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So you believe the photon travels as a wave until there is some means to determine a single path, and then it takes a single path, even if the measurement takes place after the photon has taken the path.
No, I mean that the particle is "smeared" across all possible paths unless there is information that would restrict it to a single path.
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How is this not a change in the past? It moves from a superposition state to a single state, right? That is a change, correct?
As I keep having to repeat it isn't the sort of change required by the OP.
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PaulK, every stance you have taken is inconsistent with observed reality.
That certainly isn't true.
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You err by calling superposition indeterminate first off
To claim that something in a superposition of states is in a single state would be a contradiction. Therefore it is wong to say that I "err" in rejecting such a view. If a particle is in a superposition of states it is because it is not in a single determinate state - it can only be described in terms of the probabilities of the various states in the superposition.
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...but regardless, you admit that the path changes from a superpositional state to a collapsed state and that this is retroactive. Your admission proves my point.
I woul say that your refusal to defend the claims in the OP, instead settling on this lesser claim which I haven't disputed proves MY point. The claims of the OP lack scientific support. Or more specifically, to go back to the point which started this discussion of QM, it is reasonable to reject your views without rejecting quantum entanglement. Thus your claims of inevitable victory have been shown to be hollow and unfounded.
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