Introduction
In the novel Alice in Quantumland, by Robert Gilmore, Alice went on an adventure in Quantumland. As Alice traveled through the wonderful world of Quantumland, she stumbled upon an electron. She also discovered energy and learned that it can be transferred or converted into many forms, but it may not be created nor destroyed. She discovered interference and learned about it at the mechanics institute. Throughout her journey she learned all about electrons, energy, interference, particles, and bosons.
Electrons
When Alice is just getting into Quantumland she runs across a spin up and spin down electron.She looked more closely at the one nearest to her and observed a small figure, coming roughly up to her waist(Gilmore 7). Alice not knowing what a spin up electron is, asked what it was,only finding out that it is only a spin up electron.A normal electron is the smallest particle known of. It carries a negative charge considered to be
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basic unit of electric charge.One determines whether an electron is a spin up or spin down electron by doing its orbital notation. Orbital notation is a way to show how many electrons are in any given element on the periodic table. When Alice asked the electron to slow he did but as he did he began to take up more and more space becoming more diffuse. Even though Alice couldn’t see the electron when it was moving rapidly, now that it has diffused and grown larger it is fuzzy and unclear. Energy Alice ventures over to the Heisenberg Bank to learn about energy in Quantumland. Energy is the capacity for doing work. It exist in a few forms some being nuclear, chemical, electrical, thermal, and kinetic energy and various other forms of energy. InQuantumland, all particles that need energy go to the Heisenberg Bank (Gilmore 18). For any particle to properly exist it must have at the very least a certain minimum energy called Rest Mass Energy. Rest Mass Energy is the energy equivalent of mass when it is at rest. Energy is always conserved and can’t be created nor destroyed. However energy can be transferred between objects by interaction of forces. Interference When Alice visits the Mechanics Institutes, she is shown how interference works in the eyes of the Classical Mechanic and the eyes of the Quantum Mechanic. In physics, interference is classified as culmination of two or more waves striking into each other. An example of interference would bewhen a boat meets another boat. When a boat creates a wake and meets another boat, also creating a wake, the waves collide causing interference. The two main types of interference are constructive interference and destructive interference. Constructive interference is interference when two or more waves produce single amplitude equal to the amplitude of the individual waves (Encyclopedia Britannica). Destructive interference is interference of two waves of equal frequency and opposite phase (Encyclopedia Britannica). Particles Particles in quantum theory are found to show properties which classically are associated with continuous waves (Gilmore 90). Some particles include electrons, protons, and neutrons. Particles are the building blocks for almost everything from the largest airplane all the way down to a tiny little nucleus. As previously stated, electrons are negatively charged and almost weightless.Neutrons are subatomic particles found in every atom. Protons are also found in the nucleus of an atom, but have a positive charge. When these subatomic particles come together and form atoms, those atoms come together to form everything from a person to a jet airplane. Boson Bosons are subatomic particles that include mesons, which are any member of a subatomic particle (Encyclopedia Britannica).
Mesons are composed of quark and anti-quark, and are sensitive to a strong force that bonds the components of the nucleus (Encyclopedia Britannica). Bosons differ dramatically from subatomic particles, known as fermions. There is no limit to the number a boson can occupy. This relates to the book because it discusses the particles required to embody the fields of quantum field theory. The quantum field theory is a body of physical principles combining the elements of quantum mechanics.
Conclusion
Throughout the novel Alice in Quantumland, by Robert Gilmore Alice goes through this town called Quantumland and learns all about quantum physics. Alice, who had once found herself lost in a crazy mixed up world, finds that she actually learned something from it. Throughout her journey throughout this mixed up world, Alice has learned all about electrons, energy, interference, particles, and
bosons.
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