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But you're preventing that by confining everything to a narrow tube after the aperture. In wave terms, the tube would act like a waveguide.

Classically, yes, light is treated differently from electrons. But we're not talking about classical physics here. Quantum...

If you accept Gleason's Theorem as such an argument (which would be an argument along the same sort of lines that you describe...

Because the LHC found zero evidence of supersymmetry. The prediction that is now notorious for its wrongness was not that any...

And for historical context, here is the journal containing the paper (from 1909) describing the first such experiment, by G. I. Taylor...

Here is a paper describing a typical single-photon double slit experiment...

This reasoning would only apply if you ran all the photons through the same apparatus, i.e., recorded all their impacts on the same...

But it will be more difficult to obtain the pattern, since you'll have to combine measurements of photon impacts on multiple detector...

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The interference pattern is a consequence of the wave function of a single photon. The double slit...

Interestingly, this paper claims that its conclusions are independent of any interpretation--in other words, Zurek is claiming to derive...

The basic idea of string theory is that everything is emergent from the underlying string dynamics, including not just gravity but all...

I guess we'll find out, when we see whether these new changes affect traffic, and if so how.

But on this view, what Carroll is doing in the paper we've been discussing is obviously wrong, since he's claiming that, once...

That seems to be basically what Carroll is doing in the paper under discussion. And, as I've already pointed out, since it's equivalent...

You can start here to look for references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_embedding_theorems Also look at the Whitney embedding...