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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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This is a really interesting question. How to prove it is the sticky part. If it can be shown, it would have interesting implications.
Not at this moment, but I’ll keep you posted. LOL
Is wave particle duality an exhibit of two variable expressions of time? ... one linear, one planar?
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’?
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
The double slit phenomenon is due to the two variable expressions of the particle/wave.
The collapse of the wave function yields the illusion of particle.
Make that the two TEMPORAL expressions of particle/wave.
Not just a pretty face?
Buddhist cows are contented cows. Especially the ones that listen to Nirvana.
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?
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