It can look dumb, but I always had this question as a kid, what physical principles would prevent this?

  • Cutecity [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 hours ago

    I used wave function as a bad form of shorthand for the general properties of the photon, such as the theoretically infinitely extending magnetic and electric fields. Those associated fields stop existing when the photon is absorbed onto a screen. They collapse faster than light can travel. This doesn’t ruin much of modern theories, because there doesn’t seem to be a way to transfer usable information through this phenomenon.