Over the last year I have developed an appreciation for science. This consists mainly of reading science magazines and watching nature programs and the like, so as you can appreciate I am a total novice. One thing that comes up often is all the quantum mechanical quackery that fraudsters try to sell to people like me and quite frankly I'm sick of it. I have tried to educate myself a bit so as to guard against the disinformation.
The double slit experiment was quite an interesting read but I don't really see the mystery in it. Is an electron a particle or a wave? From looking at the experiment this is what seems logical to me:
The electron particle is fired from the generator. This has a secondary result of creating a wave-front of unknown subatomic properties.
The electron then rides the wave like a little surfer. When the wave hits the single slit the “surfers” make a beeline for the back of the receptor screen – hence particle distribution pattern.
Then when the double slit is introduced the “surfers” are caught up in the interference pattern and are washed up like driftwood in the wave interference pattern.
Introducing the observation device somehow attenuates the “unknown wave” frequency and the little “surfers” are forced off the wave and resume a normal particle distribution pattern.
It seems that you just have to find what is causing the wave and stop looking at the electron. If you did the double slit experiment with water in a pond and added small polystyrene balls the result would look like the quantum results if you accounted only for the polystyrene strike pattern.
Could this be right or do I have to put up with Deepak Chopra style babble for a bit longer?
The double slit experiment was quite an interesting read but I don't really see the mystery in it. Is an electron a particle or a wave? From looking at the experiment this is what seems logical to me:
The electron particle is fired from the generator. This has a secondary result of creating a wave-front of unknown subatomic properties.
The electron then rides the wave like a little surfer. When the wave hits the single slit the “surfers” make a beeline for the back of the receptor screen – hence particle distribution pattern.
Then when the double slit is introduced the “surfers” are caught up in the interference pattern and are washed up like driftwood in the wave interference pattern.
Introducing the observation device somehow attenuates the “unknown wave” frequency and the little “surfers” are forced off the wave and resume a normal particle distribution pattern.
It seems that you just have to find what is causing the wave and stop looking at the electron. If you did the double slit experiment with water in a pond and added small polystyrene balls the result would look like the quantum results if you accounted only for the polystyrene strike pattern.
Could this be right or do I have to put up with Deepak Chopra style babble for a bit longer?