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Originally Posted by scheides
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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)