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PostIcon Posted on: Feb. 26 2001,04:21  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

I want credit if you win a Nobel Prize for this someday...

A SOLUTION TO THE WAVE/PARTICLE DUALITY.

It seems pretty obvious to me that "particles" that flow through a "vacuum" are in fact better described as holes flowing through a medium, sort of like the holes in a P-type semiconductor.

If that medium exhibited properties similar to a fluid, it would explain a lot of weird things... like why light can act like a wave sometimes, and like a particle others.

Think of it this way : a boat in water can be said to act as a particle or a wave, depending on what EFFECTS you're looking at. If you're talking about a boat hitting, say, a submarine, it acts like a particle. If you're talking about a boat's effect on the shore, the boat acts like a wave.

I'm in a hurry and can't go into much detail, but... supposedly "empty" space has weird properties, some physicists have proposed an "active" vacuum, so I just thought "hey... what if the particles we know and love were actually 'empty' space within the void?"

Fire away...

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A long while ago physicists used to think that there was some kind of eather - they thought there must be a medium for light to move through, as it behaved like a wave in their experiments..

Michealson and Morley conducted a historic experiment to measure their velocity relative to this eather, as it stood to reason they wouldn't be still relative to it. They were very suprised by their results, as the interference pattern did not change at all when they changed the orientation of their equipment..

This disproved the existence of an "eather" or any specific thing that can be considered a medium for light (and hence, other subatomic particles that exhibit wave like properties)


here is a link to an interesting lecture on the Michelson morley experiment. http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/michelson.html

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PostIcon Posted on: Feb. 26 2001,13:26 Skip to the previous post in this topic.  Ignore posts   QUOTE

what would happen if you put a DuSTman in an DuSTman-sized box? hehe. but anyways your theory sux0rs. read up on your quantum mechanics and bosonic string theory, biotch!

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