[ExI] CQT Researcher Uncovers Quantitative Link Between Quantum Non-Locality and Uncertainty.

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 20:35:51 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Dave Sill  wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:53 PM, BillK  wrote:
>>> the photon has to choose where to hit
>>
>> What does that mean?
>
> Read the article - it's obvious!   ;)
> (It's written in simple language for beginners, that's why he used that phrase).
>
> Oh all right, I'll try an explanation.
> The photon is a probabilty wave function until it is measured (or hits
> the detector plate). The measurement might hit anywhere in the wave
> function. That's what he means.
> (Clue - he doesn't really think photons are self aware beings).  :)

Thanks, Bill. I did read that part of the article, but I couldn't tell
what he meant. I'm not a physicist, but that explanation is obviously
a little too simple.

-Dave




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