Question:
can an object exist at 2 places at the same time?
anonymous
2010-09-04 14:09:21 UTC
for example 2 people log onto the internet and view the same page or what about 2 rocks etc

ps I'm not to interested in therotical physics and neither am that advanced in physics so can you try to keep your answers simple thanks

I have also heard of microscopes that use particle to exist in the same place is this just a rumor or possible
Can someone analazye this article I think it says particles can be in the same place http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/05/freaky-physics-proves-parallel-universes/
Thanks in advance
Another question is everything a wave? so could 2 rocks be in the same place
Three answers:
gintable
2010-09-04 14:21:50 UTC
In our familiar macrocopic level...no.



When two people view the same webpage at the same time...that isn't "an object" being in two places at once. A webpage isn't an object, it is a set of information. Information can be duplicated because both people use their own carrier signal of electricity to transport that information. And if you know anything about the interworkings of the internet, you will no that the distribution isn't simultaneous, even though to the human brain it seems to be.





In quantum physics, an object can be LIKELY to exist in multiple places at the same time...BUT, ONCE YOU VIEW IT, it actually chooses a place so that you only see it once. The freeky thing is when it "jumps" places and to us it isn't clear as to why it did.



Objects common sized while yes are a wave, are so low DeBroigle wavelength (so small compared to their geometric size) that no matter what the quantum phenomena, will always appear to be in one place and no unexplained quantum jumps.







The idea of "parallel universes" isn't that they are proved...it is that they don't really know for certain how the quantum phenomena actually work, and "parallel universes" just HAPPENS TO BE ONE EXPLANATION. We don't know what other explanations might exist.
Erika
2016-11-16 11:40:56 UTC
philosophically sure...bodily no. each and everything these days has a double meaning, meaning the symbols we see with our senses would desire to symbolize something evil to a minimum of one guy or woman, yet something sturdy to a diverse. it incredibly is then possible for an emblem to have contradicting meanings. case in point...smoking is undesirable by way of fact a creates an dependancy that impedes on your freedom. you at the instant are not loose considering the fact which you incredibly elect to sacrifice that freedom to the dependancy. yet what if smoking then became unlawful? you will actually elect to sacrifice the liberty in identifying however if or not you needed to bypass down that street. Contradictions co-exist while the two meanings have the comparable consequence...such by way of fact the shortcoming of loose business enterprise. Can an elephant exist in a room, yet not exist on the comparable time? that's purely possible in case you assume that an elephant has a soul...and the spirit of the elephant is residing interior the room mutually as its actual presence would not exist anymore. something like it incredibly is greater effective from a human stand element. Can your ineffective relative exist in a room...even nevertheless he's ineffective? i don't see why not.
Method To The Madness
2010-09-04 14:14:03 UTC
haha hmm really all i could think of off the top is like shinning a laser light in a mirror, where it is touching a certain point on the mirror while simultaneously reflecting and hitting a point on a wall... i don't know man good question.


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