it looks to me that they verified the law by experimentation i dont see a contradiction in the article..
From what I read all I can tell is that their observation of particles did not "collapse" the wave function - the particles were in fact in both
states at once while being observed.
Which - is a violation of what heisenberg's conjecture was.phlogiston - 8-3-2012 at 13:13
Wavefunction collapse is an old-fashioned view anyway. I think the concept quantum decoherence more closely describes what happens.
The wiki page is quite informative, but this guy's page greatly helps to grasp the concept on a more intuitive level.GreenD - 8-3-2012 at 13:22
Wavefunction collapse is an old-fashioned view anyway. I think the concept quantum decoherence more closely describes what happens.
The wiki page is quite informative, but this guy's page greatly helps to grasp the concept on a more intuitive level.
Reading it now - but from my original post - are they saying that they observed "shrodingers cat" dead and alive at the same time?kavu - 8-3-2012 at 13:47
Such groundbreaking new information on quantum mechanics, especially the experimental sort, is much more complex than Schrödingers cat or a
wavefunction collapsing. I have not yet taken QM 1 and 2 and only know some of the outmost basic stuff. All I can say is that providing a
non-mathematical form of the new discovery is very very difficult even for the people working in the business.watson.fawkes - 8-3-2012 at 14:24
