The 2-Slit Experiment Revisited (2: Interpretation And Why It's So Hard...)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 11:10 in Psychology & Sociology

Continued from the last post.Discounting the Bohmian song and dance, we are led to conclude that each electron does in some sense pass through both slits. But in what sense? Saying that an electron went through both slits cannot be equivalent to saying that the electron went through L and that it went through R, for to ascertain the truth of a conjunction we must individually ascertain the truths of its components, and we never find that an electron launched at G and detected at D has taken the left slit and that it has taken the right slit.read more

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