Recent content by JCBoyce

Thanks, Cthuga: Your post points me towards areas I would like to know more about. It's one thing to know one's ideas are deficient, it is quite another to find out exactly how and where.

DrChinese: I accept that my thought experiment, if actualy performed, would not yield results overthrowing established quantum theory ! :smile: I am interested in how, in principle, the results would present themselves. Your point 2 is interesting, since I am not specifying how the...

I appreciate that the experimental difficulties may be extraordinary at this time. It's the principles I am largely interested in. Cthuga suggests that recoil measurements are possible, even though complicated. I believe all I need is recoil measuments at the source and at the detector to...

DrChinese: Based on your statements about HUP, you appear to suggest that I could not know the time that the photon left the source, the time that it hit the screen, and it's position on the screen, with sufficient precision to determine the photon flight time and hence its path length...

I am sure there are better or worse ways of setting up the physical experiment, depending on current technology etc, as jtbell indicates. But there is the fundamental problem I quoted from DrChinese, which is that knowing the photon's exact path is supposed to destroy the interference pattern...

I have a question about the interference pattern disappearing if you know which slit the photon goes through: What if you measure the time taken from the generation of the photon, to the time when the detector receives it? For most spots on the screen, the path length through Slit 1 will be...