PHYSICS-QUANTUM MECHANICS If you cannot explain a theory to a six year old you have not understood it yourself - Albert Einstein If a particular aspect of a theory cannot be explained to a layman ,probably the theory is still not developed adequately- Feynmann Particles as waves in quantum fields A particle is an excitation in a quantum field. However it is composed of a number of waves whose superposition creates an amplitude to find the particle at a position x. When a particle moves it has a group velocity of the wave packet separate from the individual waves in the packet. This velocity is related to angular frequency w and wave number k by v= dw/dk. The angular frequency of wave packet is proportional to energy of the particle by E=h.w and momentum P= hk= h/ lambda The wave packet is composed of many waves with near identical position .So amplitude of a wave packet directly translates into probability of its occurrence at it’s location.Since a wave t...