A Non-Relativistic Argument against Continuous Trajectories of Particles ()
ABSTRACT
A thought-experiment is described and the probability of a particular type of results is predicted according to the quantum formalism. Then, the assumption is made that there exists a particle that travels from the source to one of the detectors, along a continuous trajectory. A contradiction appears: for agreeing with the quantum prediction, the particle has to land at once on two space-separated detectors. Therefore, the trajectory of the particle—if it exists—cannot be continuous.
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Wechsler, S. (2022) A Non-Relativistic Argument against Continuous Trajectories of Particles.
Journal of Quantum Information Science,
12, 29-36. doi:
10.4236/jqis.2022.122004.