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I appreciate your time and effort .Can you get it down to dummy level if possible and what is the answer to the 2nd part of my question?

Am I right to say that an electron in the lowest level of an atom cannot fall into the nucleus because to do so requires it to give up energy in the process and it . does not possesses the energy at this atomic level.Electrons in higher levels can give up energy and fall to a lower level if...

Now, was just wondering if 2 photons of light can combine to produce an increase in amplitude, can 2 electrons combine to produce an increase in frequency and energy in order to explain tunneling?

Getting confused Let's put it this way.There has to be 2 coherent waves each of which goes thru one of the slits to get an interference pattern. Some how the particle creating these coherent waves can only go thru one of these slits at any time and we still get an interference pattern. It is...

In reading about the photoelectric effect I noted that frequency accounts for the energy of the photon which must be high enough to liberate free electrons and the amplitude is the cause of intensity.Now, how can the amplitude be responsible for more than the liberation of more than one photon...

O.K. Perok says "Do you really think that in almost 100 yrs. no one has thought to put a detector at both slits. Hey, that was my very first question in this thread." If it was done what were the results? Perhaps my volcabulary was off and the further question should have been if the detector...

O.K. It seems to me that that the idea that you cannot transmit whichway information has some sort of mystical origin which I find difficult to accept. Again, could it be that any attempt to find whichway information alters the wave function where the detector is used so that it is not...

It seems to me that a single wave function in superposition goes to the 2 slits.where the detector at one of the slits alters the wave function so that it is different from the other wave function at the other slit.I assume that in order to get an interference pattern the wave functions at...

It seems to me that when you say which way information cannot be recorded. that this is a nonscientific assumption. Can it be that when we use a detector at one slot only, the wave function at that slot is altered to the extent that it becomes incompatible with the unaltered wave function from...

Where my problem comes in is if a polarizer is placed at each of the 2 slits and the polarizers are parallel we get an interference pattern. If the polarizers are in crossed position , the interference pattern disappears. I would have assumed that if we used detectors at both slits we would have...

Dr. Chinese. Not very knowlegeable about Q.M. But in the use of polarized crystals the change in polarization of the crystals when they are crossed would also result in a change in their wave function to the degree in which they were turned, in turn, altering their interference pattern. I am...

Dr.Chinese Am not very informed on Q.M. but it would seem to me that in the use of polarization crystals changing the polarization of photons alters their wave functions from each other so that their interference pattern would be affected to the degree in which their orientation was altered...

i.e. Does using a detector at one slit alter the wave function of the wave so that it is no longer interference capable with the wave function passing thru the 2`nd slit?

In the 2 slit experiment , what would be the result if we put a dedector on both slits? would we get an interference patern?

Thank you thank you Didn't understand your reference to a mirror. Both you and Nugatory claim that there is no quandary in understanding the 2 slit exp. yet Dr.J. Al khalili claims that there is a Nobel prize awaiting the person who could explain it. The conciousness of the observer or 2...