(March 2, 2015 at 8:57 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 2, 2015 at 1:38 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Chance is a non-zero probability. It doesn't matter if I apply to many photons or a single one. If I say a chance of interaction and a non-zero probability of interaction are interchangeable.Okay, that's fine. You are simply reasserting the idea that there is built-in indeterminacy embedded in QM events, which are chance-based, chance being the polar opposite of determinism. And that's what the OP is about: if photons are truly timeless, then from the photon's "perspective," the emitter and the receiver are brought into a simultaneity, which means that as soon as the photon leaves its emitter, its receiver must be "known." At best, you have a paradox: determinism in one framework, and indeterminism in the other.
But we've already talked about all that. I suppose I really do have to let you reassert your reassertion one more time, and then unless there are no new ideas, then it's really over. Last word in 5. . . 4. . . 3. . . 2. . . 1. . .
From my framework, the events look like this:
emitter (@ 0:00), possible interaction 1 (@ 0:20), possible interaction 2 (@ 1:02), receiver (@ 1.20)
From the photon's framework, the events look like this:
emitter (@ 0:00), possible interaction 1 (@ 0:00), possible interaction 2 (@ 0:00), receiver (@ 0:00)
You cannot ignore the other possible interactions just because you go into the photon framework. All the other possible interactions simultaneously can occur. If one of the other possible interactions occurred, the photon would not hit your eye. I don't know how to make any more simpler than this.