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Do Gravitational Waves Exhibit Wave-Particle Duality?
Forbes/Science ^ | 20 Feb. 2016 | Ethan Siegel

Posted on 02/24/2016 5:53:58 PM PST by MtnClimber

Now that LIGO has detected their first gravitational wave signal, the part of Einstein's theory that predicts that the fabric of space itself should have ripples and waves in it has been confirmed. This brings up all sorts of interesting questions, including this one from reader (and Patreon supporter!) Joe Latone, who asks:

"Are gravity waves expected to exhibit wave-particle duality, and if so, have LIGO physicists already conceived of ways to test it, like the double-slit experiment?"

It started out simply enough: matter was made of particles, things like atoms and their constituents, and radiation was made of waves. You could tell something was a particle because it would do things like collide and bounce off of other particles, stick together, exchange energy, become bound, etc. And you could tell something was a wave because it would diffract and interfere with itself. Newton got this one wrong about light, thinking it was made of particles, but others such as Huygens (his contemporary) and then the early-1800s scientists like Young and Fresnel showed definitively that light exhibited properties that couldn't be explained without considering it a wave.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: einstein; relativity; stringtheory
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21 posted on 02/24/2016 7:47:29 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: MtnClimber

This is a really interesting question. How to prove it is the sticky part. If it can be shown, it would have interesting implications.


22 posted on 02/24/2016 8:19:50 PM PST by zeugma (Lon Horiuchi is the true face of the feral government. Remember that. Always.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Not at this moment, but I’ll keep you posted. LOL


23 posted on 02/25/2016 6:47:07 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...

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24 posted on 02/27/2016 4:03:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Is wave particle duality an exhibit of two variable expressions of time? ... one linear, one planar?


25 posted on 02/27/2016 8:36:21 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: MtnClimber

When the photon packet has a collision, the information in the wave is deposited, and this is why you can keep shining a beam on a spot without it ‘filling up’?


26 posted on 02/27/2016 8:45:20 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: MHGinTN

Good luck with these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

Wave-Particle Duality
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mod1.html

Smile, Electron! Fast ‘Camera’ Captures Action Around Atom
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/science/smile-electron-fast-camera-captures-action-around-atom.html


27 posted on 02/27/2016 8:46:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The double slit phenomenon is due to the two variable expressions of the particle/wave.


28 posted on 02/27/2016 8:52:13 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The collapse of the wave function yields the illusion of particle.


29 posted on 02/27/2016 8:53:01 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: tinyowl
Mu?


30 posted on 02/27/2016 9:04:29 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: MHGinTN

Make that the two TEMPORAL expressions of particle/wave.


31 posted on 02/27/2016 9:06:09 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Not just a pretty face?


32 posted on 02/27/2016 9:06:38 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: MHGinTN

Buddhist cows are contented cows. Especially the ones that listen to Nirvana.


33 posted on 02/27/2016 9:10:48 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Exactly like That. Everything is made of the same substance.

Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form. There is neither arising nor decay, deficiency nor completeness. Further, there is neither change nor non-change.

Waves and particles are Just Like This, too. When anything is recognized, it reverts and disappears.

Why? Where do waves and particles come from?


34 posted on 02/27/2016 11:09:28 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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The simple answer is that we do not know yet. There are several theories.
35 posted on 02/28/2016 3:48:12 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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