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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: Wrapping this up. Mostly.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Wrapping this up. Mostly. Well, it's that time of year - the end of the semester. Except this time, I'm graduating! I'm approaching a busy summer - moving, traveling, and at the end, I'm getting married! I'd also like to thank Mr. James Redford for a LENGTHY discussion about Tipler's theory of everything - it was my first real blog debate I had. It's been great, and I hope to see you all around, but for now, good bye! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wrapping this up. Mostly.
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: Be careful what you believe.
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Be careful what you believe. Being skeptical is a good thing for scientists, but when is it going too far? We are taught to question what we are told, yet we are expected to accept whatever is taught to us in school. Are we supposed to just take in the knowledge and accept it as fact? Well, a little yes, and a little no. Well, take a look at this. For those of you not wanting to read, I'm going to post snippets here. Can a magnet cling energetically to a fridge against the constan...
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: Self Evaluation 3.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. I feel like this blog evaluation period has pretty much been status quo. My second evaluation period was a major increase from the first evaluation, but I feel this period has been about the same as the second, but no better. I've reasonably consistently kept to shorter posts. I decided I needed shorter posts from a survey I conducted on my blog that ended right after the last grading period. Thus, I got input from my readers and changed my blog quite a bit from where it w...My po...
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: Not quantum, but I couldn't resist.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Not quantum, but I couldn't resist. General Relativity, the theory of gravity that has existed since the early 1900s has been exceptionally difficult to prove. Early in the 20th century, several of it's major predictions have been proven, but it has taken a while to prove it's most basic predictions. General Relativity treats time and space as interwoven (ever hear the term, the fabric of space-time? What does this mean for you? NASA on Gravity Probe B. May 4, 2011 at 1:43 PM.
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Something from "nothing" - the Casimir Effect. As promised, Im taking a small break from introductory quantum mechanics, and discussing a topic that has some very real consequences in real life. This is one of the more strange predictions of quantum theory, so hold on. Ever heard of zero point energy? If you have its related to the Casimir effect. Sunday, January 30, 2011. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Part 2. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. Sunday, January 23, 2011. At lea...
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: Potentially exciting news in the world of particle physics!
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Potentially exciting news in the world of particle physics! This happened about a month ago, and I've been doing some reading in my spare time about it, but I think now's the time to make a post about it. It's big news for particle physicists, but I doubt you've heard this on the evening news. The Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois has data that potentially points to the existence of a NEW fundamental particle. Take a look at the graph above. The red line is w...
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: Schrodinger's cat - is the paradox gone?
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Schrodinger's cat - is the paradox gone? For a long time, Schrödinger's cat has been everyone's favorite example of quantum mechanics. Who doesn't like cats (aside from the people that don't)? It's become an icon for quantum mechanics, but a new proposal for an experiment may expose the cat while he's in the box. This preprint. Due to be published in Physical Review A. About the quantum drum? If you don't here's a quick summary. Where does this leave Schrödinger's cat? Huh I dont ...
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: April 2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Schrodinger's cat - is the paradox gone? For a long time, Schrödinger's cat has been everyone's favorite example of quantum mechanics. Who doesn't like cats (aside from the people that don't)? It's become an icon for quantum mechanics, but a new proposal for an experiment may expose the cat while he's in the box. This preprint. Due to be published in Physical Review A. About the quantum drum? If you don't here's a quick summary. Where does this leave Schrödinger's cat? Well, a lit...
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Quantum Mechanics for the Curious: Tunneling
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. I'm going to discuss yet another strange prediction of quantum mechanics - quantum tunneling. This effect allows scientists to image very tiny objects (atom sized objects) via a device called a scanning tunneling microscope (like the image to the left). That image is several atoms arranged in a ring, those bumps you see are the atoms! I direct you to Nano Nook. For another example image. So what is quantum tunneling? You don't have enough energy! What does this mean? This is what ...
