On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 7:42:50 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > The answer is right in front of us. Quantum collapse indicates that a > photon must pass through a slit, and become either a wave or a particle. > But the answer gets more complex, with Wigner's 4 body solution, with the > photons becoming either Yanny or Laurel, as opposed to Alice and Bob. > > The two slits do not force the dichotomy. The wave function does pass through both openings which impose a topology on the wave function, or better thought of as the set of paths in the sum over histories or path integral. However, without a detecting screen the electron wave function carries on along its merry path. It is the detection by a screen, photoplate CCD or what ever is place in the background that reduces the wave function to appear as a particle.
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