kouillon wrote:
... lol! If your question is still rather vague, I understand that you are stumbling on the eternal problem of modern physics: how to understand what we can not imagine !?
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If we summarize:
a photon is a corpuscle whose calculation of the position responds only to a probabilistic law called a wave function, and that is why a photon is both a wave and a corpuscle!
Ironically, it's because he wanted to philosophize about it that Einstein never advanced in the theory of universal reunification, and I think that's a lesson to remember!
Einstein never accepted that a probabilistic equation defines reality. Doing quantum physics, it is to accept that a probability is the reality !
We can philosophize the above if we want, but it's a mistake! ...
In short, it is a mistake to believe that science stumbles on it! What stands in the way is our ability to understand how a probability can be a just law.
Indeed, here I am
it reminds me The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with the vessel with improbability generator
Morceau chooses wrote:An important practical advice given by the Guide is to always carry a towel with you. It allows indeed, in addition to all its optional uses, to show people that we meet that we have an irreproachable hygiene and thus puts them a priori in good provisions vis-à-vis the foreign traveler (always the subject to prejudice elsewhere). In addition, if a person has a bath towel, we deduce that he has everything else and we are therefore willing to lend him.
So in short, a new science is emerging, probabilistic science
but it is only a mathematical representation, and a priori imperfect
So, for you, "light" is made up of particles whose state can be described with a wave function; would light be the expression of photon activity?
A wave or a particle?
nevertheless, should we understand that this "object" can be both at the same time?
as in Young's slit experiment which describes interference and shows that light is a wave
Until there are not enough photons ...
I deduce that our "representation" of this "object" if there is one, cannot be imaged by any macroscopic example (everyday life what) yet at the macroscopic scale, the notions of energy, of power whereas 'they are intangible and have been perfectly mastered to me,
in the same vein, I would like to know the opinion of a specialist in the field to share his "vision" accustomed that he would be to manipulate this notion
Chopped on Wiki:
every quantum system and therefore every particle is described by a wave function which codes the probability density [3] of any measurable variable (also called observable). The position of a particle is an example of one of these variables. So before an observation is made, the position of the particle is described in terms of probability waves.
The two slits can be considered as two secondary sources for these probability waves: the two waves propagate from them and interfere (see diagram on the right ⇒).
On the photographic plate, there is what is called a reduction of the wave packet, or a decoherence of the wave function: the photon materializes, with a probability given by the wave function: raised to some places (shiny bangs), weak or zero in others (dark bangs).
This experiment also illustrates an essential characteristic of quantum mechanics. Until an observation is made, the position of a particle is described in terms of probability waves, but after the particle is observed (or measured), it is described by a fixed value.