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What does Imaginary Time mean?

Imaginary time is not like the Real-time we experience in our day to day life which is classified as past, present and future. It is a very bizarre idea introduced by Stephen W.Hawking. Imaginary time is right angled to real time. It was introduced to eliminate the theory of Creator of God from the Universe.     It is used to remove singularities which avoid the laws of physics to break. It can be seen in MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME model which was adopted by the theory of relativity. Real-time has a beginning which is called a big bang and an end which is called a big crunch. But Imaginary time has no beginning and no end rather it has a closed surface like a sphere. We do not have a start and end for a sphere. The imaginary time direction could be from the south pole. As one goes towards the north from the south pole, the latitudes which are uniformly placed inflates and reach the maximum at the equator and again contract to a single point at the North pole. Even thou...

What are Gravitational Waves ?

Gravitational Waves are  assumptions from the curious minds ever, Albert Einstein. They are the ripples caused in space-time sheet due to the motion of masses . Gravitational waves are produced whenever masses accelerate, changing the distortion of space-time fabric. Everything with mass and /or energy can cause ripples. As gravitational waves rolls by it will squeeze and stretch anything in its path but in a very infinitesimally small change which makes it extremely difficult to detect. So to detect these ripples we use the idea of the time taken by the light to travel is more when the distance increases and less when distance decreases, which is what the principle used in the interferometer. Thus LIGO experiment comes into the picture. LIGO - Laser Interference Gravitational-wave Observatory. Here 4km long tunnels are set up where lasers are used to measure the change in distance between the ends of the tunnels. So when Gravitational wave ...

How is Schrodinger's cat dead and alive?

SCHRODINGER'S CAT is a thought experiment by Erwin Schrodinger to make the world understand that quantum particles exist in a superposition. Quantum theory states that quantum particles can achieve more than one state simultaneously. SCHRODINGER'S CAT EXPERIMENT: If we put a cat in a strong box with a radioactive sample which has 50 per cent of chances of decaying and closes the box, it is very confusing for the observer outside to guess whether the cat is dead or alive after a period of time.              So before opening the box, we can say that the cat is in superposition. That is it's in the state of both dead and alive. But if we open the box and observe we may find the cat in only one state that is the state of dead or alive. This means that quantum particles exist in different states but when observed takes a single state. And according to multiverse theory or many worlds theory, the universe achieves all the pos...

Schrodinger Wave Equation explained in simple words

Newtonian Mechanics don't work in the quantum world. Quantum objects are very microscopic that they can't be located but they can be probably located. And this probability can be determined by using wave functions of the quantum particles Wave function gives us the probabilities of where the electron is likely to be. The act of not knowing where the electron is, allows its probability distribution to be spread out over a large space kind of wave. Therefore  wave function is the function which describes the wave shape of the probability distribution of the electron . The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle says that we can't predict the exact position and momentum of the quantum objects. But we can know about things like Energy levels and wave functions. THE SCHRODINGERS WAVE EQUATION :                                                       ...

Casimir Effect

Scientists are often astonished observing the moment of things around, on their own with no visible force acting on them.  When two mirrors which are later called the Casimir plates, placed in a strong box maintaining one-atmosphere pressure at 100 nanometers apart move towards each other with no well-known forces between. Here comes the Casimir effect into the picture. This was discovered by Hendrick Casimir in 1948 and named after him. To understand the Casimir effect we have to first know these bullet points: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle proposes that both the position and momentum of a subatomic particle cannot be determined simultaneously.                                                                                         ...

Beauty of Physics

The beauty of understanding physics comes out through mathematical equations and models which grab our creative side of thinking. Physics is the key to understand the entire entity. It is all about the curiosity to understand the smallest of quarks to the largest of the universe. Everything around us works according to the laws of physics. A mathematical equation lasts forever with the forward moving time.No one can take that away until and unless it is proved wrong in any of the possible and existing cases or some times its remodelled by adding some constants which can support the cases. Rooten education and moot memorisation is never a way to understand physics. It is all about our curiosity of knowing, critical creative imaginations and the will to express your thoughts about the working of entity around us. These are the channels of physics :