The thing that bothers me about quantum physics is that I would like to do total simulations of things using universal laws, all at the same level. This is how I have come to understand things. So I want to model the half-silvered mirror quantumly and the detectors as well.
It is deeply disturbing to have half silvered mirrors perform operations on things, with no way of determining what happened to them in return, because they are not modelled at the same level, but at a higher level.
This goes back to my problem with the conservation of momentum on half-silvered mirrors. Because I figured out that the photon that deflects should red shift (as it transfers momentum to the mirror), and so shouldn’t be identical. I find myself wanting to talk about the difference between what is tracked by physics and what we know. The very-very slightly red shifted photon may not be detectable by us, but should after 50 billion times of being deflected in the same way be different. That is the physics has to keep track of things we can’t discern very small amounts of.
Oh for the time to learn all this properly.
Most of my imaginations about QM not being complete are to do with exotic conditions (start/end of universe) revealing non identical properties normally hidden.
The thing that bothers me about quantum physics is that I would like to do total simulations of things using universal laws, all at the same level. This is how I have come to understand things. So I want to model the half-silvered mirror quantumly and the detectors as well.
It is deeply disturbing to have half silvered mirrors perform operations on things, with no way of determining what happened to them in return, because they are not modelled at the same level, but at a higher level.
This goes back to my problem with the conservation of momentum on half-silvered mirrors. Because I figured out that the photon that deflects should red shift (as it transfers momentum to the mirror), and so shouldn’t be identical. I find myself wanting to talk about the difference between what is tracked by physics and what we know. The very-very slightly red shifted photon may not be detectable by us, but should after 50 billion times of being deflected in the same way be different. That is the physics has to keep track of things we can’t discern very small amounts of.
Oh for the time to learn all this properly.
Most of my imaginations about QM not being complete are to do with exotic conditions (start/end of universe) revealing non identical properties normally hidden.