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Jman091
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After reading on the basics of this & watching videos, here are some questions I can't help asking.
When the wave is traveling in the room that is filled with air, will the photon interact with all the air
molecules continuously collapsing the wave aspect?
As I understand measurement/interaction collapses the wave aspect of the photon. So wouldn't the actual wall itself with the slits do this preventing the wave passing through both slits?
Looking at the videos of the double slit they show some kind of wave that is spread out across the whole wall with the slits & yet interfere with itself on other side much like a water wave in a pond. In the case of the water wave the whole wave looks to literally interact with the wall & slits just as a beach wave strikes a long stretch of barrier. But with the photon, the wave behavior is on a scale comparable to the two slits.
Even so, the middle of the slits is solid matter & looks to cut the wave, and surely the edges/boundary of the wave & the slits themselves are not precise but peter out. If so I have a hard time seeing how the wave picture alone can account for interference. Shouldn't the edges of the wave interact with the edges of the slit?
How does a buckyball of 60atoms act like a wave? As wave collapse happens by interaction, like when locating an electron with a photon. Yet aren't such interactions continuously happening with & within the molecule itself?
thanks
When the wave is traveling in the room that is filled with air, will the photon interact with all the air
molecules continuously collapsing the wave aspect?
As I understand measurement/interaction collapses the wave aspect of the photon. So wouldn't the actual wall itself with the slits do this preventing the wave passing through both slits?
Looking at the videos of the double slit they show some kind of wave that is spread out across the whole wall with the slits & yet interfere with itself on other side much like a water wave in a pond. In the case of the water wave the whole wave looks to literally interact with the wall & slits just as a beach wave strikes a long stretch of barrier. But with the photon, the wave behavior is on a scale comparable to the two slits.
Even so, the middle of the slits is solid matter & looks to cut the wave, and surely the edges/boundary of the wave & the slits themselves are not precise but peter out. If so I have a hard time seeing how the wave picture alone can account for interference. Shouldn't the edges of the wave interact with the edges of the slit?
How does a buckyball of 60atoms act like a wave? As wave collapse happens by interaction, like when locating an electron with a photon. Yet aren't such interactions continuously happening with & within the molecule itself?
thanks