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I'll try not to make this to confusing, but I'm having difficulty understanding a couple of different things. The first is how you can have a superposition of momentum. Does it have to do with waves just as it does with the superposition of the position of an electron, hense the electron...

ok that I'm not sure of

good point careful, i hadn't thought of that

You know I think that is the best explanation of light I've heard yet. I'll have to remember that one

For one thing, light can be reflected off of a metal pain. Secondly, metal is made up of more mass. With this light is is obsorbed but you also have to remember that, when the photons hit the tightly packed electrons, they lose some of their energy. Well with the thickness and tightly packed...

Not to break up the lengthy argument, but referring to the original question, I always understood that it's not where the fave function collapses but when, which would take you back to when is a measurement actually made. Thoughts?

I agree, because Plancks time is the time it takes a photon traveling at the speed of light to cross a distance equal to the Planck length, therefore if the particles are really far apart, say across the universe it would still take time for the transaction to happen. Therefore it's either...

You can't do that. According to the Copenhagen Interpretation, you cannot know what the speed and position of a photon or particle at the same time. In the case of the double slit experiment, when you see the interference pattern you are making a velocity measurement, but if you put the block...

But if you use a detector in your "Y" experiment you are attempting to make a measurement, otherwise you wouldn't know which way it went. Take the interference experiment, for example (which is basically what your "Y" experiment is), if you put a cover over one slit, then you force the photon...