Thanks for the reply. I always knew I was wrong about the, "How can one photon make a copy of itself and then interfere with itself?"
But, its true we know position of the photon at the slit but not its momentum (conversely, if we know the photon's momentum, we'll knever know when it reaches...
...Well, I did get one answer...
Interference filters are poly chromatic, depending on viewing angle. Polychromatic, but not polarizing in any significant way.
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Now I'm kind of understanding what you're saying here.
The usual QM answer to the classical question, "What happens when we fire the single photon thru the two slits? Huh? The next photon will seem to interfere with it. How? It was fired thru seconds later!"
The QM answer is this: "Well, the...
Now here's my language! That amorphous and invisible line of scrimmage between the quantum and the classical. When will we dissolve this useless and anti-pragmatic line! I say, that as Physicists, we must do with all speed; current research of the S/S qbits and fullerine diffraction is now...
You're other reply was very smart, but must we result to "rigor" when trying to prove a point? In a way, that's like the articulate philosopher--when questioned about a questionable, abstract, and nebulous subject-matter--becomes even more verbose!
Verbose to the point of deliberately...
It'd be great if you guys would direct me to an excellent link regarding buckyball diffraction and its superposition implication specifically. That would, of course, be appreciated...
(BTW, I tried to find reading related to the Delft/Stony Brook experiment and related matter and could only...
The idea behind the virtual particle pair is similar to that of the HUP, in that the particle pair can never be "observed", just as position can never be "observed" if momentum of the HUP particle is fully known. In other words, by having a virtual particle interact with an observable ("real")...
The OP gets into EPR concepts, does he not?
Also, wasn't it Dirac (or Heisenberg) who called the arbitrary limit between the quantum and the classical, the "blade", or something like that? In any case, I forget the exact term he used...
Some would suggest, with a great deal of support, that our known Universe is a 3-D world on the 'surface' of a 4-D space of some sort. Much like the 2-D surface on the 3-D spherical orange...
That means that if you were to send out a laser beam directly in front of you that many, many years...
I don't like wikipedia as much as the next science fan, but from the source:
"Graphene is a flat monolayer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattice, and is a basic building block for graphitic materials of all other dimensionalities. It can be wrapped up...