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A better way of putting it is why were they happy to concede that the photon travels down both paths of the interferometer in one instance, but not happy to concede that is does so in the other instance?

I seem to have trouble getting my point across as everyone seems to think I'm asking how to correctly interpret QM. Which I'm not. What I'm doing is trying to understand the evolution of thought/theory over the last century and how it has been affected by various experimental results."Observing...

Good point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed_choice_experiment You can skip to the simple interferometer section. In short it says experimenters considered the photon to travel in a particle like fashion in the first instance but wave like in the second. The last line in that...

This thread is about my not understanding the conclusion that scientists came to that the photon makes a 'decision' on how to travel. In a simple interferometer experiment, a photon displays interference fringes only when a second beam splitter is present. According to Wiki, this led scientists...