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Monthly Archives: March 2010

005b Micro and macroscopic reality (cont.)

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Resonance

The second major difference is that microscopic reality displays degenerate states. One example is different states can have the same energy, and we say that the energy of these states is degenerate.  This leads to resonance that also does not exist macroscopically.

Two structures can be different but have the same energy.  Quantum mechanics considers that both exist simultaneously as a superposition of the two.

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005 Micro and macroscopic reality 1

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Microscopic and Macroscopic reality is different

In this entry I will discuss the difference between reality at the microscopic and macroscopic levels.

Last time I talked about where quantum mechanics fits and called the domain that lies beyond measure the quantum.  Let us suppose that the statistical nature of quantum mechanics can somehow be bridged, so that quantum noise can be resolved into structure by a deeper sub quantum theory.

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Bryan Sanctuary, a Professor of Chemistry at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), is the primary author of this blog as well as president of MCH Multimedia. | www.mchmultimedia.com | and co- author of Physical Chemistry  - Laidler, Meiser, Sanctuary