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  • You can't have that kind of copycat script without approval. Nay, more like done by the same people in the first place. It's just an updated version of it. Only this time, sounds boring. Dr. Quantums attitude and animation looked better, I find.

  • it's pretty sickening that a script stolen directly from that awful video "what the bleep do we know" is featured on a channel called "best of science"

  • Dr. Quantum script. Lame!

  • Silver Surfer's head know a lot about physics.

  • double clit experiment with two sluts, tried to hit them both at the same time.

  • Anyone else notice the script is 100% stolen from Dr. Quantum?

  • @drangonperson I just watched the Dr Quantum video and everything is like 99% identical.

  • @drangonperson yea WTF! 100% verbatim DR Quantum rip off.

  • @drangonperson exactly!

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  • what did they "Utilize" to observe the electrons, I suppose it involved striking them with photons !

    DOES THE HUMAN EYE also involve striking with photons ?

    PERHAPS ! "creap" up on it from far enough away that you dont effect it , IS THAT POSSIBLE?

    OR find a new way to observe?

    im prob. way off !

    FEEL FREE to update me of new findings on this experimint =ANYONE !

  • @z1inspector

    What? well photons are light, so obviously the eye is hit with photons, creep up on it from far away? It wasn't because it was being watched, it was simply because the measuring device interfered with it, and 'update me of new findings on this experimint = anyone?' what the hell are you talking about

  • @Danisfail "It wasn't because it was being watched, it was simply because the measuring device interfered with it" - Then explain the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment where the only measurement is made on an idler photon AFTER its entangled signal photon has already been absorbed by a detector, and the signal photon STILL, before any measurement is made, either shows the interference pattern or not, depending, seemingly, on whether or not we make the measurement in the future.

  • @Danisfail WELL smarty pants UPDATE: [v. uhp-deyt, uhp-deyt; n. uhp-deyt] to bring (a person, organization, etc.) up to date on a particular subject

    i believe ive already used it ina sentence 4 U ! !

    -are you trying to be helpfull ? check your tone brother !

  • @z1inspector

    I was just joking about how horribly you typed the sentence

  • Script stolen from doctor quantum much?

  • @QRNPTBUZ very much :p

  • wow this is crazy

  • Quantum mechanics on lsd, floating head?

  • This version creeps me out.. especially because of the floating silver head that has the voice of a pedofile

  • dr quantum ripoff lol

  • would it not be possible to measure from both slits so that the "disturbance" would balance and cancel each other allowing the truth to be revealed? (and if someone else already asked, i didnt read 497 comments to find out.)

  • Could you please do a video about Quantum Eraser. It actually contradicts this one a little bit, because it *does* matter if we 'observe' or 'interfear'.

  • this makes no sense it is like electrons have a "mind"

  • The real question is how is he a floating head?!

  • if this is not a ripoff then im not a rapist. jk but this is still a fucking ripoff

  • This is like... literally the same thing, word for wrod, as the Doctor Quantum video about the double slit test.

  • ummmm wtf.... ripped off of what the bleep do we know..... thumbed up second top comment.......

  • So when the particle is launched it has an equal chance of going though the left or right slits. THIS WOULD BE THE LOGICAL HYPOTHESIS IN THE XPERIMENT

    Isn't the problem than that trying to measure a particle traveling from one source through two planes and onto a single detector the problem? I mean if two particles were fired at the exact same time using the same parameters as the double slit experiment wouldn't the result be uniform and similar to the single slit experiment?

  • dr quantum is crying.

  • i don't know if this discussion has been talked about but.

    This is a ripoff from Dr. Quantum's double slit experiment which is from the documentary 'What the Bleep Do We Know?'. the entire dialog, word for word. hahah

  • I'm sorry. Get that gatling gun out and shoot your art director. Good thought experiments rendered incomprehensible by placing the low-contrast results farrrr back in the frame while the distracting jellybean head crosses in front of them? Ungh.

  • My conclusion with this is - Smallest part of matter when traveling thru space is behaving like energy (it travels in waves like energy travels) if nothing interacts with it. As soon as there is interaction with something else it starts to move thru space like matter should move.

    Considering mater and energy are the two same things just in a different form it is not that difficult to understand this. Electron is rather energy but in a state very close to being a matter and.. coment limit.. sry

  • Excellent video!

  • Lol this is the exact same dialogue as mr. quantum's video.

  • seriously i think if we all got together we can reason out a list of possibilities of how this occurs with our common sense. since our common sense is about the same as quantum theorists know about this phenonoma

  • isnt it obvious the particle split into 2 bands in our superposition yet it split off into another universe and created a interference pattern when we were not looking at it

    .

  • @SARGAMESH i can totally dig that man! i think it doesnt *dissapeare* but is it just splitting off, maybe if we could see in different wavelengths we could possibly see it in that dimension, it dissapearing is jsut a way for us to relate to its "vanishign" how we can explain summin we dont understand like

  • young's double slit experiment like you've never seen before

    watch?v=yNeHYhvQXic

  • lol, what a total rip-off of "Dr Quantum" !! They didn't even make the effort to change the script xD

  • This stupid video is a copy job of the stupid Dr. Quantum video found here on YouTube. They're both incorrect about the double slit experiment's results. The videos should be removed because they're WRONG. Variations of this famous experiment have been performed where it can be determined which slit a particle passed through without completely collapsing the wave. Quantum physics is real. It's just that these videos GOT IT WRONG. Don't be spooked by these videos. They are WRONG. Thank you.

  • @SonofBrunhilde so show us a link to a video that is correct then?

  • I don't know if another video is on YouTube that correctly explains the experiment & its results but you can read about it in numerous places. The basic idea is that with a point particle such as an electron, it is effectively impossible to determine its LOCATION. However, that is different than determining which slit (if any) it passed through. Any apparatus used to determine which slit a particle passed thru will have an effect on the particle but that doesn't necessarily mean wave collapse.

  • @SonofBrunhilde yes, yes it does actually, go read more mate, fs

  • It has been repeatedly proven & shown that it can be determined which slit a particle passed through without completely collapsing the wave. I'm sorry but you're wrong. Just read up on it. There have been many variations of this experiment. The type of apparatus used to make the 'which slit' determination will have an effect on the particle. If something like a camera is used, photons will greatly disturb the particle and will collapse the wave. But other methods can be used. So, you are wrong.

  • photons are affected by air. Blue photons are scattered by air. Infrared photons are absorbed by CO2 and H2O in air. UV is absorbed by O3 etc etc etc.

  • why dont we shoot this creepy head right in the double slit and see how it behaves?

  • this is word by word exactly the same as /watch?v=UMqtiFX_IQQ&feature=r­elated

  • @Markitos203 look at the video string, it's the exact same video :D maybe that explains it.

  • i have my own double slit experiment, its called a threesome.

  • holy fuck this video should be on some cracked article about unintentionally super creepy videos

  • Question? how do the electrons move across space. The marbles move atoms away to get to one point from the other and are affected by gravity. Do photons move across atoms like electricity, from one outer shell to another? They seem be resistant to gravity. Do this experiment in a vacuum.....

  • @HowellBarclay The electron experiment is done in a vacuum (extremely small and narrow tube, not like this video shows, but same idea). Photons have no mass, so they pass the air, they don't travel along it. Photons, although truly mass-less, are affected by gravity at extreme levels (i.e. black holes are black because they even affect light).

  • QUESTION? 

  • I would really like to see this thing in real life!! I'm tired of watching animated people with the same words trying to explain it... It's animated, kinda hard to believe when it aint real...

  • LETS GO QUANTUM! lol that would be an awesome superhero catchphrase

  • this is copied word for word from Dr. Quantum, they even copied the same mistakes. I say this because, graphics aside, the cahnce of doing this independantly and making the exact same misinterpretation about the "observer" is almost unheard of.

    The "Observer" is the Photon we use to measure the position of the electron by exchange of momentum to create uncertainty on momentum and hence more certianty on position, which must balance the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

  • at 0:30 why are they letting the marbles bounce everywhere? it could brake the computer equipment...

  • okay im not sure if you copied Dr. Quantum or if dr. quantum copied you.

  • this is like same thing dr quantom said from how fare are we from the rabbit hole

  • Creepy desembodied bald talking silver flying head gonna give me nightmares.

  • quantum is use for duplication and teleportation.

  • Is this apart of parallel universe theory? so if we watch the proton it only goes through one slit, meaning in another universe it goes through the other? I'm probably wrong, i don't understand much about parallel universe, but knowing this makes me think it links the two together.

  • @Princebaldwin21 yes the is apart of the parallel universes theory put out bu hugh everet this exprement was done with atoms electrons and photons so hugh everet showed this with amayzing mathmatical detail and sense the duble slit experement was done with atome and if atoms can be in more places then one than thats how you branch of into parallel universes

  • All right thanks, I thought it made sense! Someone else told me that parallel universe and quantum theory were completely different. Thanks for the response!

  • Dr. quantum is cooler!

  • @Princebaldwin21 This is a blatent rip off of dr quantum....or is it the other way around? The wording is way too similar, in the same order

  • @Marktheshtfgenius

    I thought the same thing. However, I see that there is a major difference. This one goes out of its way to explain that the reason for it going back to normal is because observation requires interaction. Dr. Quantum tries to say that the universe was consciously aware of it, so it willingly changed.

  • @Neotyguy40 i think they purposefully chose the same wording, to kind of throw it in the wtb guys' face that were purposefully dishonest.

  • @Marktheshtfgenius Its doctor quantum in another universe!

    haha

  • for god's sake: the particle does not change behaviour because some one is watching, it's not a conscious thing. It's just that to measure its behaviour, we need to interact with it. that's what causes its behaviour to change.

    so at the least, PLEASE stop calling it 'observation' and start calling it 'measurement', because observing implies a passivity that is not the case here.

    do us all a favour and thumb this the fuck up.

  • @Rocksolid88 Pretty much what you said. Also, what if we found a way to measure where the particle is after it leaves the slit device? UNIVERSE IMPLODE

  • @Scremph I read your reply and expected a "but, " and then some griefing. but as I read it through it became more of a lol, and at the ending statement I was like: LOLOLOL.

  • @Rocksolid88 I recently discovered that they DID find a way to plot where the wave/particle goes before it approaches the slit without damaging the experiment. They found that the interference pattern still exists even if you observe it. So much for uncertainty principle. LOLOLOLOLOL. Uncertainty is as believable as ghosts.

  • @Rocksolid88 Thumbs up indeed. I dislike how this leads people to the conclusion that human beings looking at this experiment with their eyes is what affects the outcome. This, and many other videos can be quite misleading.

  • @evilerjolly that isnt at all what its sayin by mentioning observation, you need to stop takin things so literally n getting misslead, you dont measure anything with your eyes do you, they try measuring it n it destroys the wave pattern.. gawd!

  • @Baaaarny1 "it was as if the electron decided to act diffferently, as though it was aware that it was being watched." "it seemed as if the observer collapsed the wave function simply by observing" "

    Saying things like that can be misleading. They don't make it clear that when they say "observer" they mean the measuring device is what's causing this. Yes, they mention the device and that it affects the outcome, but they need to clarify the definition of observer better to avoid confusion.

  • @evilerjolly its only missleading if you dont realise any measuring or lookin is observing, the thing is a measuring device would be observing it, be it directly or gettin a read out, doesnt matter if your a person near it lookin or a device, its aware, they have had experiments fail cause someone walked past the room its in, it "reacts" with "us" somehome

  • @evilerjolly " It's just that to measure its behaviour, we need to interact with it. that's what causes its behaviour to change." being near it, looking at it, measuring it, your interacting with it, with its existence! if a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound?..... get your head around that n itll help a lot of thought experiments

  • @Rocksolid88 mate, think you need to go realise that measuring it in any way would be an observation, you would be just looking at it, you have clearly no idea, take your little childish tantrum elsewhere, its behaviour changes cause you interact by observing and it is conscious of you interacting with it, observing it, looking at it, whatever, it knows, you cant handle that you cant understand it can you

  • @Rocksolid88 so when measuring is there any physical interaction with the photons being measured making them act different? i just wanna understand a bit better

  • @911adt not necessarily with photons, but with particles (photons are just a result of a type of fusions between particles). Particles on that scale are too small to observe - literally too small to 'see'. So we can only measure them mathematically, after viewing the consequences (!) of their behavior with experiments. i.e. we can't see electricity, but we do see a light glow because of it.

    The bad part of this is that these experiments mess with the particles, which changes their behaviour.

  • Photons are not being measured. Photons are emitted from the light source that is used to observe the electron. The emitted photons "hit" the electron and disturb it, which causes the wave to collapse That's why other methods need to be used (for observation) to prevent complete collapse of the wave function.

  • @Rocksolid88 Dude. Thank you!

  • @Rocksolid88 The problem is that we don't know, so as long as there is no proof yet, people can speculate on this as much as they want. But I agree with you that I do not believe that the electrons are conscious. Or are they? ^^

  • @Rocksolid88 I have a feeling you have no idea what you are talking about

  • @omgweeeeeee How sweet; you must be under the impression that i care.

  • @Rocksolid88 Well said - the new age and noetics fuck with quantum theory as if things were connected, as if electron split in two - they dont - they only exist in a fuzzy region of probablity and exhibit wave like properties - its as simple as a that and more importantly, thats all there is to it. It means we indeed can not determine the position of a basketball as in the film, but in interaction, its only in one place - and the fuzz factor is very tiny [0.32 zeros x] - its not mystical.

  • OMG!!!!!!!

    word for word to dr. quantum. CREEPY FUCKING HEAD!

  • good lord this is the most fantastic example of PLAGIARISM i have ever seen in my life. completely ripped off the dr quantum cartoon from "what the bleep do we know" and i mean word for word.

  • @mysticx0 Was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe they had permission or something. Also, it would be awesome if merely trying to observe this pattern changed the behavior of the video. I'm taking this too far,

  • @mysticx0 i was listening and though where i know this from? rip off :P

  • @mysticx0 true story.

  • @mysticx0 Yes but at least he explains a bit more what REALLY happens instead of feeding that bullshit barely-documentary "what the fuck do we know"

  • @Quartrez he does nothing of the sort, this is word for word exactly what was said on the same movie you just put down. its an absolute clone with no deviation; only the animation is different. and yes that "wtf do we know" is total BS....

  • @mysticx0 No no no, "wtf do we know" ends with the Quantum guy saying it's as if the electron knew it was being observed and then it switches to something else. Here, the head actually explains that it's the Principle of Uncertainty.

  • @Quartrez points for you :) i didnt sit through all 5 minutes of plagarism i got a little more than halfway through before realizing i saw it somewhere else and better done. but good job for pwning me :)

  • @Quartrez true, but he could have given credit to wtf do we know. He explained the scenario exactly the same way.

  • Lets go quantum!

  • @theufohunter123 not really there are only so many ways to explain it... and who cares is about learning

  • eat this dr. quantum: Quantum mechanics rule 'bent' in classic experiment (BBC news)

  • i didn't see the camera in his bld head reflection

  • instead of measuring the particle going through the slits.....fire one particle at the slits and capture it as it splits to go through both slits at once. A single particle might be captured as two particles as it passes through the slits.

    Or cover the slits with a thin membrane...then fire a single particle and see if it busted a whole through both sides of the slit. Like a kid throwing a rock through a window you can see the damage left behind.

  • @gobblegobblechew

    "fire one particle at the slits and capture it as it splits to go through both slits at once"

    The whole point is that that is not what's happening.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer

    you are confused...and that is what is happening. Unfortunately we can not watch it happen due to the Heisenberg principle.

  • @gobblegobblechew it doesn't actually split though, in fact it probably doesn't exist until what we call the wave function is collapsed.

  • @Ajscosmos very interesting point, I see what you mean.

    What Im getting at is the Heisenburg principle really sucks and I think we can find a way around it. I would like to challenge everyone who reads this to put our collective heads together and come up with a way to do it. I don't like principles that say "I cant" do it......fuck that, we can!

    did I go over the top?

  • Can physicists a little bit change this experiment and install those electron/laser sensors not only at the end as it is now but also on the sides so area between the slit barrier and the back sensor is surrounded with another sensors from every direction? Maybe there will be also patterns on those side sensors and not only on the one in the video..

  • @Nightbass89 i'm not sure what your saying but you can always try it yourself the double slit experiment is pretty easy to set up all you need is a laser pointer and a double slit.

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  • @Ajscosmos I mean if you consider symbol = to be the actual wall with sensors and l l electron beams then I would like to install additional sensors in every possible direction (symbols "l" and -) below:

    +=====+

    !............!

    +-- . ---+

    .... l l

  • @Nightbass89 Yeah Ive been waiting for a team of people to get together and really tackle this, observe all dimensions, use several different observation tools and forms of measurement... You'd think with all the controversy and popularity over this, that someone would have done just that.

  • @Nightbass89 I was thinking the exact same thing while watching Dr. Quantum from What The Bleep Do We Know. impressive use of the basic keyboard symbols to form a reasonably well detailed sensor layout by the way.

  • poor silver surfer :(

    he lost his head :/

  • The dual nature doesn't inspire me: Sunlight contains the same duality. What does get me wondering is, how does any observation take the endless potential out of the electron, and reduce it to simple Newtonian Physics? WTH! Seriously, I don't buy the measuring interference explanation. At least not to the degree of the effect science says it has on the electron's nature. STILL EMBRACING THE IDEA THAT IN THE QUANTUM WORLD THINGS BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY IF THEY ARE BEING WATCHED OR MEASURED.

  • The dimension of the and the angle the electrons are shot should be used as factors to see if they change the results

  • I see the problem. It's at 5:18 when dude said "It's impossible."

    I'm sure he meant, "We don't yet know how..."

  • Schrodinger's cat in effect.

  • So particles of matter interfere with themselves. Perverts.

  • Firing electrons through a single slit does not do the same thing as firing marbles. It still acts like the ripples do.

  • I wouldnt exactly call an electron matter, its not like a proton or a neutron

  • this is exactly like dr. quantum's video until 5:00 where it explains the rest.

  • Obviously the electron HAS to have a dual nature, otherwise no macro particles or waves would exist, where both of these phenomena consist of electrons. It has a "dual" nature only from the macro perspective. The macro realm only has one nature and that is whatever nature is brought to it by the interactions of subatomic particles.

  • Also, it says "Werner Heisenberg proposed a new uncertainty principle describing this" ... Heisenberg died in 1976, how could he possibly propose a new ANYTHING?? This video is a lie designed to lead you away from the truth about the nature of reality.

  • @mmmspaghetti Heisenberg published the uncertainty principle in 1927. Young was doing this experiment in the early 1800s.

  • Sorry for the spam =(

  • Ok if a photon travels in all directions simultaneously as a wave, and only materializes as a particle in a spot which is being observed... try this.. Put the emitter in an opaque sphere with the two slits. Do not observe the two slits, or what goes through the two slits, but instead measure the rest of the inner sphere. Do particles appear all around the emitter? If so do they make a pattern or just randomly appear all around. Lets see the results.

  • They overcomplicate the theory....The act of measuring something is ALWAYS intrusive, in other (electrical) words, every meter has a loading factor.

    And whats with the silver head for a narrator?

  • Sorry, that's meant to be "Planck's".

  • There seems to be so many interpretations of the double-slit experiment. From my understanding, the electron is believed to take every possible path simultaneously connecting its firing point to the screen - it has no definite position, only when observed. I believe that the uncertainty principle is due to Plank's constant which deems we can not measure simultaneously two complementary variables; it does not have anything to do with the act of measuring the position as it emerges from the slits.

  • GOD DAMN THAT FLOATING HEAD IS FUCKING CREEPY

  • @DugOLas That's why I preferr... DR.QUANTUM

  • Is the area between the slit's shaped like an air foil?

  • But now we know electrons aren't single particles

  • What if the measuring device is turned off and on, whilst remaining insitu.

  • @halfasheep

    To measure the position of an electron you must bounce at a minimum one photo off ot. That is enould to disturnb the electron.

    When you observe anything, it is light bouncing off it into you eyes or light coming from it. The light then goes into a detector or your eye.

    Electrons do not shine. They do not give off light. They do not make noise. They do not smell. The only way you can know where it is by shining light onto it or seeing where it impacts a phosphor screen.

  • why does every science video have floating heads...

  • same words as in Dr.Q

  • @lambsio Except the last part, where Mr. F. Loatinghead actually explains what an observer is and what this means for the wave function.

  • @lambsio

    Not the the last two minutes.

  • ok, what about this? its kinda hard to explain but, the protons somehow jump into the forth dimenion, when we try and place a messuring device there. measuring devices can only measure the 3rd dimention. relitivaty suddenly realises that the whole thing doesent work and so it quickly goes back into the 3rd dimention againgiving the 2 slit effect again. theres a big gap... but im thinking..

  • yeahhh i just got the 1000th like!!! and the 1001st or just one, or neither, or all of the above.

  • Very ingenious graphics work, and lucid explanation, but the observable patterns on the virtual screen were very hard to see during the electron sequence, and I have seen a similar animation using the same script where the patterns were much clearer.

    However, as a guide to the fundamentals, this is better than OK. Regrettably, I can't claim to understand much more about quantum physics than is shown here, but it is a fascinating subject for those with the mental ability to deal with it.

  • Look the cat is alive! Oh the humanity, the cat is dead!

  • PLAGIARISSMMM

  • Dr. Quantum is a quack!!!!!!!!

  • Furthermore, experiments have been done as long ago as 1987 that prove you can detect which slit a particle has passed through without completely destroying the interference pattern – debunking the theory that particles mysteriously change their behaviour when we ‘look at them’.

    In Summary: Disappointingly, the double-slit experiment is merely no more than a mildly interesting experiment on the effects of diffraction.

  • @TheQuantumMaverick

    Yeah yeah yeah you read wikipedia. I read it to and that experiment affected the interference pattern.

  • @TheQuantumMaverick could u site me ur source for these experiments that prove u can detect which slit a particle goes thru w/ out destroying the pattern. this video was very insiteful towards the end and sorta demistyfied the idea of objects ' knowing' when they were watched and i would like to read or view more like it.. it seems as if there are 2 versions of this video both very scientific. i would like to know which is right. do objects " know" or are they being influenced by devices.

  • @TheQuantumMaverick Post a link on that, please. Otherwise I just have to assume you are making it up.

  • Destro has fallen on hard times since the G.I. Joe movie flopped.

  • The Dual nature of the electron is indeed a mystery !

  • Dr. Quantums video is sexier.

  • OOOOOOOO SHINY !!

  • All that needs to happen for one particle to react instantly to another over a large space without a message having to be sent faster than light, would be if they were connected like the two ends of a rope. If I spin my side clockwise, then the other end would seem to spin counter clockwise to someone looking at it. So there must be an ivisble force connecting the two, WHOA, did I just explain this in a classical way lol.

  • This is exactly why people hate science, because of lame videos like this; a floating chrome head -_- how cool (sarcasm) Don't get me wrong though, I love science...just seems a little condescending.

  • @ledzeppelin4892000 I completely agree, after watching this. I'm not even sure if everything it just said is a lie. Does this really happen when they fire electrons through two slits. Because the part where he says that if they place a measuring tool there in only goes through 1, but when they just look at it, it goes through both seems a little weird to me. If that's true I'd like some references. I havn't spent much time studying quantum mechaniks, this is news to me. But i think i solved this

  • awesome that his head is flying through the lab haha

  • Wow dr quantum ripoff!

  • @fani5000 With clarity.