If I remember correctly, the ELI5 is it’s impossible to measure something without interacting with it in some way. The calculations and science determine it will turn out like the top image. The moment we try to measure it though, we have to interact with it. This changes the calculations and whatnot, thus producing a different pattern.
I’m glad to see people that know this. You are right, to measure implies interaction. The problem is that they call it “look at”, When they should Say “measure”.
Yep. The bottom picture is a regular, predictable result of light going separately through the top and bottom slits (behaving like particles that can only be in one place at one time).
The top picture is the light going through both slits at the same time and interfering with itself, producing the pattern you see (behaving like waves that can be in multiple places at once with different probabilities).
Therefore, light is a particle and a wave at the same time, flipping between the two depending on circumstances such as measuring it
That’s my understanding. On the other hand, the fun conspiracy theory is that we live in a simulation and stuff like this responds differently when observed because of shortcuts taken in simulating reality.
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If I remember correctly, the ELI5 is it’s impossible to measure something without interacting with it in some way. The calculations and science determine it will turn out like the top image. The moment we try to measure it though, we have to interact with it. This changes the calculations and whatnot, thus producing a different pattern.
It’s that correct more or less?
FTFY, LOL
I’m glad to see people that know this. You are right, to measure implies interaction. The problem is that they call it “look at”, When they should Say “measure”.
Yep. The bottom picture is a regular, predictable result of light going separately through the top and bottom slits (behaving like particles that can only be in one place at one time).
The top picture is the light going through both slits at the same time and interfering with itself, producing the pattern you see (behaving like waves that can be in multiple places at once with different probabilities).
Therefore, light is a particle and a wave at the same time, flipping between the two depending on circumstances such as measuring it
That’s my understanding. On the other hand, the fun conspiracy theory is that we live in a simulation and stuff like this responds differently when observed because of shortcuts taken in simulating reality.