On 10/29/2019 3:48 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:


On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 1:55:17 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:



    On 10/29/2019 12:46 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:


    On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 1:25:43 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:



        On 10/29/2019 11:43 AM, Alan Grayson wrote:

            What does that mean?  No one even detects them.  They
            need not even be absorbed, but could simply fly off to
            infinity.

            Brent


        What exactly is the situation? Interference is destroyed,
        more and more, as they get hotter, but without any
        observations? AG

        Right.

        Brent


    It sounds like some sort of hidden variable (don't take this too
    literally), where the particles send out information of whether
    interference will occur or not, and it doesn't matter if it's
    observed. This could fit into my model of superposition with some
    modification; namely, it you do a which-way experiment, OR if
    information about which-way is available, interference is
    destroyed. And what goes through the slits in the absence of
    these conditions is a wave going through both slits. AG

    OK.  Except "send out" doesn't make sense.   It implies signaling,
    which would be at less than light speed (c.f. delay choice quantum
    eraser experiment).

    Brent


What descriptive term do you prefer? Those IR photons travel at the SoL. The point is that if there's information available for which-way, even if not observed, the interference is destroyed. AG

What does "available" mean?  The information that left at the speed of light is not "available" in any conventional sense at the screen or detector in the experiment.

Brent

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