Recent content by LorentzR

I don’t think you can consider quantum interactions without considering the effects of uncertainty. I used the above illustration to show that the electron can be in more than one place at anyone time.In the ARPES experiment, apart from the measured value, all other values of momentum are...

Ok I can measure the position of an electron by passing it through a hole in a barrier and I know exactly where the electron was when it passed through the barrier. I then calculate the probability density for where it might interact with a screen beyond. If the barrier has two holes then I have...

Incidentally it was Ludvig’s Gauge not Hendrik’s but Lorentz invariant all the same. That all depends on the descriptions of the interacting entities and their event arena?

Sounds like reasonable challenge. Sorry! just got carried away

I mean that your interaction as the observer is with the detector and not the particle. Locality (of the detection) is a property of the group behaviour of the quantum systems forming the detector and the accuracy of the detector depends on their group behaviour.. Of course the detector needs to...

[ My principle reason for doubting the existence of the photon was that its raison deter was to mediate the electromagnetism; to bridge the gulf between charged quantum entities. But if quantum entities don’t have uniquely defined positions in the world then the gulfs separating them are...

This reinforces the belief that the quantum objects do not possesses specific locations; their interactions do not possesses specific locations and their particle like behaviour is an illusion created by the integrated behaviour of all the quantum systems participating in the experimental set...

Then perhaps you will agree that the measured values for "position" and "momentum" and "energy" are properties of the changes in the detector(s) and do not necessarily represent the state of a quantum entity immediately before the detection? This depends on the group behaviour of the quantum...

This is your inference not what you actually detected or what’s likely to have happened at quantum level?

Sorry for this late response I only rarely get chance to look at your forum Far be it from me to issue a rebuttal; a lead balloon comes to mind. Within the context of the ARPES experimental setup and other scattering experiments the electron and the “photon” seem to behave as if the were...

No one has ever observed the position of a photon or any other quantum particle. What you observe is a macroscopic response in a particular experimental set up. The timing and position of the response may be measured with exquisite accuracy but the observable response exists at the end of a...

No! I don’t agree with this statement. The idea of the photon was at least partly introduced as a solution to the old problem of what causes “action” at distance. But the question presupposes the notion of locality. This in the context of modern physics would be the assumption that the...

I'm convinced that lightarrows conclusion is correct. I believe there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that light does not require a carrier particle. The most notable being that if the constituents parts of matter cannot have exact locality relative to our inertial reference frames...

The honest answer on both counts is we don't know. However you may be interested in this attachment which purports to be reductionistic hypothesis. It explains the development of the light wave and the impulsive nature of quantum interactions without involving a photon

I was simply pointing out the that the metric signature was not (+, +, +, +) required by Riemannian geometry. Sorry if I missed your reference. If a concept is not sustained by deductive reasoning, no matter how long you study it the fundamental weaknesses will remain. Relativity...