"Peter Kinane" wrote in message
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Agreed. But in so far as the standard experiment goes, if the slits
lead to separate compartments, does 'the wave' , to a greater extent
than if there is only one compartment, only enter one?

--
Peter Kinane
http://www.effectuationism.com

If you can somehow separate off the two paths at the slit exits, then
there is no way possible for the matter-wave to interact and you have
reduced the experiment to, again, a single slit. You will register the
electron in one or the other chamber.
Greysky

I don't see that there would be a difficulty in having each slit lead to
a separate chamber. The idea is that there would be no way possible for
the matter-wave to interact. But I'm wondering if only one compartment
would register anything?

You don't seem to definitely imply that that test has been done?

I'm not aware of al the various myriad tests that have been conducted
throughout the years.


--
Peter Kinane
http://www.effectuationism.com

Greysky:
*If you put the electron emitter on a movable track such that it moves
parallel to the slit material, you could control how successful the
electron will be in hitting the detector at the target by moving the
electron emitter along the track.. At some point directly in line with
the
slit material, the probability that an electron will pass through the open
slit to be detected at the target is 100%, while at some other point along
the track the probability of passing through the slit decreases to 0%. *

This seems to imply that there is no partial registration- -detection.


Right. The electron must be someplace - either at the slit or at the target.
The probability can be defined by the angle the electron emitter makes to
the slit material. At some point the electron will be at an angle where it
can never make it through the slit: the probability of impacting the slit
material approaches 100% . Conversely if the electron emitter is directly in
front of the slit the probability of passing through to the target
approaches 100% - you can't have your cake and eat it too. The electron must
be somewhere. Everywhere else it is not. The defining event is the detection
event.

However, if you read my web site carefully, or wait for part 2 of this post,
you will see there may be a strange example of where this is not always
true...

Greysky

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