Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> >>> babble some nonesense about a "quantum superposition of states" to 
> >>> make up for the fact that this explanation makes no sense at all.
> >>
> >> It's only nonsense if you don't know what it means.
> > 
> > "And the waves interact to generate these interference patterns."

> That's mistaken. There are no waves.

  It looks like a wave, it behaves like a wave, it produces all the effects
that a wave would produce, but it's not a wave.

> > "OK, so why do I still get the exact same patterns if there's only one 
> > photon there?"

> Because there are no waves.

  You get a wave interference pattern *because* (not "even though") there's
no wave. That makes sense.

  I wonder if the same principle could be applied to all non-intuitive
phenomena: The phenomenon happens *because* of what makes it non-intuitive,
not *regardless* of what makes it non-intuitive. Of course that claim is
quite non-intuitive all in itself.

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                                                          - Warp

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