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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He was refering to quantum motion defined by its wave. The question I have to ask is why do the fundamental particles all have to jiggle? To what point? As A.A. Rabi said: "who ordered that?"
Is there a center to the quantum wave that the particle deviates from?
Mitch Raemsch; Falling light changes colour
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By jiggling, i assume he means the zitter motion of matter.
Why do they move in such a perculiar way? According to Diracs Wave equation, and the postulations brought forth from the equation, tend to describe the vacuum in terms of a negative sea of virtual spinning particles. These virtual particles will tend to interact with their positive partners in the vacuum.
In the case of the electron, it had a real definite speed, but moved with circular like paths as it moved through spacetime. In fact, Dirac was able to show that the electron actually was a massless particle which moved at the speed of light - known as the Dirac Electron.
The electron would be observed to move slower than lightspeed however due to the oscillatory movements. His interpretation went as far to explain this movement in terms of the interaction of the virtual particles in the vacuum.
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Sir virtual particles are a bit untenable to me as nobody has yet proved their existence.They can be just taken as mathematical trick unless untill their existence is proved tangible.
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