(2/10) God and Cosmology I - God's Shadow

Episode 1: Gods Shadow

Here we examine the fundamental basics of quantum mechanics that have been discovered by physicists over the last 100 years, starting from particle nature of the photon to quantum entanglement. Of course, all topics cannot be covered, and those that are covered have a specific purpose both for this episode and future episodes. The primary focus is on the probabilistic nature of matter at its most basic level. Thus, there is a heavy emphasis on Copenhagen school of thought and related experiments. After that, we compare what we have learned in nature to classical descriptions of God (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence), and see if we can identify these qualities as conceptually possible. The Episode ends by answering the question:

If God exists, how could we possibly learn anything about Him when He is so far beyond our experience that it borders on the incomprehensible?

(2/8) The discovery of the particle nature of the photon by Max Planck, von Lenard, and Albert Einstein. Plancks law of black body radiation, von Lenards photoelectric effect, and Einsteins interpretation of the photoelectric effect are all covered. We finish with the particle wave duality introduced by Louis de Broglie.

0:01 Max Plancks love for music and enrolment into the university of Munich.
0:48 Planck takes on the problem of black body radiation. Why does the wavelength of the light change with temperature?
1:30 Classical physics fails to provide an answer
2:00 Planck finds the solution. The serious problem of light quantiziation is presented in context of the wave theory of light developed within the two preceding centuries, expecially with respect to Newtons (particle) corpuscular theory of light, and how Thomas Young disproved it with the Double Slit experiment.
3:20 Explanation for the double slit experiment, using the waves generated in a water bath as an example for wave interference.
3:50 Explanation for what is constructive and destructive interference, and the resultant constructive/destructive wave interference pattern on the back wall.
5:40 Plancks frustration over whether light is a particle or a wave is compounded when Philip von Lenard discovers (through what is now known as the Photoelectric effect) that the energies of electrons being emitted off of a metal surface is dependant upon the wavelength of the light source, not the intensity.
7:00 Is light a particle or a wave? Einstein provides the answer: its both.
8:30 Louis de Broglies proposal of the particle/wave duality of all matter. If waves can act like particles, then why cant particles act like waves?

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[samgee2007]

muslim scholars already knew this idea long before christians come to know about it!..so this proves islamic greatness.

[UNFFwildcard]

@samgee2007

Like who? Now you got me interested :)

[thund3rCR4CK3R]

It is interesting that we hear so much about the quest to achieve absolute zero, but so little about any efforts to achieve a maximum temperature. I would guess that a lot of mysterious (and perhaps useful) phenomena would occur at extremely high temperatures, just as superconductivity and superfluidity occur near absolute zero.

[UNFFwildcard]

@thund3rCR4CK3R

I think its because its easier, and because the resultant products are stable. You could perhaps get some interesting phenomena, but it gets hard to study it when the nuclei are breaking apart.

[ogirv101]

Max Planck is the genius behind the Quantum paradigm shift with his quantum theory and discovery of quanta, but I still argue that the discovery of Cathode rays by Michael Faraday and the beautiful equations of Maxwell are the foundation of quantum mechanics, or would you say the pre-foundation of quantum mechanics.

Who would you consider the founder of the paradigm shift, and who would you consider the person who most contributed to it?

[UNFFwildcard]

While you're right that Maxwell and Faraday made important contributions to quantum mechanics, I said Planck started it simply because quantum mechanics is literally named after the light quanta that he proposed.

[AlloBruxelles]

@samgee2007 If Islam were so great, Islamic countries wouldn't be so backward. Christianity --especially starting at the time of the Reformation-- brought about by far the most advanced civilization the planet has ever known and by an extremely large margin, in terms of science, technology, social justice, etc. One must judge a tree at its fruit.