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TheCelt
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If you want to detect a particle in the 2 slit experiment on a detector. And we state that the electron is traveling as a wave so there is a wave front...that must mean that the wave front hits the detector at the same time in more than one place where there is constructive interference.
But since we detect a single point on the detector, would this mean the wave collapses faster than the speed of light, or even perhaps before it hits the detector entirely, i don't fully understand that part...Otherwise, why doesn't the detector detect the particle's wave front in a multitude of places at the same time, or perhaps it does and then that information is undone once the particle has collapsed to what ever location was ultimately picked ?
I don't actually study this topic in great detail i just mostly read as an observer so i am probably missing a lot of info here but it seems like the wave collapse would have to be instant which violates the speed of light? Am i thinking correctly here?
But since we detect a single point on the detector, would this mean the wave collapses faster than the speed of light, or even perhaps before it hits the detector entirely, i don't fully understand that part...Otherwise, why doesn't the detector detect the particle's wave front in a multitude of places at the same time, or perhaps it does and then that information is undone once the particle has collapsed to what ever location was ultimately picked ?
I don't actually study this topic in great detail i just mostly read as an observer so i am probably missing a lot of info here but it seems like the wave collapse would have to be instant which violates the speed of light? Am i thinking correctly here?