An awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all.
In the last post, I showed you how a projectile in a superposition of moving to the left or of moving to the right can only be measured to be doing one or the other. But what happens to the wave function of the system when the measurement is made? Does it… does it… COLLAPSE!? […]
ON 03/10/2025
So far, in the context of 1920s quantum physics, I’ve given you a sense for what an ultra-microscopic measurement consists of, and how one can make a permanent record of it. [Modern (post-1950s) quantum field theory has a somewhat different picture; please keep that in mind. We’ll get to it later.] Along the way I’ve […]
ON 03/06/2025
