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I've been trying to understand quantum electrodynamics as a project over the past several years. I don't have YouTube videos to show as all my information comes from text books that I've been reading. A couple I have found that have helped me make sense of the math are "Introduction To Modern Optics" by Grant R. Fowles and "Quantum Electrodynamics" by Greiner and Reinhardt. There is another book that I don't have that has gotten some good reviews called "Optics For Dummies", but I am more interested in the equations than metaphoric explanations, so I don't really know much about that book.
I've found in my studies that Maxwell's theory treats the propagation of light, whereas quantum theory describes the interaction of light and matter, or the absorption and emission of light. But, electromagnetic theory and quantum theory also explain many other physical phenomena in addition to those related to electromagnetic radiation, but can only really be understood in the mathematical framework that describes these experimental observations. I get Maxwell's equations from my years in school, but the equations that come out of quantum electrodynamics are very involved and has been the reason for my ongoing struggle, as I like to call it.
 
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Alaskan said:
My understanding of quantum is so basic I better not claim to understand much, I mainly am interested in how electrons are probability waves until their 'wave function' collapse. Manly, my focus is upon the double slit experiment and its results, especially the delayed choice double slit experiment. The results are magic to me, don't make sense in classical Newtonian physics, blows my mind. The implications are that consciousness is primary, matter secondary. That experiment has been done with large molecules too and the same results, amazing.

Largest Molecules Yet Behave Like Waves in Quantum Double-Slit Experiment

My last YT video was put together tongue and cheek, I think that was published on April 1st, but the information they toss around are some of the views people really have regarding simulation theory.
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The experiment you are talking about was the one done by Thomas Young in 1801. Actually quantum electrodynamics shows that all particles, no matter what their size, have wave and particle duality. Further, it shows that the smaller the particle the more wave-like properties it exhibits and the larger the more particle-like properties it exhibits. But, regardless of its size (canon ball), all particles have this duality.
 
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What do you think the implications are that observation collapses the wave function? Have you looked into the delayed choice double slit experiment?
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Sorry, can't say that I have. If you are talking about the change in a wave function because it has been measured, I am familiar with that aspect of quantum theory. It is the action of the measuring equipment that actually causes the change as far as I know.
 
I went back through many post to see if this observed experiment was among them, but couldn't find it. It doesn't make much sense to me that a person's observation of a diffraction experiment would affect it in the way you have described. I would have to see it to give any opinion at all about it.
 
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That's what people have thought for a long time, but the delayed choice experiment demonstrated the collapse had nothing to do with the sensors, only human observation of the data itself.
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There is more going on than we can see, our observation is not looking with our eyes but equipment that interacts with the wave/particle.

Is light a wave or a particle? It's a wave with particle like traits.

Well if light was ever any kind of a particle, then there should be piles of it building up in the corners of our rooms, unless the wave became a particle again became a wave?

There's still much that we don't understand, but that does not prove that everything is an illusion created for us, we are not that important, we just don't understand the strange mechanics of it all yet.

Here's an interesting video. There are 3 parts.



 
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If a blind man sits in a room alone while the double slit experiment is run by automation with no one else in the room, no recording of the test and of course the blind man can't see it and is in no way made aware, will the wave act as a particle?

Does the blind man have to be conscious of the instrument placed into the experiment that shows the photon going through the slit for it to behave differently?

The blind man would not be conscious of what was happening, therefore the change would not happen as nobody was conscious of it.

So how would a dead man who has no use of his senses be conscious?

Consciousness is no proof of an afterlife or a soul.

If a dead man was in the room during the experiment.

How about automating the test and leaving the room, if the results are the same as if someone looked at the instruments while it happened yet did not, then consciousness made no difference. We could only expect that the automation behind the door worked as programmed, what if it was programmed to work intermittently at random?

This needs a lot more testing.

This could prove that a dead man has no consciousness.
 
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That's what people have thought for a long time, but the delayed choice experiment demonstrated the collapse had nothing to do with the sensors, only human observation of the data itself.
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As near as I can tell, the wrong questions are being asked. It has led people to believe that conscience alone can collapse a wave function, but that is contrary to at least one law of QED, the one about causality. I haven't been able to spend the required time to form this into a cogent argument yet, but from what I've seen so far this is the correct conclusion when dealing with this experiment. I will post more when I have had the time to spend on this as it is important that people not get the wrong idea. :thanks:
 
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Not sure what to say about this... Pretty damn stupid though.

 
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Diachi, :wtf:. I want to be impressed by this guys work, but I can't look past the shear stupidity of what he actually is doing.
Also in order to have found that video, you must of spent a fair amount of time on the internet. :p Don't delve too far into YT, it gets pretty weird. :D
 
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