DR. QUANTUM - DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a goofy layman's introduction to the double slit experiment in quantum physics threads.
What it is
A short animated lesson, featuring Dr. Quantum, on the double slit experiment and how observing electrons seems to change their behavior.
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What Hacker News said
Cites jchook · 2019-10 · on “Double Slit Experiment No Mystery”
When I watched a goofy layman’s explanation[1] about the double slit, it stressed the importance of the effects of observation on the behavior or nature of the electrons. When observed to see “which” slit the light passed through, they no longer created the interference pattern described by Duane’s law. And when left unobserved (at the slits) the interference pattern emerged even when shooting “one electron at a time” at the slits. Does this article or Duane’s Law cover or appreciate this? It seems like it only describes the interference pattern. 1. [this video]
Critical russellbeattie · 2022-03 · on “A wave function does not collapse upon detection?”
Does anyone have a link to a real world example of the double slit experiment where the photons are observed at the slits , causing the wave function of the light to collapse so the light acts as a particle beyond the slit, ending up in two piles on the detector screen, rather than the wave pattern. Every time I ask this, some do-gooder will not read a word I wrote and send me a video of the basic slit experiment and think they've somehow educated me. Every time. It's amazing. What I'm looking for is a photo or video of a real experiment showing just two groupings. There a million photos/videos of the wave pattern. I'm looking for an example with exactly two clumps of photons because the lig