Kanu Caplash

Mr. Horvath

Language Arts

22 October 2012

                                                Why do the act the way they do?

                In life there are so many unanswered questions. Like where does the universe end? Does it end? What is the universes shape? Does it have a shape or is it like water?  But today I have a question. Not necessarily a new or an old one. This question has pondered my mind for a while now. But I am not the only one who has the same question in their mind. Society is also pondering this question. If we answer this question we answer everything. My question is what explains why electrons can go through two slits at the same time.

            There are many theories that could be the answer. The first theory is the Speed theory. This states that since electrons are going so fast we can’t tell it isn't actually going through both slits. This might actually explain it because on scale so small things like this could happen. Another theory is that the electrons don’t go through but in between. This is supported because some scientist think that electrical charge is strong enough were it would only seem that it is going through both slit. Also another theory is that the electrons split. So then when they split, they may be split but there could be an electrical bond between them so therefore it would pose the illusion. But since it has almost no mass it might not be able to split or have an atomic reaction. But none of these conclusions can be validated until we see it. But there is another that can be verified without looking.

            As it would seem we have come back to the illusive string theory. A theory man created but, yet man can’t understand it. In this theory it states that protons, electrons and neutrons aren’t actually spherical but actually like a string. It is saying that they are not actually zero dimensional but 1 dimensional. This would still satisfy all the properties because it would still have mass, electrical charge and it flow. But these electrons don’t really react with the surface. So the string goes through the slits and in-between and it also goes outside of the slits.  So therefore it would satisfy all terms. But this theory cannot be fully proved till we are able to find dark matter to make monopoles which would then explain black holes and string theory. But, since we don’t have a microscope, not even neatly as strong as need to see an atom, all of this is theoretical. So if you were able to talk to people like the genius Stephen Hawking, or Albert Einstein then they could only answer that it is possible and very likely but there is hard core evidence to prove it.

            So as some of the most important people and smartest people alive try to comprehend this theory they all or most of all agree that string theory is probably the most reasonable. But 4 out of 4 scientists have to say that it is only probable. So therefore these scientists have to say that until they are able to discover monopoles and/ or be able to create a microscope to zoom in on these sub-atomic particles we don’t completely know.