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- light acts as a particle and a wave simultaneously
Quote from: aasimz on 10/03/2014 14:04:10 - light acts as a particle and a wave simultaneouslyThat's incorrect. In fact you have in backwards. Photons can act as a particle or wave but never at the same time.Also, this thread belongs in the New Theory forum, not here.
Quote from: Pmb on 06/04/2014 16:07:26Quote from: aasimz on 10/03/2014 14:04:10 - light acts as a particle and a wave simultaneouslyThat's incorrect. In fact you have in backwards. Photons can act as a particle or wave but never at the same time.Also, this thread belongs in the New Theory forum, not here.This is one of several experiments that concluded this statement:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121101141107.htm
Surprisingly, when a photon is observed, it behaves either as a particle or as a wave. But both aspects are never observed simultaneously. In fact, which behaviour it exhibits depends on the type of measurement it is presented with.
For instance, quantum theory predicts that a particle (for instance a photon) can be in different places at the same time. In fact it can even be in infinitely many places at the same time, exactly as a wave.
An acquaintance of mine (also a physicist) used to teach QM and is now the author of a famous QM textbook author. Let me bounce this off of him and I'll get back to you.
The author of that page says something quite wrong too, i.e.QuoteFor instance, quantum theory predicts that a particle (for instance a photon) can be in different places at the same time. In fact it can even be in infinitely many places at the same time, exactly as a wave. That is total nonsense. Quantum theory does not say that. It says that there is a finite probability that a particle can be measured in infinitely many places at the same time.
Both statements are the same to me, if you are talking about the same particle that is measured.
Quote from: aasimzBoth statements are the same to me, if you are talking about the same particle that is measured.They are definitely not the same.
I don't understand your post, what are you trying to get at. You're using different words to describe the same thing, bosons are the force carrier's not azzmo.muzzo's are broken into smaller pieces,
they are called quarks, which are the building blocks of atoms. As far as the atoms are concerned in your statement of adding one proton.
Most of the characteristics of an atom, are in the electrons. Chemical bonding is electron sharing between different atoms to balance out the shells. Helium is a noble gas, because it shells are already full, so it is doesn't bond well with other atoms. If you look at a periodic table. This is why things are arranged in columns, things in the same column have similar properties.