>"The electron wave function will simply just appear wherever it wants (within the electron probability cloud)."
I don't know which is more ridiculous, the fact that reality works like this, or, that a species of apes was able to figure this out.
>"The electron wave function will simply just appear wherever it wants (within the electron probability cloud)."
I don't know which is more ridiculous, the fact that reality works like this, or, that a species of apes was able to figure this out.
The experiment to observe this behavior is pretty simple though (Young's double slit), and it was conducted more than 200 years ago. The explanation came much later but it's not like the phenomenon was hiding somewhere.
It’s both ridiculous and quite amazing really. The hint that there is something less random underneath it that we just haven’t figured out (and lack the resources to explore at this time) is tantalising.
Even if there isn’t, the way it seems all based on the uneven flow of state over spacetime is deeply fascinating for someone who studies computing.
Reality is far, far stranger than we give it credit for. Makes you wonder what other completely bonkers secrets the universe has for us.
And frankly, the sheer insanity of quantum teleportation is why I don't buy any argument that faster than light travel is impossible. Not because "teleportation", but because every time we think we understand the rules of the universe, it laughs in our face. The universe is wacky beyond our wildest dreams.
I find it ridiculoua that we believe it is random probability instead of trying to find (and maybe later mitigate) the real sources of this randomness.
There's a whole branch of theoretical physics dedicated to this.