Uncertainty, Photons & Quasars
Discussion Article
Background & Context
Uncertainty
- Intro: Coin flipping and statistical randomness
- Schrodinger Wave Equation
- Born interpretation - probability distribution, not charge distribution
- Half lives and non-deterministic radiation
- Copenhagen interpretation and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Schrodinger’s cat
Quasars
- Hubble constant and spacetime expansion
- Cosmological redshift
- Parallax and standard candles (type 1A supernovae; variable stars)
- Spectroscopy - Absorption and Emission Lines
- HS review - electron transitions
- Blackbody spectra
- Active galactic nuclei and synchrotron radiation
Causality
- Electron superposition experiments (pdf)
- Double slit experiment
- HS review: Wave-Particle duality and De Broglie wavelengths
- Photoelectric effect, wave-packets, quanta
- Einstein Podolski Rosen paradox
- Bell inequalities and the violation of local realism
- Quantum eraser experiment
- Delayed choice quantum eraser