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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    You're right, I can't find what gave me that idea, I must have misread something!
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    Boffin "The point of testing is to substantiate what we know, to see if it stands testing, and to delve into the realms of the unknown. The point of testing to see if the Earth is flat is that you would find your theory doesn't standup to testing." I thought you were saying 'there's no point...
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    Wannabe, how can simply 'knowing the position' of something change its structure? Sounds like you accept the theory so firmly you reject experimentation to confirm or disprove it! Classic dogmatist. What's the point of testing if the Earth is round when everybody knows it's flat?!
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    I think KRD means the energy of the wave collapses into the electron it hits, not that the fired particle was an electron?
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    >> Of course, now I'm inviting the question "What really is going on?". There are a half-dozen more or less well-accepted possible answers, collectively known as "interpretations" of QM. Yes I read about this after reposting a Facebook thing saying something like 'according to scientists we...
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    Rajatmo, no I meant has anyone tried it with sand or balls just to see if there is a dispersal pattern, due to the objects glancing off the edges of the slits. Not to see if table tennis balls interfere with themselves and produce a diffraction pattern.
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    You lost me there. If measuring which slit a particle passes through removes the wave quality of the particle, then there's something intrusive about the measuring technique isn't there? So 'they' who do the measuring should devise a more sneaky subtle technique. It's as if the particle knows it...
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    That's pretty poor, can't they improve their measuring technique? It's like measuring the speed of Nadal's serve in the French open today and saying 'that serve was 90 miles an hour, but the radar knocked the ball out of court so it's not counted'.
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    Doesn't make sense, unless the method of measuring or recording which slit the particle goes through changes the properties of the particle. Maybe the photon is embarrassed to be a just a mere formless wave, so it pretends to be solid matter if someone is watching?
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    So whatever they do to detect which slot the photon goes through, removes the wave property? Can't they fire charged particles through some gas so they leave a trail? Better to use a less invasive detection method.
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    Yes I know the interpretation of the results of the experiment is that the pattern is a diffraction pattern caused by quanta somehow interfering with themselves, but maybe the pattern has some more rational cause?
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    Staggered in space/time, doesn't that imply it's not an interference pattern they're seeing? It seems like stretching an elaborate theory around a false assumption. Pity someone doesn't try the experiment with a table tennis ball shooting machine, they might see similar patterns due to balls...
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    Can Gravity Influence the Double Slit Experiment with Larger Particles?

    2 slit, double slit, two slit I saw a previous topic where someone asked if anyone has tried the 2 slit experiment with bigger objects (not Bucky balls) like sand or golf balls, but it seems not? I wondered if the diffraction patterns could simply be a result of the particles deflecting off...
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