Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> It's not a question of emitting particles or not. It's a question of whether 
> you *measure* whether they're emitted.

  Those particles are going to hit something. It's very unlikely that they
will go to the end of the universe without hitting anything.

  Now, how does the football (or atom, or particle) "know" that what those
emitted particles hit is not "measurement"? Does it make a conscious
decision like "yeah, these particles are not being measured by any conscious
mind, nor any device which would record the difference, so it's safe for
me to do the interference dance"? How does the traveling object know the
difference between those emitted particles hitting a rock or hitting a
measurement device that can tell the difference?

  Or is it the *interaction* between the traveling object and the particles
that hit it (or which it emits), particles that *could* be used to measure
which slit the object went through, that makes the difference?

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                                                          - Warp

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