June 16, 2009 at 19:034 paradoxes of quantum physics
Stumbled upon Wikipedia, and this material amused me a lot. Of course, people who are deep in science will not be interested, but the rest should like it.
1. Void: If you increase the nucleus of a hydrogen atom to the size of a basketball, then the electron rotating around it will be at a distance of 30 kilometers, and nothing between them!
2. Wave particle: The state of a particle depends on the very act of measurement or observation. An unmeasured and unobservable electron behaves like a wave (probability field). It is necessary to subject it to observation in the laboratory, and it collapses into a particle (a solid object, whose position can be localized).
3. The quantum leap. Departing from its orbit of the atomic nucleus, the electron does not move like ordinary objects - it moves instantly. That is, it disappears from one orbit and appears on another. It is impossible to determine exactly where an electron will occur or when it will make a jump, the maximum that can be done is to indicate the probability of a new electron location.
4. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle. It is impossible to accurately measure the speed and position of a quantum object at the same time. The more we focus on one of these indicators, the more uncertain the other becomes.
I do not give such an explanation, because it is not strong in physics, just so that people know what it is)
1. Void: If you increase the nucleus of a hydrogen atom to the size of a basketball, then the electron rotating around it will be at a distance of 30 kilometers, and nothing between them!
2. Wave particle: The state of a particle depends on the very act of measurement or observation. An unmeasured and unobservable electron behaves like a wave (probability field). It is necessary to subject it to observation in the laboratory, and it collapses into a particle (a solid object, whose position can be localized).
3. The quantum leap. Departing from its orbit of the atomic nucleus, the electron does not move like ordinary objects - it moves instantly. That is, it disappears from one orbit and appears on another. It is impossible to determine exactly where an electron will occur or when it will make a jump, the maximum that can be done is to indicate the probability of a new electron location.
4. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle. It is impossible to accurately measure the speed and position of a quantum object at the same time. The more we focus on one of these indicators, the more uncertain the other becomes.
I do not give such an explanation, because it is not strong in physics, just so that people know what it is)