If this become too scrambled I will forward Dr. Cramer's email to anyone on
request.
Bob Zannelli
Dear Bob,
In my opinion, the Afshar Experiment falsifies both the
Copenhagen Interpretation and the Many-Worlds Interpretation by demonstrating in a
two-pinhole setup the presence of complete wave interference in an unambiguous “
which way” measurement. My Transactional Interpretation (see http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/theory.html ) has no problem in explaining what Afshar
observes.
Afshar is a Visiting Scientist in the Harvard Physics Department. He was
planning to submit a paper about his experiment to Physical Review Letters last
week, but I haven’t heard for sure that he in fact did this. He has the
experiment set up in the old High Energy Physics Lab building at Harvard and I have
seen it in operation.
-----Original Message-----
From: RBZannelli@aol.com [mailto:RBZannelli@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:48 AM
To: cramer@phys.washington.edu
Subject: Afshar's Experiment
Dear Dr. Cramer:
There seems to be quite a stir about an experiment conducted by Dr.
Afshar which makes the claim that it falsifies both Copenhagen and the many
worlds interpretations of QM. However, there seems to be no information available
about the details of this experiment.
In all honesty I am highly skeptical of these claims. Nevertheless, if
true, this would be very big news. Could you provide any clarification on this? .
Is there a paper available on this?