Alice in Quantumland 1. Electrons have no distinguishing features except spin Upon falling into the quantum wonderland while in her living room, Alice finds herself faced with a new reality of existence that seems to baffle her. She is first met with some strange-looking dweller of the new and vastly strange wonderland that she could not make out. She politely introduces herself as Alice, thereby invoking a response from her companion to the effect that it was an electron. Alice also noted that nearby was another similar looking figure to the electron, to which the new acquaintance explained was a different electron. To Alice, the two electrons looked strikingly alike, down to the umbrella they seemed to have been …show more content…
This is verified by the double slit experiment. The experiment yields the phenomenon of interference when electrons are shot out from an electron gun one at a time; they are shot in a beam through an obstacle with two slits and onto a screen. This experiment, and the resulting interference, indicates that each electron passes through the two slits at the same time and essentially interferes with itself. Similar to the other phenomena that Alice encounters, this one is also in direct violation of common sense judgments of observations in the macro-world. In essence, no observable entity in the real world of classical mechanics is capable of doing all things possible at the same time, let alone be in several different positions at the same time. 5. The Copenhagen interpretation and Schrödinger’s cat Alice proceeds to meet with a series of other unusual characters while in the quantum wonderland. One of the most intriguing characters she comes across is undoubtedly Schrödinger’s cat. Alice learns that Schrödinger had left a cat behind with some inhabitants of the quantum wonderland which he used as an experiment to test and prove some of the theories espoused within the larger field of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger set up an experiment in which the cat was to be placed inside a box with a flask of poison, a radioactive source and a mechanism that would ensure
As many of us know Schrodinger’s Cat experiment, is about an imagined cat which is enclosed in a box with some unstable gun power with a fifty percent chance of exploding. For us the cat is simultaneously both dead and alive at least until we look inside the box.
Schrödinger’s cat paradox in the book is briefly talked about in the very beginning of the book in her AP Chemistry class. Her class is discussing quantum mechanics which is the mathematical description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles,
Alice has gone though a lot, but things start to go well for her. She’s with Joel, her family loves her, and she’s friends with kids that don’t smoke or drink. She stops writing in a diary, but dies a few weeks later because of an overdose. Either she was drugged or she started doing drugs again.
Alice was a young and confused girl. She got mixed up into the wrong crowd and went through a lot. Besides being with the wrong crowd Alice relates to wave two feminism greatly. She was thought of to be an object because she was women. She was sexuality assulted a few times. She would of had to go to an unsafe abortion clinic if she had the right connections to even get her associated with an abortion doctor. Birth control was a controversial item during the time, and it was hard to take because once a day you have to take it but you have to take it every day at the same time.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story of a young girl’s journey down the rabbit hole into a fantasy world where there seems to be no logic. Throughout Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice experiences a variety of bizarre physical changes, causing her to realize she is not only trying to figure out Wonderland but also trying to determine her own identity. After Alice arrives in Wonderland the narrator states, “For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people” (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 12). This quotation is the first instance that shows Alice is unsure of her identity. The changes in size that take place when she eats or drinks are the physical signs of her loss of identity.
The Indiscernibility of Identicals is a principle, which affirms the rule that, identity holds if and only if their properties are wholly indistinguishable from one another. The Doctrine of Temporal Parts holds that, an object has temporal parts, and these parts are moments of the material object’s existence. The object in question can persist by having a single extending sequence of temporal parts. The principal of the Indiscernibility of Identicals holds that no two objects can be wholly indiscernible. However, according to the Doctrine of Temporal Parts, an object, X at time 1 (t), need not share all the same properties with object X at time two (t’). Nevertheless, according to our principal X at t cannot be identical with X at t’, because we can discern a difference between X at t from t’ (consider previous wall
From his experiments Thomson established that all electrons are identical and that elements aren’t different because of their electrons but because of how many electrons are present and their formation. (Lucas & Wright, 2001)
First the narrator sees only curves in the pattern, but then she finds they "commit suicide" by their motion, and soon she fills the curves with human features-"two bulbous eyes" (6) that have a "vicious influence" (7). [...] far she is resisting her surroundings, pitting herself against its energies and apart from the system of the room.
Understanding there’s been a change in her body, Alice questions the probability that she might not be herself any longer. She believes she may have become someone else through the transformation, another typical child theory when growing up. If your appearance has changed, it may be likely that you’re not who you used to be, so of course, you must be someone else. This is also portrayed in the instance when she meets the Caterpillar. When asked, “Who are you?” by the Caterpillar, Alice honestly answers, “I hardly know”. The Caterpillar represents Alice as well, as it will also transform into something greater as it ages.
was the most amazing thing in the world. Alice became addicted to drugs and was rapidly
In the beginning of the book Alice sees a rabbit wearing clothes saying he was late, so she followed it. She followed for sometime and then it disappeared down it’s hole. Alice, having poor judgment, followed it down the hole without consideration of how she would get back out. She found herself falling down a very
Everything that is moving must be moved by another entity and this notion that
As much as Alice tries to stay professional, the man observes and enjoys her vulnerability and continues with his flirting remarks. Alice becomes quite uncomfortable and doesn’t know how to react. This scene shows her struggle in the world of men perfectly, who put her down and diminish her
The Victorian era has released some of the most well known books known to date. Based on their background and the time period they grew up, authors from the Victorian era had to mask their work within stories with characters who go on grand adventures or experiences a sense of freedom. This can be seen in two novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Lewis Stevenson. The two books are a good representation of madness and how, in a way, the Victorian culture and expectation drove the main characters to go mad and their use of potions, pills and drugs.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll endures as one of the most iconic children 's books of all time. It remains one of the most ambiguous texts to decipher as Alice 's adventures in Wonderland have created endless critical debate as to whether we can deduce any true literary meaning, or moral implication from her journey down the rabbit hole. Alice 's station as a seven year old Victorian child creates an interesting construct within the novel as she attempts to navigate this magical parallel plain, yet retain her Victorian sensibilities and learn from experience as she encounters new creatures and life lessons. Therefore, this essay will focus on the debate as to whether Alice is the imaginatively playful child envisaged by the Romantics, or a Victorian child whose imagination has been stunted by her education and upbringing.