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Matterwave reacted to aletheia's post in the thread Undergrad Single-photon double-slit with multiple apparatus? with
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You’re right. Actually, you are all right. I did my study, applied my reasoning and understood why the idea was wrong. Thanks. -
Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Momentum measurement and uncertainty.Could you elaborate on what exactly you mean with the "uncertainty" in quotes? Do you mean the product itself? For example ##\Delta...
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Matterwave reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Single-photon double-slit with multiple apparatus? with Like.
Note that we don't have light sources that allow us to control when a photon is emitted. The best we can do is to turn down the...
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Matterwave replied to the thread AI Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.That mathematically looks identical to Boltzmann's canonical distribution (hence the terminology "Temperature") :D (assuming no...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Single-photon double-slit with multiple apparatus?.Indeed it could, e.g., for a photographic plate a photon would leave a dot on the detector screen. If we are worried about pixel...
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Matterwave replied to the thread High School RocketGirl receives a radio message from Earth.I think if you read these two snippets back to back you will realize the error in logic.
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Single-photon double-slit with multiple apparatus?.Not sure if this addresses your original concerns, but note that in a typical double slit experiment, the distance from photon emission...
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Matterwave reacted to bhobba's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
It doesn't. It does resolve some things, like what a particle is. Its main advantage is that we know ordinary QM is wrong, e.g., it...
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Matterwave reacted to renormalize's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
Why might we expect anything other than the usual single-slit diffraction pattern? After all, the light passing through your...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM.It seems to me, that "deriving the Born rule" is a favorite pastime of MWI folks going all the way back to Everett. And a common...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM.This seems to be a difficult assertion to rectify at face value. BM wave functions simply guide the motions of actual particles while...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad Single-photon double-slit with multiple apparatus?.What do you mean by "multiple identical apparatuses"? Can you clarify your experiment and what you are expecting to see?
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad A differential geometry question from continuum mechanics.Yeah, I think in general you need some vector field to "ground" you as you move around the manifold. In my post #3 I suggested using a...
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Matterwave replied to the thread Undergrad A differential geometry question from continuum mechanics.Yes, but that choice is path dependent. Any two tangent spaces at ##p_1,\, p_2## can be made isomorphic via the connection if you...
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Matterwave reacted to jbergman's post in the thread Undergrad Particle vs Wave Interpretations of QM with Like.
This paper by Zurek may be a better reference. He discusses orthogonal microstates, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052105