Something deep or profound

[guesswho]

Roads are for fools and for highwaymen.

you forgot to mention the hookers.

 

[Ginkgo]

^

 

[Mole]

The double-slit interference pattern is fundamental to waves. Attributing the resulting pattern to "measurement error" is quite a stretch (measurement has a dramatic effect, certainly, but that dramatic effect is not an "error"). The experiment is actually pretty convincing evidence that the particles were "behaving like waves" , because the interference pattern is exactly what would be produced by waves.

Today we can do the double slit experiment one photon at a time. And we find that each photon acts as a particle but that the spread of the particles takes the shape of a wave.

So the physical reality is a particle and the statistical reality is a wave.

 

[Octarine]

The whole point about quantum mechanics is that reality is described neither by classical particle or wave mechanics, but only by quantum mechanics.

Single photons interfere with themselves in a wave-like manner and that is simply not possible in classical model.

 

[Mole]

The whole point about quantum mechanics is that reality is described neither by classical particle or wave mechanics, but only by quantum mechanics.

Single photons interfere with themselves in a wave-like manner and that is simply not possible in classical model.

With the measurement of single photons we now know that single photons don't interfere with themselves in a wave like manner. Rather the single photons together form a wave pattern, which can be predicted statistically.

So we now know the answer to the question, is it a wave or a particle? And the answer is that it is a particle.

 

[Octarine]

With the measurement of single photons we now know that single photons don't interfere with themselves in a wave like manner. Rather the single photons together form a wave pattern, which can be predicted statistically.

Only if you interpret the results in classical way.

 

[Mole]

Only if you interpret the results in classical way.

It's not a question of interpretation for each photon can be shot singly and recorded singly. And there is no actual wave. The wave is purely statistical.

 

[Ginkgo]

Only at night do no shadows exist.

 

[violet_crown]

 

[Antimony]

The answer is always present: it is the path that is concealed.

 

[Mole]

The Abyss

When we look into the abyss, the abyss looks back.

 

[Sniffles]

Can't get any deeper or profound than this!
[youtube="QcAnOlPh7Yo"]2 plus 2 is four[/youtube]

 

[Ginkgo]

Can't get any deeper or profound than this!
[youtube="QcAnOlPh7Yo"]2 plus 2 is four[/youtube]

What could it mean?

 

[Antimony]

I'm going to be rocking in a corner for weeks.