Guitar at the speed of light
Also, I finally understand relativity.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 16:41,
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Nice!
Bonus - the music he plays at the end sounds like late era Japan, or one of their post-band collaborations with other muso-weirdoes.
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 17:36,
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It's unique, for sure. The guy is inventive.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 22 Feb 2025, 20:21,
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A wave without a medium is possible because
The photon, like other quantum particles, is capable of ignoring time and thus can move forwards and backwards through time from the moment of emission (in the case of a photon) or entanglement (in the case of entangled particles) to the current moment and back again, and again, moving further through time each instant, only moving through possible routes, of course. Due to ignoring time, this can happen a LOT of times, to the point that a single particle can look and behave exactly like a wave (a wave on the ocean is just a lot of molecules, a sound wave is just a lot of other molecules). This would give the impression of a probability wave, because it is more likely that the particle moves through more likely routes. When the particle interacts with something that is unable to move backwards through time, by being a non-quantum macro object, it is then forced to move with it forwards in time and 'the collapse of the probability wave' happens. It should be obvious that this is not a predictable thing if you move linearly through time.
But this is how a particle stays just a particle, but looks like a wave to external observers, until it interacts with something bigger (is observed) and the time insensitivity dissipates. It allows it to interfere with itself, and do all the other weird things observed in the double slit experiment for example.
This is all in the maths of QM, which does not have a time component, meaning it works just as well forwards as backwards.
General relativity and special relativity are deeply connected to black holes. When you go down that rabbit hole (pun intended), it leads to the inescapable conclusion that time is actually the same phenomenum as gravity, and we are being drawn towards a singularity at the end of time (after being ejected from a singularity at the start of time) at the speed of light. This explains the time dilation at relativistic speeds, and what is beyond the event horizon of a black hole.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 19:13,
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Sweet
It's the reason there will never be a proper theory of quantum gravity, because gravity=time, and quantum particles can ignore time, and thus can ignore gravity.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 23 Feb 2025, 23:22,
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Pfft
"...can interfere with itself"
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 24 Feb 2025, 13:45,
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