On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:26 PM smitra <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07-07-2021 01:17, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > > Your idea of QM is sadly flawed. The real professional quantum > > analysis given in the quoted paper shows how the observed effects are > > completely consistent with quantum mechanics. The emission of thermal > > radiation by the heated balls leads to a clear and evident loss of > > coherence. Your pseudo-analysis has nothing to do with either quantum > > mechanics or the actual set-up of this buckyball experiment. > > As I said, what I wrote is 100% consistent with their results.
Your analysis, as I understand it, suggests that if the IR photons are not observed, no interference pattern is seen. This seems to overlook the fact that the photons are emitted only probabilistically -- there need not be any photons at all, and yet the experiment sees a buckyball interference pattern at the lower temperatures. This pattern is gradually washed out as the temperature of the balls is increased. No photons are ever detected in that experiment. Do you dispute that that is what the paper by Hornberger et al. says? Bruce -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTwauT7cyAX%2BBn8SC7AuCgaiUZg27Bo0LidKmphED0QVA%40mail.gmail.com.
