Saturday, December 31, 2011
How do holes move around
How do holes move around
I never really liked the wave theories of particles etc, particularly since they do not appear to take into account quanta of length etc.
I wondered vaguely if a better analogy might be a sea of spheres, where occasionally there develop holes between the spheres. If these holes are observed they look like particles of course.
But most of the time they disappear. But these holes can have velocity and momentum of course. If you send a hole in a particular direction it will effectively continue in this direction.
But it will become more foam like, until it is observed again.
Now the experiment would be to send the holes towards a couple of slits, and see what happens. The foam will effectively go through both slits and will presumably form an interference pattern on the next observation.
I am not quite sure how you would test this, other than in a computer model. And I do not know quite what this sea is, other than a frictionless ether. However it gives me a nice image of a quantum wave.
The spreading of the probability is something to do with the fluidity of the ether, and one would expect to get lots of normal distributions from the interaction of the ether particles, as per the ball bearings dropping through a pattern of nails.
The holes moving one way are of course the see moving in the other direction, and rather like the sign convention for electricity the physicists got it wrong, or did they?
martin
I never really liked the wave theories of particles etc, particularly since they do not appear to take into account quanta of length etc.
I wondered vaguely if a better analogy might be a sea of spheres, where occasionally there develop holes between the spheres. If these holes are observed they look like particles of course.
But most of the time they disappear. But these holes can have velocity and momentum of course. If you send a hole in a particular direction it will effectively continue in this direction.
But it will become more foam like, until it is observed again.
Now the experiment would be to send the holes towards a couple of slits, and see what happens. The foam will effectively go through both slits and will presumably form an interference pattern on the next observation.
I am not quite sure how you would test this, other than in a computer model. And I do not know quite what this sea is, other than a frictionless ether. However it gives me a nice image of a quantum wave.
The spreading of the probability is something to do with the fluidity of the ether, and one would expect to get lots of normal distributions from the interaction of the ether particles, as per the ball bearings dropping through a pattern of nails.
The holes moving one way are of course the see moving in the other direction, and rather like the sign convention for electricity the physicists got it wrong, or did they?
martin
