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mike1000 said:
In that sense, that is true
That is why one should learn science from textbooks, not pop-sci books.
In summary: This is because the electron will travel in a straight line with constant velocity in the x-direction, so its position at any given time will be given by ##x(t)=x_0+v_xt##, where ##x_0## is the initial position and ##v_x## is the x-component of the velocity. Since the velocity is constant and the electron travels in a straight line, the position at any given time will be uniquely determined by the initial position and the velocity. Therefore, if the initial momentum is precise and the velocity is known, the position at which the electron will hit the wall can be calculated precisely.
In that sense, that is true
That is why one should learn science from textbooks, not pop-sci books.- #37
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weirdoguy said:In that sense, that is true
Textbooks have their own unique set of problems.(no pun intended).
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Maybe, but none of them textbooks will tell you that particle takes any trajectory. That is not intuitive, but you really have to gice up most of your classical thinking.
Btw, am I the only one who didn't have any problem in giving up my classical intuitions? I was always like "oh, ok", and most of my collegues got into looong discussions during QM lectures...
Btw, am I the only one who didn't have any problem in giving up my classical intuitions? I was always like "oh, ok", and most of my collegues got into looong discussions during QM lectures...
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mike1000 said:
This is obviously false, since as DrClaude pointed out, the double slit experiment can be run with only one particle at a time, and you still get an interference pattern.
mike1000 said:
This is obviously false as well. QM does not say a single particle has a definite path, but that's a long way from not saying anything at all about a single particle.
mike1000 said:
Garbage in, garbage out.
mike1000 said:
Any QM textbook will do.
mike1000 said:
You can always go directly to the original peer-reviewed papers if you have questions about what a textbook is telling you. What you can't do is just decide not to believe the textbooks because "they have problems".
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The OP's question has been more than sufficiently addressed. Thread closed.