Quantum Mind Control
by Laurence Jackson
- A fascinating insight into the bewildering world of wave-particle conundrums in the quantum realm.
- An explanation of why and how a wave turns into a particle when observed.
- Why a particle transforms to a wave when not being observed.
- Why can't we see light waves, only light particles?
- Can light time travel?
- How do probability waves work?
- How can a single particle form two diffraction waves?
- How can individual electrons create an interference pattern?
All these questions are answered and explained in an easy-reading book, suitable for the general public and learned academics alike.
Quantum Mind Control
Does the quantum world control our minds, or do our minds control the quantum world?
Double-Slit Explanation videos
Part one. Seed Waves.
Part Two. Wave/particle duality.
Part three. Entangled probability waves.
Double Slit Experiment
The Thomas Young double slit experiment shows light existing as waves when diffracted. But how and when does light select its existence as a wave or a particle? Why does light change from a wave into a particle when we observe it? Why and how does a particle manifest as a wave when we’re not watching it?
The answers are just a book away.
Observed Wave Behaviour
An image can speak many words, and the picture above shows light waves being diffracted as they pass through slits. The waves that pass through the right-hand slit are not observed, so they continue their journey from slit to back-screen without interference. The waves that pass through the left-hand slit are observed and briefly get realised as particles, which then continue their journey towards the back-screen as waves.
Single particle interference
How can single particles of light fired through a single slit create a pattern that is different to the shape of the slit? What dictates where the individual pinpoints of light hit the back-screen, and how does each light particle know where the previous light particles have landed?
The enigma of the double-slit experiment explained
To be or not to be. That is the quantum question. Or, more specifically, to be a wave or not to be a wave… or a particle… or a pair of quantumly entangled probability waves that can pop into existence as a single particle when detected.
Are quantum particles able to think, and do they have free will?
Why do light waves transform into particles when they’re observed?
If quantum particles don’t have free will, are they governed by an outside force, a supercomputer or god?
If you enjoy thought-provoking journeys that enrich, question and challenge, then Quantum Mind Control is for you.
What is Quantum Mind Control?
The quantum mysteries of the double-slit experiment explained, and why light changes from a wave to a particle when observed.
Quantum Mind Control, by Laurence Jackson, is a fascinating explanation and visualisation of the wave/particle duality of light, written as an easy-to-read popular science book for the general public and learned academics alike. Among other topics, it uses the double-slit experiment, which ironically can seem incomprehensible to many, as one of the platforms used to show how light acts as a quantum element and travels as a wave yet gets realised as a particle.
A short video posted by Jim Al-Khalili from The Royal Institution on YouTube in 2013 demonstrates why the double-slit experiment is so perplexing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tKncAdlHQ
Quantum Mind Control explains how the double-slit experiment works and shows:
- Why light waves transform into particles when observed.
- What seed waves are.
- How seed waves create quantum entangled diffracted waves.
- The balance of wave symmetry within interference patterns.
- How probability waves work.
How light transforms from a wave into a particle when observed.
When individual electrons are fired through a single slit and an electron detector is used.
The following image (fig 19), illustrates electrons passing through a single slit with a width comparable to its wavelength. The electrons travel from the gun to the slit as waves which become diffracted waves after they pass through the slit. An electron detector detects these diffracted waves, which are realised as particles. The particles then continue their journey towards the back-screen as waves, but the new waves are no longer diffracted as they haven’t passed through a slit that is comparable to their wavelength.
This shows light transforms from a wave to a particle when observed, but only while the light interacts with the environment, which is an electron detector. The light leaving the detector once again travels as waves because this is the only way light can travel.
The double slit experiment.
In the double-slit experiment (fig 20), the electrons travel from the gun to the slits as waves which allows a single electron to enter both slits simultaneously. Each seed wave generates pairs of diffracted waves formed simultaneously and are consequently identical, creating a symmetrical interference pattern.
The states of the pairs of diffracted waves are correlated or quantumly entangled, meaning they remain aware and connected to their twin regardless of distance. However, quantum entanglement ceases if one of the twins comes into contact or is influenced by environmental factors. If this happens, they decohere and transition from being explained by quantum mechanics to being explained by classical mechanics. The correlation between the waves was broken in these experiments because the electron detector was the environmental factor that influenced and decohered the entangled waves coming from the left-hand slit. When diffracted waves from the left-hand slit get detected, they transform into particles and then continue their journey as waves, but the waves are no longer diffracted and cease to interact or create interference patterns with the waves from the right-hand slit.
Lights’ duality is shown with a prism.
Yet it’s not just the double-slit experiment that shows when light acts as either a wave or a particle. Lights’ wave/particle duality can be explained using a prism, where light bends as it passes from one medium to another, with the amount of refraction occurring being dependent on the wavelength of the light. This behaviour is consistent with the wave nature of light, as waves of different wavelengths bend at different angles. Light entering the prism travels as waves, and to capture the rainbow of colour that exits the prism, we need to detect the light waves. Detecting the rainbow of light waves is achieved by using a piece of paper that forces the waves to interact with the environment, where they briefly become particles and are realised as pinpoints of localised light on the paper.
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