Thanks, Claude. That makes sense. But why don't the reflected photons invert when they hit the half-silvered mirror from the other side?! There are, after all, other photons that are transmitted through the mirror. The path is split in two but no inversion takes place. This seems absurd to me...
Are the following assumptions about this thought experiment correct?...
If an interference pattern is detected the bomb is defective because there was never any possibility of a photon being observed and collapsing the wave function.
In the case that no interference pattern is detected and...
Why do only HALF-silvered mirrors invert the photon waves? Why don't fully slivered mirrors do the same thing? And why do the waves not invert when hitting the half-silvered mirror from the non-silvered side? Was this rule (that half-silvered mirrors invert the wave) invented to explain the...