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But we've already tested this--the "standard" double slit at low intensity, where one photon at a time is inside the same apparatus, has...

That is correct, QM predicts the same outcome with both methods (though in practical terms doing it the second way, a new detector...

What is the physical significance of this angular distribution? Why would we want a sensitive measurement of it?

In that case the tube will simply reduce the overall wave intensity as well as confining the wave to within the tube. Ok, but if what...

It matters because the reason for wanting a measure with the properties Gleason's Theorem requires is to be a probability measure for...

* I'll try to keep this as short as possible. I was planning to respond to your DM. But since you've gone public, giving everyone the...

I won't belabor the point because it's too far off topic (besides, it's been well covered in Atlas Shrugged). Fortunately life isn't as...

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...