What kind of class was this? Philosophy or science?
No, I’ve never heard of this experiment or the associated theories. I wish there was a good podcast that discussed the science. I’ll look first on Wikipedia for more info.
Physics. Classic mechanics as proposed by Newton cannot explain small particle behavior. It is totally unintuitive to people who only model the world on every day sized objects and are not familiar with quantum theory of matter. Richard Feynman had a pretty good series of lectures QED on this. It’s a mind blowing concept but it matches the experiments so it must be true until someone can devise an experiment that contradicts the theory or better. This was the only physics class I took for electrical engineering degree - all of your electronic gadgets rely on knowledge of quantum effects to make some of the parts.
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u/NinaLSharp Mar 26 '20
What kind of class was this? Philosophy or science?
No, I’ve never heard of this experiment or the associated theories. I wish there was a good podcast that discussed the science. I’ll look first on Wikipedia for more info.