On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 11:16:20 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 11:41:53 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> What I call a "ship" above can be done with a *2000-atom molecule* in a >> double slit experiment (latest news). >> >> Now a 2000-atom molecule is not as big as ship, but it should provide >> what you need to know, If you think about it. >> >> @philipthrift >> > > I just posted the article about this. How does the existence of > interference for a large molecule demonstrate that a particle can be in > multiple positions simultaneously? AG >
What is your "quantum interpretation" of this: These hefty molecules (oligotetraphenyl porphyrins enriched with fluoroalkyl-sulfanyl chains) are sent through a 2-slit screen and land on a collection array forming a diffraction pattern (just as photons do). How does the presence of the 2 slits make the interference pattern? What is interfering with what? (Sabine Hosssenfelder says a particle - and she would have to say this molecule - is in two places at once. But she doesn't have a quantum interpretation. But what would *Vic Stenger* have said? I am partial to some some sort of path-integral sum-over-histories interpretation*, but it seems the world is adopting the Many World interpretation today, so it doesn't matter.) * Sum Over Histories: Discrete Step Interpretation Muhammad Adeel Ajaib University of Delaware https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.2017.pdf Beneath the surface of our world lies a sea where quantal histories are born and die. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/06fd905c-2b14-4b92-90b2-7a814c26fcd4%40googlegroups.com.
