Warp wrote:
> 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.

No. I'm just pointing out that your explanation isn't the only 
*possible* one. You are discounting other explanations that, to *you*, 
seem less likely, rather than doing any sort of experiment (or looking 
up any of the experiments that countless others have done).

>> 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.

Hey, you're the one that makes them switch between waves and particles 
after the fact.

>> 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.

By measuring it later in time than the property you're trying to detect.

How do you measure which slit (or both) the electron went through 
without affecting it? You do so by putting detectors *after* the slit. 
Do you think the electron can go thru both slits and then only affect 
one detector, but only if there's two detectors instead of one?

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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