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If science has not become a cult why do people get triggered if you don't believe the standard model?
submitted 10 months ago by [deleted] from self.whatever
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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 10 months ago (1 child)
explain in detail
Explain in detail 120 years of evidence for quantum mechanics? If I write five hundred thousand words on the history and development of quantum mechanics, will you read them all or stop after the first sentence?
We would probably start with wave interference and the photoelectric effect:
From there go on to the ultraviolet collapse of the atom in classical mechanics and emission/absorption spectra:
That's just the beginning. But the bottom line is that at the scale of atoms, matter behaves as waves, not point-like particles or tiny solid spheres. Mapping those wave functions which spread out to infinity under quantum mechanics to the localised values that we measure occurs probabilistically:
I'm not saying that with quantum mechanics we have reached the end of science and the Ultimate Truth Of The Universe. We still don't know how to reconcile quantum mechanics with gravity and general relativity. It is always possible that the future will bring in a paradigm shift that will change our understanding of wave interference etc.
Nor am I quite ruling out some sort of hidden variable theory that would eliminate the need for wave functions to be interpreted as "probability waves". But such hidden variables would have to violate relativity.
[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 10 months ago (0 children)
back to the drawing board, figure it out
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