File: Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment.swf-(9.89 MB, Other)
[_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)20:23 No.1757855
Your mind is jelly.
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)20:31 No.1757864
every time I see this I think, maybe the world is a game created for us. like, when you play a
video game and try to cheat or break the game mechanics there's a block in place to keep you from
doing so. So there's this BIG FUCKING SECRET that we would find out if we watched this happen
normally so the programmers of this world are like "not this time nigger" and put a safety in to
stop us.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)20:41 No.1757874
The electrons are aware that we are watching them, but are we aware that they are watching us?
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)20:42 No.1757877
I already know all this shit.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)20:48 No.1757887
I convinced my AP Chemistry teacher to play this in class, twice.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)21:37 No.1757930
>>1757864
i know that feel
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)21:40 No.1757931
I enjoyed this. I like learning this sort of stuff, but I hate studying because it's too much of
"why this happens" rather than "what the fuck ACTUALLY happens". I just want to be spoonfed the
information at first, and then if it interests me, then I might want to know more about it.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)21:41 No.1757933
>>1757874
2/10 failed attempt at being "deep" and "meaningful"
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:05 No.1757948
>>1757933
He wasn't trying to be deep or meaningful. I think the proper English term is 'tongue in cheek'.
Like a joke.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:07 No.1757952
its not because of light? to observe something you need light, and the photons from light
interact with the electrons causing to modify their behavior.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:11 No.1757955
>>1757952
when they say observe they don't necessarily mean with the naked eye. The use of the eyeball for
observation is a poor one.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:16 No.1757958
>>1757955
I'd like to know how they observe it though. I don't see a way to do so, without emitting
something that would interfere with the test.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:25 No.1757968
>>1757958
I think it's more or less a ring that can detect an electronic charge moving through it.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:26 No.1757969
Holy fuck... this is crazy...
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:31 No.1757974
>>1757958
The detectors used (to My knowledge) are sort of a ring that recognizes when something passes
through it - this causes the electrons to act like matter as opposed to light.
I love me some Wave–particle duality. You are sort of right though, the closer you "look" or more
detectors you use causes a sort of interference.
MFW people think electrons "know" they are being observed when in actuality it's just a reaction
to the detectors.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)22:47 No.1757984
Schrödinger's cat just came. Or not.
Perhaps someone should open the box and check.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)23:15 No.1758006
>preaching the Copenhagen interpretation as truth
Nigger what are you doing? That is hypothetical, not observed. There are other interpretations.
>>1757984
Nigger the copenhagen interpretation detailed in this flash is the source of the cat-box idea
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)23:22 No.1758010
Science is so fucking interesting.
It's weird though. It's not something I'd ever like to (or could) do professionally, but just
hearing about it is like...What the fuck man.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)23:56 No.1758058
Atoms. Matter. I have a foot fetish.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/03/12(Mon)23:57 No.1758060
The answer is simple, an electron is a bit of matter, just like the marble.
However, unlike the marble, it is in an ocean of other bits of matter, like the water molecules
that made up the pool in the waves example.
When the marbles were shot from the cannon, there were no other chunks of matter large enough to
noticeably deviate their trajectory, but the electrons get bounced around so much both before and
after passing the slit that they act like a wave.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/04/12(Tue)00:00 No.1758064
Aliens.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/04/12(Tue)00:08 No.1758074
>>1758060
Did you watch the part where they shot the electrons one at a time?
>> [_] Anonymous 09/04/12(Tue)00:20 No.1758084
>>1758074
Imagine shooting a marble through water one at a time, they would follow pretty much the same
trajectory with minimal deviation.
Now shoot rapid fire or whatever it is they do, the water is more stirred up and causes more
trajectory deviation.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/04/12(Tue)00:26 No.1758096
>>1758084
I am pretty sure they shot the electrons through a vacuum, although I could be mistaken.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/04/12(Tue)00:32 No.1758101
They should add the more recent experiment where the exact test - single slit, dual slit with or
without observation - is chosen AFTER the particle is fired (and obviously, it still behaves the
same).
The true nature of wave-particle 'duality' is that matter is something else, and what we observe
are just projected properties through whatever measure we do.
Think of it like a cylinder that projects a rectangular shadow if you put a light from a side, a
circular shadow if you light it from the top, and something completly bonkers from any weird
angle.
I wonder if we'll get to really know anytime soon.
>> [_] Anonymous 09/04/12(Tue)00:46 No.1758117
>>1758060
Sounds like a very easy experiment to make. Perform two electron double-slit experiments, one in
a hard vacuum. The one in the vacuum should result in two bands with no interference pattern. You
could prove nearly a hundred years of scientific thought faulty. (Of course I'm pretty sure
someone has already thought of this)
I really like this. It's hard to make technical stuff interesting.
