voyager4383
25th July 2007 - 07:12 PM
Not to sound ignorant or anything, but coming from the most simplistic angle possible (common sense) doesn't it make sense that all matter generally overlaps? Possibly by degrees of scale we don't quite have the capability to grasp?
We know that atoms overlap and share electrons when bonded with other atoms...why can't that work on a larger scale?
There are obviously forces at work that we cannot yet see, but if two atoms can share electrons so easily on such a small scale why can't something larger (possibly black holes, or dark matter or some other random object) be able to force electrons to move through simple barriers to continue on thier paths? Maybe free electrons aren't really as free as we would like to think?
Or maybe I'm overthinking this myself...think of this. An electron moves in a wave. Why doesn't it move in a straight line? From the opposite perspective, why does a fish or a shark swim in a wave motion, flicking it's tail back and forth, side to side. Why can't it move in a straight line? Because it has to move somehow! It uses it's fins to move through the only thing that gives it traction. Water.
So does that mean that there's an infinite grid of quantum particles that electrons "fish swim" thier way through? Sure, we can direct electrons to move in a direction we desire, but in order for electrons to continue moving, maybe the wave is HOW they move, not just a side effect of thier motion.
Or maybe I'm just a ***** who doesn't know anything about physics

Brian
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