May 25, 2025 10:27 PM
My take on the double slit story so far..
There's me that thinks perfect detectors would detect 100% of photons making it through the slits .. evidence even poor detectors detect the same number of photons from slit A and slit B individually or in the interference pattern when both slits are open.
Others think think some some photons are in an undetectable state. I'm guessing the undetectable state corresponds to the dark bands in the interference pattern. Either the slits are generating extra photons (yes?) or the dark bands are where the undetectable photons settle .. with the 'bright' photons in the bright region .. with no reason (yet) given as to why they would settle in different regions. A photon would (I guess) be born with a 50% chance of being undetectable and going on to form darkness.
Still others favour a complex mechanism at the slits which exactly mimics diffraction by creating (from nothing?) extra photons which are entangled with other extra photons .. maybe I just haven't understood fully..
There's me that thinks perfect detectors would detect 100% of photons making it through the slits .. evidence even poor detectors detect the same number of photons from slit A and slit B individually or in the interference pattern when both slits are open.
Others think think some some photons are in an undetectable state. I'm guessing the undetectable state corresponds to the dark bands in the interference pattern. Either the slits are generating extra photons (yes?) or the dark bands are where the undetectable photons settle .. with the 'bright' photons in the bright region .. with no reason (yet) given as to why they would settle in different regions. A photon would (I guess) be born with a 50% chance of being undetectable and going on to form darkness.
Still others favour a complex mechanism at the slits which exactly mimics diffraction by creating (from nothing?) extra photons which are entangled with other extra photons .. maybe I just haven't understood fully..
