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physics.gen-ph2022
Measured distribution of cloud chamber tracks from radioactive decay: a new empirical approach to investigating the quantum measurement problem
Jonathan F. Schonfeld
Using publicly available video of a diffusion cloud chamber with a very small radioactive source, I measure the spatial distribution of where tracks start, and consider possible im…
physics.gen-ph2021
The first droplet in a cloud chamber track
Jonathan F. Schonfeld
In a cloud chamber, the quantum measurement problem amounts to explaining the first droplet in a charged-particle track; subsequent droplets are explained by Mott's 1929 wave-theor…
physics.gen-ph2019
Analysis of double-slit interference experiment at the atomic level
Jonathan F. Schonfeld
I argue that the marquis characteristics of the quantum-mechanical double-slit experiment (point detection, random distribution, Born rule) can be explained using Schroedinger's eq…