Warp wrote:
> Michael Zier <mic### [at] mirizide> wrote:
>> Don't forget: A single electron doesn't make an interference pattern. It 
>> produces a bright spot on the fluorescence screen saying: Exactly here 
>> and nowhere else the electron hit the screen.
> 
>   Wasn't it "impossible" to accurately measure the place and velocity
> of a quantum particle? ;)

Only down to Plank's constant. You can easily tell down to the size of 
an atom which atom it hit.

>> Only if you observe many many events and add up their positions they 
>> converge to an interference pattern.
> 
>   But I believe it can be done by shooting just one electron at a time,
> so the electron indeed interferes only with itself, not with other
> electrons.

No, it only interferes with other electrons. The electrons it interferes 
with are electrons from other times. There's always a possibility that 
it lands at any particular place. Why is it any stranger that it 
interferes with electrons in the future than it is it interferes with 
itself?

That's what I was talking about in the "amazingly, math works" thread.

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