Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
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If true it means that it is not a standing wave. Wave function collapse takes place at the speed of light. The wave goes flat at the speed of light. It might be true that quantum waves change in time when they are not expanding or collapsing.
Mitch Raemsch
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The quantum wave is a mass wave by size.
The mass gives a wavelength that is entirely determined by the amount of mass in the particle. The "pilot" quantum wave guides mass in motion. Where the wave moves the particle fast it is not found often and when mass is moved slowest it is found most often.
Mitch Raemsch
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It is true that some concepts of the wave function can be given a clock in regards to the electron. In typical lessons on quantum physics, we learn that the electron is best observed as a ''wave'' - even this wave moving through spacetime can have an internal periodic clock. Here is some work i've written on the subject:
''The Electron has an Internal Periodic Clock
So what experiences time in general? Is it us mere humans, niavely assessing the world in frames of existence flowing inexorably in one direction and increasing in a gradient we call time, or can much smaller objects, dimensionless objects actually experience some internal time as well? The periodic internal clock hypothesis was first made by De Broglie in his wave hypothesis of all matter. The perdiodic nature of this internal time is in fact seconds; this is close to the chronon compatibility for the electron suggested by Piero Caldirola in 1980. Caldirola's model has one chronon corresponds to about
seconds for an electron.. The clock hypothesis has not been very popular for some reason over the years since De Broglie proposed it in his PhD thesis on the wave structure of the electron. But, for the importance of this work,
it is now reestablished here so that time in its many aspects can be properly analyzed under the scrutiny of logic. In a series of experiments, it was finally shown that the electron did in fact
possess an internal clock frequency [6]-[7].
It is interesting that time variable can be attributed as an intrinsic structure of the electron, even though mathematically is not quite linear in fashion. It's more like periods which last for the smallest amount of time possible, and this quantization of time is unique for it can highlight two specific worlds which can exist in the vacuum. One which allows time on a large classical scale to experience no discontinous nature in time, and the other on smaller scales which have no choice but to see the world as fleeting flashes of existence. ''
So in other words, if an electron is simply a wave most of the time, then even a wave can have a periodic clock.
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