POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
8 Sep 2024 05:16:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Jun 2008 19:47:38
Message: <4844869a@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> The electron you shoot out second? It's the same electron you shot out 
> the first time.

  And you insinuate *my* explanation makes no sense.

> Since it knows whether the slit was open or not last 
> time, it knows whether to follow the probability distribution of a 
> 1-slit or 2-slit experiment.

  Yeah, electrons are sentient beings now, and have memory.

> Now, why is that sillier than "it knows whether you're going to measure 
> which slit it went through after it has already gone through them"? :-)

  Explain to me how would you measure the location of an electron without
affecting it in any way.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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