On Friday, September 5, 2025 at 5:19:00 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> I was aware of Dirac's equation and that it described the electron, but I didn't know that the variable function solved for, was the electron's wf. Are you sure its solution is the wf of a relativistic electron? * *Yes. And for bringing Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity into harmony is why Dirac received the Nobel Prize, and why he is considered to be one of the best physicists of the 20th century. * *> Regardless of the initial condition, we always get an interference pattern on the screen,* *No we do not, not if one of the initial conditions is that there's a detector near one of the slits that enables us to know which slit the photon (or electron) went through. * *I was assuming we don't know which-way. But even if we do, there's no way to get the result for a free particle, with the probability spreading in time. I think we get a central peak and nothing time variant if we know which-way. AG* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 4r4 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/71d3caf0-66db-4cb5-8888-53878c8f0974n%40googlegroups.com.
