Sometimes you have a new thought, an idea, or eureka moment, but it's not gutsy enough to expand into a reasonable length article or essay. So, here's another potpourri of thoughts dealing with quantum physics and related, too good not to record, but with not enough meat available to flesh out. People reading this will hopefully be somewhat familiar with the terms and jargon used. If not, well that's why dictionaries exist!
The Double-Slit Experiment
Of course you know all about the paradox with the Double-Slit Experiment. Say you rapid-fire actual particles (i.e. - Carbon-60 Bucky-Balls*) as your ammo. If one slit is open, you get particle behaviour (as expected). If two slits are open, you get wave behaviour (that's weird). If Bucky-Ball particles are fired at both slits one at a time (i.e. - one passes through the slits before the next is fired) you get wave behaviour (that's crazy). Now bring in the observer. If an observer looks to see which slit of the two slits the one-at-a-time Bucky-Ball particle actually goes through, at the time it goes through, you get particle behaviour (which contradicts the previous results). If an observer looks to see which slit of two slits the Bucky-Ball particles go through AFTER the particles go through, you again get particle behaviour (contradicting the previous results). That's totally crazy, since how can the Bucky-Ball particles change behaviour from wave to particle AFTER they have already passed and gone through the slits?
If a particle were at the core in essence a wave, you should always get wave behaviour in the Double-Slit Experiment and that's clearly not the case. Something is screwy quantum ai somewhere! If I were a quantum physicist, methinks I'd end up being an alcoholic quantum physicist! It's enough to drive you to seriously drink.
*Otherwise more formally known as Buckminsterfullerene.
More About the Double-Slit Experiment
Ah, the $64,000 question! One photon, or electron, or Bucky-Ball or whatever, that is faced with an either/or choice when approaching two side-by-side slits, exhibits a dual personality and goes through both thus resulting in a classic wave interference pattern. That of course is Twilight Zone physics. Of course if Richard Feynman didn't understand this, I'm not sure I should be expected to either, but here goes a few possibilities.
The first is that perhaps there might be leakage of photons, etc. through micro-wormholes from parallel universes such that while the experimenter thinks there is just one photon in the picture, there actually isn't. Okay, thumbs down.
The second is what happens in the delayed double-slit experiment? Well apparently if one allows the single photon or electron or Bucky-Ball or whatever to pass through the double-slits, but then pulls a swiftly and removes the broad screen detector revealing instead two detectors that are aligned with each of the two slits, then one or the other detector will detect the photon, etc. each and every time. In other words, after the photon, etc. passed through the double-slits, it somehow realised the gig was up and changed its mind and thus passed through just one of the two slits. How is this explained? Either the photon, etc. has awareness and a limited amount of free will (panpsychism), or else it time travels back into the past to the starting point and hence travels through one or the other slit. Harking back to the standard double-slit experiment with a both slits open scenario, the photon, etc. passes through one slit, then doubles back (in time) and then passes through the other slit. You have just crossed over into "The Twilight Zone".
Thirdly, and probably the traditional explanation, is that at point of emission and detection the photon or electron or Bucky-Ball is a particle, but in-between its alpha and omega it is a wave. That is of course unless there is only the single-slit option open when the wave fails to manifest itself which again implies consciousness or awareness on the part of the photon, etc. It knows in advance whether or not one or both slits are open and shape-shifts accordingly. IMHO that's also nuts.
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