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What an interesting experiment. Please do tell us more when you try it again.
Originally posted by arpgme
I'm surprised that a thread like this didn't already exist in the Science & Technology section. This thread is dedicated to thought experiments, it will be nice to get some feed back and for others to share their own...
Into the Anti-world:
What would happen if we were to take a person and replace all of their particles with anti-particles and turn them into an anti-human? Would they be able to venture into the anti-world? I wonder what would be there to discover? Then we can take all of the anti-particles of the person and reconvert them back into particles and talk with them about their experience.
logicaly speaking, if you slow down the electrons vibration rate in order to perform an experiment of any nature on the electron, you are already observing it, and changing its natural behavior in order to observe it. Wether you actualy watch it hawk eyed the whole time is neither here nor there, because you have already skewed your result.
The non interference observation:
In the double slit experiment, "observation" means using a photon to measure an electron. What would happen if there was another way to measure electron? Would it still have the same "observer effect"?
How about bringing the room to a very cold temperature to slow down the vibration of the electrons, if the experiment is redone in this condition with and without the observer effect, will the conclusions be any different?
Also, I would just like to ask, how is it exactly that an observer interferes with the electron wave pattern? I think this experiment definitely needs more testing
Deterministic Quantum Physics:
What if the uncertainty principle just something that we can't understand? Back then, we understood sound and how to manipulate it but we didn't know about sound-waves until later, and the ones who proposed the idea were criticized because it sounded too mystic and unscientific. What if the uncertainty principle is just an estimation and the real quantum physics is not probabilistic but is deterministic?
If you throw the dice in the air, it seems like probability, but if you measure the wind-speed, the position it was in before it was thrown, the thrust of the throwing, and the amount of time it takes to reach the surface, you can determine what number it will fall on, but without that information it just seems probabilistic. The same thing may be happening with Quantum Physics. So I propose some thought provoking questions:
1) What is the cause of probability in quantum physics?
2) Are there any environment which affect the probabilities? And if so, at which occasions is one probability more likely than the other?
Well, that's all I got for now...edit on 19-7-2011 by arpgme because: (no reason given)edit on 19-7-2011 by arpgme because: To add more thoughts
What would happen if we were to take a person and replace all of their particles with anti-particles and turn them into an anti-human? Would they be able to venture into the anti-world?
In the double slit experiment, "observation" means using a photon to measure an electron. What would happen if there was another way to measure electron? Would it still have the same "observer effect"?
How about bringing the room to a very cold temperature to slow down the vibration of the electrons, if the experiment is redone in this condition with and without the observer effect, will the conclusions be any different?
Also, I would just like to ask, how is it exactly that an observer interferes with the electron wave pattern? I think this experiment definitely needs more testing.
What if the uncertainty principle just something that we can't understand?
Back then, we understood sound and how to manipulate it but we didn't know about sound-waves until later, and the ones who proposed the idea were criticized because it sounded too mystic and unscientific.
What if the uncertainty principle is just an estimation and the real quantum physics is not probabilistic but is deterministic?
If you throw the dice in the air, it seems like probability, but if you measure the wind-speed, the position it was in before it was thrown, the thrust of the throwing, and the amount of time it takes to reach the surface, you can determine what number it will fall on, but without that information it just seems probabilistic. The same thing may be happening with Quantum Physics.
So I propose some thought provoking questions:
1) What is the cause of probability in quantum physics?
2) Are there any environment which affect the probabilities? And if so, at which occasions is one probability more likely than the other?
So Einstein was wrong and the world isn't deterministic?
If Quantum Physics is truly probabilistic then it can't be deterministic.
It seems as though determinism is evident in the macro field and probability is evident in quantum physics, but they are both physics?
How can this be so? Is reality split in half following two different set of laws?
If so then what is reality anyway?
Does anyone think that the two can ever be joined?