{"id":6364,"date":"2010-08-23T06:15:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2010-08-23T06:15:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:15:30","slug":"nobody-can-do-the-triple-lindy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6364","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Can Do the Triple Lindy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bee has a short post on the triple-slit interference experiment:  <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/testing-foundations-of-quantum.html\">Testing the foundations of quantum mechanics<\/a>.  Contrary to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6088\"> prediction of the writers at <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, she does not appear to be &#8220;flummoxed&#8221; by QM.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you know one thing about quantum mechanics, it&#8217;s Born&#8217;s rule: The probability of a measurement is the square of the amplitudes of the wave-functions. It is <em>the<\/em> central axiom of quantum mechanics and what makes it quantum. If you have a superposition of states, the amplitudes are sums of these states. Taking the square to obtain the probability means you will not only get the square of each single amplitude &#8211; which would be the classical result &#8211; but you will get mixed terms. These mixed terms are what is responsible for the interference in the famous double-slit experiment and yield the well-known spectrum with multiple maxima rather than one reproducing the two slits, as you&#8217;d get were the particles classical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bee has a short post on the triple-slit interference experiment: Testing the foundations of quantum mechanics. Contrary to the prediction of the writers at Nature, she does not appear to be &#8220;flummoxed&#8221; by QM. If you know one thing about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}