Re: Photons shapeshifting to wave prior to measurement

From: Jack (chemphysicsdude_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 27 Mar 2005 17:20:37 -0800

RP wrote:

> It's classical wave interference, by the book. The fringes are caused

> by constructive and destructive interference as the wavelets that
have
> traveled different distances to points on the target. The notion that

> a single photon at a time sent through the slits produces the same
> pattern, is first of all not realizable, since untold number of
> photons are passing through those slits in any vanishingly small
> interval. The reason that the same pattern emerges is that this wave
> (photon), in combination with the ambient field, borrows energy from
> that field as it catalyzes a transition between orbitals. The
> probability of this event is higher at the bright bands because the
> amplitude is greater there. The probability is itself that of the
atom
> to absorb energy, which of course is higher when the available energy

> is higher.
>
> Richard Perry

Uhm... how come if you put a detector at one of the slits that
can determine its path. The inteference pattern in the screen
disappears? Common belief says its because measurement
collapse the wave function. So you believe the wave function
is a misnomer? Pls. share a web site where everything you
described is illustrated in more details.

Jack

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