right, let's fuckin go.
>>14135993on top, the cat knows something about the light, its energy and the direction of its momentum, this interaction severely limits the possible paths the beam of particles can take through the two slits (pretty much directly through one of the two slits). when the cat knows very little about the beam's momenta before the slit, the overlap of possible final states is observed as the sum of distributions through both slits at any incident angle. this really happens, get a laser pointer, some metal with finely cut slits separated by a very very short distance and see for yourself.
>>14136025using QED to describe mirrors is not particularly productive, better to apply optics for interfaces as you're very much in the wave and field regime here. from a QED framework, up to the penetration depth of the evanescent waves, photons are absorbed and reemitted through the oscillatory motion of conduction band electrons.
>>14136041detect the interference pattern? you can see it on a wall with your naked eye if you set it up correctly. its just the scattered light of the incident beam. the initial detection, the pre-interaction observeration, for a photon is probably tricky but you could accomplish it with some optics i guess. this also occurs with electrons and there you could apply something like a magnet before you reach the slits.
>>14136069this just means your probability distribution becomes essentially one value for whichever observable you measure. it collapsed because through an energy exchanging process, you now know what it was
>>14136757this is weird. never heard this before. gonna have to look into pilot waves, photons are whales now? nice.
pic unrelated, figured id add some junk data as credentials
