What a load of twisted interpretations!! Not ''simply by observing'' it, but by determining its position. No woodoo, no buddism, etc.. Just physics..
@thatamazinggeek Actually, if electrons were self conscious, it would be a massive deal, but that's not what quantum theory suggests. Read a book such as John Gribbin's "In Search of Schrödinger's Cat" (for example, there may well be a better choice) for an introduction to quantum physics in layman's terms, and, if you're intelligent enough to grasp what you're reading, your mind will truly be blown, and you'll never look at 'reality' the same way again.
The greatest minds of the day cannot understand this but the self proclaimed geniuses of you tube have it all figured out.....wow.....Secondly, if you end your post with DUH!!, you probably know the least about this subject.
I highly doubt that observation was the reason behind the change in appearance since you are observing the whole time, what I believe is what was said in the video that the electron changed because it wa being watched so intently
@nickharvey7 1. the math doesn't allow that interpretation 2. The uncertainty principle is a property of constructing one wave family from another, in this case a sinusoidal wave from an infinite sum of impulse waves and is very different than the regular uncertainty of the future which is expressed by the squared amplitude of the potential function..
@wkrepelin Yes I agree that the w-function is the new construction of one sinusoidal wave from an infinity of waves. The w-function is an inverse sphere and has a square of probability from its radius. In math we can do this with any circle or sphere even a light sphere, energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light (Einstein). In this theory only the interpretation changes into a process of continuous creation or change!
@nickharvey7 that's not what I wrote. You're not agreeing with or disputing my point. I think it's possible that you misunderstand what I am saying. Anyway, keep studying, it's a very interesting and important field. If you are interested in what "artists" have contributed you should look up Louis De Broglie (he's about as close as you'll get to an artist that contributed to QM).
@wkrepelin Louis De Broglie great idea that everything has wave-particle properties is one of the principles that Quantum Atom Theory is based upon. We are both made of particles but over a period of time we are waves in a process of continuous creation or change. A process that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual therefore Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is the same uncertainty we have with any future event.
@nickharvey7 Well, here's the real "money Question:" Is your model internally self consistent and what predictions does it make that differs from standard model predictions which could be verified experimentally? Without these two questions answered science cannot be done in terms of theory.
@454ffv Yup my major was physics, and that is quantum mechanics 101. It's very simple when you get a handle on it, but at the same time it's like stuff straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
@454ffv It's not that hard to understand, really. Think about how we watch things. We have to bounce electrons off of them and then have them reflected into our eyes. What happens when electrons bounce off of something? They exchange a random amount of momentum. Or you could measure how fast they're going with a tuning fork. But then they'll end up someplace else. Thus if you go out of your way to measure something you mess up its position and make it move more solidly.
To observe and document proper names when they are there are univocal likenesses is a form of entanglement communicating information, for better or worse. Names of people and places that pop into the collective consciousness (mass media news) are jotted as if words sentenced into sets. This is a JeUx de noms, game of names that involve the interpretive principle of synchronicity.
Language trumps logic when communications is urgent.
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My guess is that all this thinking of matter as either particles or waves is fundamentally flawed as it's based on our perception of the macro world. Once you start going nano it just looks like the universe is "full" of empty space and you barely have any matter. Even at the scale of a Bohr's atom, matter is incredibly made out of nothing, just some lousy electrons in a gigantic orbit around a nucleus. Slicing matter further down into "particles" stops making sense.
@NeatNit Google the experiment, it's been proven; this is not a theory!! And if you think the measurement device interferes with the experiment, watch the video on youtube "delayed choice quantum eraser" . The universe is strange my friend, don't shy away from the truth.
arent we also filled with atoms? how do we know our atoms, or the atoms of the observer, are not the ones actually interfering? if u leave an atom to its own tools, it will do what it can; but if u add another atom with different tools, wont they both collaborate and do something different? to me, adding an observer is like adding another atom or particle. idk the difference im not a physicist.
@RagaDagga , i don't know Raga, I think the govt took Tesla very seriously, most of his work was missing after his death, even his own family was kept in the dark as to what really happened to him and all his work.
all bits of matter are merely a trapped scalar resonance. Scalar wave theory is the unifying theory that reconciles quantum and classical mechanics. please research this stuff. it was developed by Nikola Tesla and E.T. Whitaker but has been suppressed due to it's profound implications. Scalar interferometry is the weapon of this century. This is the "Tesla Death Ray" that the japanese were developing during WWII. However, the Russians have the most advanced version of this technology as
Correct me if im wrong but wouldnt This Experiment perpetuate the String Theory, in that matter is infact waves/ strings as opposed to particles... ughhh My Mind is full of fuck
maybe the strings in the fabric of string theoru isint the same as the waves and im mistaken
wat bout..atom hit the inner side of the hole that it was passing thru broke into 2 and then later on their way both colided with each other? other times atom simply passed thru the either of the holes and another time it hit inner side of the hole and broke into 2 and went straight thru both hitting the sheet without interfering?
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I am struggling to believe that an electron changes its action just because somebody is watching it. Isnt everything made up of electrons? If so shouldn't everything change all the time constantly being observed? Who made these strings and particles in the first place?
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ok am trying to understand: when a SINGLE electron is fired through ONE slit it behaves like a particle as predicted, but when a single electron fired in the direction of TWO splits it behaves like waves, but is this single electron aimed at one specific slit of the two? or aimed at the middle or whatever?
@MikeShabs So obviously he doesn't mention psychedelics or the psychedelic experience but when he talks about the quantum self this is what he is referring too. Also, he achieves this state by meditation alone, or is it an approximation of it?
@col4022 im not sure what u mean... i dont think he uses psychadelics, although i have heard its a great way to open ur mind (ive yet to gain the courage to try lol). i prefer meditation, and i know he uses it often. im pretty sure he had the experience of the "quantum self" or whatever u want to call it from meditating. hope that helps.
@sm1tty5569 The electron is not wave its a piece of matter formed by smaller and smaller and when it goes across the split the smaller reacts whit its self. And evrything is connected together when the big bang happend and when observing the matter u brake that connection causing it to not react whit it self after therefore not forming the same patern. well at least thats what i belive to have understood
Energy/matter a probability wave function. Once the wave function interacts with other energy/matter the wave function collapses and ends up in the location of highest probability. As the act of measuring involves interaction wave functions are collapsing all the time.
Guys, there is nothing to freak out here. The observer is nothing but a light source, which is a wave, and when it interferes with another wave, it acts differently. See Heisenberg's theory to understand more.
Uh, not quite. The observer is NOT a light source at all and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is not the ANSWER to this, but rather was derived as a RESULT of this observed behavior.
The observer is a receptor (not an emitter) which is triggered by stimuli (in this case the passage of the electron in front of it). This is exactly the same as the human eyeball, which certainly does not emit anything, but rather recieves light stimuli and processes it.
when i was finished watching this clip i got a hell of alot of toughts in my mind, WHY THE F**CK ARE WE HERE, and what is reality, what we see with our on eyes ?!?!
This experiment was first done in the 1950's and has been repeated hundredes, if not thousands of times. You can perform this experiment yourself with nothing more than some unexposed camera film and a flashlight.
The slit experiment without an observer would suggest that the electrons are waves,end of story,so why would anybody need to take the experiment ant further?
Because (if you watched the video) the first conclusion for electrons producing a wave pattern (when up to that point, they had been thought to particles) was that they were bouncing off each other and creating an interference pattern. So, next individual electrons were sent one by one, but still produced the interference pattern!
The whole concept of what is a particle and what is a wave was shattered.
That's exactly what these experiments suggest. In fact, when Einstein was presented with the idea that the moon doesn't exist until you observe it, he responded with his famous quote about quantum mechanics: "God doesn't play dice."
I'm reading Steven Hawkin's new book The Grand Design and needed to find a good visual aid to help me understand what's going on. Thanks for posting this vid.
@blizzard76kz well in this video it doesnt discuss the matter of why it acts differently really you cause it to act differently when you observe it because the consciousness of the scientist fabricates the phenomenon into something that can he can comprehend in his reality,, but really in his reality it creates a complex mystery
@Einstien1879 lol.. well said, now, if only we could shoot them through a slit, actually, who cares about the slit/s, just shoot? Seroiusly though, is this evidence of us being intelligently restricted from observing.. i mean, for some reason, maybe we are not meant to see this yet.... hey, imho.. grat upload, i hope kids are getting to watch this is primary school..
wait, ur first assumtion is that the interference pattern was caused by electrons bouncing off each other....when you shot one it still did it...im guessing this was done in a way that there couldnt have possibly have been any other electron for that one to bounce off of right...cuz that was my first thought...maybe it acted like a pool ball..it hit 2 they hit 2 and so on...and if you only "watched one side how can you be sure nothing went through the other side...did it work in practice
@hardhatg69 Electrons and other subatomic particles behave by a different set of physics than the world we see in everyday life. At tiny ultramicroscopic levels, classical physics breaks down and quantum effects are common. Simply put, quantum physics is largely governed by probability, not certainty. Electrons can be at many places at once, however, they are more likely to be in one place than another. It is completely unintuitive and nobody understands it. Nature is the way she is.....weird.
@hardhatg69 Subatomic particles have particle-wave duality. Even though it is entirely backed by mathematical probability (the wavefunction), it can have matter qualities. When you look at an electron, you are measuring, and by measuring, you are instantaneously destroying its wavefunction (mathematical probability cloud of where it's likely to be found). When you measure, the possibility of it being somewhere else instantly goes to zero, that's why the interference pattern disappears.
The only reservation I have about this is that Most laypeople cannot tell where the quantum physics ends and the quantum nonsense begins, and many are susceptible to being misguided. overall a great thought provoking film though
neat. Kinda suggests that the universe runs on pure probability and averages.
A good analogy is the difference between an individual bank robbery and a crime wave. Crime waves cover big blotches of an area, but if you go to that area, you see individual crimes. The only way to get that electron to stop playing mind-games with the observer is to somehow watch it from outside of the universe...or do a barrel roll.
Actually I should clarify--I said you shouldnt read opinions...haha. All the comments about it being a trick of measurement or that light disturbs the electron are BS. Its like people just either make this stuff up or they just keep repeating some dingbats opinions they heard somewhere else.
I mean..what? Dont you think the physicists ever considered that?
The internet forums and comments are a great way of seeing ignorance in action. 10,000 opinions and all of them wrong. Read the text books instead because the people comments as they're giving you facts--when in fact--as I read here...they are just repeating some mistake some other guy posted on some other forum.
quantum computers are taking so long to be created because of the very reason that when it is being watched it stops being quantum,.in other words the hard part of making a quantum computer is keeping it quantum. the same goes for the double slit experiment when being watched it reacts the way u think it would, normally... think of it like this when u speak in public u react act differently then when alone, even you are quantum because observation affects you. now i am 13 beat that!!!!!!!!
@MsDoctorwho22 That's not true whatsoever. You misunderstand what a quantum computer is. It's designed to work with the 3 states (or spins) of a sub-atomic particle. Getting this to work has already been done, but doing it on a large scale is where the bottlenecks are now.
gaby is right. To see an object there has to be light shining on it. And the light will affect the electron. The light is photons which will interact with the electron and give it "speed" in a way. This means that if you think you know where the electron is and then look for it, you won't find it, because the light has moved it, in a way... wierd stuff
Not at all. In science, to "observe" doesn't always mean to "see" with your eyes. "Observe" means to obtain information about something and that can be done in many different ways that do not involve "seeing".
You don't have to shine a light in a dark room to scientifically "observe" that there is a chair in the room.
Observing doesn't change anything, but to see it you need to use a beam of light. That causes wave distortions in the particle's behavior, and it doesn't behave as normal, so if you look at some point where you'd expect it to be, it won't be there cause of those wave distortions. It's like the more you try to look at it the more you distort it's behavior.
In order to observe you have to get energy from the electron and have that energy cause a change. I you observe light it has to create a chemical change in your retina and the only way it can do that is for energy to be absorbed by your retina. For an electron wave to convert to a particle energy has to be absorbed from that electron wave. Whether a person is conscious or not of where the electron is has nothing to do with it. Don't watch the detector and you'll still the two lines on screen
XD the Quantum world is really very very weird. but also so very interesting! its so mysterious...how are such things possible...it seems to go right against all laws of physics, but... well... electrons are simply very,VERY tiny, but that doesn't explain why they behave so odd
"as if its aware of being watched" O.o holy.!
is this from "What the bleep do we know?" I saw that a long time agoe (errr age of 12) and now when I see this I seem to remember the whole lot again
@bellaKohler The reason behind why electron's behavior can not be directly observed is because it changes its characteristics when subjected to minute forces. You have to realize that whatever instrument they use to observe it, the electron is subjected to certain amount of energy. That is why their presence is unpredictable...Duh
@jeffaquarius But they say the electron collapses (err wrong word, sorry I'm Dutch) when you look at it... does that mean we can influence reality with our thoughts and awareness... or are things like your thoughts also matter? (or energy... otherwise it cannot influence the electron. can it?) the idea that we can change reality is very weird, but so is the idea that my thoughts are energy. if they are, can we "catch" them somehow to read them? (omfg I know I'm going to far... I'm crazy)
@firenewt95 Lolz that is what I thought to. When you don't look at the electron it exists in a possibility cloud. only when you look at it it collaborates (or whatever you call it.. write that bloody word always wrong XD)
So, if we can do such small things... our observance is actually doing things to the world around us. So, if we practice... could we also change reality then?... create your own life? Or are we doing it all day long without knowing?
Yes, but there is a barrier (and non-barrier) around you at which the waveform collaspes and you can try to objectively view reality based upon electrical signals. A consequence of this is that the future,past, and present are all happening simutaneously; while we can observe we live in the measurable past (1/10th of a second reaction)
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This might seem really f*cking stupid, but it's probably one of the most effective videos on youtube to help learning the physics of Quantum Mechanics
Anyways, The Big Bang theory is one attempt at describing the creation and evolution of the universe. But it only describes what happened to within a tiny fraction of a second after the creation. Beyond that, the theory cannot explain how the Big Bang singularity came into existence. There is a lot of phenomenon science has yet to fully explain, but you have to admit the universe is finely tuned for life to occur. This leads me to believe there is some greater purpose.
I don't believe that the universe is finely tuned for life to occur in the sense that you imply with regards to divine creation. If we say that there is a probability of a planet being suitable for life with the right temperature and atmospheric conditions for life and give this an arbitrary percentage chance 0.0000000001%, of course in this simple example, Earth is part of this incredibly small percentage. However, the amount of planets in the universe make this possible.
@ViralMonkey also, its not that the universe is finely tuned for life to occur but rather we wouldn't be in THIS universe had it been otherwise. As with the multiverse theory there are many many universes and they don't all have the same laws of physics as this one does.
There are some misleading info on this video. The 2-slit experiment is really about photon or light and not electrons. I think most people already know that electron is definitely a particle. Electricity is produced by forcing electrons to move either in DC or AC. When you heat up the electrons they produce photons but then photon has a frequency therefore it is a wave. Measuring it changes its characterestic and you loose its wave function.
Talking about waves...it is just a varying amount of anything as time passes like particles such as electrons or any kind of matter. The sound wave is produced by varying air pressure while the water wave is the varying water level. AC power is a varying amount of electrons. Light is a varying amount of photons since they have frequency traveling is space just like the sound wave.
Energy is in a form of a wave as can be shown by Einstein theory. Light is an energy and so is electrons. Electron is a particle that produces waves. The only thing that can not be explained why electrons act as wave after passing the slit. I can only guess that when they hit the perimeter of the slit they produce waves of electrons :)
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What a load of twisted interpretations!! Not ''simply by observing'' it, but by determining its position. No woodoo, no buddism, etc.. Just physics..
MichaelMerdok 1 month ago
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wow quantum physics is a very interesting topic..
lovelplants 1 month ago
I love quantum physics.
moya138 5 months ago 2
@thatamazinggeek Actually, if electrons were self conscious, it would be a massive deal, but that's not what quantum theory suggests. Read a book such as John Gribbin's "In Search of Schrödinger's Cat" (for example, there may well be a better choice) for an introduction to quantum physics in layman's terms, and, if you're intelligent enough to grasp what you're reading, your mind will truly be blown, and you'll never look at 'reality' the same way again.
KesMonkey 6 months ago
The greatest minds of the day cannot understand this but the self proclaimed geniuses of you tube have it all figured out.....wow.....Secondly, if you end your post with DUH!!, you probably know the least about this subject.
mixxmann65 6 months ago 3
@mixxmann65 I agree. Geez why do regular people feel as if they know it all.
trinikagekavir 3 months ago
F*ck you, Michio! Quit confusing me. Philosophy is now Physics? I'm just dumb. dum dum dumb.
averyellis 6 months ago
I highly doubt that observation was the reason behind the change in appearance since you are observing the whole time, what I believe is what was said in the video that the electron changed because it wa being watched so intently
blkbearh2o 6 months ago
Interesting video! I am an artist on YouTube trying to promote my theory on the dynamics of light and time
This theory is based on just two simple postulates
1. The first is that the quantum wave particle function explained by Schrödinger’s wave equation represents the forward passage of time itself
2. The second is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle that is formed by the wave function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event
nickharvey7 6 months ago
@nickharvey7 1. the math doesn't allow that interpretation 2. The uncertainty principle is a property of constructing one wave family from another, in this case a sinusoidal wave from an infinite sum of impulse waves and is very different than the regular uncertainty of the future which is expressed by the squared amplitude of the potential function..
wkrepelin 5 months ago
@wkrepelin Yes I agree that the w-function is the new construction of one sinusoidal wave from an infinity of waves. The w-function is an inverse sphere and has a square of probability from its radius. In math we can do this with any circle or sphere even a light sphere, energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light (Einstein). In this theory only the interpretation changes into a process of continuous creation or change!
nickharvey7 5 months ago
@nickharvey7 that's not what I wrote. You're not agreeing with or disputing my point. I think it's possible that you misunderstand what I am saying. Anyway, keep studying, it's a very interesting and important field. If you are interested in what "artists" have contributed you should look up Louis De Broglie (he's about as close as you'll get to an artist that contributed to QM).
wkrepelin 5 months ago
@wkrepelin Louis De Broglie great idea that everything has wave-particle properties is one of the principles that Quantum Atom Theory is based upon. We are both made of particles but over a period of time we are waves in a process of continuous creation or change. A process that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual therefore Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is the same uncertainty we have with any future event.
nickharvey7 5 months ago
@nickharvey7 Well, here's the real "money Question:" Is your model internally self consistent and what predictions does it make that differs from standard model predictions which could be verified experimentally? Without these two questions answered science cannot be done in terms of theory.
wkrepelin 5 months ago
is this seriously true? thats so weird! it seriously acts like a marble when being watched wtf?!
454ffv 6 months ago
@454ffv Yup my major was physics, and that is quantum mechanics 101. It's very simple when you get a handle on it, but at the same time it's like stuff straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
JohananRaatz 6 months ago
@454ffv It's not that hard to understand, really. Think about how we watch things. We have to bounce electrons off of them and then have them reflected into our eyes. What happens when electrons bounce off of something? They exchange a random amount of momentum. Or you could measure how fast they're going with a tuning fork. But then they'll end up someplace else. Thus if you go out of your way to measure something you mess up its position and make it move more solidly.
G102Y5568 6 months ago
@G102Y5568 ya i guess that makes sense. thanks
454ffv 6 months ago
Lol wut?
TheAngryulsterman 7 months ago
Your reading the map upside down.
Dogmaf2008 7 months ago
@mmmspaghetti i absolutely agree with u!!
masroorabbas 7 months ago
Nothing is what it seems.
TEARDUCTER 7 months ago
Very good.. but the observing bit just confused me further. :(
Branbl7 7 months ago
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MrNiCK10111 6 months ago
To observe and document proper names when they are there are univocal likenesses is a form of entanglement communicating information, for better or worse. Names of people and places that pop into the collective consciousness (mass media news) are jotted as if words sentenced into sets. This is a JeUx de noms, game of names that involve the interpretive principle of synchronicity.
Language trumps logic when communications is urgent.
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THINkingPLANiT 8 months ago
wow o wow o wow
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88Tys 8 months ago
My guess is that all this thinking of matter as either particles or waves is fundamentally flawed as it's based on our perception of the macro world. Once you start going nano it just looks like the universe is "full" of empty space and you barely have any matter. Even at the scale of a Bohr's atom, matter is incredibly made out of nothing, just some lousy electrons in a gigantic orbit around a nucleus. Slicing matter further down into "particles" stops making sense.
hcarvalhoalves 9 months ago
@hcarvalhoalves you are retarded. sorry
rcastillo196 7 months ago
I'll believe it when I see it. I can't just trust this video with this... It's impossible!
NeatNit 9 months ago
@NeatNit Google the experiment, it's been proven; this is not a theory!! And if you think the measurement device interferes with the experiment, watch the video on youtube "delayed choice quantum eraser" . The universe is strange my friend, don't shy away from the truth.
mmmspaghetti 8 months ago
Omg, i was upset i could only press the "Like" button once :( This movie was awesome!
TheDigitalJuju 9 months ago
arent we also filled with atoms? how do we know our atoms, or the atoms of the observer, are not the ones actually interfering? if u leave an atom to its own tools, it will do what it can; but if u add another atom with different tools, wont they both collaborate and do something different? to me, adding an observer is like adding another atom or particle. idk the difference im not a physicist.
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angel2geek 9 months ago
were the only government to take Tesla seriously when he was trying to sell his theory.
RagaDagga 10 months ago
@RagaDagga , i don't know Raga, I think the govt took Tesla very seriously, most of his work was missing after his death, even his own family was kept in the dark as to what really happened to him and all his work.
ossito 9 months ago
all bits of matter are merely a trapped scalar resonance. Scalar wave theory is the unifying theory that reconciles quantum and classical mechanics. please research this stuff. it was developed by Nikola Tesla and E.T. Whitaker but has been suppressed due to it's profound implications. Scalar interferometry is the weapon of this century. This is the "Tesla Death Ray" that the japanese were developing during WWII. However, the Russians have the most advanced version of this technology as
RagaDagga 10 months ago
Correct me if im wrong but wouldnt This Experiment perpetuate the String Theory, in that matter is infact waves/ strings as opposed to particles... ughhh My Mind is full of fuck
maybe the strings in the fabric of string theoru isint the same as the waves and im mistaken
jpl91 10 months ago
wat bout..atom hit the inner side of the hole that it was passing thru broke into 2 and then later on their way both colided with each other? other times atom simply passed thru the either of the holes and another time it hit inner side of the hole and broke into 2 and went straight thru both hitting the sheet without interfering?
chinamanspeakenlis 10 months ago
I can use telepathy. How can I protect me of stalkers.
vinkokth 10 months ago
so its conscious of being observed and consciousness is made of waves in your brain. Makes sense
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BendableCard 10 months ago
I am struggling to believe that an electron changes its action just because somebody is watching it. Isnt everything made up of electrons? If so shouldn't everything change all the time constantly being observed? Who made these strings and particles in the first place?
Coltbullseye 10 months ago
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MegaJcoulter 10 months ago
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BendableCard 10 months ago
I think their just confused by their own symbolism
josephcrawn 10 months ago
ok am trying to understand: when a SINGLE electron is fired through ONE slit it behaves like a particle as predicted, but when a single electron fired in the direction of TWO splits it behaves like waves, but is this single electron aimed at one specific slit of the two? or aimed at the middle or whatever?
griffithsqwerty 10 months ago
OMG cannibusmannibus that is the exact conclusion I have also come too.
The psychedelic experience is ur consciousness at the quantum level, the level of disembodied fundamental awareness.
Could it be that the particles/waves that all existence is derived from is actually consciousness?
col4022 11 months ago
@col4022 would'nt that mean if all consciousness was wiped out the universe would dissapear?
jamesodinson 11 months ago
@col4022 thats exactly what some quantum physicists think. watch some videos of Amit Goswami.
MikeShabs 10 months ago
@MikeShabs So obviously he doesn't mention psychedelics or the psychedelic experience but when he talks about the quantum self this is what he is referring too. Also, he achieves this state by meditation alone, or is it an approximation of it?
col4022 10 months ago
@col4022 im not sure what u mean... i dont think he uses psychadelics, although i have heard its a great way to open ur mind (ive yet to gain the courage to try lol). i prefer meditation, and i know he uses it often. im pretty sure he had the experience of the "quantum self" or whatever u want to call it from meditating. hope that helps.
MikeShabs 10 months ago
this is what i think is happening
I could be way off
The electron is a wave but the measurement devise the scientists use in someway disturbs the electron and it becomes a particle
I don't think a conscious observer (like ourself) observing the world threw their eyes has any effect on the electrons
sm1tty5569 11 months ago
@sm1tty5569 The electron is not wave its a piece of matter formed by smaller and smaller and when it goes across the split the smaller reacts whit its self. And evrything is connected together when the big bang happend and when observing the matter u brake that connection causing it to not react whit it self after therefore not forming the same patern. well at least thats what i belive to have understood
XxBobTheGlitcherxX 11 months ago
WHAT?! an interference pattern?! lol...
andrewh996 11 months ago
'when you think you understand Quantum physics, you probably haven't understood anything at all'
bellaKohler 11 months ago
@bellaKohler LOL darn right mate!
Physicspilot 11 months ago
i now know what my psychedelic experiences have been. existing in quantum form. it all makes sense now.
cannibusmannibus 11 months ago
:O
Bballguy1121 11 months ago
"suddenly shudders in fear and excitement"
nappa666 11 months ago
meditation+ ignorance+placebo effect+misleading facts about quantum physics=law of attraction
lonelygunman 11 months ago
Energy/matter a probability wave function. Once the wave function interacts with other energy/matter the wave function collapses and ends up in the location of highest probability. As the act of measuring involves interaction wave functions are collapsing all the time.
JurassicPlank 11 months ago
Guys, there is nothing to freak out here. The observer is nothing but a light source, which is a wave, and when it interferes with another wave, it acts differently. See Heisenberg's theory to understand more.
chichipukaka 11 months ago
@chichipukaka
Uh, not quite. The observer is NOT a light source at all and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is not the ANSWER to this, but rather was derived as a RESULT of this observed behavior.
The observer is a receptor (not an emitter) which is triggered by stimuli (in this case the passage of the electron in front of it). This is exactly the same as the human eyeball, which certainly does not emit anything, but rather recieves light stimuli and processes it.
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
This gave me a whole new understanding of meditation and the Observer Self. Amazing!
loanneolson 11 months ago
the most important message here is that the observer has POWER
supplanter111 1 year ago
@supplanter111 ....which SHOULD be used to EXPRESS your every desire
tundeace 11 months ago
when i was finished watching this clip i got a hell of alot of toughts in my mind, WHY THE F**CK ARE WE HERE, and what is reality, what we see with our on eyes ?!?!
thevirusboy32 1 year ago
Mind, officially blown.
violinchick89 1 year ago
How many times have these experiments been done?????
hman111 1 year ago
@hman111
This experiment was first done in the 1950's and has been repeated hundredes, if not thousands of times. You can perform this experiment yourself with nothing more than some unexposed camera film and a flashlight.
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
GOD DAMMIT GUYS this is simple
RAYtheIMAN 1 year ago
4:27 - "... As though it was aware, it was being watched".... I'm totally parnoid right now :o
Anyway, I will never understand this paradox, it's just so strange.. I guess you'd have to conclude that matter is waves somehow?
nejtilsvampe 1 year ago
@nejtilsvampe the Eye is watching you!
sergiomarchelli 1 year ago
@nejtilsvampe
"I guess you'd have to conclude that matter is waves somehow?"
Exactly, and thus quantum mechanics changes the way we look at everything. This concept gave rise to string theory as well.
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
WTF?!
peakzero 1 year ago
The slit experiment without an observer would suggest that the electrons are waves,end of story,so why would anybody need to take the experiment ant further?
zarzandar 1 year ago
@zarzandar because waves would have mass, which makes no sense.
snykeSSBB 1 year ago
@zarzandar
Because (if you watched the video) the first conclusion for electrons producing a wave pattern (when up to that point, they had been thought to particles) was that they were bouncing off each other and creating an interference pattern. So, next individual electrons were sent one by one, but still produced the interference pattern!
The whole concept of what is a particle and what is a wave was shattered.
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
about the tree what if someone blindly video taped it and could see the tree clearly on the video tape
Oneeb1994 1 year ago
so if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to see it fall, it never really fell????
: )
fatdan460 1 year ago
@fatdan460 so if no one is around, the tree doesnt exists in the form of a free (its a wave) so it can't fall ;)
at least according to this video
sm1tty5569 1 year ago
@sm1tty5569
That's exactly what these experiments suggest. In fact, when Einstein was presented with the idea that the moon doesn't exist until you observe it, he responded with his famous quote about quantum mechanics: "God doesn't play dice."
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
I'm reading Steven Hawkin's new book The Grand Design and needed to find a good visual aid to help me understand what's going on. Thanks for posting this vid.
ole9421 1 year ago
@ole9421 stephen hawkins is an asshole...he doesnt know shit
crazychronic 1 year ago
@crazychronic
Apparantly you don't either. His name is Stephen "Hawking"
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
Everytime I watch this I get goosebumps from excitement.
Thewaterofthepool 1 year ago
Everything is known, physics can be hacked to operate beyond the routine at will, air gravity particles molecules electrons, so?
AntDX316 1 year ago
Really very interesting video... Many thanks for uploading this video....
MSGTAMIL 1 year ago
man.. im doing A-level phyiscs- including quantum.
this is gonna kill me!
blizzard76kz 1 year ago
wtf..... the electron is just a random fucking particle with no meaning of life whatsoever is behaving differently when being observed!!???
blizzard76kz 1 year ago
@blizzard76kz well in this video it doesnt discuss the matter of why it acts differently really you cause it to act differently when you observe it because the consciousness of the scientist fabricates the phenomenon into something that can he can comprehend in his reality,, but really in his reality it creates a complex mystery
crazychronic 1 year ago
My mind = BLOWN
Geistkampfer 1 year ago 14
electrons are like politicians they behave when somebody is watching them.. :> )
Einstien1879 1 year ago 146
@Einstien1879 Hahahaha Hilarious.
wasad20 1 year ago
@Einstien1879 lol.. well said, now, if only we could shoot them through a slit, actually, who cares about the slit/s, just shoot?
boazandjiacinth 1 year ago
@Einstien1879 lol.. well said, now, if only we could shoot them through a slit, actually, who cares about the slit/s, just shoot? Seroiusly though, is this evidence of us being intelligently restricted from observing.. i mean, for some reason, maybe we are not meant to see this yet.... hey, imho.. grat upload, i hope kids are getting to watch this is primary school..
boazandjiacinth 1 year ago
This one episode Opens up Reality to a Whole New Level.
Just think the act of thinking, wondering and observing Can effect Random events...
Thats why some people can come out the other side of Bad situations.
:-)
Escekar 1 year ago
What a great video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ghazikankan 1 year ago
Great vid, I heard this experiment before but this vid represent it clearly. Nice!
sgwong513 1 year ago
wait, ur first assumtion is that the interference pattern was caused by electrons bouncing off each other....when you shot one it still did it...im guessing this was done in a way that there couldnt have possibly have been any other electron for that one to bounce off of right...cuz that was my first thought...maybe it acted like a pool ball..it hit 2 they hit 2 and so on...and if you only "watched one side how can you be sure nothing went through the other side...did it work in practice
hardhatg69 1 year ago
@hardhatg69 Electrons and other subatomic particles behave by a different set of physics than the world we see in everyday life. At tiny ultramicroscopic levels, classical physics breaks down and quantum effects are common. Simply put, quantum physics is largely governed by probability, not certainty. Electrons can be at many places at once, however, they are more likely to be in one place than another. It is completely unintuitive and nobody understands it. Nature is the way she is.....weird.
GunsNRosesbitches 1 year ago
@hardhatg69 Subatomic particles have particle-wave duality. Even though it is entirely backed by mathematical probability (the wavefunction), it can have matter qualities. When you look at an electron, you are measuring, and by measuring, you are instantaneously destroying its wavefunction (mathematical probability cloud of where it's likely to be found). When you measure, the possibility of it being somewhere else instantly goes to zero, that's why the interference pattern disappears.
GunsNRosesbitches 1 year ago
The only reservation I have about this is that Most laypeople cannot tell where the quantum physics ends and the quantum nonsense begins, and many are susceptible to being misguided. overall a great thought provoking film though
machngunjoe 1 year ago
Hahaha
Weird...funny...and pathetic
I don't know which one to choose Lol
10011010011 1 year ago
Even single atoms or photons are part of a wavefront, duh.
And empty space is far from empty.
bigboy45454545 1 year ago
wtf ?
europeandrifter 1 year ago
I am 12 and this make pre algebra look like a freakin joke!!!! This is amazing!!
IamtheworstatWoW 1 year ago
uau!
GoodMorningSmile 1 year ago
no wonder i cant get laid when theres more then 5 people in the room.
Froggatt 1 year ago
THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE !!!
timoboll777 1 year ago
This gave me a mind-gasm
023132 1 year ago 57
Easy answer, electrons are shy XD
simpledudeable 1 year ago
quantum physics is stupid.... shit just happens
reganrichards123 1 year ago
neat. Kinda suggests that the universe runs on pure probability and averages.
A good analogy is the difference between an individual bank robbery and a crime wave. Crime waves cover big blotches of an area, but if you go to that area, you see individual crimes. The only way to get that electron to stop playing mind-games with the observer is to somehow watch it from outside of the universe...or do a barrel roll.
dfoxx007 1 year ago
ok so wen the object is small like an electron it hits the board in a random place every time creatin an intererance pattern?
Ryanxclarke 1 year ago
So.. only when we observe the atom it acts as a marble? And when we do not observe, it acts as a wave? Why is that?
DONOTBEAHOMO 1 year ago
QUANTUM PHYSICS MAKES MY BRAIN DIE. I couldn't tell you the FIRST thing about it... but one day... ONE DAY.. I will.
h3arty 1 year ago
i think there should be part 2 of this where it explains the applications of this.
Spandex08 1 year ago
@Spandex08 this is a small part of the movie 'what the bleep do we know?' goes into much more ;)
ramielap 1 year ago
@Spandex08 yeah
timoboll777 1 year ago
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SolidArch 1 year ago
metaphysics is at once the ultimate form of philosophy AND the ultimate form of science.
AK1292 1 year ago 2
Actually I should clarify--I said you shouldnt read opinions...haha. All the comments about it being a trick of measurement or that light disturbs the electron are BS. Its like people just either make this stuff up or they just keep repeating some dingbats opinions they heard somewhere else.
I mean..what? Dont you think the physicists ever considered that?
Rizzy55 1 year ago
The internet forums and comments are a great way of seeing ignorance in action. 10,000 opinions and all of them wrong. Read the text books instead because the people comments as they're giving you facts--when in fact--as I read here...they are just repeating some mistake some other guy posted on some other forum.
Rizzy55 1 year ago
THIS IS S0 NAZI!
ofonespirit 1 year ago
@ofonespirit Nazi's killed jews because they wanted to purify Germany. How did hitler change when he found out the world was watching? huh, he didnt.
Quantum physics isn't like "NAZI" at all.
TehNewV 1 year ago
quantum computers are taking so long to be created because of the very reason that when it is being watched it stops being quantum,.in other words the hard part of making a quantum computer is keeping it quantum. the same goes for the double slit experiment when being watched it reacts the way u think it would, normally... think of it like this when u speak in public u react act differently then when alone, even you are quantum because observation affects you. now i am 13 beat that!!!!!!!!
MsDoctorwho22 1 year ago
@MsDoctorwho22 That's not true whatsoever. You misunderstand what a quantum computer is. It's designed to work with the 3 states (or spins) of a sub-atomic particle. Getting this to work has already been done, but doing it on a large scale is where the bottlenecks are now.
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
Its not that wierd!!! Its being misinterpreted and exagerated. Study Physics and it will make sense. ITS JUST DOWN TO EXPERIMENTAL CONDIDTIONS!!!!!
Empirical1980 1 year ago
The Afshar experiment says otherwise. Cramer's transactional interpretation is much more parsimonous than Copenhagen or Everett-Wheeler.
Barrett808 1 year ago
gaby is right. To see an object there has to be light shining on it. And the light will affect the electron. The light is photons which will interact with the electron and give it "speed" in a way. This means that if you think you know where the electron is and then look for it, you won't find it, because the light has moved it, in a way... wierd stuff
vestby1 1 year ago
@vestby1 & @gaby14888 & @gamalieli
Not at all. In science, to "observe" doesn't always mean to "see" with your eyes. "Observe" means to obtain information about something and that can be done in many different ways that do not involve "seeing".
You don't have to shine a light in a dark room to scientifically "observe" that there is a chair in the room.
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
Observing doesn't change anything, but to see it you need to use a beam of light. That causes wave distortions in the particle's behavior, and it doesn't behave as normal, so if you look at some point where you'd expect it to be, it won't be there cause of those wave distortions. It's like the more you try to look at it the more you distort it's behavior.
gaby14888 1 year ago
In order to observe you have to get energy from the electron and have that energy cause a change. I you observe light it has to create a chemical change in your retina and the only way it can do that is for energy to be absorbed by your retina. For an electron wave to convert to a particle energy has to be absorbed from that electron wave. Whether a person is conscious or not of where the electron is has nothing to do with it. Don't watch the detector and you'll still the two lines on screen
gamalieli 1 year ago
Major Headfuck at the end. My god.
TehKign12356 1 year ago
my theory on quantum physics:
the world is trying to piss off, and for this reason, quantum physics was created.
ikilldhitler 1 year ago
This video give me nightmares
D3M0N72 1 year ago
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yoson25 1 year ago
This video is gay 'cause it blew me away!
watcheem 1 year ago
XD the Quantum world is really very very weird. but also so very interesting! its so mysterious...how are such things possible...it seems to go right against all laws of physics, but... well... electrons are simply very,VERY tiny, but that doesn't explain why they behave so odd
"as if its aware of being watched" O.o holy.!
is this from "What the bleep do we know?" I saw that a long time agoe (errr age of 12) and now when I see this I seem to remember the whole lot again
bellaKohler 1 year ago
@bellaKohler The reason behind why electron's behavior can not be directly observed is because it changes its characteristics when subjected to minute forces. You have to realize that whatever instrument they use to observe it, the electron is subjected to certain amount of energy. That is why their presence is unpredictable...Duh
jeffaquarius 1 year ago
@jeffaquarius But they say the electron collapses (err wrong word, sorry I'm Dutch) when you look at it... does that mean we can influence reality with our thoughts and awareness... or are things like your thoughts also matter? (or energy... otherwise it cannot influence the electron. can it?) the idea that we can change reality is very weird, but so is the idea that my thoughts are energy. if they are, can we "catch" them somehow to read them? (omfg I know I'm going to far... I'm crazy)
bellaKohler 1 year ago
this helps
mahatmashandi 1 year ago
So when I'm looking away from something it's effectively not there?
o.O
firenewt95 1 year ago
@firenewt95 Lolz that is what I thought to. When you don't look at the electron it exists in a possibility cloud. only when you look at it it collaborates (or whatever you call it.. write that bloody word always wrong XD)
So, if we can do such small things... our observance is actually doing things to the world around us. So, if we practice... could we also change reality then?... create your own life? Or are we doing it all day long without knowing?
bellaKohler 1 year ago
Yes, but there is a barrier (and non-barrier) around you at which the waveform collaspes and you can try to objectively view reality based upon electrical signals. A consequence of this is that the future,past, and present are all happening simutaneously; while we can observe we live in the measurable past (1/10th of a second reaction)
TehNewV 1 year ago
@TehNewV
That's not at all what quantum mechanics has taught us. This is just your misunderstanding of the subject.
TechTrainSolutions 11 months ago
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Riddlerx333x 1 year ago
This is almost disturbing haha...
TwentyYearDenial 1 year ago
4:11 haha i laughed !!
TommyMcG80 1 year ago
OMG - love this!
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torytompkins 1 year ago
@torytompkins
Shut up.
blackknight509 1 year ago
Quantum physics is AWESOME!
MrStabby0 1 year ago
This might seem really f*cking stupid, but it's probably one of the most effective videos on youtube to help learning the physics of Quantum Mechanics
cowgoesmoo2 1 year ago
@cowgoesmoo2 Yeah, I thought it was a kids show like magic school bus but this really blew my mind.
Oilasor925 1 year ago
@Oilasor925 Ye.
Have you read "The black hole war"?
I strongly recommend the book, it can teach you many things. Except the writer is a little open about his opinions, you shouldn't mind that too much.
cowgoesmoo2 1 year ago
wow is this actually true? if so that's pretty crazy
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vlatin1 1 year ago
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vlatin1 1 year ago
@HollandSucksDicks Rather then believe in this dark matter stuff, I tend to think our knowledge of gravity theory is just incomplete.
vlatin1 1 year ago
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vlatin1 1 year ago
Anyways, The Big Bang theory is one attempt at describing the creation and evolution of the universe. But it only describes what happened to within a tiny fraction of a second after the creation. Beyond that, the theory cannot explain how the Big Bang singularity came into existence. There is a lot of phenomenon science has yet to fully explain, but you have to admit the universe is finely tuned for life to occur. This leads me to believe there is some greater purpose.
vlatin1 1 year ago
@vlatin1
I don't believe that the universe is finely tuned for life to occur in the sense that you imply with regards to divine creation. If we say that there is a probability of a planet being suitable for life with the right temperature and atmospheric conditions for life and give this an arbitrary percentage chance 0.0000000001%, of course in this simple example, Earth is part of this incredibly small percentage. However, the amount of planets in the universe make this possible.
ViralMonkey 1 year ago
@ViralMonkey you make good point.
vlatin1 1 year ago
@ViralMonkey are you.... implying..... the goldilocks zone?
cowgoesmoo2 1 year ago
@ViralMonkey also, its not that the universe is finely tuned for life to occur but rather we wouldn't be in THIS universe had it been otherwise. As with the multiverse theory there are many many universes and they don't all have the same laws of physics as this one does.
dagonra 1 year ago
@HollandSucksDicks you are a bonehead. Prove to me that everything came from nothing.
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vlatin1 1 year ago
There are some misleading info on this video. The 2-slit experiment is really about photon or light and not electrons. I think most people already know that electron is definitely a particle. Electricity is produced by forcing electrons to move either in DC or AC. When you heat up the electrons they produce photons but then photon has a frequency therefore it is a wave. Measuring it changes its characterestic and you loose its wave function.
jeffaquarius 1 year ago
@jeffaquarius Did you know they split the electron?
TG daily, search up "Split the electron"
cowgoesmoo2 1 year ago
@cowgoesmoo2 You might be referring to the Quantum Entanglement
jeffaquarius 1 year ago
What is really spooky about this, if I've got it right is the fact its not even a human oberver!
cacaolover1 1 year ago
I'm confused now :(
Axelisten 1 year ago
Talking about waves...it is just a varying amount of anything as time passes like particles such as electrons or any kind of matter. The sound wave is produced by varying air pressure while the water wave is the varying water level. AC power is a varying amount of electrons. Light is a varying amount of photons since they have frequency traveling is space just like the sound wave.
jeffaquarius 1 year ago
Energy is in a form of a wave as can be shown by Einstein theory. Light is an energy and so is electrons. Electron is a particle that produces waves. The only thing that can not be explained why electrons act as wave after passing the slit. I can only guess that when they hit the perimeter of the slit they produce waves of electrons :)
jeffaquarius 1 year ago