Recent content by Davor Magdic

Thank you, this is what I was trying to articulate, the question of initial conditions. I was wondering if there is any difference in the prediction of the outcome (of, say, the double-slit experiment) if the quantum system we observe is modeled starting with pre-existing electrons flying...

I was under impression that if we are considering an electron escaping the metal we only talk about a probability of that happening under certain conditions, and probability implies a superposition of states, does it not? I do not understand the model in detail but several articles mention the...

I assumed that the electron is in the superposition of positions -- one being the filament is heated enough that the electron has jumped the barrier, and the other that the electron is still in the filament. I.e. I assumed that the electron leaving the filament is a quantum phenomenon and there...

atyy, Demystifier, thank you for the replies. If the end is a start, and the point of measurement is to make an observation (i.e. sample the state of the system), does it not follow that measurements are continuously happening, in which case when does the collapse happen? To put it this way...

Apologies if the question has been asked, I didn't see it in my search but maybe I missed it. I was wondering if there is a formal definition of when/where a quantum experiment begins (as opposed to where it ends, i.e. with the collapse of the wave function), and whether it matters. For...

Hi forum people, another software developer here, with Computer Engineering degree. I still remember the moment during a class in Fundamentals of Physical Electronics in my 2nd year of college when the professor said, when the electron returns to a stable level it releases a photon in a random...