Dillon_Reyna Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Considering the fact that everything is made out of particles small enough to be affected by Quantum Mechanics, shouldn't everything be randomly broken up and scattered across the multi-verse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mississippichem Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Considering the fact that everything is made out of particles small enough to be affected by Quantum Mechanics, shouldn't everything be randomly broken up and scattered across the multi-verse? Care to explain the question in a bit more detail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon_Reyna Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 Care to explain the question in a bit more detail? Exactly what details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooeypoo Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Exactly what details? I think you assume that behavior in quantum level is chaotic and unpredictable. That's not true, though. It is much more energetic (a lot more 'events' happen a lot faster in the quantum level) but there ARE rules of conduct so-to-speak. The main thing is that it's probability-based. So while if you look at a SINGLE particle you can't tell where it is 100% but rather where it is according to some probabilistic equation (also, either where it is or what it's velocity, if I simplify things a bit) -- still, these are probabilistic, and when you talk about billions and billions of particles, the behavior of the *system* in general goes towards the average. It balances itself out. Does this explain things better? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon_Reyna Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 That actually put it into perspective for me pretty well! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionposter Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 (edited) Considering the fact that everything is made out of particles small enough to be affected by Quantum Mechanics, shouldn't everything be randomly broken up and scattered across the multi-verse? Quantum mechanics deals much with the small scale. For this reason, things are not distorted. Particles have a wave-function which extends indefinitely through space, however, there are specific places where particles like jump around the most, and those places are only a few nano-meters big. Edited August 26, 2011 by questionposter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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