It has always been my opinion that whatever collapses happened actually happened at the time recorded for each electron wave function hitting the screen.
This is the hypothesis that was tested, and failed, in the 2007 implementation of Wheeler's delayed choice experiment.
Thanks for the link to Wheeler's experiment. This experiment doesn't address what I was addressing.
In wheeler's experiment, the detector is put in place or taken away after the photons would have had to have passed through the slits. Even though the choice of detector (difraction pattern vs which slit) is made after the photons pass through, the photons are not "fooled" by this and behave at whichever detector is there when they get to it exactly as they should according to QM.
In my experiment, the detector and a recording device are locked i...
How many universes "branch off" from a "quantum event", and in how many of them is the cat dead vs alive, and what about non-50/50 scenarios, and please answer so that a physics dummy can maybe kind of understand?
(Is it just 1 with the live cat and 1 with the dead one?)