Re: Critical size (or Mass?) of the particle at which Macro transitions to Micro (Ref: Double Slit Experiment)


Ravindra wrote:
Yes the terminology matches but i guess the experiments in the book are
different from what is narrated...Probably the concept is also slightly
different...In *fabric of cosmos*, the interference of the signal
photos was observed when the idler photons were left undetected...but
in the exaclty same setup if the idler photons were detected ( its just
a on/off switch on the idler detector lying completly outside the
experiment...thoerectically it can be light years away as well!) then
there is no interference observed...the book explains it better!

Well, that's why Brian Greene's book is a best-seller. It's his aim to
explain it better.
But if you want to understand it more *deeply* and to see the details
of how it is actually tested, then you need to dive into the papers.

This is like everything in physics (or anything else, for that matter).
A popularization will be more accessible, but offers only a shallow
understanding. Real scientific literature will provide deeper
understanding, but will be less accessible. There is no shortcut.

PD

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