has anyone ever measured the path an electron take through space is it a straight light or is there an unknown interference that moves a photon in a wave pattern?
Photon is not a point particle and can't be such. Therefore certainly it will not move along a "straight line". Moreover, when you try to observe a moving particle (like an electron) - you disturb it, so again do not expect it to be "moving along a straight line".
But electron tracks observed in cloud chambers show an "approximately straight pattern" in the absence of external fields.
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Would a photon moving in a vacuum with no external fields presents move in a ''curved'' pattern following is wave pattern?
I read Hanbury Brown and Twiss's experiment is using one beam but split into two to test their correlation.
It said the traditional correlation test were using two beams........
This confused me, sorry.
All the correlation tests I learnt such as Stern-Gerlash are using one beam? (Sorry if I am wrong)
I was also told traditional interferometers are concerning about amplitude but Hanbury Brown and Twiss were concerning about intensity?
Isn't the square of amplitude is the intensity?
Please...
I am not sure if this belongs in the biology section, but it appears more of a quantum physics question.
Mike Wiest, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Wellesley College in the US. In 2024 he published the results of an experiment on anaesthesia which purported to point to a role of quantum processes in consciousness; here is a popular exposition:
https://neurosciencenews.com/quantum-process-consciousness-27624/
As my expertise in neuroscience doesn't reach up to an ant's ear...
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles.
Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated...
Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/
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