Tom Campbell and his outrageous claim

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In summary, the conversation discusses a potential misunderstanding of the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment. Tom Campbell, a NASA physicist, may have been referencing this experiment when discussing burning data to erase which-way information. However, this claim is false and does not align with the actual process of delaying the choice to erase. The experiment involves storing the result in an unmeasured qubit, which cannot be physically burned. The claim is not only incorrect, but also supports the idea that it is impossible to have unknowable nonsense in quantum mechanics. The conversation concludes by discouraging further reliance on Dr. Quantum's videos for understanding quantum mechanics.
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So I just came across this while going through some comments on a youtube video talking about the double slit
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(here's what i heard from Tom Campbell (NASA physicist) They repeated the experiment, they let the detector detect and they burned the data before watching it then they checked and there was an ... interference pattern)

Even if this guy is unknowingly referencing the double slit eraser this statement can't be correct, right? This has to be a misunderstanding of what's going on either by the user above or this Tom Campbell character. I'm asking this question because I am not a physicist and just wanted some confirmation that this claim was indeed false. Thanks again for any help clarifying this.
 
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I'm going to go out on a limb and state the "Mondestrasz" misunderstood, or was told a bad analogy for, the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment. If the which-way information had literally been written down on something you could literally burn, the environment is already hopelessly entangled with the result and burning wouldn't reverse that.

To actually delay the choice to erase, the result needs to be stored in an unmeasured qubit (which is not a thing you can burn). And the results don't change after the fact when you choose to measure the qubit. Instead, the results stay the same but you split them into two groups based on the outcome of measuring the associated qubit. Each group will contain an interference pattern, but they fill in each others' holes so together they sum into the overall lack-of-interference pattern you recorded.
 
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I'm asking this question because I am not a physicist and just wanted some confirmation that this claim was indeed false.

The claim is not merely false, it is powerful evidence in support of the proposition that there is no such thing as unutterable nonsense.
This thread is closed, and if you have any interest in understanding quantum mechanics you'll want to stop watching Dr. Quantum's videos.
 
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FAQ: Tom Campbell and his outrageous claim

Who is Tom Campbell?

Tom Campbell is a physicist and consciousness researcher who worked for NASA and the US Department of Defense. He is best known for his theory of "My Big TOE" (Theory of Everything), which attempts to explain the nature of reality and consciousness.

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Tom Campbell's outrageous claim is that reality is a virtual simulation, similar to a video game. He believes that our physical world is a digital construct created by a higher consciousness, and that our individual consciousnesses are connected to this larger consciousness.

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