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Interference pattern of what? The plastic is not measuring impact positions. It's measuring tracks. What would an "interference pattern"...

Mine doesn't. Let's suppose we apply a voltage of 1000 V to accelerate the protons; that gives them a speed of about 400,000 meters per...

What's p?

I don't think your Mott track analogy works here, at least not the way you are trying to use it. In the case of the standard double...

Is this a peer-reviewed paper? It doesn't look like one. Not to mention that the red lines are added by you. Is there a peer-reviewed...

Please start a separate thread if you want to discuss a separate question.

How? In path integral terms, what contribution to the amplitude would such paths make? My answer is, zero, since the experiment is set...

No, the particle's speed is extremely uncertain. It could be almost light speed or it could be zero. And it could be moving in any...

I'm going to emphasize this because I've said it already but it does not appear to have sunk in: Unitary evolution cannot create or...

Doesn't matter. Recording the tracks is enough in itself regardless of whether or how that information contributes to anything else...

There is no "supposed" measurement of position at the slits. There is only a measurement of momentum in the plastic. The momentum...

You seem to be assuming that it is impossible for particles to reach that region without inteference being present. That's not correct...

Tracks that come from one slit or the other. Perhaps it might help to think of things in terms of the path integral formulation. In the...

Is not what is going on in the scenario @Roberto Pavani is describing. Measuring the track is basically equivalent to measuring the...

Because measuring a track means measuring a track--not just a point of impact, but a trajectory. So, heuristically, by measuring the...