Saturday, 8 March 2008

Quantum Behavour In A Classical World


Yes, it's all been theory up until now, but scientists have shown that quantum behaviour can happen in the classical world! But now... read this excerpt from an article published in Science Daily.

"Up until this point we have known that in the quantum world a particle is only a particle when it's quantified or observed, up until that point it is in wave form, waiting to be defined.

Wave/particle duality is a quantum phenomenon usually confined to photons, electrons, protons, and other ultra-tiny objects. Quantum mechanics shows that such objects sometimes behave like particles, sometimes behave like waves, and sometimes like a little of both.

All objects exhibit wave/particle duality to some extent, but the larger the object the harder it is to observe. Even individual molecules are often too large to show the quantum mechanical behavior.

Now physicists at the Université de Paris have demonstrated wave/particle duality with a droplet made of trillions of molecules.

The experiment involved an oil droplet bouncing on the surface of an agitated layer of oil. The droplet created waves on the surface, which in turn affected the motion of the droplet. As a result, the droplet and waves formed a single entity that consisted of a hybrid of wave-like and particle-like characteristics.

When the wave/droplet bounced its way through a slit, the waves allowed it to interfere with its own motion, much as a single photon can interfere with itself via quantum mechanics.

Although the wave/droplet is clearly a denizen of the classical world, the experiment provides a clever analogue of quantum weirdness at a scale that is much easier to study and visualize than is typical of many true quantum experiments."

Citation: Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort.
American Physical Society (2006, September 19). Quantum Behavior In A Classical World. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 8, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2006/09/060918202711.htm

This means that wave/particle duality is real in the quantum world and our own! I don't know about you, but from the moment I read about quantum phenomenon I have always believed that it explained more than it left out and so I have always believed this was possible and true. But now we can say that we have proof. Perhaps we do not notice it happening in the classical world as when assume and expect things to be exactly the way they are, we have grown up with the notion that all things are as we see them.

But what if we begin to see what really happening in the universe (a bit like in The Matrix when they were able to 'see' and 'read' what was happening in the code on the computer. How amazing would that be, that we could actually experience with our 5 senses the world around us arranging itself to our expectations and assumptions.

This would leave us free to notice it changing and change our thoughts, our expectations and our intentions and re-order our universe in more positive ways. Just think of it like this, in every moment you are writing the 'code' in the matrix of the universe, and this code becomes your life. Re-write the code and you will have re-written your life, live your dreams, live your potential, it's all in the 'code' your writing in every moment with your thoughts. Perhaps it's time to think again?!


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