Thursday, June 26, 2008

Quantum physics in a grafiti form

For some reason, I feel that this simple pictures talks well about such properties of quantum physics as probability and our inability to observe the quantum processes.




What do you think about it?

2 comments:

Pcfantasy Haw said...

Cool!

Anonymous said...

Quantum mechanics says that the most complete description of a system is its wavefunction, which is just a number varying between time and place. One can derive things from the wavefunction, such as the position of a particle, or its momentum. Yet the wavefunction describes probabilities, and some physical quantities which classical physics would assume are both fully defined together simultaneously for a system are not simultaneously given definite values in QM. It is not that the experimental equipment is not precise enough - the two quantities in question just are not defined at the same time by the Universe. For instance, location and velocity do not exist simultaneously for a body (this is called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle — see its formula in the box to the right). I am a college sophomore with a dual major in Physics and Mathematics @ University of California, Santa Barbara. By the way, i came across these excellent physics flash cards. Its also a great initiative by the FunnelBrain team. Amazing!!