Re: programming bomb-testing experiment on a regular computer

On 25 Feb, 22:05, "nando_rontel...@xxxxxxxxx"
<nando_rontel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eh no, you didn't say a quarter, you said a half, I said a quarter,
and after you gave that wrong number then you proceded to challenge me
if I understood anything about it at all.

I'm sorry but in what context?

make the wave stronger... nah, the obvious thing to note about the
point of interference is that at that point there are no alternative
possiblities for the photon to be when you would look.

Sorry? There are two alternatives in the case of a dud bomb.The wave
takes both. In the case of a live bomb there are three outcomes.

For the places
previous on the paths, there is an alternative on the other path. So
you know, doesn't that then mean that the photon must be a particle at
that point of interference?

No because a particle can't interfer with it's self and give the
results we see without the live bomb. If it was a particle you would
see 50/50 results on the two final detectors. I still have no idea
what you mean by alternatives here.


What is a wave that is only at a single
point, that's not a wave then there is it? In any case it is
impossible as a lay person to get a grasp on it without using the
common logic of deciding. It seems impossible for quantum mechanic
experts to avoid talking about it in terms of deciding also.

That's a flat out lie. As a lay person I can easily grasp the concept
of what's going on here. Neither of us speak more for lay people than
the other and I'm sick of you 'everyone' arguments and appeals against
knowledge because some dumb people don't get the difference between
figurative and real terms, yourself included.

Why again do we need to avoid talking about decisions, why is it
scientific to avoid that?

Because decisions is totally the wrong word for the reason I and many
others have told you time and time again.

You know the reason but choose to ignore it.

Just to prove you're sane to me what is the reason why we don't think
of photons making decisions?




Because then we would violate the
established scientific fact of "blind pitiless indifferrence at the
bottom of the universe"?

No. Try again.

Well you have not said much of anything about programming interference
on a computer other then saying y=sin(x). Maybe you are right, maybe
it is as easy as that.

No, it's a starting point. To model interference you need a wave, and
in that equation you have a wave! Now have two waves, offset them,
add them together and draw out the results! That's interference
between two waves, which is what is being talked about in this
experiment - not interference in the form of static etc.

Context is everything Nando.

Stew Dean

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