Archive for January, 2009
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
by CARIEL O. MONTALBAN
In quantum mechanics, I have learned that the wavefunctions, , reside in Hilbert’s space. What is Hilbert’s space? I guess to answer this question requires exploring the basic properties of Hilbert’s space.
Hilbert’s space is a linear vector space whose elements, entities or components obey certain rules or axioms. This means firstly than [...]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
” The Heisenberg-Bohr concepts leave us all breathless, and have made a deep impression on all theoretically oriented people.” -Albert Einstein, 1926
The period 1905 to 1925 was a great time for the world’s leading physicists in the race to understand the quantum nature of matter. To explain so many curious and undigestible phenomena about [...]
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
“Common sense is that layer of prejudices we acquire before we are 16.”
- Albert Einstein
The physical world that was opening up in 1900 was revealed and seen in a radical light. Max Planck’s bold hypothesis that light was emitted in bundles or quanta of energy where each quantum’s energy is determined by the frequency was [...]
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