Re: Do I Misunderstand The Double Slit Experiment
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3. If the movie camera has no film the pattern will be waves.
4. IF THE CAMERA HAS FILM AND WE DON'T LOOK AT THE SCREEN UNTIL AFTER WE LOOK AT THE PICTURES, AND ON THE WAY TO THE DRUGSTORE WE FALL AND RUIN THE FILM, WE WILL SEE WAVES ON THE SCREEN. In other words the photons "know" that we will not be able to see them go through the slits, even though our inability to do that is because of an event in the future!
Am I wrong?
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I think you don't fully get what constitutes a measurement. Like when you say "we don't look at the screen", the measurement takes place not when a person looks at it but when the screen interacts with the photon. And if 4 was true, you could use it to send information faster than the speed of light. DO you see why?
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