On Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 12:43:23 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 11:55:58 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> On 10/26/2019 10:48 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: >> > On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 11:42:21 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On 10/26/2019 10:31 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: >>> > QM does suggest a particle can be in several paths simultaneously, but >>> > we don't have a concept to understand how that can be. AG >>> >>> Who says we don't have that concept? We have the mathematics to >>> describe and predict it. What more do you want...something that would >>> convince Aristotle or your great-grandmother? Nature doesn't need to >>> adjust to your intuition; it's the other way around. >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> That's the "shut up and calculate" philosophy. So was Feynman wrong when >> he said no one understands QM? AG >> >> >> You still haven't said what you mean by "understand". What is it over >> and above being able to correctly apply the mathematics and get the right >> answer. What is it you think Zurek or Carroll or Lawrence or Schlosshauer >> don't understand? >> >> Brent >> > > Here's what I understand about an electron in the double slit experiment. > It doesn't occupy two locations simultaneously as a particle. Rather, when > *not* observed it behaves like a wave, goes through both slits, and > interferes with itself. When observed, it behaves as a particle. Now please > explain the form of the wf in S cat experiment, applying decoherence before > and after it completes, while the box is closed. TIA, AG >
Since observing the electron forces it into its particle form, the interference is destroyed in the which-way experiment. I am not sure what how those physicists interpret the double slit experiment, but I can make a good guess that Carroll adopts the most unintelligible interpretation; namely, that the particle is in multiple locations simultaneously. AG -- 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/7c6d60ea-f92e-479c-bd6d-c05f75107589%40googlegroups.com.
