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just thought of this after watching a tv program on the origins of wave-particle duality discovery and the development of uncertainty theory. wonder if someone could bounce something back off me for it.
now I am not a physicist, I am a computer science student, but I've read and watched a little on the general subject.
so to me this sounds a little(lot) like some string theory but i'd appreciate a better perspective than my own.
it seems to me, that things being 'wavey' and 'particley' are remarkably similar to my first experince with atomic bonding, and how ionic and covalent bonds are just 2 ends of the same stick(pardon my metaphor). could it be that all things are energy, and that this energy is in the form of some type of wave. and that a measure of how particle-like or wave-like a thing is, is simply determined by how much this wraps round on itself. in something like an electron its a bit more one way than another, and in an EM-wave its a bit more the other way etc.
further thoughts on this concern the 'proof' of duality and that if you look for a wave you find a wave, and if you look for a particle you find a particle. could it be that for example in an electron microscope, the emission process doesn't simply 'fire' electrons from a 'gun', but those electrons are simply unravelled slightly more, changing their nature and allowing them to travel through the 'vacuum' and the receiving process coils them up slightly more.
the thing that bugs me about it, is if things can travel in a wave, surely they have a medium. and since current theories on ether arent going anywhere(that i konw of) what is the medium for these waves.
*further thought... maybe the cosmic background radiation is the medium, and these waves interacting along it is what causes it to be at 3 degrees Kelvin.
i'd love to get some thoughts from some actual physicists back on this, so please consider replying :)
btw google search for 'waveicle' its interesting reading, yet way over my head ie. it has number and fractions etc. :p
now I am not a physicist, I am a computer science student, but I've read and watched a little on the general subject.
so to me this sounds a little(lot) like some string theory but i'd appreciate a better perspective than my own.
it seems to me, that things being 'wavey' and 'particley' are remarkably similar to my first experince with atomic bonding, and how ionic and covalent bonds are just 2 ends of the same stick(pardon my metaphor). could it be that all things are energy, and that this energy is in the form of some type of wave. and that a measure of how particle-like or wave-like a thing is, is simply determined by how much this wraps round on itself. in something like an electron its a bit more one way than another, and in an EM-wave its a bit more the other way etc.
further thoughts on this concern the 'proof' of duality and that if you look for a wave you find a wave, and if you look for a particle you find a particle. could it be that for example in an electron microscope, the emission process doesn't simply 'fire' electrons from a 'gun', but those electrons are simply unravelled slightly more, changing their nature and allowing them to travel through the 'vacuum' and the receiving process coils them up slightly more.
the thing that bugs me about it, is if things can travel in a wave, surely they have a medium. and since current theories on ether arent going anywhere(that i konw of) what is the medium for these waves.
*further thought... maybe the cosmic background radiation is the medium, and these waves interacting along it is what causes it to be at 3 degrees Kelvin.
i'd love to get some thoughts from some actual physicists back on this, so please consider replying :)
btw google search for 'waveicle' its interesting reading, yet way over my head ie. it has number and fractions etc. :p
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