Matt Strassler
mattstrassler.bsky.social
Matt Strassler
@mattstrassler.bsky.social
Theoretical physicist (particle physics, string theory, black holes), semi-retired professor, writer (author of the popular science book "Waves in an Impossible Sea"), amateur musician, and activist for founding public policy on facts and logic
I understand your concern, but the phraseology is careful & correct. The 2 particles (distinguishable, like an electron and a positron) have positions & momenta that are still measurable separately, and thus measurement results for each of the entangled particles can separately be obtained.
April 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
:-) Many truphs come from the mouths of the young...!
March 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Nicely done.
March 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Matt Strassler
I was curious about this so I corrected the scale.
March 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Me too. That's why I became a physicist. Some things I now understand. Some... nobody does.
March 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
One step at a time --- we'll get to interference in a later post. Here a measurement is being made that makes such overlap and interference impossible. But even when such interference occurs, **the particle does not go in two directions at once.** That's a key point, to be shown soon.
March 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
*stationary* particles are standing waves in fields. Moving particles are traveling waves.
March 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM