Path integrals on BBC2

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I did my dissertation on QED and Feynmans Sum over Histories stuff..

Fascinating!

ALso currently reading Cos's new book - The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

sometimes I think I understand it and sometimes it is elusive like a mote in the corner of my eye...

[Doggy Styles]

It's easier to understand the possible existence of god than some of that stuff.

Sorry, don't start, just saying like.

[VectraMan]

It's easier to understand the possible existence of god than some of that stuff.

Sorry, don't start, just saying like.

My A-level physics teacher was a serious christian, and somebody once asked him in class how he could ratify the two. His answer was that the more you go into physics, the more you realise how little we understand about the universe. Which is a fair point, but it's still a bit of a leap from "I don't understand it" to "a magical being must have done it".

I wish I'd done physics at university, rather than boring old computer science. A friend of mine did physics at Cambridge, and still ended up as a software engineer, so it might not have made a lot of difference to my career.

[NotAllThere]

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I did my dissertation on QED and Feynmans Sum over Histories stuff..

Fascinating!

ALso currently reading Cos's new book - The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

sometimes I think I understand it and sometimes it is elusive like a mote in the corner of my eye...

On those occasions, according to Feynmann - you're wrong!

I liked what someone said on the letters page of New Scientist this week, regarding wave particle duality. An electron is neither a wave nor a particle. It is an electron.

[original PM]

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On those occasions, according to Feynmann - you're wrong!
I liked what someone said on the letters page of New Scientist this week, regarding wave particle duality. An electron is neither a wave nor a particle. It is an electron.

Or alterntaively I was right and wrong at the same time

or I was right until I thought about it and then the wave form collapsed

[d000hg]

...guitar solo...



On those occasions, according to Feynmann - you're wrong!

I liked what someone said on the letters page of New Scientist this week, regarding wave particle duality. An electron is neither a wave nor a particle. It is an electron.

I can't remember the term, but Hawking talks about how it's meaningless to talk about what an electron IS, only what models explain it.

[Doggy Styles]

My A-level physics teacher was a serious christian, and somebody once asked him in class how he could ratify the two. His answer was that the more you go into physics, the more you realise how little we understand about the universe. Which is a fair point, but it's still a bit of a leap from "I don't understand it" to "a magical being must have done it".

I wish I'd done physics at university, rather than boring old computer science. A friend of mine did physics at Cambridge, and still ended up as a software engineer, so it might not have made a lot of difference to my career.

I only meant understanding what god is, or would be if he existed. He might be a product of as-yet undiscovered physics.

It seems the more you know, the less you know. Which might make sense to a quantum physicist.