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Originally Posted by KickAssClown
I fail to see, upon reading some literature about it, how this mechanism, by itself, amounts to a comprehensive theory of matter.
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I would argue that quantum field theory/standard model IS the comprehensive theory of matter and the higgs/anderson mechanism is the part of the theory that deals with mass.
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This says very little considering that I don't even begin to fathom what you mean by mass.
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I mean mass in the very rigorous sense defined by any reasonable field theory.
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It is in the ignorance of the very question of, what is matter?
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I believe quantum field theories have a very rigorous deffinition of what we mean by matter- excitations of a background field.
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I my view there is no reason why it has to, or even why the one projectile must remain the one and only projectile in the whole of the experiment.
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There is no reason that we need assume that only one projectile is in the apparatus. In fact, we can to very good accuracy compute the effects of production of photons. We can show that this effect is negligble compared to the first order effect (photon travels through the slits).
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How is it that we are to be sure that it is not the barrier, or the detector, or the box that the experiment is contained within, or the world upon which the experiment takes place does not interfer with the projectile?
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Of course it does! The question is, can we show that this interference is small compared to the main effect, which we can also do.
-Will
