An awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all.
What is really going on in the quantum double-slit experiment? The question raised in this post’s title seems to lie at the heart of the matter. In this experiment, which I recently reviewed here, particles of some sort are aimed, one at a time, at a wall with two slits, and their arrival is recorded […]
ON 03/13/2025
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
