Thursday 8 November 2012

Just cause

One can consider the natural material world as being composed  in a certain way of atoms, molecules and living organisms and ask how this is so.

The known forces can't be described to explain this composition of matter, and  rather, the thought can be that atoms, molecules and living organisms are able to remain in their forms despite the action of the forces, which include, in particular, the powerful electromagnetic force acting within matter.  And it can wondered whether there needs to be something that allows matter to resist the action of the forces, and so that matter can remain in their atomic, molecular and organic forms.  

From the experimental evidence of matter on the smallest scale there have been found objects that can be regarded as the universal components of matter that can be detected as particles and the forces that can be measures measured and described surrounding these components.   And it can at least seem as though the measured forces are all the causes that act upon matter.

Or, alternatively, to explain the composition of matter, one can point out how the matter components can be described as possessing forms of behaviour called  quantum wave and spin, but which unlike any behaviour that can be observed of objects on a larger scale.  And also, there can measured and described a unique kind of effect occuring between objects  with this unique wave and spin behaviour, this effect having been called quantum entanglement.  The questions then arises should there not be a unique cause of this quantum behaviour that unlike any cause that has been called a force? And also, given that quantum wave, spin and entanglement is behaviour that is of a certain form and the objects are universal components of matter, wouldn't such a cause act universally upon atoms, molecules and living organisms and in addition to any force? 



Thursday 1 November 2012

Two slit experiment - quantum particle trajectories revealed in Bohmian mechanics

Below is a computer generated model of behaviour that cannot observed or directly detected by any means of objects.  It is a theoretical representation of how quantum objects should behave if they were both waves and particles while in motion.  And so that what causes thipatern of behaviour can be said to be an extended wave property of each individual object.  The diagram repesents trajectories of particles in a double slit experiment that has been performed on many types of object on the quantum scale, and up to size of quite large molecules.  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/#2s