Everett interpretation
One conceptual way to understand this phenomenon is through D2030AB the Everett many worlds interpretation. The superposition behaviour is analogous to having parallel worlds TOP246Y for all possible states of the photon. Therefore, when a photon encounters a half-silvered mirror, in one world it passes through, and in another AAT1217ICA-5.0-T1 world it reflects off the mirror. These two worlds are completely separate except for the particle in superposition. The photon MIP0222SY that passes through the mirror in one world may interact with the photon that reflected off the mirror in the other world. The photons may continue to interact with each other until STR-Z4229 an observer from one world measures the photon's state. This produces the incredible but necessarily counterfactual results of the gedanken (thought experiment).