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Science, Truth, and Assumtions 2
We said on page one that Quantum physics violates all of the five assumptions,
How do we know that? I will start with the two slot experiment that is
one of the most well known proofs, that Quantum math is right.
Imagine a card board box with a small hole in it. Opposite the hole on
the inside of the box you tape a sheet of carbon typing paper. If you
then take a pea shooter and shoot a pea through the hole the pea would
hit the carbon paper and make a little mark where it knocked off some
of the carbon. If you then shoot a hundred peas through the hole, most
of the peas would hit the carbon paper in about the same spot and create
a large spot on the carbon paper opposite the hole.
If we now cut a second hole next to the first, just to one side, and repeated
the above we would then have two spots on the carbon paper just behind
the two holes. One spot for each hole.
Now what if we replace the carbon paper with a sheet of camera film, and
replace our pea shooter with an electronic device that could send just
one photon, or particle of light, through the hole in the box. If we start
by having only one hole and we shoot one hundred photons of light through
the hole, and then develop the film we would see a large spot just like
the one we saw on the carbon paper with the pea shooter; common sense
do far, Right?
But if we now repeated the experiment with two holes we would not see
two spots like the pea shooter but only one spot with bands of dark stripes
running though it. Why? The answer is that even though we are shooting
only one photon through the hole it is going through both holes at the
same time. The stripes come from what is call an interference pattern.
You can see an interference pattern by dropping two stones in a pond side
by side. The two rings that come out from the two stones will mix and
create interference patterns in the water. So light must be a wave like
the waves in a pond, Right?
But if photons are little particles of light like peas how can it be going
through both holes at the same time? This can't be right all we have to
do is trick the light to see which hole it is really going through. This
has been done. Light detectors were placed on one of the holes, then the
other and then both at the same time. No matter what was done, as soon
as they tried to look (use a light detector), the light would turn back
into a pea and create a single spot just behind one of the holes. It as
if the light knows a head of time just what we are going to do. In other
words as long as we didn’t look at the photons they acted like waves
in a pond but as soon as we tried to look they acted like peas from a
pea shooter.
This experiment has been done thousands of time in the last 100 years
using every conceivable apparatus, lasers, etc. No one to date has found
a way to trick the light. There is no other conclusion, light is a wave
when we are not looking but a photon when we are.
This mean that light is both a wave and a particle all at the same time
and just by the act of looking at it -it reverts to it’s particle
state only. It is as if our brain cannot accept or understand something
that is in two states at the same time so it picks one of the two states
and says the light is now a photon or is now wave. But the truth is it
is both.But remember according to our five assumption this is not possible
So which is right the assumption or the experiment.
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