On Friday, September 5, 2025 at 6:50:49 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: *> there's no way to get the result for a free particle,* * A "free particle" is a particle that is not subject to ANY external force or have any potential energy, so its total energy is kinetic. That makes things simpler and as a result the quantum wave function is just a plane wave. But in the real world things are more complicated because "free particles" do not exist. * *But we can imagine a free particle in empty space and we do that often. So, IMO, there's no way to get a particle's wf from a double slit experiment, even a rough approximation. Consequently, ME's are not enough to get a particle's wf by observing distribution patterns on the screen. And to correct my previous statement, if we don't know which-way in double slit experiment, we get two overlapping peaks, centered on the screen, opposite the space between the slits. AG* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* *tmc* -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1b19ff40-fd39-4714-8d7d-4fd0ca47e2d1n%40googlegroups.com.
