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johnconner
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For explaining Delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, what if I change the Copenhagen interpretation a little.
When the experiment is concluded, we observe one detector (the first detector with the shortest path) has detected the pattern long before the wavefunction is collapsed (before the last D detector detects the last ray of photons with identified and known path). Now that seems to be time travel which is not accepted by physicists. Now Let’s go with a metaphor. Say above the line of Time (with an arrow towards future), we have a cloud that is wavefunction. When this wavefunction is collapsed for the entangled particles (The system as a whole to be precise), in this metaphor, we say the cloud will rain. Dropping its drops of rain in each specific moment on the line of time. Which means the could (which is the wavefunction) is not only independent of time but it must hold through time. So the change happens throughout time without traveling in it. All I am suggesting is that the wavefunction should be accepted as a concept that must hold through time, so when it’s collapsed the time of events align with the narrative of wavefunction. This way there will be no traveling in time or any violations of relativity and causality would still hold.
When the experiment is concluded, we observe one detector (the first detector with the shortest path) has detected the pattern long before the wavefunction is collapsed (before the last D detector detects the last ray of photons with identified and known path). Now that seems to be time travel which is not accepted by physicists. Now Let’s go with a metaphor. Say above the line of Time (with an arrow towards future), we have a cloud that is wavefunction. When this wavefunction is collapsed for the entangled particles (The system as a whole to be precise), in this metaphor, we say the cloud will rain. Dropping its drops of rain in each specific moment on the line of time. Which means the could (which is the wavefunction) is not only independent of time but it must hold through time. So the change happens throughout time without traveling in it. All I am suggesting is that the wavefunction should be accepted as a concept that must hold through time, so when it’s collapsed the time of events align with the narrative of wavefunction. This way there will be no traveling in time or any violations of relativity and causality would still hold.
