Action and the Light takes all paths concept.
April 3, 2025 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: Yesterday at 12:08 am by Goosebump.
Edit Reason: bananas
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My science minded brother (chemist and engineering grad) sent me a youtube video, lost the link was on steam, about how light and in fact all particles take all possible infinite paths and we only see the one that wasn't canceled out. My questions are these:
1. particles of light and possibly all others, 'consider' all the paths (wtf does a particle considering its path mean?).
2. most get canceled out by each-other like competing waves?
3. We observe the one with the "least action". But then they put the planet Mercury in the video and claimed it was active the same way. So all particles are acting this way?
4. So the particles in my body are "considering" on a path to the fried banana stand but when I don't get a fried banana those paths were canceled out some how? Meaning all the while there was a chance, possibly infinite chances of me getting a fried banana but I didn't because my brother is confusing me?
5. How, if at all, do I make the particles in my body more likely to chose, when considering paths, the one to the friend banana stand?
This might be a tall order. But WTF does any of this mean or have to do with anything? Or should I just go back to my milk and cookies and let the brainiacs lose sleep, and possibly fried bananas, over this one?
1. particles of light and possibly all others, 'consider' all the paths (wtf does a particle considering its path mean?).
2. most get canceled out by each-other like competing waves?
3. We observe the one with the "least action". But then they put the planet Mercury in the video and claimed it was active the same way. So all particles are acting this way?
4. So the particles in my body are "considering" on a path to the fried banana stand but when I don't get a fried banana those paths were canceled out some how? Meaning all the while there was a chance, possibly infinite chances of me getting a fried banana but I didn't because my brother is confusing me?
5. How, if at all, do I make the particles in my body more likely to chose, when considering paths, the one to the friend banana stand?
This might be a tall order. But WTF does any of this mean or have to do with anything? Or should I just go back to my milk and cookies and let the brainiacs lose sleep, and possibly fried bananas, over this one?
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