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The early years of quantum theory were dominated by a school of thought known as the Copenhagen interpretation.According to that school of thought the wave function of a particle could undergo an...
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Physics students are taught the following three things:1) A wavefunction is a probability density function, infinite in size, which serves as a useful fiction, allowing us to calculate properties of a...
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A photon is, or is associated with, an electromagnetic wave packet. Its energy can be thought of as being embodied in the energy density of the electric and magnetic fields. A wave function describes...
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The other answers here, while technically correct, might not be presented at a level appropriate to your apparent background.When the electron interacts with any other system in such a way that the...
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Wave function collapse only happens in the head of the physicist.What we are dealing with is entanglement of the electron and the detector wavefunctions. In the double slit problem we can write the...
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Wavefunction collapse is a feature of the Copenhagen interpretation, which is one interpretation of quantum mechanics. It isn't the only one. These days people don't really talk about interpretations...
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I have been reading/learning about the double slit experiment, its implications in quantum theory, and how it explained that “particles” can behave as both waves and particles. I know that the wave...
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