tweak

Italian translation: ritocco /rettifica / (piccolo) aggiustamento

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English term or phrase:	tweak
Italian translation:	ritocco /rettifica / (piccolo) aggiustamento
Entered by:	Gaetano Silvestri Campagnano

11:27 May 16, 2017

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Science - Physics / quantum mechanics

English term or phrase: tweak

Aharonov’s interpretation of quantum mechanics is as much of a mind-bender as any idea about time-travelling must be. But, he argues, if it’s a mystery to have a photon be in two places at once, it’s perhaps even more of a mystery to have the photon know whether it’s being watched.
The issue here is that experiments have shown that if we put a detector on one of the slits, the interference pattern disappears. Why? Because, before it even gets to the slits, the photon has seen that it can’t pass through unnoticed.
Yakir Aharonov solves this with a simple tweak to our understanding. The photon’s wavefunction, he says, is put together by information from the future as well as from the past. In the future, the photon will encounter the detector on the slit, and this changes the wavefunction so that the superposition collapses before it has even formed.
You might, at first glance, find this a bit hard to swallow. Aharonov, though, says this “solves the measurement problem.” And surely that’s a reason to take it seriously.

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ritocco /rettifica / (piccolo) aggiustamento

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Note added at 47 min (2017-05-16 12:14:59 GMT)
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O più colloquialmente:"aggiustatina".

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