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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is the Copenhagen Interpretation correct interpretation of quantum mechanics?
« on: 08/11/2015 20:41:02 »If you place a bunch of pilings in front of a boat in order to detect it, while it is getting knocked around by the pilings it's not going to be in sync with its bow wave.
It's a bad analogy.
1. The reason a boat has a bow wave is because it is moving through an effectively incompressible medium. Photon or electron diffraction occurs in the absence of a medium (double slit in vacuo) or a dense medium (x-ray and electron diffraction in crystals).
2. The bow wave moves ahead of the boat but doesn't determine the path of the boat.
3. You can see the diffraction of a bow wave as a boat approaches a row of stanchions or a harbor entrance, but the boat doesn't diffract!
Dark matter is not a clump of stuff that travels with the matter. The matter moves through and displaces the dark matter.
The space unoccupied by particles of matter has mass which is displaced by the particles of matter which exist in it and move through it.
I recommend watching all of the following video. The part having to do with the double slit experiment is at the 2:43 mark.