Quantum Mechanics
Full Title or Meme
This page focuses on the first development of the Quantum Mechanics of the Eventful Universe as developed by Werner Heisenberg.
Context
Werner Heisenberg was not happy with the state of Quantum Mechanics as articulated by the Copenhagen school of Niels Bohr and so went off to an isolated island in the North Sea (for his Hay Feaver) to think through a better solution focused on the observed events. Shortly after this Edwin Schrodinger developed another model based on the flow of a quantum from one event to another known as the wave equation. It was later shown that these two models were consistent with each other in spite of the differences between the models, the wave equation dealt with the flow of the particle and Quantum Mechanics dealt with the event that was observed when the electron was measured.
In 1920 there was a model of a quantum atom that has electrons spinning around a nucleus, that was just discovered by Rutherford, a New Zealander working in Canada and England. Some success was obtained in determining the differences between electron "orbits" as a light photon of a specific energy was emitted and measured whenever an electron "fell" from one orbit to another at a lower energy. Unfortunately, that Bohr model of electron orbits was unable to predict the fine details of the simplest atom, Hydrogen, and Bohr was adamantly opposed to the concept of light quanta.
The Wava Model
The Wava Model was very good that determine where light photons (and electrons as well) would impact a fixed screen when they were diffacted, as is clear in the "two slit" experiements.
Specific Uses
In keeping with the purposes of this wiki the application of Quantum Mechanics to computer and communications applications. Click on the names below for more information.
- The Quantum Computing Threat describes how existing private keys can be exposed.
- The Quantum Information Theory describes how quantum effects can be used create provably secure communication channels.
