I’m sorry; I’m still a bit confused by this. “Amplitude flows to both end configurations every time,” so when a single photon is fired (as in figure 1), I agree that the amplitudes of A->1 and A->2 are both 1. Does that mean both detectors click? (I was under the impression that only one detector would click.)
“The detector” is not a machine for “measuring the amplitude”. In fact, we have no way of “measuring the amplitude”. The only tool we have “measures the ratios of the squares of the amplitudes”, and that tool is this: “run the simulation a bunch of times and compute the ratio of detections at 1 to detections at 2”.
I’m sorry; I’m still a bit confused by this. “Amplitude flows to both end configurations every time,” so when a single photon is fired (as in figure 1), I agree that the amplitudes of A->1 and A->2 are both 1. Does that mean both detectors click? (I was under the impression that only one detector would click.)
“The detector” is not a machine for “measuring the amplitude”. In fact, we have no way of “measuring the amplitude”. The only tool we have “measures the ratios of the squares of the amplitudes”, and that tool is this: “run the simulation a bunch of times and compute the ratio of detections at 1 to detections at 2”.