Hello everyone,
There is a new article in Nature that has been shared around on plenty of other Science sites. I wanted to approach this experiment and the explanation from a different way.
For those of you who haven’t read any of my past post/articles, I am not a huge “believer” in quantum anything. Not that there isn’t a measurable small scale, but I am speaking in terms of the true definition. I am actually not a huge fan of particle physics either. I tend to fall on the wave side. I think if we study the wave we would be able to explain alot of these “spooky” actions and “mystery” measurements without having to go crazy on new theory and new math to fit our observations. Especially since observations and measurements can be limited to the device(our senses,meters,brain,etc…) which we are using to measure.
So to the article…
This is in the first paragraph and pretty much sums up what they are doing. If we looked at it from a wave point of view, and that matter is made up of motion, then there would have to be constant movement in regards to anything that has matter. If there is an item being photographed or even just sitting there, there has to be interactions between all of the waves coming from the item itself, the people watching, the measuring devices etc… Could this still not be constructive and deconstructive WAVE interference? Rather than quantum craziness?
What if a photon is not a particle but rather a type of wave in a part of the wave cycle that resembles what they are able to measure?
Ok now let’s talk about the “entangled” part.
Huh? So sending light through a crystal entangles the photons?
SPOOKY!!
Huh again? Whatever happened to Occam’s Razor? {It states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better.}
Anyways… let’s continue.
hmmm….
This is my favorite part. Because they are not using visible light, it is PROOF!
OR… maybe it is just the interactions of waves through the wave cycle. For example, let’s look at an echo in a canyon. An echo leaves the source as a sound wave and is expanding out. If left alone this expanding wave will dissapate to silence once all energy(electrical potential) has been used. This is one half of the wave cycle, the expanding centrifugal death cycle. The other half is the compressing centripetal life cycle. This is manifested when the epxanding wave interacts with another object(also a bundle of waves). This object, depending on potential, volume, etc…will echo this initial wave back allowing for the sound you hear. So how was it that this can happen? As mentioned earlier, all matter is motion and all motion is made of waves. So all matter has moving waves and wave fields. The waves coming off each will interact and change the cycle of the 2. Just like Science talks about constructive interference when 2 waves create a stronger one. The interaction of the 2 expanding dying waves create lenses. These lenses compress and focus the other waves and cause them to change and then increase in potential. Hence it was like a new wave came about from the wall of the canyon.
That is my take, and to me, a much simpler one.
EDIT: I’d like to also add another example using the Sun and its rays that I have used before.
The light waves from the sun expand toward earth cooling. As the wave field interacts with earth’s wavefield interference is created and through convex lenses the waves are compressed and heated. Hence why the rays are hot after traveling through all that cold.
Last quote from the article says:
Both gone and not gone?
In my opinion, the reason we are still using these methods and way of describing the Universe, is because we are able to get some measurable results. I’m not saying this type of imaging doesn’t work or that the computer I am typing on is not because of so called quantum mechanics. I am saying all of this spooky action, and virtual particles, and doing something and nothing at the same time, can be explained in an easier fashion. That once people open up to other wave theories, we can start sounding like Science again and not Science Fiction.
Thoughts?
Much love as always… thanks for reading.
Chris