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Questions, answered by experiment
Short pieces for any curious reader. Each starts from a question people already ask about quantum physics, answers it with experiments that have been done, and then shows what Anchored Causality Theory makes of the answer.
Why does Fourier analysis appear everywhere in quantum mechanics?
Because a wave in a uniform medium moves in sinusoids, and a quantum state is built from them. A piano chord is one pressure wave with three notes in it; a quantum field is one wave with modes in it; an apparatus is a tuner that picks components out. And the decomposition never picks the outcome: that is a separate step, and it is the one ACT is about.
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Can we control how fast quantum interference disappears?
Yes. The fading has a rate, and the laboratory turns it up and down with the pressure of a gas, the heat of a molecule, the current in a detector and the gap between the paths. One rule covers them all, and nothing in it is a free constant. A fake valve, classical noise, marks the line.
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Does quantum physics need an observer?
No. A slab of silicon that nothing reads destroys quantum interference just as a detector does. Two experiments at Tübingen show that what counts is a record, and a record needs no one to read it.
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Next in the series
- The Filter. When does separating a quantum wave become a measurement?
- The Mark. How do single detections build an interference pattern?
The full argument, with every experiment and its reference, is on the Evidence page; the theory itself is in the flagship paper.