10 Oct '13 20:19>
Originally posted by SoothfastI believe that even if the electron had a point like volume and location we cannot ever know where it is to greater accuracy than the plank length. However, when it does interact with another object, then we can, in theory, know the location of that interaction with an accuracy up to, but not exceeding the plank length. It is only before and after the interaction that its location is unknown and follows a probability curve that is infinite. And the better we know where it interacted, the less we know about where it will be next.
If an electron has a positive volume, like a billiard ball does, then what exactly is "filling" that volume of space?
I am not sure if it can get to another location in the universe faster than the speed of light. I haven't yet got a clear answer on that from our quantum physicist friends on this forum.
Negativium jelly? I just can't see how there can be an answer, unless the electron is made up of other "smaller" particles, which only kicks the can down the road as we ask what the volumes of the "smaller" particles are. It might be better to think of all particles/waves as merely geometrical "wrinkles" or "patterns" in space, rather the way relativity characterizes gravity as a bending of the spacetime continuum.