Talk:Quantum mechanics/Archive 3

message: Just wanted to mention that the image (the red and black one on top) is excellent! However, is there a source for it? I highly doubt that that picture was taken by a home camera. :D
:If you click on the image you can see the image description page.  This particular image was uploaded by User:FlorianMarquardt, who I'm sure used some software to create the image rather than a camera.  His user page says he mostly uses Yorick (I would've guessed Matlab), but if you want to know for sure how they're done, you can always ask him on his talk page.  — Laura Scudder | Talk 15:58, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Image Excellence

message: Doesn't the line spectra of atomic hydrogen hold its place among the ones mentioned? I am from Sweden so I might be biase to Rydberg, but I guess Bohr migh side with me on this...
Maybe also the photo-ekectric effect - connecting Plank's constant with something else than the black-bodies?
:I tried to add the citation to Rydberg, but it would take the addition of Fraunhofer lines etc. etc. So perhaps the citation should go into History of Physics with a link to QM? Ancheta Wis 14:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  More founding experiments? 

message: "Quantum mechanics is a fundamental physical theory that extends, corrects and unifies Newtonian mechanics and Maxwellian electromagnetism, at the atomic and subatomic levels." is going to tell a person SQUAT unless they already know what newtonian mechanics and maxwellian electromagnetism is.  A more simplified basic definition is needed before expounding in the excellent detail this article gives.
well i am a layman (high school student infact) and i dont find the introduction difficult
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I wouldn't have had any problem understanding that when I was in high school either, because I had already read a lot of physics and astronomy, but not everyone is so interested in science.
How about adding, at the very top, something like "Quantum mechanics is based on the observation that, on a very small scale, waves and particles are not different sorts of object but complementary properties of all objects."  --David R. Ingham 20:29, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a more simplified definition for the lay person 

message: People took out my generalization of the introduction.  Please read The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 3 first.  He words it much differently, but he does explain the generality when he introcuces the subject.  So what I said is not only true, but it is the best known way to teach quantum mechanics.  If this makes it too hard to read, then re-word it or add something more basic, as my suggestions in the previous sub-heading, above it.
David R. Ingham 17:57, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  generality 

message: In order to make the quantum-theory Navbox more accessible in the other articles, I propose that it move up just under a heading, such as Quantum mechanics#Quantum mechanical effects. Thus by inserting a parenthetical link ([other articles on QM]) in the child articles, the Navbox becomes more accessible other places. Is that alright with everyone? Alternatively, smaller versions of the quantum-theory Navbox might be placed in the child articles; as its transclusion would overwhelm many of them, currently. Ancheta Wis 08:25, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navbox