Two different things, same experiment. Maybe my interpretation is wrong but it seems like they did the double slit experiment to definitively prove if light is particles or waves. But what they discovered was the mere act of observing them changes the pattern that was formed.
According to some on this board, this stuff should be as fake as little tiny life forms or nuclear bombs, so I kinda get a kick out of glowie posting this stuff. I certainly hope he isnt referring to me as being educated either, if anything I would describe myself as self educated. I did spend alot of my highschool/college years buried in math/sciences and have done alot of these basic experiments. But if I had any kind of intelligence, I would have finished my degree. Ive been at a little hobby project making a rigidbody in unity that can interact with boats haha because Ive had an itch to make a submarine prototype game for a while. I feel retarded when it takes hours to figure out simple things.
Funny how glowie doesnt believe the world is round and that things like being able to see a sunset twice by laying on a beach and then standing up once the sun drops below the horizon isnt proof, but that this double slit experiment is proof that 400 year old ideas are wrong, lol. I hope he sees the irony.
Anyway back to the point. This article seems to explain it.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm
When a quantum "observer" is watching Quantum mechanics states that particles can also behave as waves. This can be true for electrons at the submicron level, i.e., at distances measuring less than one micron, or one thousandth of a millimeter. When behaving as waves, they can simultaneously pass through several openings in a barrier and then meet again at the other side of the barrier. This "meeting" is known as interference.
Strange as it may sound, interference can only occur when no one is watching. Once an observer begins to watch the particles going through the openings, the picture changes dramatically: if a particle can be seen going through one opening, then it's clear it didn't go through another. In other words, when under observation, electrons are being "forced" to behave like particles and not like waves. Thus the mere act of observation affects the experimental findings.
To demonstrate this, Weizmann Institute researchers built a tiny device measuring less than one micron in size, which had a barrier with two openings. They then sent a current of electrons towards the barrier. The "observer" in this experiment wasn't human. Institute scientists used for this purpose a tiny but sophisticated electronic detector that can spot passing electrons. The quantum "observer's" capacity to detect electrons could be altered by changing its electrical conductivity, or the strength of the current passing through it.
Apart from "observing," or detecting, the electrons, the detector had no effect on the current. Yet the scientists found that the very presence of the detector-"observer" near one of the openings caused changes in the interference pattern of the electron waves passing through the openings of the barrier. In fact, this effect was dependent on the "amount" of the observation: when the "observer's" capacity to detect electrons increased, in other words, when the level of the observation went up, the interference weakened; in contrast, when its capacity to detect electrons was reduced, in other words, when the observation slackened, the interference increased.
Ahh, so they used electrons since they can detect those easier than photons. All matter has this wave form to it at the quantum level, isnt this just more proof that we are literally pure energy? Like ive said before a few times, space is so vast, it makes up everything. Including us, if it werent for the charged particles and fields holding us together, we would just fall apart.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/04/16/you-are-not-mostly-empty-space/
Dont let the title fool you...the author concludes...
Inside your body, you aren't mostly empty space. You're mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe.
my shitty little rigidbody controller :(
Two different things, same experiment. Maybe my interpretation is wrong but it seems like they did the double slit experiment to definitively prove if light is particles or waves. But what they discovered was the mere act of observing them changes the pattern that was formed.
According to some on this board, this stuff should be as fake as little tiny life forms or nuclear bombs, so I kinda get a kick out of glowie posting this stuff. I certainly hope he isnt referring to me as being educated either, if anything I would describe myself as self educated. I did spend alot of my highschool/college years buried in math/sciences and have done alot of these basic experiments. But if I had any kind of intelligence, I would have finished my degree. Ive been at a little hobby project making a rigidbody in unity that can interact with boats haha because Ive had an itch to make a submarine prototype game for a while. I feel retarded when it takes hours to figure out simple things.
Funny how glowie doesnt believe the world is round and that things like being able to see a sunset twice by laying on a beach and then standing up once the sun drops below the horizon isnt proof, but that this double slit experiment is proof that 400 year old ideas are wrong, lol. I hope he sees the irony.
Anyway back to the point. This article seems to explain it.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm
When a quantum "observer" is watching Quantum mechanics states that particles can also behave as waves. This can be true for electrons at the submicron level, i.e., at distances measuring less than one micron, or one thousandth of a millimeter. When behaving as waves, they can simultaneously pass through several openings in a barrier and then meet again at the other side of the barrier. This "meeting" is known as interference.
Strange as it may sound, interference can only occur when no one is watching. Once an observer begins to watch the particles going through the openings, the picture changes dramatically: if a particle can be seen going through one opening, then it's clear it didn't go through another. In other words, when under observation, electrons are being "forced" to behave like particles and not like waves. Thus the mere act of observation affects the experimental findings.
To demonstrate this, Weizmann Institute researchers built a tiny device measuring less than one micron in size, which had a barrier with two openings. They then sent a current of electrons towards the barrier. The "observer" in this experiment wasn't human. Institute scientists used for this purpose a tiny but sophisticated electronic detector that can spot passing electrons. The quantum "observer's" capacity to detect electrons could be altered by changing its electrical conductivity, or the strength of the current passing through it.
Apart from "observing," or detecting, the electrons, the detector had no effect on the current. Yet the scientists found that the very presence of the detector-"observer" near one of the openings caused changes in the interference pattern of the electron waves passing through the openings of the barrier. In fact, this effect was dependent on the "amount" of the observation: when the "observer's" capacity to detect electrons increased, in other words, when the level of the observation went up, the interference weakened; in contrast, when its capacity to detect electrons was reduced, in other words, when the observation slackened, the interference increased.
Ahh, so they used electrons since they can detect those easier than photons. All matter has this wave form to it at the quantum level, isnt this just more proof that we are literally pure energy? Like ive said before a few times, space is so vast, it makes up everything. Including us, if it werent for the charged particles and fields holding us together, we would just fall apart.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/04/16/you-are-not-mostly-empty-space/
Dont let the title fool you...the author concludes...
Inside your body, you aren't mostly empty space. You're mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe.
Two different things, same experiment. Maybe my interpretation is wrong but it seems like they did the double slit experiment to definitively prove if light is particles or waves. But what they discovered was the mere act of observing them changes the pattern that was formed.
According to some on this board, this stuff should be as fake as little tiny life forms or nuclear bombs, so I kinda get a kick out of glowie posting this stuff. I certainly hope he isnt referring to me as being educated either, if anything I would describe myself as self educated. I did spend alot of my highschool/college years buried in math/sciences and have done alot of these basic experiments. But if I had any kind of intelligence, I would have finished my degree. Ive been at a little hobby project making a rigidbody in unity that can interact with boats haha because Ive had an itch to make a submarine prototype game for a while. I feel retarded when it takes hours to figure out simple things.
Funny how glowie doesnt believe the world is round and that things like being able to see a sunset twice by laying on a beach and then standing up once the sun drops below the horizon isnt proof, but that this double slit experiment is proof that 400 year old ideas are wrong, lol. I hope he sees the irony.
Anyway back to the point. This article seems to explain it.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm
When a quantum "observer" is watching Quantum mechanics states that particles can also behave as waves. This can be true for electrons at the submicron level, i.e., at distances measuring less than one micron, or one thousandth of a millimeter. When behaving as waves, they can simultaneously pass through several openings in a barrier and then meet again at the other side of the barrier. This "meeting" is known as interference.
Strange as it may sound, interference can only occur when no one is watching. Once an observer begins to watch the particles going through the openings, the picture changes dramatically: if a particle can be seen going through one opening, then it's clear it didn't go through another. In other words, when under observation, electrons are being "forced" to behave like particles and not like waves. Thus the mere act of observation affects the experimental findings.
To demonstrate this, Weizmann Institute researchers built a tiny device measuring less than one micron in size, which had a barrier with two openings. They then sent a current of electrons towards the barrier. The "observer" in this experiment wasn't human. Institute scientists used for this purpose a tiny but sophisticated electronic detector that can spot passing electrons. The quantum "observer's" capacity to detect electrons could be altered by changing its electrical conductivity, or the strength of the current passing through it.
Apart from "observing," or detecting, the electrons, the detector had no effect on the current. Yet the scientists found that the very presence of the detector-"observer" near one of the openings caused changes in the interference pattern of the electron waves passing through the openings of the barrier. In fact, this effect was dependent on the "amount" of the observation: when the "observer's" capacity to detect electrons increased, in other words, when the level of the observation went up, the interference weakened; in contrast, when its capacity to detect electrons was reduced, in other words, when the observation slackened, the interference increased.
This "suggests" that the mere act of watching these particles on a quantum level changes how they are expected to behave. The study suggests that its not due to electric or magnetism, which cant affect light anyway I believe. But it could very well be due to some unknown force that we do not currently fully understand. Like gravity lmao.