Wow! That quote goes back to page one when we were still actively discussing the abstract that edbarx brought up as the subject of the thread!
As I said then, a proton occasionally appears to be a quantum mixture of the usual three quarks, but with a small amount of additional momentum which appears to come from another quark and antiquark.
As I said then, a proton occasionally appears to be a quantum mixture of the usual three quarks, but with a small amount of additional momentum which appears to come from another quark and antiquark.
It definitely not oscillatory in any sense we consider normally where there is phase shift taking place. But it does beg the question as to what is going on when the two waves are 'self sustaining'.
Nice post Steve! (Daniel Fleisch has a nice book on Schrodinger's equation BTW). I have a book on Linear Algebra . . . so many things to look into
Yeah, the term is a big fudge 'cos nobody knows what keeps an electromagnetic wave going.
Just like we don't know what keeps a photon going.
Just like we don't know much of how the universe works!
I stuck through it. But then I have bravery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001lw3
The Moon is an awful place. I have no wish to go there.
Looks like grey Pumice. Actually is.
I will stick to Home:
We must look after our Planet. There is no finer place to Live. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001lw3
The Moon is an awful place. I have no wish to go there.
Looks like grey Pumice. Actually is.
I will stick to Home:
We must look after our Planet. There is no finer place to Live. 🙂
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Some audio like terms crop up in that pdf when it gets to baryonic oscillations. Used to try and establish a ruler. 😉You might think a rather odd yardstick.
In cosmology, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are fluctuations in the density of the visible baryonic matter (normal matter) of the universe,
I wonder if Plank made empirical constants popular.
I find Leonard Suskind’s ‘ephemeral fermions’ as a photon propagation medium as hard to believe as the now debunked ‘luminiferous aether’ explanation 😊Yeah, the term is a big fudge 'cos nobody knows what keeps an electromagnetic wave going.
Just like we don't know what keeps a photon going.
Just like we don't know much of how the universe works!
I see that we discussed that hypothetical method of photon propagation earlier in the thread. Here's a quick reminder:
Photons propagate by making instantaneous leaps between ephemeral fermion-antifermion pairs which pop up in the quantum vacuum.
One for the mumbo jumbo lovers perhaps?
If electrons (or other atomic level particles) have wave functions, you have to wonder why we can’t unify that (which is quantum in nature) with photon or EM radiation without invoking the strange stuff you mentioned above. The fact that photons collapse from wavelike properties to particle like properties when interacting with matter seems very similar to Schroedinger’s wave function. Or am I totally off beam here?
The question you are really asking is: "For a travelling particle such as an electron or a photon, 'what' is waving?"
The Schrödinger equation introduced the wave function (Ψ).
The square of Ψ represents the probability of an electron being found within a certain area or the probability of where a photon would be found were it to be detected.
What's waving can therefore be said to be a mathematical function used to determine where the particle is likely to be when a position measurement is performed.
Mathematics - it's all mathematics!
Just ask Steve! 😉
The Schrödinger equation introduced the wave function (Ψ).
The square of Ψ represents the probability of an electron being found within a certain area or the probability of where a photon would be found were it to be detected.
What's waving can therefore be said to be a mathematical function used to determine where the particle is likely to be when a position measurement is performed.
Mathematics - it's all mathematics!
Just ask Steve! 😉
Looking back through my 'Diary of Cosmology', I see this written down:
"In the 1930s, physicists realised that the wave functions of many individual photons collectively behave like a single wave propagating through conjoined electric and magnetic fields - exactly the classical picture of light discovered in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell."
This realisation led to the quantisation of classical field theory.
"In the 1930s, physicists realised that the wave functions of many individual photons collectively behave like a single wave propagating through conjoined electric and magnetic fields - exactly the classical picture of light discovered in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell."
This realisation led to the quantisation of classical field theory.