Re:Is the Schrödinger Equation True?
by jiggawatts on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:09PM
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The detectors themselves introduce the quantisation.
If you think you can disentangle the QM properties of the detector from the QM properties of the thing being detected, please write a paper explaining how and collect your well-deserved Nobel prize.
> The detectors themselves introduce the quantisation.
Which, if you are going to take this position, applies just as much to neutrons as to photons. The only evidence we have for either of those being "particles" is such detections. So either you should withdraw your claim that neutrons are particles, or you should admit that photons are. You can't pick and choose.
So neutrons aren't countable ? one detects them (for counting purposes) with the combination of nuclear forces and EM anyway.
Don't get me wrong I am probably missing the point of the discussion.
Yes, they can. There are detectors that detect individual, free photons, just as there are detectors that detect individual, free neutrons. There are many, many experiments that have been done using them.