Timeline for What does it mean "not to have a definite trajectory"?
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | alanf | No. The laser forms a field, which when measured or interacted with in a certain way looks like lumps. To say the laser beam is made of lumps is a bit like looking at an object at an angle and saying that the object is made out of all the ways you can look at it at an angle. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 17:30 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | So could we say that a laser forms a line of lumps, the first lumps forming right next to the device itself causing subsequent lumps to be formed next to the first lumps and so on? And the lumps propogate at the speed of light? And when the laser is switched off the lumps collapse starting at the laser end and the collapsing happens at the speed of light? | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 12:45 | comment | added | alanf | @user104 see the explanation in the paragraph added in the answer above | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 12:45 | history | edited | alanf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added paragraph of explanation
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 12:25 | comment | added | CuriousOne | "Lump mechanics"? I like it! :-) | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 12:18 | history | edited | alanf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
slight improvement of explanation
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 12:14 | comment | added | user104372 | The electron in H ground state is everywhere at a given t? if not, if it does indeedmove, how does it move without a trajectory? can it be in two places at one time? can it disappear in one place and reappear in another place skipping, space-points in-between according to QM? This is the question | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 12:04 | history | answered | alanf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |