On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 2:18 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
* > The math says the wave function travels thru both slots. * > But when a single electron hits a photographic plate it doesn't produce a vague smudge that a wave would, it produces a discreet spot. That's because the complex wave function, which contains the square root of -1 in it, is NOT an observable quantity, only the square of the absolute value of it is, and even then only as a probability. And that is exactly what you would expect things to be like if when an electron encounters two slits everything in the universe splits, including you the observer. In the instant after the universe is split into 2 when an observer does not yet know which branch he is in, Born's rule is the only one that produces the correct probabilities in Everett's multiverse. > *> That happens in the same world and so the two paths produce > interference patterns.* > True, the interference is only observable if the two worlds recombine back into one. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> n8va -- 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/CAJPayv0H2yASJig1_eGLun8PJ5nQ8wjc2-7mC818ZY7GQUSa1Q%40mail.gmail.com.
