understand physics in an intuitive way. After Feynman, ther…
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Abstract The physical theory of quantum mechanics (or quantum field theory, by extension) stands all on its own, irrespective of whatever interpretation we apply to it. In other words, quantum theory works perfectly fine exactly as it is, where quantum operators act …
The Observer's Measurement Affects the Reality
Many wrong or at least incomplete or naive answers here. It is not necessary to “disturb” a particle to “observe” it. Modern versions of the infamous double-slit experiment can generate which-path information without ever interacting with the particle, the particle is …
Quantum Fluctuations
Introduction "Our universe could have popped into existence 13.7 billion years ago without any divine help whatsoever, because with the laws of physics, you can get universes". The purpose of this statement is not to attack the existence of God. If we'r…
Explanation of Schrödinger's Wave Equation
Erwin Schrödinger published his equation in 1926, and it changed the field of quantum physics. Up to that time, physicists had developed limited principles governing the behavior of subatomic particles (that is, quantum particles). But physicists could describe littl…
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