RE: Quantum Physics (I): Wave-Particle Duality 量子力學 （一）波粒二象性
Light is a wave, but has granulosity at planck unit level.
Its not a particule in the sense it has no mass, but energy is received by packets what was originally the "quantas" of plancks, from which come the term of "quantum mechanics" as mechanics at sub atomic level.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum
In physics, a quantum (plural: quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction. The fundamental notion that a physical property may be "quantized" is referred to as "the hypothesis of quantization".[1] This means that the magnitude of the physical property can take on only certain discrete values.
For example, a photon is a single quantum of light (or of any other form of electromagnetic radiation), and can be referred to as a "light quantum". Similarly, the energy of an electron bound within an atom is also quantized, and thus can only exist in certain discrete values. The fact that electrons can only exist at discrete energy levels in an atom causes atoms to be stable, and hence matter in general is stable.
Quantization is one of the foundations of the much broader physics of quantum mechanics. Quantization of the energy and its influence on how energy and matter interact (quantum electrodynamics) is part of the fundamental framework for understanding and describing nature.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant
The Planck constant (denoted h, also called Planck's constant) is a physical constant that is the quantum of action, central in quantum mechanics.
First recognized in 1900 by Max Planck, it was originally the proportionality constant between the minimal increment of energy, E, of a hypothetical electrically charged oscillator in a cavity that contained black body radiation, and the frequency, f, of its associated electromagnetic wave. In 1905, the value E, the minimal energy increment of a hypothetical oscillator, was theoretically associated by Albert Einstein with a "quantum" or minimal element of the energy of the electromagnetic wave itself. The light quantum behaved in some respects as an electrically neutral particle, as opposed to an electromagnetic wave. It was eventually called the photon.
Those quantas are like the pixels of the universe that give the particule aspect to light, but fundementally its still a wave.
The models of pribram - bohm based on fourriers series are interesting on this regard.
Thanks h0bby1 for your detailed comment! For me, it is hard to say whether fundamentally something is a particle or a wave. Wave-particle duality tells us that we can't really say one is more fundamental than the other. On the other hand, Quantum Field Theories would tell us that the quantum fields are the fundamental concepts.
The basics of quantum theory is based on this principle of quantas, fields with relativity are more a feature of space, and the quantas too, whereas light wave is more in the concept of energy and motion in these space, and are relative to the feature of the space in which they happen. Well its how i see it at least :)
This notion of what quanta are is still weird, but with the things like gravitational red shift, it seem more explained with quanta being feature of space, and dependent on it, whereas waves are dependent of their source of emission and more to be seen as energy / wavelenght-magnitude.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift
In astrophysics, gravitational redshift or Einstein shift is the process by which electromagnetic radiation originating from a source that is in a gravitational field is reduced in frequency, or redshifted, when observed in a region at a higher gravitational potential. This is a direct result of gravitational time dilation—if one is outside of an isolated gravitational source, the rate at which time passes increases as one moves away from that source. As frequency is inverse of time (specifically, time required for completing one wave oscillation), frequency of the electromagnetic radiation is reduced in an area of higher gravitational potential. There is a corresponding reduction in energy when electromagnetic radiation is red-shifted, as given by Planck's relation, due to the electromagnetic radiation propagating in opposition to the gravitational gradient. There also exists a corresponding blueshift when electromagnetic radiation propagates from an area of higher gravitational potential to an area of lower gravitational potential.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%E2%80%93Einstein_relation
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-quantized-in-othe/
"The redshifted light we observe is consists of photons, discrete 'particles' of light energy. The energy of a photon is the product of a physical constant (Planck's constant) times the frequency of the light. Frequency is defined as the reciprocal of time, so if only certain redshifts are possible, then only certain energies are present, and hence only certain frequencies (or, equivalently, time intervals) are allowed. To the extent that redshifts of galaxies relate to the structure of time, then, it suggests an underlying quantization.
"In our newest theoretical models we have learned to predict the energies involved. We find that the times involved are always certain special multiples of the 'Planck time,' the shortest time interval consistent with modern physical theories. The model we are working with not only predicts redshifts but also permits a calculation of the mass energies of the basic fundamental particles and of the properties of the fundamental forces. The model implies that time, like space seems to be three dimensional.
Its to modelize this sort of stuff based on quanta i want system with precise clocking, based on cpu cycle which is hard to get on preemptive multi tasking os.
The quantification aspect is intimately tied into the non-local variables issue. See Bohm’s work (early work was with De Broglie) and various discussions around it such as Einstein’s take on it. This is an area of physics that I am very interested to explore with novel thinking once I finish my work on decentralized consensus. I have already written down some of my ideas for further introspection. I need to learn a lot more about the field. You could also see John Nash’s model of a vacuum he was working on right before he died. Check his Princeton homepage. I have a book Information Mechanics by Kantor that I have not had time to digest yet.
@anonymint I hope you will find time to spend on this very interesting topic!
The network scaling relativity spawned some new ideas on this matter. But I’m too overloaded in software work right now.
Im studying mostly riemann, tensors fields, quaternions and fourrier series :) thats the kind of stuff i want to integrate into distributed node to make simulation on those stuff of waves / quaternion / fourrier series and riemanian geometry.
Don’t make jealous ;-)
I already have lot of code for this :) its part of things i want to be able to have in portable binary form, on baremetal micro kernel, to have all the cpu clocks and cores and ram available for real time stuff, vectors, waves, fields etc
Current web solution are not that good to program this.
I will probably post on those topics here too.