(2018-09-02, 04:34 PM)Hurmanetar Wrote: Maybe we can apply transformations to mathematically represent our experience of reality in whatever number of dimensions we choose, but I think we have to consider our direct experience of dimensions as prime importance. Why do we perceive exactly 3 spatial dimensions? All of our conceptualization of higher or lower dimensions is an extrapolation of our experience with 3D.
To go back to the interference pattern analogy... if we arrange two filters red and blue such that our line of sight runs through both, then we see a combination: purple. If we change the spatial angle of our line of sight we see two distinct colors, red and blue. The double slit experiment is also a pair of filters but instead of being arranged in the same line of sight spatially, they are arranged in the same line of sight temporally such that we see recorded on the screen in the interference pattern a combination of two possible histories. By placing a detector over one slit we are effectively changing our line of sight into the past such that the two possible histories no longer overlap so we only see one or the other.
What you’ve said doesn’t make any sense to me... for example “...we see recorded on the screen in the interference pattern a combination of two possible histories...” but what we’re observing is a fact... not one or more possible facts, just a fact. We are not observing possibilities.
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