6 Comments
Jun 10, 2022Liked by TJ Radcliffe

Thanks for making my head spin again. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this "reality" of yours ("it's way off beam, you're just taking the piss ain't ya!"). And I forgot to ask last week: why in the overhead colour graphic (with blue background) do we initially only see one lump/particle and after they interact two? Where is the second (stationary) particle located before the collision, and why isn't it visible?

Expand full comment
Jun 10, 2022Liked by TJ Radcliffe

How “ it comes to be that we only experience a finite, local, space-time” on our special pale blue dot of life? You’re bending my brain again! (Thanks!)

Expand full comment

The problem comes with the verbal description of these problems. I have seen the mathematical derivation of the wave-particle equation. I learned that with you in Grade 12 Physics. Once you've seen it happen, the magic disappears. It's not a contradiction, although my brother remains mystified by the idea that something could be a wave and a particle at the same time. They're not discrete categories. They are properties that exist on a continuum. All you need to know that in algebra, so I can imagine the weird relationships that even more math can reveal.

Expand full comment