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• Ghost Player    10 years ago (edited: 10 years ago)

  basics: the basic principles of qm are that 1: energy is transmitted in quants, meaning that it isn't transferred continually; it's transmitted through wavelets, little things that carry energy and act like waves in some situations, but like particles in others. an example of wavelet is a photon; it has no mass and has energy, like a wave, but it carries impulse, like a particle. its energy is also directly dependent on its wavelength, which is a unique and mindrapey quality of photons. 2: everything is a wave. or rather, every particle can be described as a wave function. particles function like waves that do not carry energy; but probability - the probability that the particle is, in fact, there. the higher the amplitude of the wave, the more likely it is that the particle is in that exact spot.

  Editing your comment: basics: the basic principles of qm are that 1: energy is transmitted in quants, meaning that it isn't transferred continually; it's transmitted through wavelets, little things that carry energy and act like waves in some situations, but like particles in others. an example of wavelet is a photon; it has no mass and has energy, like a wave, but it carries impulse, like a particle. its energy is also directly dependent on its wavelength, which is a unique and mindrapey quality of photons. 2: everything is a wave. or rather, every particle can be described as a wave function. particles function like waves that do not carry energy; but probability - the probability that the particle is, in fact, there. the higher the amplitude of the wave, the more likely it is that the particle is in that exact spot.

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• Ghost Player    10 years ago (edited: 10 years ago)

  schroedinger's equation: schrozymanidas' equation allows us to determine the wave function of a particle; it lets us know where a particle is and where it's headed. it will also give multiple solutions per particle; superpositioning the wave functions (which is a fancy and cool-sounding word for slapping the waves onto eachother via Fourier transformation) gives the definitive wave function of the particle. one thing to note is that the wavelengths of the functions are never whole number multiples of eachother; this means there is a large spike of probability at one area of space, and pretty near zero at all others. it's important to note that the probability of a particle existing in any point of space is almost never zero; this means that literally anything could be anywhere.

  Editing your comment: schroedinger's equation: schrozymanidas' equation allows us to determine the wave function of a particle; it lets us know where a particle is and where it's headed. it will also give multiple solutions per particle; superpositioning the wave functions (which is a fancy and cool-sounding word for slapping the waves onto eachother via Fourier transformation) gives the definitive wave function of the particle. one thing to note is that the wavelengths of the functions are never whole number multiples of eachother; this means there is a large spike of probability at one area of space, and pretty near zero at all others. it's important to note that the probability of a particle existing in any point of space is almost never zero; this means that literally anything could be anywhere.

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• Ghost Player    10 years ago

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• Ghost Player    10 years ago

  the only thing I know about quantum mechanics is that anything can happen at any time for no reason

  Editing your comment: the only thing I know about quantum mechanics is that anything can happen at any time for no reason

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