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Quantum mechanics has this extreme intellectual sheen, and disagreeing with the orthodoxy is a surefire way to self-recategorize as a crank. The layers of lindy thinking accumulate into unquestionable dried crusts that seminarians are instructed to accept on faith so they can join the church of shut up and calculate.
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What if: - photons don't exist, it's merely that emission and absorption are quantized - low angle polarization can coax em waves into new polarizations - high angle polarization (e.g. 0 and 90°) fully absorbs the energy of a wave Seems like you could explain almost everything that way
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Honestly, maybe this is what qft has been saying all along and this confused bullshit is just the popsci hangover from the old generation of thinkers that exploited the ambiguity of qm to write books about woo, spook, consciousness, and magic.
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Imagine you have a mirror on the floor, with a light source on one side, a light detector on the other and a wall in between the two. The light is angled toward the mirror so the detector can pick it up (reflects around the wall). This setup is nothing fancy, and what you expect will happen.
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Now imagine you erase parts of the mirror so it’s replaced by a perfect block body. Your intuition might say the only difference at the detector is the intensity of the light. But no! What you’ll detect is that the different colors have split and you’ll actually see a rainbow come off of the mirror
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The explanation for this is nutty. the light coming off of the source splits into many pieces, hitting all parts of the mirror and interacts with itself to build the highly probable event of hitting the mirror. When you erase parts of the mirror, the different colors are affected differently so they get separated
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This is why an oil slick or a CD has intense colors. This is a famous example in Feynmans book. https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/563005 A better explanation
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Ok made this for you. Curious your thoughts @eulerlagrange.eth Would LOVE to know why I'm wrong https://youtu.be/vZc2eGjpC60
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I can't tell whether you're wrong, let alone why, but I love that you put so much quality effort into it. Now I'm tempted to resign and study the topic until I come out knowledgeable at the other end. See you in five years
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Doesn’t answer your question but you may enjoy this: https://youtu.be/975r9a7FMqc?si=66YSVNX7KYZtRhfV
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Will revert
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