LASER REVIEWERS
a monthly magazine for intelligent Homo sapiens

May - June 2017


Papers continue to be published on the quantum nature of the double-slit experiment... in prestigious journals... a subject matter perfectly elucidated by Dirac... in 1947


More on the two-slit, or three-slit, experiment: "quantum mechanics, ā la Feynman, is just fine"


Some prestigious journals are acused of publishing "fake science"



Commentary on Penrose's words: our humble opinion is that quantum mechanics has prevailed over philosophical objections... and will continue to prevail over philosophical objections and apparently incompatible theories... also... the Schrödinger equation describes only one of the avenues to quantum mechanics and it was derived using semi-classical principles



Commentary on Dyson's words: this talk was given in 2002... the first experiment described by Dyson... on two sequential slits... was performed, using ensembles of indistinguishable photons, in 1993 and quantum mechanics (via Dirac's notation) was found to accurately describe the probability distributions measured behind the second slit (see On a generalized interference equation and interferometric measurements, Opt. Commun. 103, 8-14 (1993))





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Published on the 1st of June, 2013; updated on the 7th of May, 2017