I've been distracting myself with many crazy documentaries lately, several of which have been on quantum mechanics. So much is made of the double slit experiment, and how weird it supposedly seems when compared with our everyday world. For those of you that don't know anything about the double slit experiment check out this video to get the basic idea.
Now from this you get the idea that quantum particles are waves, and particles. Can be in multiple places at once, and defy our rational understanding.
I would say most of our confusion stems from not understanding what we are actually doing when we conduct this experiment. This is a spacetime/timespace misunderstanding. When we do this experiment we are actually creating an artificial space/time continuum. The start point, or big bang moment is the spot where our particle enters our space/time. The screen is our end of space/time point. With the slit being an arbitrary rule set being placed on our space/time. Now lets take a closer look at each of our main defined points in our newly created space/time.
Firstly we have our big bang point, this is the point we shot our subatomic particle from. The screen is the end of our space/time, This is the point where we are measuring the effects our start, and rule set. The rule set is the slits themselves. It is a defining point part way between our big bang, and our end or space/time.
So why do I say this experiment is falsely confusing? Easy, Experimenters are measuring multiple moments in space/time as if they are taking place at once. They are measuring the first moment, the last moment, and a moment between as if they are the same moment. Using this understanding you can then accurately predict the effects noticed in this experiment. So the interference pattern we see is the representation of all possible outcomes of our space/time given our other defined points, and directional nature of our defined space/time.
In an attempt to make this a bit clearer let me break down some of whats taking place, and explain it as close to how I see it as I can. To start with, we define our experiment, this creates our space/time and rule set for our continuum. An important idea here is seeing the area between where our subatomic particle enters, and the screen as being our space/time continuum. So all of our space/time is predefined and every possible location a particle can be within our space/time has been defined by the nature of our experiment. We by definition are outside the space/time continuum of our experiment, as such we can see any moment or, the whole of our defined space/time continuum. Our particle enters our space/time and creates a ripple in the fabric, and even as we hold this moment of time the presence of the particle has rippled through the entire space/time.
As always I reserve the right to be wrong.
Jack
aka
Panseybard
I would say most of our confusion stems from not understanding what we are actually doing when we conduct this experiment. This is a spacetime/timespace misunderstanding. When we do this experiment we are actually creating an artificial space/time continuum. The start point, or big bang moment is the spot where our particle enters our space/time. The screen is our end of space/time point. With the slit being an arbitrary rule set being placed on our space/time. Now lets take a closer look at each of our main defined points in our newly created space/time.
Firstly we have our big bang point, this is the point we shot our subatomic particle from. The screen is the end of our space/time, This is the point where we are measuring the effects our start, and rule set. The rule set is the slits themselves. It is a defining point part way between our big bang, and our end or space/time.
So why do I say this experiment is falsely confusing? Easy, Experimenters are measuring multiple moments in space/time as if they are taking place at once. They are measuring the first moment, the last moment, and a moment between as if they are the same moment. Using this understanding you can then accurately predict the effects noticed in this experiment. So the interference pattern we see is the representation of all possible outcomes of our space/time given our other defined points, and directional nature of our defined space/time.
In an attempt to make this a bit clearer let me break down some of whats taking place, and explain it as close to how I see it as I can. To start with, we define our experiment, this creates our space/time and rule set for our continuum. An important idea here is seeing the area between where our subatomic particle enters, and the screen as being our space/time continuum. So all of our space/time is predefined and every possible location a particle can be within our space/time has been defined by the nature of our experiment. We by definition are outside the space/time continuum of our experiment, as such we can see any moment or, the whole of our defined space/time continuum. Our particle enters our space/time and creates a ripple in the fabric, and even as we hold this moment of time the presence of the particle has rippled through the entire space/time.
As always I reserve the right to be wrong.
Jack
aka
Panseybard
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