MachuPikacchu on Nostr: On that note, I’ve got a question about photons (and I’ll bring Cashu into this ...
On that note, I’ve got a question about photons (and I’ll bring Cashu into this somehow).
Light takes the path of least time but photons have probabilities of taking other paths as well. Traditionally I think we'd say that those other paths destructively interfere.
If we take the Everett interpretation of QM then we'd say that those other branches interfere and cease to exist, but what if there are branches that don't destructively interfere and linger for some amount of time before merging again with the branch we observe?
In that interim time there would be energy that's unobservable. Where am I going wrong here? And could this be related to dark energy? And how can cashu fix this?
Light takes the path of least time but photons have probabilities of taking other paths as well. Traditionally I think we'd say that those other paths destructively interfere.
If we take the Everett interpretation of QM then we'd say that those other branches interfere and cease to exist, but what if there are branches that don't destructively interfere and linger for some amount of time before merging again with the branch we observe?
In that interim time there would be energy that's unobservable. Where am I going wrong here? And could this be related to dark energy? And how can cashu fix this?