Nobel Prize Physics 2023 vs RealQM

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for

• Experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.
• The laureates’ experiments have produced pulses of light so short that they are measured in attoseconds, thus demonstrating that these pulses can be used to provide images of processes inside atoms and molecules.

This directly connects to Real Quantum Mechanics, which describes the dynamics of N interacting electrons as a 3d continuum mechanics system of N non-overlapping distributed charge densities, instead of the standard QM statistical particle model in 3N spatial dimensions. 

The Prize shows that pictures of electron charge densities can be taken, which gives support of an idea that they do indeed exist, as the essence of RealQM.  

This is to be compared with pictures of stdQM electron particles, which have not been taken, which gives support of an idea that they do not exist.

Hopefully, the 2023 Physics Prize can give an incentive to take a look at RealQM. See also this recent post  and earlier posts on RealQM.

 

Recall Wittgenstein: What you can take a picture of, you can speak of and believe to exist.

Here is an illuminating picture of two interacting electron charge densities from the presentation of the Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (assuming a preschool level audience?): 

 Compare with a RealQM picture of the interacting electrons of a H2O molecule

which confirms the chemist (but not physicist!) conception of H2O:

PS A closer look at the work awarded the prize, somewhat disappointingly reveals that it does not really contain images of processes inside atoms and molecules. Strange.