I have started reading a book called “The Fabric of the
Cosmos” by Brian Greene as I periodically engage in a futile
attempt to gain a better understanding of the modern world of
physics, especially quantum mechanics. So, I am on page 90, early
in a chapter titled “Entangling Space” where the author
is giving me some basic building blocks in order that some upcoming
concepts will be easier to grasp (fat chance of that). He is
discussing electrons and their peculiar property of being both a
particle and a wave, but not your normal every day wave, oh no,
this one is a “probability wave”. That means that the
electron is a tricky little bugger and is very hard to pin down. In
fact in could be in several places.... (hang on here for a minute,
I lost my tenuous grasp of the subject and I have to re-read a bit
of the book). Ok, I will give a straight quote - the size of a
wave at a given point in space is proportional to the probability
that the electron is located at that point in space - you got
that? Places where the probability wave is large (high) are
locations where the electron is most likely to be found. Places
where that weird wave is small (low) are locations where it is less
likely to be found. The other thing is you can never see this wave,
complicated mathematics are required to define it and unlike normal
experiments, repeated tests using the same input parameters can
yield several different locations for that pesky electron.
So, I thought I would create an cache and perform some of those
complicated quantum mechanics probability wave calculations to
determine where it could most likely be located. My calculations
yielded six possible locations and it is up to you to decide which
one is most likely to contain the cache and hopefully it will be
there.
- N50° 52.608’ W114° 44.264’
- N50° 52.532’ W114° 44.536’
- N50° 52.892’ W114° 44.288’
- N50° 52.352’ W114° 45.281’
- N50° 52.781’ W114° 44.993’
- N50° 52.037’ W114° 44.556’
Now, I am going to re-read the first 90 pages of that book, but
this time I am going to “furrow my brow” as my son
tells me that will help me understand things a bit better..... (I
don’t think so)! I was amused when watching a KSPS version of
this book to see even the physicists seem to become perplexed and
somewhat confused when trying to explain these concepts. I
appreciated a comment made by one which went like this “there
isn’t any law in quantum mechanics that states a physicist
needs to be happy 
Sorry, no co-ordinate checker on this one.