Can anyone explain the basics of Quantum Physics?
Properly called Quantum Mechanics, as one of you respondents has already said it is the study of the very tiniest particles and their behaviour/nature. The people who study it are quantum phycists and they tell us that the subject is very mysterious and that nobody fully understands it. In fact nobody knows what really goes on at that level, there are just ‘best theories’. The suggestion is that these sub-atomic particles aren’t made out of ‘stuff’ but out of energy and that one can never be quite sure of just what and just where they are. It’s all probabilities. That said, the equations work. Your mobile wouldn’t work without quantum physicists, nor would your computer and a whole lot of other things we take for granted today.
Quantum mechanics is about quantisation of physical properties, hence the name “quantum”. Light was long thought to be a continuous stream of wave, but Eisntein explained in 1921 that light consist of discrete quanta of energy called photons, and he won the Nobel Prize for that. The world of quantum mechanics ultimately boils down the wave-particle duality phenomena, where a particle can behave like a wave, and a wave can behave like a particle.
The only thing basic about quantum mechanics is that nobody understands it. If somebody tells you that they understand quantum mechanics, they’re lying. The most basic principles behind it are that there are no localized particles, that all matter behaves like waves, and that things are predictable insomuch as there is a certain, calculable probability that they will behave in a certain way. I’m sure that does not help at all. Sorry…
atmo 😉 hope youve been well i cant, im too dumb, my boyf would be able to, but, hes not in just now ;-(, and wont be for a number of hours Additional the universal law with quantum physics is if you understand it you havent got it ;-D so says my boyf teh idea is, an electron moving around an atom, doesnt orbit it, the way a planet moves around the sun, instead electrons exist eveyrwhere aroudn the atom at once what this explains is, what it is, its the behaviour/laws,of submoleculaur particles
