Actually, it is quite common to sentence theives to death in China. Not that I condone it, but citizens of China certainly aren't surprised by the sentence.
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Re. no. 3,
If you think its kewl that you get an interference pattern when you send one photon though at a time, then you'll be delighted that the same thing happens when one sends one electron through at a time. That means the electron goes through both slits, just like the photon. But since we are more used to thinking of an electron as a single particle it always struck me a stranger.
In fact, quantum mechanics says that if we would perform the same experiment with a bowling ball (and we had a few billion years to perform the experiment) the same interference pattern would emerge.
Physicists don't understand the universe. All they understand is how to approximate some of the universe with some tough mathematics.
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Actually, it is quite common to sentence
theives to death in China. Not that I condone
it, but citizens of China certainly aren't surprised by the sentence.
Re. no. 3,
If you think its kewl that you get an interference
pattern when you send one photon though at a time,
then you'll be delighted that the same thing happens when one sends one electron through at a time. That means the electron goes through both
slits, just like the photon. But since we are more used to thinking of an electron as a single
particle it always struck me a stranger.
In fact, quantum mechanics says that if we would
perform the same experiment with a bowling ball
(and we had a few billion years to perform the
experiment) the same interference pattern would
emerge.
Physicists don't understand the universe. All
they understand is how to approximate some of the
universe with some tough mathematics.