Comment on Literally exactly how it works, too.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 days agoWell, no. Not if you put a detector in one of the slits. It collapses the wave function, and the interference pattern disappears.
Comment on Literally exactly how it works, too.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 days agoWell, no. Not if you put a detector in one of the slits. It collapses the wave function, and the interference pattern disappears.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Well that’s basically the bohr-einstsein problem isnt it?
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Not exactly. At least I don’t think. Einstein didn’t believe in quantum mechanics at all, or that it was inherently random until measured. Bohr said it was, but I don’t think he necessarily equated conscious observation with measurement. Einstein believed there must be hidden variables, but if there are, they’re non-local.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
So, really the problem was about Einstein saying that if Bohr is right then there is information moving faster than the speed of light. Einstein wasn’t saying that he didn’t believe it, but rather if true, then it violated the speed of light in a vacuum. Bohr seemed to actually not understand what Einstein was trying to say, so he interpreted it as Einstein trying to tell him he was wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIk_0AW5hFU&t=494