I'm not a flat-earther, that is ridiculous.
Forgive me, I've been drinking some nice wine tonight. I don't frequent my own posts very often so whatever of this....
Are you referring to the double-slit experiment?
Don't be obsequious!
- Electrons are real
- Electrons occupy space
- Electrons are not mathematical probabilities
- Electrons are not point particle probability waves
- Electrons do not exist everywhere and nowhere until measured
- Electrons cannot divide or travel through multiple slits simultaneously
- These idears are absurd and not proven by the well-known 2x slit xperiment- the explanation is magical and is not proven beyond a doubt, it is just an explanation chosen to be accepted or not, 'the best explanation at the moment given what we know" and we know a lot more now than 100 yrs ago
- An electron travels through one slit and strikes a detector
- After millions of electrons a diffraction pattern arises
- patterns are not due to mysteriously going through 2 slits simultaneously
- QM explain is non-physical
- QM claim is contrary to observation that particles like electrons are real > see any STM, EFM images = those are not imaginary, whatever statistical analysis says
- the central error of QM is confusing probability with reality; my hair dryer works using very real electrons that no-one has ever measured. Similarly the moon existed long before humans or even animals ever witnessed or measured it. Measurement cannot occur on something that does not exist, it does not cause it to exist
- Note, > Charged particles (electrons) induce image currents on conducting slits used in the classic 2x xperiment. These emit radiation. conducting material must be used, yet this type of potential interaction is never discussed in typical explanations
- Diffraction patterns by electron field interactions with slit materials and momentum effect
Note that diffraction patterns are created by single fluid particles propelled by pilot waves in well known experiments.
Therefore, an acceptable explanation of the classic experiment is a physical phenomena and not magic
Incredible claims require incredible evidence. QM fails to provide compelling evidence that the moon does not exist when I am not looking. I have read the full length of many peer reviewed physics papers claiming amazing things like particles travelling in 2 directions at once. What is clear if you read the entirety of these is that the explanation is wholly based in accepted QM weirdness, period. The results are interpreted through a specific lens to be sure that funding continues whether the effect is really understood or not. To me this is not solid proof but requires acceptance of the proposed current paradigm in which to frame one's thoughts.
politica and money are great influencers in science, not to mention human nature (see Semmelweis, for example). Thus hot-fusion has gotten billions in tax dollars and research grants but hasn't produced squat in 60 years. Fission in contrast was super-fast to productivity. What does this tell us? Fusion is a low-density power source (check size of stars). We might, maybe, very low chance be able to get more energy from a fusion reaction than we input, but it is a very long shot, not to mention contamination dangers of the holding vessels. After 60 years of research this should be obvious but we keep pumping cash into it because of the hot fusion priesthood that simply wants to preserve it's existence and research (and indeed I think it is cool, and support vast use of public funds for all types of science). This was the impetus for MIT and others to shut down the cold fusion discussion which I think it is proven they did in a somewhat nefarious way due to the ghreat to their funding model and careers. Note that I do not think cold-fusion is really a thing, but the chemical events studied were definitely real and on-going CF research shows many accept this. What LENR or Cold Fusion laci is a sound theoretical framework to drive further undertanding and research.
There are also other recent experiments which "aren't explainable with current theory" like the safire experiments:
http://www.safireproject.com/ewExternalFiles/SAFIRE-Project-Report.pdf
When you play pool you are not dealing with wave functions but physical pool balls that interact in predicatble ways. Why would atoms behave any differently? Hint, they wouldn't and dont. Why would you belive they do? What would make one believe in magic quantum foam that makes things appear and disappear from nothing when it absolutely never aligns with our daily experience. this is classic religion.
blah, blah, blah. I've had too much Zin tonight. But I think it is time for physics to actively, constructively and with funding, investigate a physical solution to what an electron is, what electro-magnetic principles govern it, how can we model it as a real particle and stop pretending it is everywhere an no-where at once and that statistical probability equations with many adjustable parameters are as acceptable as Newton's or Maxwell's equations and dealing with reality as real. run-on sentence- sorry.
Amazing claims (like many worlds and strings) require amazing evidence. That evidence does not exist. many worlds theory cannot be dis-proven. Occam's razor says Schrodinger's cat is eiter dead or alive but not both- opening the box doesn't determine the cat's fate- it just allows us to witness it.
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