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Super Bleeder!!
03-02-2006, 10:42 PM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=quantum

they leave some information out as to why things happen, but as a 5min summation of a fairly complex phenomena its pretty good :)
scheides
03-02-2006, 11:59 PM
Quantum is way cooler if you look at the math:

http://www.scheides.com/misc/physics/quantum/quantum.html
FattyBoomBatty
03-03-2006, 09:37 AM
you should have said, "If you understand the math".
rst95eclipse
03-03-2006, 12:54 PM
I don't understand. How can it act as both and change only when it's being watched? Are they hinting that electrons are living matter? WTF?
Super Bleeder!!
03-03-2006, 01:49 PM
Quantum is way cooler if you look at the math:

http://www.scheides.com/misc/physics/quantum/quantum.html


the math is what makes it lame to me. i took modern physics as well, and i loved doing the thought experiments. but then when we had to start deriving wave functions and crap, that just took all the fun out of it for me :(

rst95eclipse, they left out a little detail just to make it more interesting for the layman. it involves the uncertainty principle which interpreted in one way says simply "if you can detect something, you are disturbing it."

kind of like a blind guy, to know where things are he has to feel them, and by touching them he's moving them slightly. same holds true for quanta (light packets) and other subatomic particles. you can't detect them without bouncing something off of them, and when you do that you're changing its velocity (speed and direction)
scheides
03-03-2006, 02:52 PM
When you learn the mathematics, you really understand the "how and why" just like with anything else in life. Some people are the same way about cars, you ride in a stock dsm, and then you ride in something heavily modified, and you really start to wonder what happened inbetween. When I tell people about my car, I tell them about my FMIC, my bigger injectors, how a maf-t works, and the 20g I have on it...in the end, most people only hear 'bigger turbo' but we all know there's really more to the equation...
FattyBoomBatty
03-03-2006, 04:41 PM
dang, how's that 20G? pretty powerful?
scheides
03-03-2006, 06:22 PM
my point exactly.
9guy9
03-03-2006, 11:10 PM
I've done a little experimenting with some matter and slits my self :D I've found additional slits do confuse things. :rolleyes:

About the video: I don't get it.
rst95eclipse
03-04-2006, 12:43 AM
I tell them about my FMIC, my bigger injectors, how a maf-t works, and the 20g I have on it...in the end, most people only hear 'bigger turbo' but we all know there's really more to the equation...
Oh so true. But I see a front mount, I know what's up.

So basically you need to bounce something like a radar beam in order to see it, therefore it interrupts it? It's confusing because they have a freakin eye there, which shouldn't distrupt anything in the experiment because it's an eye, just that simple for me.