Quantum Mechanics

[TequillaMockingBird]

...to think that Quantum Mechanics involves impossibly complex theories on the wave-particle duality of energy and matter at the sub-atomic level, and -though it does involve inherent uncertainty in knowing both velocity and exact position of microscopic particles - should be left alone by fringe-thinkers seeking to justify their hypothesis that the universe wraps itself around their wishful thinking that e.g. a packet of medium-posh biscuits will magically materialize on their kitchen counter?

YANBU.

Other than that whoooooosh

Don't. I've just answered a question about the quark model of hadrons and the boson model of the weak nuclear reaction and how they can explain how leptons can arise from lambda decay for my OU science assignment.

Brain-frying in the extreme.

Depends on what the medium-posh biscuits are.

Those biscuits are going to appear any day now

In the (almost correctly remembered) words of Leonard Hoffsteder (TBBT) 'Sorry, but I guess prefer my universe stringy rather than loopy'.

Well apart from the bit about the Biscuits, which makes it sound like you've confused quantum mechanics with Cosmic (on-line) Ordering YANBU.

Callisto.... which course? The particle physics on S104 fried my brain so badly I decided an observational interest in the subject is the limit of my capabilities!

Ahhh, cosmic online ordering. I'd love a Klingon bird of prey...

S104. I love physics, especially cutting edge particle physics, but I do find it all rather incomprehensible.

The biscuits went into the box with Schrodingers cat.

You have to say "Make it So" like you mean it

I'd prefer a Millenium Falcon please

Callisto, sounds interesting. Is the scenario that the lambda particle converts to a proton & emits a muon / muon antineutrino?

And in plain english that means...

Well, apart from the problems of the action of observer interaction, although we cannot rule out the possibilities of a packet of biscuits appearing, entropy dictates that the organisation of that number of atoms into a useful item, and then appearing in the required place would take an amount of energy equal to the destruction of the earth

Agree; also not v happy with the standard model. Anyhoo, particle physics not in new exam spec. And since when have neutrinos been able to travel faster than C?

Its all very strange, what are CERN playing at!

That was one funky particle I thought you had there for a moment!

Indeedy, Tequilla. It also emits a -W boson in the process, so conserving electric charge.

I am a quark, up, down, top, bottom (snigger), charm and most especially strange.

S104. I love physics, especially cutting edge particle physics, but I do find it all rather incomprehensible.

Oh yes. It is.

You missed out peppermint and sex appeal Mrs T Pratchett.

YABVVVVU!!!!! This is exactly the kind of reactionary, knee-jerk virtual biscuit-scrounging propaganda that makes my blood boil

Callisto, it's an excellant course.... are you heading for a degree? I just finished S250 and it was very good too but much less scary hard stuff

Callisto I am definitely peppermint and sex appeal

(Side debate: quantum mechanics + special relativity = quantum field theory?)

Summer - I'm doing the Natural Sciences degree, weighted to environmental science. I'm hoping that S104 will be my last encounter with quarks of any flavour or colour. And I really should be working on my EMA right now instead of gallivanting with strange, minty people like you lot.