mighty atom finale

the heart of Quantum Mechanics is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which states that electron is a particle that can be described in terms of wave. (bah,... dia punya uncertainty adalah 1. kita boleh tau arah pergerakan elektron pada space  dan 2. kita boleh tau dimana elektron berada pada suatu masa. BUT kita tidak akan tau dua-dua perkara itu sekaligus) means, we can never predict where an electron will be at any given moment, we only can list the probablility of electron being there.

so, really... (kita punya image elektron berterbangan di sekeliling nukleus seperti planet2 mengelilingi matahari itu salah sama sekali) instead, try to imagine it like a cloud enveloping a nucleus and the cloud itself is just a statistical probability marking the usual place we found that certain electrons ( bah.. ni cloud pun ada tier.. the s, p, f, d orbital...) and most amazingly as Bohr explained it to us, electrons could jump from one orbit to another without travelling across any intervening space.

but... the most amazing of all this idea, arising from Pauli's Exlusion Principle (ni, kalau ko ada baca sy pny earlier entry "what can bond us?", nah... ko tau macamana bikin maradangnya itu cikgu yang x dapat kasi terang ni barang). i'll leave this out to you to figure (hahahhha! sound macam cikgu sy dulu pula kannn..). certain pairs of subatomic particles, even seperated by the most considerable distances, can instantly know what the other is doing ( u know the spin positif sama spin negatif kannn... kalau arah anak panah ke atas, the other elektron spin dia mesti pigi bawah). the spinning was immediate and at the same rate.

(macam yang kita tau..) nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet, by using the quantum mechanics theory, somehow, in the subatomic level, information, could.

so, here we are..suddenly because of that theory, we need two sets of laws to explain the behaviour of the universe. 

1. quantum theory for the world of the very small

2. relativity for the larger universe

to explain what kept atoms together, we need to know the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. the strong force binds the atom together and keep the protons tightly packed in that dense nucleus.. while the weaker force has to do with radioactive decaying. please note that, the weak nuclear force, despite its name is ten billion, billion times stronger than gravity. thus, aint atom mighty?

on 06 august 1945, the 'little boy' in Hiroshima and 09 the same month, 'fat boy' in Nagashaki, Japan, proved just how mighty the force in an atom could be. 

cukup sudah kah ni intro pasal atom sama ko??

i'll read some more on quantum mechanics... and if i can get anything out of those super craze equations, something that can make any sense to my senses.. i'll blog some more..that, if you're still interested.. (bah, take care!)