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Old 26-03-2010, 11:16 AM
Nesti (Mark)
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Thanks Alex. The one which really gets me, is Young's Double Slit Experiment. But not the usual mystery everyone else seems to focus upon; I don't really care which slit the particle goes through as that's a property of the quantum world, and I can accept that (as most other theories)...the mystery for me isn't super-positioning of states, it's why does one individual particle land in one particular position and not some other position, within the darkening region (interference pattern or not)? How are all the particles distributed in accordance with a particular function? For me, this seems to be related to why event outcomes can be different even though the experiment is identical...even bigger is the question of why does one event go one way in particular? Is it balancing something about the universe - but that would infer knowing, and that's a violation of SR.

ie In the Double Slit; why does a the particle land somewhere in the left band rather than the right band, and vice-versa. You can apply that question to all the bands within the interference patten also.

To say that it is a product of a wave function is fine, and I get that, but that infers guidance, and guidance infers structure and order.

What structure, what order? These are my questions.
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