On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:57:44 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:20:46 PM UTC-4, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
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1.) according to SR photons don't experience any time!
(OK that just blows me away! But apparently it's true.)

It gets weirder... Two spin-coupled sub-atomic particles may be separated
by _any_ distance, and any change in spin of one is _instantaneously_
reflected in the other.

You are speaking of entanglement. Which I think has only been done with photons. (Though that is weird enough.)

To be honest the two slit experiment,
(where a photon or particle goes through "both" slits and then interferes with itself.)
is strange enough for me.

George H.

URK!



Lloyd
Greetings George,
I kinda get the two slit experiment where and electron, for example,
interfers with itself. This is because the electron takes all possible
paths from the electron emitter to the target. Like when you shine a
light at a mirror. We expect the light to bounce off the mirror at the
same angle as it strucki the mirror. And this is what we see. But if
you shine that light at a mirror that has non-reflective stripes on it
you will get light bouncing off it at different angles. The farther
away from the angle we expect it to be the dimmer it will be. I kinda
get that by thinking about the photons taking all possible paths. Some
paths are more probable which is why the light is strongest at the
incident angle. I heard the best explanation of this from watching
some of Richard Feynman's lectures.
Eric