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Light Quantum Induces The Measurement Paradox
Author(s) -
Antonio Puccini
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of advances in physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2347-3487
DOI - 10.24297/jap.v15i0.8014
Subject(s) - physics , wave function collapse , quantum , photon , quantum mechanics , electron , function (biology) , theoretical physics , classical mechanics , quantum dynamics , quantum process , evolutionary biology , biology
We learn from Quantum Mechanics that the observation of the microscopic world, the measurement (M) of a quantum object, i.e. a particle, inexorably modifies the physical system we wish to examine.
What happens is that with the M it takes place a reduction of the state vectors, that is the ‘wave function collapse’ of the measured particle.
Why does it happen? No one knows.
The enigma of the so-called Measurement Paradox, in our opinion, could be solved if we considered that the light quantum(LQ), as suggested by the Principle of Equivalence Mass-Energy, carries out a dynamic-mass equivalent to its energy. The LQ is indispensable to carry out a M.
No M can be carried out without using the quantum of light.
Calculus show that a photon of the optic band hits an electron with a momentum bigger than the mass of the electron itself.
This may explain why the M induces the implosion of the quantum object observed, together with the collapse of its wave function, giving rise to the Measurement Paradox.