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Aaletheia replied to the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same?.No! Your comment means that you (and others, since it’s not the first time…) believe that you can disprove an argument without knowing...
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@aletheia I have deleted some comments in two of your posts complaining about what you're not allowed to post here. Any further such... -
Aaletheia replied to the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same?.This is actually the response of the original question of this thread. Classical optics equation describes what QM equation predicts.
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Aaletheia reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same? with Like.
Perhaps you would say that, but that's not what the math says. The math says that the interference terms in the relevant wave function...
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Aaletheia replied to the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same?.Fine — if you’re still attached to semantics, don't call it a photon before detection. Don't assign it a position, trajectory, a...
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Aaletheia reacted to Paul Colby's post in the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same? with Like.
Except, this sounds to me like you're infering one event, photon emition, from the photon detection. That's not how thermal sources...
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Aaletheia replied to the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same?.Not at all. My reasoning comes from observation. However, when it comes to QM, I can’t experiment at home. While physicists worry about...
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Aaletheia reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same? with Like.
If by "photon" you mean specifically one photon detection--one mark on a detector screen--then yes. But... It's something else: it's...
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Aaletheia replied to the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same?.A later energy-momentum exchange at the detector is causally conditioned by an earlier preparation at the source — that’s my point; I’m...
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Aaletheia reacted to Paul Colby's post in the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same? with Like.
More specific? I was discussing just the quoted statement I quoted in post #15. Hard to get more specific. What is really called for is...
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Moderator's note: Thread moved to the QM interpretations and foundations subforum.
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For massless fields with spin 1 or more, we can't construct position operator, so one can't think about photons traveling along any path...
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Aaletheia reacted to weirdoguy's post in the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same? with Like.
It has been discarded from modern quantum physics a long time ago (even though pop-science still talks about it). It has been discussed...
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Aaletheia reacted to flippiefanus's post in the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same? with Like.
Physics is a science, which means that it follows the scientific method. It involves coming up with a theory, using it to make...
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Aaletheia replied to the thread Undergrad Are classical optics and quantum mechanics double slit experiments fundamentally the same?.“[…] filled with […]” — could you care to be more specific…? “[…] No one shoots them anywhere.” — so you’re saying that… the photons...