de Broglie Waves - Sixty Symbols

The strange world of de Broglie waves and particles.

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Science & Technology

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• Louis
• de
• Broglie
• Einstein
• light
• electrons
• waves
• particles
• nobel
• prize

[mdiem]

Summary: It's screwy 

[metalmaniac767]

I was starting to get the impression that he thinks it's screwy.

[ftlqed]

The dumbest answer is always right, its a ball of DNA.

[MegaDowson]

If the things your trying to explain are smaller that the wavelength of light I suppose things are going to be a bit hard to explain in terms of things we can see/think about, comprehending it visually would be like explaining how a ball bounces to someone who has been blind all there life.

[DanFrederiksen]

I'd say it's a wave nature with resonant mechanisms that can interlock waves to be standing and thereby have particle like properties. the wave aspect is the only one that never goes away.

[BrokenBrilliance]

Sounds more like the "wave" idea refers to the probability of finding a particle in a given space. I'd imagine particles that have more energy have a larger wave spectrum that they can be found in.

[Ramsez]

geez nobody here understands wave theory? its the basis of quantum mechanics

[pf37rss]

Today may chem prof called him de BROGGLY, and I died a little inside

[pyrobombs]

Mindfuck of the week: Complete.

[AndorianBlues]

@Duodecillian re: falling through the ground, isn't that actually because of electromagnetic repulsion between electrons? I was under the impression the fermion exclusion principle only applies to the structure of the atom itself except in very high density situations, such as that thought to exist in the centre of neutron stars. I'm not a physicist though!

[orbitalshawn]

this guy is confusing matter waves with quantum fields