Flaws of Relativity and Schrodinger's Equation By Katherine Lightwood

Flaws of Relativity and Schrodinger's Equation

By Katherine Lightwood 

In 1928, over 25 years the greatest geniuses of the modern era discovered the two keys that are basically the fundamental nature of reality, Einstein's theory of special and general relativity. It completely changed the way we think about motion space and time. And the emerging field of quantum mechanics had radically altered our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. 1928 was the year when we got to know more about the existence of ANTIMATTER.

By that time, Einstein and Max Plack already showed that light is a particle as well as a wave. And De Broglie has shown that all the matter has this dual wave-particle nature. Bohr, Heisenberg, Born, Pauli, and others placed together a mathematical description for the weird nature of subatomic particles.

In that time Erwin Schrodinger wrote down his famous equation, the Schrodinger's Equation which breathed life into this emerging model. It describes how this matter waves, represented as a wave functions change over time and this allowed the physicist to predict the evolution of the quantum system such as the strange interference pattern in the famous double-slit experiment.

But the problem was that everyone knew that there was a problem. And the first thing was that Schrodinger's Equations was totally incompatible to Einstein's Relativity. In relativity, the dimensions of space and time are intrinsically connected and they float into each other as frames of reference change.

But the Schrodinger's equation's tracks the evolution of particle's wave function according to only one clock. And usually, the clock in the reference frame of the observer. And the relativity tells us that the passage of time depends on velocity. So, therefore, the Schrodinger's Equation only works for the slow-moving object and that was the problem. The subatomic particles are often moving at close to the speed of light. And another problem was that it describes particles as simple wave functions distribution of possible positions and momenta having no internal properties.

Yet we know that many elementary particles have an internal property called spin. And oh no, that doesn't mean that they are actually rotating. But this spin doesn't result in a sort of quantum angular momentum. And these are some flaws in the equations of this famous scientists. So, are sorted and some still roaming around with big mysteries which are unanswered.

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Katherine Lightwood