Ep63 - Sean Carroll: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"
Talks at Google
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The Wave Function Is a New Concept in Physics
By 1909, we had this picture of the atom which is the same cartoon you will always see when people talk about atoms. The problem is that even though this is consistent with certain pieces of data, it can't be true as the final answer because these electrons zooming around in orbits should be emitting electromagnetic waves. When you take a charged particle like an electron and you shake it in any way, it has an electric field radiating out in all directions. That's where the light that we're seeing right now comes from, from vibrating electrons. Think of the electron as a wave. And just like a violin string that you pluck in different ways, a string that is tied down
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