"I know that every particle is a wave, but is every wave also a particle?"
Yes.
"Soon I was imagining something like a Bose-Einstein condensate of trapped phonemes."
The accepted term for a quantum of acoustic energy is phonon. Not sure if you could do a Bose-Einstein condensate of them or not; it depends on their spin characteristics, which I don't know offhand, and am not up to calculating without 4-5 hours of re-learning intermediate QM.
"Though that brings up another notion: is information-propogation wavelike?"
Um. Dunno as anyone's formalized information transfer far enough to answer this one. Information theory kinda sidesteps the notion of _how_ it's transferred, and concentrates on the statistics of the transferred information. On the other hand, the correspondence between information and entropy suggests there might be some meat here...
"If so, memes would be particles, right?"
Well, bits, anyhow. Memes tend to be a little more complex than single bits...
"And for anyone wondering, yes I still do want to perform the two-slit experiment with a mass driver and a bunch of Volkswagons and a baseline several AU long. It'd be fun."
Yeah, it would. If you can get together the rest of the equipment, I'll donate my Volkswagen.
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Yes.
"Soon I was imagining something like a Bose-Einstein condensate of trapped phonemes."
The accepted term for a quantum of acoustic energy is phonon. Not sure if you could do a Bose-Einstein condensate of them or not; it depends on their spin characteristics, which I don't know offhand, and am not up to calculating without 4-5 hours of re-learning intermediate QM.
"Though that brings up another notion: is information-propogation wavelike?"
Um. Dunno as anyone's formalized information transfer far enough to answer this one. Information theory kinda sidesteps the notion of _how_ it's transferred, and concentrates on the statistics of the transferred information. On the other hand, the correspondence between information and entropy suggests there might be some meat here...
"If so, memes would be particles, right?"
Well, bits, anyhow. Memes tend to be a little more complex than single bits...
"And for anyone wondering, yes I still do want to perform the two-slit experiment with a mass driver and a bunch of Volkswagons and a baseline several AU long. It'd be fun."
Yeah, it would. If you can get together the rest of the equipment, I'll donate my Volkswagen.