Comment on double slit

• 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah it is. From that wiki article:

  A notable example of the observer effect occurs in quantum mechanics, as demonstrated by the double-slit experiment"

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  • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The meme is not about the double slit experiment

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look, I’m not gonna keep quoting Wikipedia at you until you get it, so believe what you want I guess

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    • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is clearly titled “double slit”.

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Super curious, and promise not to argue. What, in your summation, is the meme about?

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Petulant electrons, I guess.

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  • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This meme is about the difference in scales. When your electron’s delocalization is much greater than other scales in your system, the electron behaves like a wave. Otherwise if the electron’s delocalization is the smallest scale, it behaves like a particle.

    If you can look at the setup of an experiment with your bare eyes, the electron behaves like a particle. If you cannot - it may behave like a wave.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can see wave properties from a double slit setup with your bare eyes. Here’s someone who did it with a cardboard box.

      youtu.be/Iuv6hY6zsd0?si=TIlEJa4AJQhh8da4

      If you setup a detector that measures which path the particles took, the interference pattern disappears- again something you can see with your bare eyes.

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      • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For electrons you can’t do it. Either way the interference is not a quantum effect and the detector that you are talking about is a simple reemiting device that detects the wave vector and creates the wave in the same direction. Now live with that.

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