What's the nature of light?

Discussion in 'Pseudoscience' started by Asexperia, Apr 22, 2020.

  1. Asexperia Valued Senior Member

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    How true can be the following statement ?

    Quantum Mechanics is made up of two stages:

    1- a probabilities stage and
    2- a resolution stage.

    Wave-particle duality is in the first stage. The resolution will finally tell us if light is a wave, a particle or something else.
     
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  3. gmilam Valued Senior Member

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    Fascinating! I'll need to think on this data.

    Thank you.
     
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  5. Asexperia Valued Senior Member

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    God plays dice to confuse men.
     
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  7. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    No. The wavelike stage is the probability stage. The resolution ("wave function collapse", as a result of an interaction) leads to a particle-like outcome.

    The wave function is a bit like a wave of the square root of a probability distribution: if you multiply it by its complex conjugate to get the square modulus, you have the probability density.

    However measurements of individual QM entities produce a particle-like result, subject to precision limitations governed by the uncertainty principle.
     
  8. river

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    Light is both .

    The best way I know to understand this is in water .

    The particle in water is the H2O molecule . The wave is the density of H2O . So an ocean wave is both particle and wave .
     
  9. Asexperia Valued Senior Member

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    But, in the water the molecule doesn't move with the wave, in the light the particle moves with the wave.
     
  10. river

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    I see your point .

    But if that were true , then why is there a distribution of light three dimensionally . As in light filling a room .
     
  11. Asexperia Valued Senior Member

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    Because light photons are emitted in all directions.
     
  12. Asexperia Valued Senior Member

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    Any experiment that confirms you statement?
     
  13. exchemist Valued Senior Member

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    The best known is probably the double slit experiment. I'm sure you will have come across this.
     
  14. river

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    Exactly

    At all times .

    Which produces a wave .
     

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