Hi - I have a question about wormholes, specifically when the two endpoints have a differnt gravitational potential.
If we imagine the technology extisted to create a person sized wormhole between say the Earth and the moon, I think the popular perception would be that one could simply walk...
Lets say the detector is connected by a mechanical arm to pencil that records the detection event on a piece of paper i.e storage device = pencil+paper. If the lead on the pencil breaks, does the interference pattern come back?
A little while ago I posted a question
https://www.physicsforums.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=4460761
A number of objections were posted to the idea which I think might be relevant to this discussion:
Isnt this like saying "the ocean is made of waves"?
Actually the ocean is made of sea water - waves are things that happen in the ocean.
So photons are excitations in the photon field (but don't ask me what the photon field is made of)
I found a related thread:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=508484
which references the paper AIP Conf. Proc. 810 (2006), 360 by Ghenadie N. Mardari:
I'll attempt to read it but I doubt it will make much sense to me.
Thanks again for your responses
Thanks everyone for the responses.
I wonder what the record is for the slowest double-slit experiment? Has anyone actually seriously looked for a change in the observed interference pattern as the interval between photons is increased?
The usual interpretation of the double slit experiment, when done with a single photon at a time, is that the photon must interfere with itself. However interference cannot be measured in a single-photon experiment - it requires a large number of photons to manifest a discernible interference...