alt.sci.physics

nottooo...@ wrote:
> On Oct 4, 9:36 am, Benj wrote:
> >
> > A quantum wave function is merely a probabilistic description of
> > likely events in reality. Physicists will assure you nobody can know
> > any more than this, but they really have no idea if it's true or not.

> So how come you know this and physicists don't?

Um, that would be because I am not a believer in their religion so I
don't accept their dogma.

> A textbook I used described this as a possible (even most commonly
> accepted) interpretation, and I've never heard any physicist assuring
> anybody that it's a fact. I think you hang around the wrong crowd.

Sure a textbook will give you commonly accepted interpretations.
That's what they do! But you were asking to go beyond the commonly
accepted. So I gave you a hint.

Actually I was talking about electrons which are a bit easier to deal
with. The problem of the photo electric effect is a true puzzle. How
can a photon have wave properties and at the same time transfer all
it's energy to a detector in such a short time? It is "explained" by
"particle-wave duality" but that really explains nothing at all! So
even if a photon isn't a particle but only a wave packet, the energy
transfer time still remains as a problem. So yeah, you are looking in
the right place, but I don't think at this time anyone can give you a
reasonable explanation.