A SHORT LESSON IN THE BASICS OF QUANTUM PHYSICS Quantum physics is the study of the interaction of atoms and the microscopic universe. Quantum Physics gave us TV (the image is formed by electrons being shot at a layer of phosphorous on the inside of the screen.) Quantum also gave us microwave ovens, lasers, cell phones, nuclear energy, and the atom bomb. In the early days Quantum researchers did various experiments on electrons, or the tiny particles that seem to fly around the nucleus of an atom and of which everything in our present existence is made. The results of these experiments caused the world of physics to question many of its laws, and even had Einstein losing it over what it all meant. Neils Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, John Bell, and Erwin Schrodinger who made achievements in Quantum physics were all given Nobel Prizes. Unless Nobel Prizes are given for myths or to idiots, the experiments listed below are definitely worth our contemplation. a) The most important experiment was known as the Double Slit Experiment. This experiment was simply done; if you take a gun and shoot black sand, through 2 slits on a metal plate with a white wall behind it you will get an image that looks like this on the white wall: II If you point a flashlight through the 2 slits you will get an image on the wall that looks like this: IIIIIIII This is called an interference pattern and you may notice how the lines in the middle are stronger than the ones on the edges as is …
