And the weirdnedd continues check this out:
To bamboozle you further, this should all be going on right now in the subatomic particles which make up your body.
If all this seems utterly incomprehensible and sounds downright nuts, you’re in good company. Einstein called it “spooky” and Niels Bohr, a pioneer of quantum theory once said: “if quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”
In this latest experiment, carried out by scientists at the Australian National University, lead researcher Andrew Truscott said in a press release that they have proven that “reality does not exist if you are not looking at it.”
However, a recent experiment – reported in Digital Journal– has now captured an image of a photon as both a wave and a particle for the first time.
As News com.au puts it, the problems that still puzzles scientists is, “What makes a photon decide when to be one or the other?”
The picture above is from the university and supposidely the first ever of light behaving as a particle and a wave
This is pure science debate awesomeness at it’s best. Feel free to leave any comments on this fascinating phenomenon.
thanks to digital journal for the fascinating info
thanks you to Fabrizio Carbone/EPFL for the awesome image
We do come from all the same stuff. Ever heard the rumor about Einstein making ships appear across miles of space small models but ships none the less.
So if I close my eyes and walk towards my bed it won’t be there?
Look up the double slit experiment…there are some great videos with illustrations that really lets you grasp it. It’s almost like playing super Mario Brothers where you have endless options, but the option that you choose is the option that you see.
Uh, So if I close my eyes and walk towards my bed it won’t be there?
Dave, do you have a link???
@[556391133:2048:Chris Manning]
Exactly what we’d expect from a computer simulation
When you are conscious your 5 senses are constantly measuring and calculating reality, when your asleep they do not 🙂
@[605268310:2048:Jay Dias]
this is 100% allowable due to the nature of quantum mechanics, i think the deeper question is what is observation. in QM there is no true definition atleast in my studys. now an easier way to understand this is with schrodingers cat. the common thing that people forget/ dont know about schrodingers cat is that after you open the box you can close it and the superposition of alive and dead is once more a reality.
no no you must remember that QM is only on a small scale. so your bed is still there. we also must find a proper definition of what observation is.
The transition from a particle to wave-like is the oscillation (vibration and frequency) of the vibrating photon particle itself. At what stage of the manifestation occurs is subjected to further studies and experimentations.
Why do they call it quantum entanglement? Because you get so tangled-up trying to figure out all the equations that you basically meet yourself coming and going. LOL!
This is very interesting, but how are they able to check the quantum state of the partner particle from millions of miles, or billions of light years away, to confirm this behavior, and to confirm that the link still exists from these vast distances?
Jared Bourne Anthony Greene
Crazy stuff. I hope I’m alive to see a unifying theory confirmed from all these areas of physics. And I hope there is someone who can explain it to me lol.
Jared Bourne get Aaron drunk enough and he’ll tell you all about it.
I discovered a new particle called a Chandlerpod. It appears at cookout and fuel at the same time.
It was discovered at Buckhead. Probably when you box jumped on their speakers.
Cute!
(Response to John kurilko comment)
I am no physicist, but I think I have an idea how Quantum entanglement might work. If the fabric of space-time were thought of as consciousness, there would be no need for faster than light travel. All empty space, (space-time) is connected directly to all other empty space. What we perceive as solid or having mass is actually much more empty space than it is solid. If space-time is “awareness” then there is no need for information to travel at all, it is omnipresent within all space-time. Kind of like a thought in your brain, electrochemical actions happen to produce the thought but the thought itself is physically formlees and cannot be observed in any single location or time.