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Once upon a time I was working in chemistry and physics and studied quantum mechanics. I noted right off that if one doesn't require time to be connected and continuous, then there is no need to require energy to be quantized to make all the equations of the subject work. Things work just as well by quantizing time.
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what do you think about the POSSIBLITY that the reason we can't definitively quantify the location of an electron or a photon is because they are in fact travling into and out of other universes (or dimensions if that's what you want to call them)...
basically i see light particles as analogues of electrons, they seem "paired up " to me...
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I don't know what to think about it being a fact that they move into and out of this universe, but, according to Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty, which is quite well founded and not at all in question, whether they stay in this universe or jump to another, it would still be impossible to know their location and velocity precisely at any specific time, since the only way to know that is to observe them by bombarding them with some form of matter or energy, which then alters that position and velocity.
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Although it, by modern standards is ancient now, you might enjoy reading "Matter and Light. The New Physics" by Louis de Broglie or his later "The Revolution in Physics : A Non mathematical Survey of Quanta", which is an easier read.
"In 1929 the Swedish Academy of Sciences conferred on (de Broglie) the Nobel Prize for Physics "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons".
Just reading through a very brief biography of de Broglie is fascinating, as he belies the often claimed "fact" that science and mathematics are a game of the young, since he was well beyond youth when he began his scientific efforts.
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if they spent more time making educational programs like that? our kids would at least be better informed.. it doesn't really make them better students or more productive tho....
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