My OperaOde to Quantum Mechnics
Thursday, November 5, 2009 4:19:57 PM
Does Quantum mechanics reflect the way nature really behaves or is it just a meaningless algorithm that happens to work?
Oh, it starts with James Clerk Maxwell and his laws we know so well.
From lines of flux to waves of light and everything is swell.
Then along comes guys like Schrödinger, Dirac and Fermi, too.
And say goodbye to every thing you might have thought was true.
Quantum Mechanics!
It might have several quirks
but no one can deny the fact that quantum theory works.
Well quantum really ain't so tough as long as one can chew
on a second-order, complex-valued partial diff-e.q. (differential equation)
The secret to an understanding of duality
is to know the thing that's "waving" is the probability.
Quantum Mechanics!
Is ain't so tough, you'll see
It's just a bunch of particles acting stochastically. (randomly, not statistically)
Uncertainty is not so odd as long as we're aware
position and momentum are a Fourier transform pair.
So anything that tightens our precision on the one
the certainty about the other value gets undone.
Quantum Mechanics!
It's strange and we agree
but at least it's much simpler to learn than relativity!
Quantum Mechanics!
It might have several quirks
but no one can deny the fact that quantum theory works![/I]
Oh, it starts with James Clerk Maxwell and his laws we know so well.
From lines of flux to waves of light and everything is swell.
Then along comes guys like Schrödinger, Dirac and Fermi, too.
And say goodbye to every thing you might have thought was true.
Quantum Mechanics!
It might have several quirks
but no one can deny the fact that quantum theory works.
Well quantum really ain't so tough as long as one can chew
on a second-order, complex-valued partial diff-e.q. (differential equation)
The secret to an understanding of duality
is to know the thing that's "waving" is the probability.
Quantum Mechanics!
Is ain't so tough, you'll see
It's just a bunch of particles acting stochastically. (randomly, not statistically)
Uncertainty is not so odd as long as we're aware
position and momentum are a Fourier transform pair.
So anything that tightens our precision on the one
the certainty about the other value gets undone.
Quantum Mechanics!
It's strange and we agree
but at least it's much simpler to learn than relativity!
Quantum Mechanics!
It might have several quirks
but no one can deny the fact that quantum theory works![/I]
