The concept of Yav Nav Prav (three aspects of everything) explains how it works. When elektron flies it is a wave and it is in Nav. When electon hits a screen or when observer sees it, it becomes a particle in Yav. The article in Wikipedia about Yav Nav Prav is stupid and pimitive. Nav is all that unrealized here and now ( in Yav ), it is the future and the past too.
Isn't that how religion was born. Making a conclusion without having any idea what is going on. There is obviously a factor missing here. Or maybe the religious are right in saying that we are the center of the universe. Or maybe some science is the extreme study of the irrelevant. I have no opinion either way.
These knowledge are so important to help human beings understand the reality of life, an Old World View that many people are not yet aweare of are destroying this world, externally manifested as war, poverty, natural disasters...
Some people might be surprised to hear this, but we believe that Quantum physics should be conducted for children as early as before 10 year old. same as singing dancing and meditating..
I can almost visualize our childern and grandchildren will be accepting these ideas just as easy as we were being educated about classic physics at school years ago.
I am so glad that human development is accelerating! Thanks to the internet and people who made this video demonstrating a physcis theory in a easy-to-understand way that is TRULY essential in understanding a New World View on reality.
Wow, this is by far the best Q Physics demonstration i have ever seen!
well, when he said that an active observatin process collapses the electron, could it be that the electron didnt collapse, its just our perceptions that collapsed.
Also, I assume the only way to objectively "watch" an electron will inevitably interfere with its path. Its like putting a batter by the slit and wondering why the baseballs are not all going through like they did without the batter being there?????
To all those spectics out there, your in good company since Enistein didn't belive matter behaved in such a wacky way either. It's very funny though because it was he who showed that it did. This was done when he investigated the photoelectric effect; this is what got him a Noble prize for physics. Experiment is KING, long live quantum wiredness........
is it possible that because of the photon particles energize the air(A hydrogen atom) in the way before it hits the target. and that energize air(A hydrogen atom) release another photon particles in the same direction where the first photo go but with a little bias angle. did they test that in a completely vacuum space or a space that full of air?
Can anyone Explain to me the last phrase , I mean ; what does the observer has to do with the result of shooting the electrons through 2 slits . why the result is different when they put the measuring device.?
Wow watching this gave me goosebumps , i feel that i just stepped into an unknowed and frighting world... Are things we see real? do we have the power to see what we want to see? How is it that very Awerness of this can change matter around you? mabey even change it to youre Will?Why is the Universe,Unknowed than Certain?
@MrNeb04 Don't get caught up in this none sense, ninety percent of physicist don't believe this anyway, simply because you can get the same results of a single or double slit pattern with dice. Also, the electron single slit explanation in this video is incorrect, because diffraction occcurs, the edges are fuzzy depending on the slit size. Also, electrons are not tiny balls, this video is very mis-leading and you need to dig deeper than this explanation.
@dickwa um no... i've yet to meet a physicist who doesn't believe this and I study and work in a physics department. please show me evidence of an experiment that created an interference pattern with dice. yes, electrons are not tiny balls, but given this is a cartoon this isn't going to be something for people who really need to learn the material. It does a great job of relaying the fundamentals of the experiment for anybody regardless of science background.
@kashmirr144 "um" is not a word. The video is misleading in the sense that single slits produce diffraction, the electron or photon etc. is still in wave form and is not in particle form. The Compton effect is when photons can be thought of in particle form. Electrons are not tiny independent balls, like a baseball. Graph the roll of dice, it produces the same pattern as wave theory interference. You just met a physicist who does not believe everything he was taught.
@dickwa what does the roll of a dice have to do with this at all? I don't see how anything you just said disproves a thing, besides the video not showing diffraction with a single slit. and what does "um is not a word" have to do with anything besides making you look like a dick?
@kashmirr144 I was skeptical of your ability of higher order of thinking that would require abstract thought. After the use and connotation of the word “dick” my skepticism was confirmed. “um” not being a word is but a fact, just as the fact that this video is filled with erroneous facts. Best of luck to you.
@kashmirr144 I think if you gave the slits and the dice an electric charge and made the slit width relative to the dice size equivalent to the electron:slit sizes you might get more than 2 lines.
Yep, i agree, you know what i felt when i first watch this video 10 mins ago? I felt its a great educational demonstration of a new generation of human knowledge, after Newtonian mechanical physics, we have Einstein and , Quantum Theory, then string theory, supersymetry,
Nevertheless, i feel so gracious that this video can be watched by many Children of the Future, i cant help myself wondering a new era of human consciousness is approaching sooner than later,
I believe the change due to observation is evidence that the Universe is composed of pure thought that we have the ability to interact with utilizing the power of our own thoughts. That matter transitions into energy and energy transitions into pure thought.
@6FiftySix Maybe in a thousand years when they discover that's the case they'll call you a retard jackass! So what's the Universe made of? Beyond energy there's nothing? You obviously must believe the Universe came into existence all by itself out of nothing. The concept of God even as a scientific foundation of reality is to much for your physical based reality to handle a-wipe! Yeah it's fun calling people names queerdo!
@lsl70...I'd hope in a thousand years they'd be able to come up with a better insult. And I am actually an advocate of String Theory, which yes, predicts the universe made up of minuscule one dimensional strings of energy, with nothing beyond that. As for a god, no I don't believe there is or could be any being capable of creating such an elegantly complicated system such as the universe. Apparently you don't believe in god either, you seem to think you thought the universe into existence...
Electrons like Photons only seem to exist as a wave until they come in contact with an object. Then the wave function collapses forming a quantized form of energy. If this is a universal and continuous process could it be forming the passage of time? Because each new Electron or Photon will have a unique position in space and time that the wave function never had before the collapse. Could Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle be the same uncertainty that the observer will have with any future event?
@6FiftySix Photons might not experience time for the reason you say but we experience time. Could the process of time be formed by the wave function continuously collapsing and reforming? Each new photon will have a unique position in space and time and this can be seen in the two slit experiment. Would this experiment work without the forward flow of time?
@nickharvey7 That is actually an interesting concept, for someone who isn't aware of the relationship between time and light. I don't mean that offensively at all, seriously that is a pretty deep hypothesis if you haven't read up on the subject. If time all together were stopped, then no the experiment wouldn't be able to test anything because unlike photons electrons do need time to get from point A to point B. This is gonna take more than one comment :p.
The cause behind what we perceive as the passage of time is actually not a very difficult concept to follow. That is on the level we experience it at, looking deeper into quantum mechanics, theories suggest that the 5th dimension would be actually another branch of time. As he says at 3:25 ish, that quantum mechanics suggests when there is a chance of multiple out comes, all outcomes will occur, in different dimensions, thats where time gets confusing :p but this parts easy.
The cause of the passage of time, is essentially just a relationship how light interacts with space. The interesting thing about light is that it's speed 299792458m/s is constant for all observers regardless of their velocities. This means if you are standing still and turn on a flash light the photons move away from you at 299792458m/s. and if I were to chase the flash lights beam at 50% the speed of light, the photons still move away from me at 299792458m/s. This means you can't ever catch it.
Einsteins special theory of relativity states (and this has been proven) that the faster you go, the slower your time goes. A good way to show this is with a light clock (I'm gonna try to keep this brief:p) the clock is simply just two mirrors about 6 inches apart and a single photon bouncing between them, every 1 billion bounces of the photon is approximately a second. now if you were to move the mirrors at a constant velocity to the left. The photon can no longer just bounce vertically.
If it did keep bouncing veritcally, since the mirror is moving, it would move out of the path of the photon and it would just be lost in space. The only way for the photon to stay with the mirror, is to bounce at an angle. This means the photon will be travelling a further distance, and since it's speed is the same. Increasing its distance but not speed must increase the time of travel. The faster you move the mirror the greater the angle the photon must bounce at, the longer it will travel.
Since we have defined a second as a billion bounces off the mirrors, the longer it takes to collide with the mirror, the longer the seconds become. This is why as I said before about the freezing of time, if you were to move the mirror at the speed of light, the photon would need to travel completely horizontally to keep up with the mirror, and therefore it would never contact the mirror, and never record any time passing, this is why photons don't experience any time.
And since the speed of light is 299793458 m/s relative to all observes, this means if we travel at different speeds our time passes at different rates. So back to what we originally were talking about, the photons not experience time, is how our laws of physics perceives our time. So your question regarding the absence of time, I would assume the electrons wouldn't move through the slits at all, but really I don't think we'll ever be able to freeze time and test it :p
@6FiftySix Interesting comments! We live in a Universe with an infinite number of inertial and non-inertial reference frames. That forms their own spacetime geometry (proper time) relative to their momentum and position. If this is so why do we need a 5th dimension? Can’t we have just 3 dimensions and one variable of time? This would give us a unique position at the centre of our own reference frame? And we would be able to look back in time in all directions at the beauty of the Stars.
@6FiftySix No one truly understands why the speed of light is a universal constant and is unaffected by the motion of the observer. Modern physics has no understanding of why we have an arrow of time so it would be difficult for me to read up on the subject. Have fun!
@nickharvey7 I honestly didn't mean that early comment negatively, but my early comment's, I wouldn't say are fact, since as we are learning even quantum mechanics and relativity cannot not both be true, and they have both been considered facts. But the behavior of the photon I talked about before, is accepted as scientific truth as the reason for change in time. And I support your comment on us possibly just being limited to 3 dimension, and to be honest I kind of hope that turns out to be true
Cause although I get the concept of time being considered a 4th dimension we are constantly moving through, and although i can sort of wrap my head around the 5th, when I try to follow discussions of the 8th 9th and even 10th dimensional possibilities, I get pretty frustrated thinking about it. But the reason some physicists say we can't simply be restricted to these three dimensions is because they have developed their theory of super strings, being the heart of all matter, and energy, and from
their theories of how these exists and could possibly be the source of all matter, they would need to be able to move in ways we can't and to explain this they suggested their idea of new dimensions, as I said I cant understand were it could go after the 6th but they have shown it in their math, I'm not saying they can prove it (they can't even come up with an experiment that could potentially show it) but they have reason behind their number of dimension each one exists in their
theory because their theory requires it's existence to work. It may seem odd to suggest a pyramid of dimensions just to make your theory work.
I don't really see how there are physicists that have no problem blindly following the some of the strange results of quantum mechanics, but aren't even willing to give sting theory a chance. Personally I think it is a cool concept, and where or not there is solid of evidence of that many dimensions, I'm certainly not going to discourage the research.
What they fail to mention is the only way to observe things on a quantum level is to interfere with them. So it wasn't the act of observing, it was that our methods of observing interfere with the experiment.
@ZhangyXD You can think that if you wish. But you'd be wrong.
You don't need to agree, it's still an observed fact. We know this happens and we know our methods of observation interferes with the experiment causing another variable to change the results, we just don't know why. That's what we're working on, how does the interference our observations cause change the behavior of electrons?
@gamingguy90 i think our observation didn't interfere with the experiment. Just because different observations observe different results doesn't necessary mean there was interference in 1 of them.. I wonder what happens when we combine the two observations..
I think this whole whole particle wave theory is just bullshit. I believe that electrons are neither a particle nor wave but it's some other thingy that shares both the property of a wave and a particle depending how you observed it to be.
@ZhangyXD ok well first, I'm sure that it isn't just mearly coincidental that they had different results. These tests would have been done over and over again, multiple trials are done before they conclude a theory. And secondly, no one is suggesting that an electron is a wave, a wave is just a characteristic of it's motion. For example, if you have waves of water, or stationary water, the water is still just water.
I`m guesing This is a Tunel effect .?! Fizic is so interesting and always full of surprises..you think you know almost awerything...but there is always somthing new something harder to understand ! HF.Thinking xD
haha, @AskOracle, out of everyone on this board you unerstand this vid the best. you understand the weirdness of quantum physics because you're so taken aback this incredible phenomenon.
I think people are missing the deeper implications of these results. The electron doesn't naturally exist in a single state; it simultaneously exists in a number of different states. But the act of observing is a fundamentally deterministic process (in terms of causality), thus enforcing an outcome (i.e. collapsing the wave function or simultaneity). The point is that things are random in the quantum realm; and the randomness doesn't originate from a lack of information or modeling.
thats how batshit insane people start believing that conciousness plays a role .....when ur "observing" a particle u are interacting with it , since the detector needs to fire photons at the particle...
@sidewaysfcs0718 im sorry, but that honestly makes no sense. theres not way that consciousness doesn't play a role if observing changes the outcome of results so drastically. if no ones there to "watch" or unconsciously "decide" what will happen, then particles act like waves. vice versa if someone watches. life is a dream whether you like it or not. if you truly don't believe that it is, you're just creating a self fulfilling prophecy of whatever you think is true to happen
@tenkikun "They had the detector ON yet if they choose not to look at the data and just press delete they got the pattern as if the detector was off!"
I don't understand what you wrote here. Are you saying they deleted the data about which slit it went through?
It seems to me that by adding an observer, you're giving that other bit of the electron somewhere ELSE to go instead of through the slits, so one piece goes to the observer and the other goes through the slit. Why this would happen could be any number of things though (most likely charge related).
i suppose that in order to observe a particle that small a device would have to be something akin to shooting a beam of particles over one slit and not the other. If the beam of particles is interrupted then you know where the electron went. But the very act of using a beam of particles would disrupt the electron in some way, perhaps causing the results seen here?
no, unfortunately! There is nothing added to the electron by the measurement. It is simply the act of "knowing" that changes (collapses) the result--- which is the essence of quantum weirdness.
really????? like the ending, that can't really be true..? wows! when you observe it you aren't, say, adding anything for the electron to go through are you? it is exactly the same experiment as before and the electron actually does do that "oh no, im being watched" thing!!! someone tell me, this is weird.
In my video Quantum Mechanics an artist view it is Time that is the Hidden Variable. Time has symmetry and geometry that can explain the two slit experiment of Quantum Physics.
in stephen hawking's book, the explaination is that the light waves that the observer reflects on the electrons causes them to behave differently , bounces off them and changes their motion-the uncertainty principle (you can never totally accurately observe anything because the light waves which you see have reflected off the object to be observed and changed its path)
Nice clip, but maybe it should mention, that observation means physical interference. And that physical interference with electrons causes them to cease performing quantum effects is a well known phenomenon that's described by the term 'decoherence'. It doesn't have to do with the electron being 'aware' or 'deciding' not to behave coherent (meaning behaving in a quantum-y way), but with a physical interaction changing the setup of the experiment by 100%.
with simplest dialect as possible ! material of the observer sheet is the fault because particles change to the silhouette of what ever they collide into because you see they are so light they bounce off each other in the slots
the exterior / (invert) of the structures mass are used but although material allow particles to push through the shortest dimension of the sheet (which is now interior) it blocks the air passage causing traction that decrease the speed just enough to stop the bouncing
Simply by observing waves will turn them into particles? That is really scary. Does this apply to all forms of light/energy? Then by viewing the 3.5TeV of gamma-ray photons streaming along the galactic equator will turn the continuous wave into particles? Then why are governments sending gamma-ray detectors in space? Wouldn't that be dangerous to turn those gamma-rays into particles? The kinetic energy for a wave is nothing. Would the particles do severe damage traveling near the speed of light?
So does this mean they will never know IF the particle splits into 2? because to me this seems impossible. I'm not a scientist but as an educated guess I'd assume the waves that effect an electrons destination is like a stream of water, and the electron is riding on that stream. It doesn't split into 2, it merely rides the waves...
The problem lies not in quantum physics but in the language. If you use words like "marble" and "tiny peace of matter" of course it is hard to understand. But those words are metaphors that we use in daily life. When used to describe subparticles they are not accurate.
The video tries to be educational but I guess it only causes confusion. If you want to learn this you have to jump into the mathematics.
Hmmm I can see where your coming from and it makes a lot of sense. but the question is i guess for me at least. when is an arrangement of particles considered an (known object i guess) and if this is true, at least your theory of summing this up. isn't he supposed to be testing "arrangements of energy" at the quantum level? so it can only be viewed as an arrangement of energy, but why would it take two separate actions? (especially with the vision being a factor i can see why your skeptical)
@sleepingeye what about string theory? i stilll remember Brain Greene's theatrical demonstration of his Superstring Theory on TED, saying, "this is where the conventinoal theory stops, and string theory comes along, and says beneath all that, there is something else... vibrating filament of energy just like vibrating strings of french horns. vibrating at a particular frequencies, different freqencis make up different particles, different particles make up different matters..."
this just shows how little of the universe we actually understand. I think its amazing. but how do they measure if its a camera then could the light be disrupting it somehow?
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wow. more stupid science that you can't back up
The observer somehow broke the wave by just being there? Or by using his eyes and looking at it? If the observer just broke the wave formation by just being there...then..would all physical matter break the wave formation? and if the observer broke the wave formation by just looking at it, then how does the neutron know someone is looking at it?
it means that i question things before i see solid proof so i don't get sucked into the fucking propaganda. Look at history, how much times people just blindly started believing what was placed in front of their eyes? The outcome was not always pretty. Just cause some flying scientist cartoon is saying thats what happens i still actually wanna see the particles split in the wave theory. I wanna know how the observer destroys the wave,
It's pretty apparent that you've never taken higher-level physics or chemistry.
If you can't digest this weirdness, then the other stuff in quantum mechanics would absolutely make your head explode.
But, unlike others, I'll give you a thumb's up, because it really does blow people's minds and with good reason. Read up on it, it's absolutely fascinating.
I think one of the most fascinating things about quantum physics is that the act of observing or measuring matter in these small pieces, electrons, photons, whatever, changes what they do. You don't have to touch or strike or do anything, just observe or measure them. It is a little disturbing in a way. But I've heard this many times.
from what iv seen they use a light,lol so you hit a light wave with a light wave thats what changes its path,all this rubbish to say a electron can know it is beaing watched madness lol
You're sounding a little ignorant. Maybe you should open a book or two. Yes this is our world and it is not only as you have been taught, or as only I have been taught.
It is far more than Pop music or getting stoned or getting laid or about how much money you make. LOLOLOL
That was a great video and very simply put. Thank you for taking the time to post it. This is indeed a very interesting and almost disturbing subject.
I think this video fantastically describes a conept which I only got to on about chapter 17 of my big fat quantom book.. 3 cheers for Dr Quantum!!! LOL
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Some of the comments are really depressing. I went to bad inner city high school and we were taught about this in our Physics class. It's often referred to as Young's Double Slit experiment and it was part of the beginning of modern and contemporary science. This is very basic stuff.
QM is extremely weird and counter-intuitive. Paradoxical to the point that Nobel prize winners were baffled by it for years until they gave up and accepted that it's crazy and moved on. If you're saying that learning that QM is paradoxical and beyond intuitive understanding is "very basic stuff", then okay. Two Nobelists have said that anyone who isn't utterly shocked by QM doesn't get it.
What method was used to "observe" the electrons, (an energy field)?
Was the measuring environment present in both iterations of the experiment?
If it was and the electron pattern varied based only on whether or not the data being collected was also being fed into an active recording or displaying device, then that would be interesting.
Otherwise I'd have to wonder if the nature of the measuring procedure altered the behaviour of the electrons.
From what i understand its the nature of the measuring procedure that altered the behavior. But you cant observe it any other way. So when you dont obeserve you cant know where its going, cause its going everywhere. Thats how i understand it.
I'm inclined to agree; that's by far the most likely interpretation of the experimental results.
If we're right, then I have a BIG issue with this video. To explain something that simple and ordinary in a way that makes electrons seem conscious is extremely irresponsible.
Our society already has a problem with segments of the public not understanding or accepting science. This can only add to their confusion, by suggesting that there is a mind behind the movement of matter and energy.
There's nothing "simple and ordinary" about wave-particle duality. The whole mystery is sufficiently explained quite well in the first part. You are right that the eyeball machine watching is misleading. In reality, the act of detecting an electron going through slit A gives it no choice but to act like a marble. The observing is a physical interaction that makes it a new experiment in which the QM mystery is eliminated. Still, it is a great introduction to the concept for school kids.
I'm saying that a physical / natural explanation is simple and ordinary RELATIVE to a super-consciousness / paranormal explanation. I'm confident you already agree with that.
I also agree that it's a good clip to give school kids an intro into the subject, but it desperately needs to have the eyeball explained by an informed teacher, (or the rest of the video, if there is more to it).
As it stands, I deem this isolated clip unfit for public consumption.
You misunderstood me also, but I think we agree anyway. My point was that the eyeball is presented as a portal to a MIND, as if being CONSCIOUS of which slit the electron goes through has an eerie effect. In fact, the detection involves something like hitting the electrons with photons, which nails the location of the electron as a physical particle. The fringes would disappear even if the observer were asleep. After thinking about it, I agree that the video is very misleading at the end.
'To explain something that simple and ordinary in a way that makes electrons seem conscious is extremely irresponsible.'
point taken.
But, asking as an atheist who does not know much about these kinds of things, are you saying that the possibility that these electrons made a 'conscious' decision should be totally disregarded?
But what if, given the multi-universe theory, these observations are happening simultaneously in another universe where the exact opposite result is observed. Could/would that have an effect on the outcome at the quantum level? Maybe these elementry particles inhabit all universes at the same time.
I'm not sure what you meant by both iterations but the observer wasn't there when it was an interference pattern and was when it wasn't. I also don't know what you're talking about when you say energy field but generally you observe shit by bouncing a photon off of it.
In the context of what I was asking, the experiment without active observation would be the first iteration, and with active observation would be the second iteration.
As for observing the electrons' positions, my assumption was that some sort of electro-magnetic field might have been used to track the moving electrons. The point of my question was that the video did not explain how the electrons were located, leaving room for wild (mis)interpretation of what the video was actually saying.
maybe the matter has a mind like a cell has a nucleus and since everything is made of matter it would most likely have some kind of inteligence because without matter there arent any cells and without cells there arent any humans or organic creature or plant that may be why when it was observed it acted differantly because it has intellegence
But how is that possible? It's like matter doesn't exist if we are watching it. It's like that theory of does a tree that falls in a forest makes a sound if we aren't there to hear it. O_o
I meant to say it might be what causes gravitational lensing due to light curving around near the object much like air or water does around smooth edges.
Obviously the light is bending or it would form 2 slits. I think this may be due to following the edge of the slit and is what causes really causes "gravitational lensing" in massive objects the stars.
For me to understand this I need a cosmology that will work. The first thing is to reject the improbable infinitely fast, and infinitely small, and the unlikely, that they are in sink with each other. This means that the fastest fast moves in more than one smallest small. The result is a quantum blur. Like a runner moving in a picture faster than the moment of the exposure. In the picture we call this smear motion blur. The difference is our film is in four dimensions and called space time
Like film, if multiple movements cross they appear stronger at the intersections. In film if you take both hands and wave them over each other, the intersection will be a solid flesh tone. This is eerily like the wave pattern in the double slit experiment.
In the double slit experiment size and speed matters. The larger a particle is the more it overlaps its self when moving very fast.
The faster a particle moves or the smaller a particle is the less it overlaps and interacts with itself. This means the probabilities decrease with a larger size and like the electron gun it behaves more like a particle than a wave of light, as can be observed in the one slit experiment. The electron beam in the one slit experiment does not diffuse out like light and therefore is somewhere between a wave and particle.
Imagine light or any particle in an expanding or contracting sphere of probability. As it approaches the wall its all wave, but at the moment and place of interaction the probabilities contract as it hits the wall it reflects off it. Like the formula for intelligent life, the more life you find, then the more probable intelligent life is.
The interaction of observing the electrons going through the slits, in the double slit experiment, reduces the probability smear and its wave like properties causing the electron beam to act even more as a particle resulting in the loss of the wave pattern that was there before and replaces it with the characteristic double pattern of a particle instead.
Although, this may be difficult to swallow, its easer to gulp down than the caster oil of alternative universes, or up to eleven dimensions and it allows a cosmology that combines the laws of Newton and Quantum physics. It also explains how any object or mass can become a wave if it is fast enough and or small enough.
i am so glad to see this information being spread. this is the greatest thought provoking experiment. the more that know = the more that want to know = a smarter world = a more peaceful world. thanks
All they ere saying here is that they have no idea. In this respect you are as qualified as anyone on the matter
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The concept of Yav Nav Prav (three aspects of everything) explains how it works. When elektron flies it is a wave and it is in Nav. When electon hits a screen or when observer sees it, it becomes a particle in Yav. The article in Wikipedia about Yav Nav Prav is stupid and pimitive. Nav is all that unrealized here and now ( in Yav ), it is the future and the past too.
GodGrandSonofSoul 3 weeks ago
very nice video - i need more videos explained physics by this simply and easy way :-)
kingzero84 1 month ago
i'm scared.
akoolman1 3 months ago
So basically everytime u observe an electron it acts in accordance with its particle nature and wen u are not looking it acts as a wave. Really!?
univurss 3 months ago
Isn't that how religion was born. Making a conclusion without having any idea what is going on. There is obviously a factor missing here. Or maybe the religious are right in saying that we are the center of the universe. Or maybe some science is the extreme study of the irrelevant. I have no opinion either way.
enigmanuma 4 months ago
is this on tv or something?
Btony09 5 months ago
WHAT!? AN INTERFERENCE PATTERN!?
aJaPnoy 7 months ago 2
The largest known object to exhibit wave-particle duality is a spherical fullerene molecule otherwise known as a buckyball.
GliTCH11 7 months ago
Yea...the ending was very misleading. "observing". esp the scene of the woman looking around >_> totally wrong idea.
manaeiou 11 months ago
The purpose of human education should be mind, body, heart everything, not just like tertiary education breeding people into "walking heads".
Starstution 11 months ago
These knowledge are so important to help human beings understand the reality of life, an Old World View that many people are not yet aweare of are destroying this world, externally manifested as war, poverty, natural disasters...
Some people might be surprised to hear this, but we believe that Quantum physics should be conducted for children as early as before 10 year old. same as singing dancing and meditating..
Starstution 11 months ago
I can almost visualize our childern and grandchildren will be accepting these ideas just as easy as we were being educated about classic physics at school years ago.
I am so glad that human development is accelerating! Thanks to the internet and people who made this video demonstrating a physcis theory in a easy-to-understand way that is TRULY essential in understanding a New World View on reality.
Starstution 11 months ago
Wow, this is by far the best Q Physics demonstration i have ever seen!
well, when he said that an active observatin process collapses the electron, could it be that the electron didnt collapse, its just our perceptions that collapsed.
Starstution 11 months ago
this shit blows my mind
springerchick 1 year ago
Also, I assume the only way to objectively "watch" an electron will inevitably interfere with its path. Its like putting a batter by the slit and wondering why the baseballs are not all going through like they did without the batter being there?????
plebshadowofra 1 year ago
What happens if you fire small extremely small waves through one at a time?
plebshadowofra 1 year ago
To all those spectics out there, your in good company since Enistein didn't belive matter behaved in such a wacky way either. It's very funny though because it was he who showed that it did. This was done when he investigated the photoelectric effect; this is what got him a Noble prize for physics. Experiment is KING, long live quantum wiredness........
MrNeb04 1 year ago
is it possible that because of the photon particles energize the air(A hydrogen atom) in the way before it hits the target. and that energize air(A hydrogen atom) release another photon particles in the same direction where the first photo go but with a little bias angle. did they test that in a completely vacuum space or a space that full of air?
pcgameman1111 1 year ago
Can anyone Explain to me the last phrase , I mean ; what does the observer has to do with the result of shooting the electrons through 2 slits . why the result is different when they put the measuring device.?
DavidMcBride1 1 year ago
I really can't understand how people prefer Lady Gaga than this.
Quantum 4ever!!!
Mstheterrorofdeath 1 year ago
@Mstheterrorofdeath
hay, I am a physicist and I love lady Gaga. :)
DavidMcBride1 1 year ago
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very enlightening and interesting! Thank you.
aussiykk 1 year ago
very enlightening and interesting! Thank you.
aussiykk 1 year ago
I'm no scientist,but I liked this video.
dreadfulweasel 1 year ago
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what does this eperiment means in our everyday life ???
AzizRaeesi 1 year ago
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what does this Experiment means in our everyday life ???
AzizRaeesi 1 year ago
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AzizRaeesi 1 year ago
My brain just took a giant shit
MinisterKGB 1 year ago
Who does the voice of dr. Quantom?
theWaterostrich 1 year ago
Wow watching this gave me goosebumps , i feel that i just stepped into an unknowed and frighting world... Are things we see real? do we have the power to see what we want to see? How is it that very Awerness of this can change matter around you? mabey even change it to youre Will?Why is the Universe,Unknowed than Certain?
Sonicku 1 year ago
Super duper.
AlgisKemezys 1 year ago
I'm helping a 14 year old with his mathematics/physics and wanted to expand his horizons a little....... This is perfect.
MrNeb04 1 year ago
@MrNeb04 Don't get caught up in this none sense, ninety percent of physicist don't believe this anyway, simply because you can get the same results of a single or double slit pattern with dice. Also, the electron single slit explanation in this video is incorrect, because diffraction occcurs, the edges are fuzzy depending on the slit size. Also, electrons are not tiny balls, this video is very mis-leading and you need to dig deeper than this explanation.
dickwa 1 year ago
@dickwa um no... i've yet to meet a physicist who doesn't believe this and I study and work in a physics department. please show me evidence of an experiment that created an interference pattern with dice. yes, electrons are not tiny balls, but given this is a cartoon this isn't going to be something for people who really need to learn the material. It does a great job of relaying the fundamentals of the experiment for anybody regardless of science background.
kashmirr144 1 year ago 8
@kashmirr144 "um" is not a word. The video is misleading in the sense that single slits produce diffraction, the electron or photon etc. is still in wave form and is not in particle form. The Compton effect is when photons can be thought of in particle form. Electrons are not tiny independent balls, like a baseball. Graph the roll of dice, it produces the same pattern as wave theory interference. You just met a physicist who does not believe everything he was taught.
dickwa 1 year ago
@dickwa what does the roll of a dice have to do with this at all? I don't see how anything you just said disproves a thing, besides the video not showing diffraction with a single slit. and what does "um is not a word" have to do with anything besides making you look like a dick?
kashmirr144 1 year ago
@kashmirr144 I was skeptical of your ability of higher order of thinking that would require abstract thought. After the use and connotation of the word “dick” my skepticism was confirmed. “um” not being a word is but a fact, just as the fact that this video is filled with erroneous facts. Best of luck to you.
dickwa 1 year ago
@dickwa i see ur still picking fights on youtube,,
guys dont believe anything dickwa says,
for someone that thinks he know physics ,
,he believes the magic bullet theory in the JFK assassination,,
this guy is a troll, and a joke and he only agrees with him self.
metubegirl69er 1 year ago
@metubegirl69er Wow, you need a life dude.
dickwa 1 year ago
@dickwa ,,lol where ever you spread ur lie's,, i will be there...lol
metubegirl69er 1 year ago
@kashmirr144 I think if you gave the slits and the dice an electric charge and made the slit width relative to the dice size equivalent to the electron:slit sizes you might get more than 2 lines.
plebshadowofra 1 year ago
Yep, i agree, you know what i felt when i first watch this video 10 mins ago? I felt its a great educational demonstration of a new generation of human knowledge, after Newtonian mechanical physics, we have Einstein and , Quantum Theory, then string theory, supersymetry,
Nevertheless, i feel so gracious that this video can be watched by many Children of the Future, i cant help myself wondering a new era of human consciousness is approaching sooner than later,
Starstution 11 months ago
I believe the change due to observation is evidence that the Universe is composed of pure thought that we have the ability to interact with utilizing the power of our own thoughts. That matter transitions into energy and energy transitions into pure thought.
lsl70 1 year ago
@lsl70 I believe you are retarded.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
@6FiftySix Maybe in a thousand years when they discover that's the case they'll call you a retard jackass! So what's the Universe made of? Beyond energy there's nothing? You obviously must believe the Universe came into existence all by itself out of nothing. The concept of God even as a scientific foundation of reality is to much for your physical based reality to handle a-wipe! Yeah it's fun calling people names queerdo!
lsl70 1 year ago
@lsl70...I'd hope in a thousand years they'd be able to come up with a better insult. And I am actually an advocate of String Theory, which yes, predicts the universe made up of minuscule one dimensional strings of energy, with nothing beyond that. As for a god, no I don't believe there is or could be any being capable of creating such an elegantly complicated system such as the universe. Apparently you don't believe in god either, you seem to think you thought the universe into existence...
6FiftySix 1 year ago
so good!!!!!
jazzywazzyk 1 year ago
....So if i watch you ....you chancer?
wilangeldrifter 1 year ago
Electrons like Photons only seem to exist as a wave until they come in contact with an object. Then the wave function collapses forming a quantized form of energy. If this is a universal and continuous process could it be forming the passage of time? Because each new Electron or Photon will have a unique position in space and time that the wave function never had before the collapse. Could Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle be the same uncertainty that the observer will have with any future event?
nickharvey7 1 year ago
@nickharvey7 Photons do not experience time, as to move at the speed of light would freeze time relative to the universe.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
@6FiftySix Photons might not experience time for the reason you say but we experience time. Could the process of time be formed by the wave function continuously collapsing and reforming? Each new photon will have a unique position in space and time and this can be seen in the two slit experiment. Would this experiment work without the forward flow of time?
nickharvey7 1 year ago
@nickharvey7 That is actually an interesting concept, for someone who isn't aware of the relationship between time and light. I don't mean that offensively at all, seriously that is a pretty deep hypothesis if you haven't read up on the subject. If time all together were stopped, then no the experiment wouldn't be able to test anything because unlike photons electrons do need time to get from point A to point B. This is gonna take more than one comment :p.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
The cause behind what we perceive as the passage of time is actually not a very difficult concept to follow. That is on the level we experience it at, looking deeper into quantum mechanics, theories suggest that the 5th dimension would be actually another branch of time. As he says at 3:25 ish, that quantum mechanics suggests when there is a chance of multiple out comes, all outcomes will occur, in different dimensions, thats where time gets confusing :p but this parts easy.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
The cause of the passage of time, is essentially just a relationship how light interacts with space. The interesting thing about light is that it's speed 299792458m/s is constant for all observers regardless of their velocities. This means if you are standing still and turn on a flash light the photons move away from you at 299792458m/s. and if I were to chase the flash lights beam at 50% the speed of light, the photons still move away from me at 299792458m/s. This means you can't ever catch it.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
Einsteins special theory of relativity states (and this has been proven) that the faster you go, the slower your time goes. A good way to show this is with a light clock (I'm gonna try to keep this brief:p) the clock is simply just two mirrors about 6 inches apart and a single photon bouncing between them, every 1 billion bounces of the photon is approximately a second. now if you were to move the mirrors at a constant velocity to the left. The photon can no longer just bounce vertically.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
If it did keep bouncing veritcally, since the mirror is moving, it would move out of the path of the photon and it would just be lost in space. The only way for the photon to stay with the mirror, is to bounce at an angle. This means the photon will be travelling a further distance, and since it's speed is the same. Increasing its distance but not speed must increase the time of travel. The faster you move the mirror the greater the angle the photon must bounce at, the longer it will travel.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
Since we have defined a second as a billion bounces off the mirrors, the longer it takes to collide with the mirror, the longer the seconds become. This is why as I said before about the freezing of time, if you were to move the mirror at the speed of light, the photon would need to travel completely horizontally to keep up with the mirror, and therefore it would never contact the mirror, and never record any time passing, this is why photons don't experience any time.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
And since the speed of light is 299793458 m/s relative to all observes, this means if we travel at different speeds our time passes at different rates. So back to what we originally were talking about, the photons not experience time, is how our laws of physics perceives our time. So your question regarding the absence of time, I would assume the electrons wouldn't move through the slits at all, but really I don't think we'll ever be able to freeze time and test it :p
I hope that explained it.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
@6FiftySix Interesting comments! We live in a Universe with an infinite number of inertial and non-inertial reference frames. That forms their own spacetime geometry (proper time) relative to their momentum and position. If this is so why do we need a 5th dimension? Can’t we have just 3 dimensions and one variable of time? This would give us a unique position at the centre of our own reference frame? And we would be able to look back in time in all directions at the beauty of the Stars.
nickharvey7 1 year ago
@6FiftySix No one truly understands why the speed of light is a universal constant and is unaffected by the motion of the observer. Modern physics has no understanding of why we have an arrow of time so it would be difficult for me to read up on the subject. Have fun!
nickharvey7 1 year ago
@nickharvey7 I honestly didn't mean that early comment negatively, but my early comment's, I wouldn't say are fact, since as we are learning even quantum mechanics and relativity cannot not both be true, and they have both been considered facts. But the behavior of the photon I talked about before, is accepted as scientific truth as the reason for change in time. And I support your comment on us possibly just being limited to 3 dimension, and to be honest I kind of hope that turns out to be true
6FiftySix 1 year ago
Cause although I get the concept of time being considered a 4th dimension we are constantly moving through, and although i can sort of wrap my head around the 5th, when I try to follow discussions of the 8th 9th and even 10th dimensional possibilities, I get pretty frustrated thinking about it. But the reason some physicists say we can't simply be restricted to these three dimensions is because they have developed their theory of super strings, being the heart of all matter, and energy, and from
6FiftySix 1 year ago
their theories of how these exists and could possibly be the source of all matter, they would need to be able to move in ways we can't and to explain this they suggested their idea of new dimensions, as I said I cant understand were it could go after the 6th but they have shown it in their math, I'm not saying they can prove it (they can't even come up with an experiment that could potentially show it) but they have reason behind their number of dimension each one exists in their
6FiftySix 1 year ago
theory because their theory requires it's existence to work. It may seem odd to suggest a pyramid of dimensions just to make your theory work.
I don't really see how there are physicists that have no problem blindly following the some of the strange results of quantum mechanics, but aren't even willing to give sting theory a chance. Personally I think it is a cool concept, and where or not there is solid of evidence of that many dimensions, I'm certainly not going to discourage the research.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
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harmoniouspulp40 1 year ago
What they fail to mention is the only way to observe things on a quantum level is to interfere with them. So it wasn't the act of observing, it was that our methods of observing interfere with the experiment.
gamingguy90 1 year ago
@gamingguy90 so i think the part about electrons behaving like particles when observed is bullshit.
ZhangyXD 1 year ago
@ZhangyXD You can think that if you wish. But you'd be wrong.
You don't need to agree, it's still an observed fact. We know this happens and we know our methods of observation interferes with the experiment causing another variable to change the results, we just don't know why. That's what we're working on, how does the interference our observations cause change the behavior of electrons?
gamingguy90 1 year ago
@gamingguy90 i think our observation didn't interfere with the experiment. Just because different observations observe different results doesn't necessary mean there was interference in 1 of them.. I wonder what happens when we combine the two observations..
I think this whole whole particle wave theory is just bullshit. I believe that electrons are neither a particle nor wave but it's some other thingy that shares both the property of a wave and a particle depending how you observed it to be.
ZhangyXD 1 year ago
@ZhangyXD ok well first, I'm sure that it isn't just mearly coincidental that they had different results. These tests would have been done over and over again, multiple trials are done before they conclude a theory. And secondly, no one is suggesting that an electron is a wave, a wave is just a characteristic of it's motion. For example, if you have waves of water, or stationary water, the water is still just water.
6FiftySix 1 year ago
Attention fellow simians:
No need to drink the quantum kool aid promoted by this video.
Please check out my video, "DeMystifying the Schizophrenic Photon".
watch?v=OdiDTaOi6rI
jeffkosmo 1 year ago
I`m guesing This is a Tunel effect .?! Fizic is so interesting and always full of surprises..you think you know almost awerything...but there is always somthing new something harder to understand ! HF.Thinking xD
kapaciteta 2 years ago
It's all Greek to me.
NationalPro 2 years ago
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shedininja001 2 years ago
haha, @AskOracle, out of everyone on this board you unerstand this vid the best. you understand the weirdness of quantum physics because you're so taken aback this incredible phenomenon.
KnuckleSushis 2 years ago
I think people are missing the deeper implications of these results. The electron doesn't naturally exist in a single state; it simultaneously exists in a number of different states. But the act of observing is a fundamentally deterministic process (in terms of causality), thus enforcing an outcome (i.e. collapsing the wave function or simultaneity). The point is that things are random in the quantum realm; and the randomness doesn't originate from a lack of information or modeling.
digitalcubano 2 years ago 2
dont confuse observing with simply "looking"
thats how batshit insane people start believing that conciousness plays a role .....when ur "observing" a particle u are interacting with it , since the detector needs to fire photons at the particle...
sidewaysfcs0718 2 years ago 12
@sidewaysfcs0718 im sorry, but that honestly makes no sense. theres not way that consciousness doesn't play a role if observing changes the outcome of results so drastically. if no ones there to "watch" or unconsciously "decide" what will happen, then particles act like waves. vice versa if someone watches. life is a dream whether you like it or not. if you truly don't believe that it is, you're just creating a self fulfilling prophecy of whatever you think is true to happen
MrIlikebigdick 11 months ago
@sidewaysfcs0718 But you haven't seen the extended explanation of this!
They had the detector ON yet if they choose not to look at the data and just press delete they got the pattern as if the detector was off!
IT BOGGLES MY MIND!
tenkikun 6 months ago
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@tenkikun "They had the detector ON yet if they choose not to look at the data and just press delete they got the pattern as if the detector was off!"
I don't understand what you wrote here. Are you saying they deleted the data about which slit it went through?
tsanur 5 months ago
watch?v=2KD9ICmaiGs
this is a video of what i think is mssing,we are only lookng at a very small section,my video shows the full picture
kevinstuartfr0st 2 years ago
single slit rotating and 2 single slits merging
watch?v=vwlp9nwMueM
kevinstuartfr0st 2 years ago
It seems to me that by adding an observer, you're giving that other bit of the electron somewhere ELSE to go instead of through the slits, so one piece goes to the observer and the other goes through the slit. Why this would happen could be any number of things though (most likely charge related).
CrimsonEagleSG1 2 years ago
if that is so , there must be diferent time intervals with and without the observer
XxAlitoxX 2 years ago
i suppose that in order to observe a particle that small a device would have to be something akin to shooting a beam of particles over one slit and not the other. If the beam of particles is interrupted then you know where the electron went. But the very act of using a beam of particles would disrupt the electron in some way, perhaps causing the results seen here?
mcsleeachuck 2 years ago
perhaps electrons are amounts of energy
rather than structued matter.
parasole42 2 years ago
no, unfortunately! There is nothing added to the electron by the measurement. It is simply the act of "knowing" that changes (collapses) the result--- which is the essence of quantum weirdness.
kmanuele 2 years ago
really????? like the ending, that can't really be true..? wows! when you observe it you aren't, say, adding anything for the electron to go through are you? it is exactly the same experiment as before and the electron actually does do that "oh no, im being watched" thing!!! someone tell me, this is weird.
AskOracle 2 years ago
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AskOracle 2 years ago
the measurement problem
OK2BCK 2 years ago
Good video!
In my video Quantum Mechanics an artist view it is Time that is the Hidden Variable. Time has symmetry and geometry that can explain the two slit experiment of Quantum Physics.
nickharvey7 2 years ago
in stephen hawking's book, the explaination is that the light waves that the observer reflects on the electrons causes them to behave differently , bounces off them and changes their motion-the uncertainty principle (you can never totally accurately observe anything because the light waves which you see have reflected off the object to be observed and changed its path)
sidthekidder 2 years ago
In other words, its the interaction that is required to observe the electron that changes its behaviour.
KoningStoma 2 years ago
@sidthekidder that is interesting, what is the way of proving this?
OK2BCK 2 years ago
Nice clip, but maybe it should mention, that observation means physical interference. And that physical interference with electrons causes them to cease performing quantum effects is a well known phenomenon that's described by the term 'decoherence'. It doesn't have to do with the electron being 'aware' or 'deciding' not to behave coherent (meaning behaving in a quantum-y way), but with a physical interaction changing the setup of the experiment by 100%.
janeyanna 2 years ago
with simplest dialect as possible ! material of the observer sheet is the fault because particles change to the silhouette of what ever they collide into because you see they are so light they bounce off each other in the slots
the exterior / (invert) of the structures mass are used but although material allow particles to push through the shortest dimension of the sheet (which is now interior) it blocks the air passage causing traction that decrease the speed just enough to stop the bouncing
okuma0kuma 2 years ago
Simply by observing waves will turn them into particles? That is really scary. Does this apply to all forms of light/energy? Then by viewing the 3.5TeV of gamma-ray photons streaming along the galactic equator will turn the continuous wave into particles? Then why are governments sending gamma-ray detectors in space? Wouldn't that be dangerous to turn those gamma-rays into particles? The kinetic energy for a wave is nothing. Would the particles do severe damage traveling near the speed of light?
GateMessenger 2 years ago
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krinkletube 2 years ago
So does this mean they will never know IF the particle splits into 2? because to me this seems impossible. I'm not a scientist but as an educated guess I'd assume the waves that effect an electrons destination is like a stream of water, and the electron is riding on that stream. It doesn't split into 2, it merely rides the waves...
johnvixen 2 years ago
The problem lies not in quantum physics but in the language. If you use words like "marble" and "tiny peace of matter" of course it is hard to understand. But those words are metaphors that we use in daily life. When used to describe subparticles they are not accurate.
The video tries to be educational but I guess it only causes confusion. If you want to learn this you have to jump into the mathematics.
GrinningSandCat 2 years ago
the problem is in the definition of a particle
in fact, a particle may be nothing more than a localized energy process, like a standing wave
so there is never 1 electron that splits up in 2, from the standpoint of waves, there never was a particle
It's like we say: "oh, this is a stone". From one standpoint, it is, from another, it's just an arrangement of atoms
same with electron, just an arrangement of energy
sleepingeye 2 years ago 14
Hmmm I can see where your coming from and it makes a lot of sense. but the question is i guess for me at least. when is an arrangement of particles considered an (known object i guess) and if this is true, at least your theory of summing this up. isn't he supposed to be testing "arrangements of energy" at the quantum level? so it can only be viewed as an arrangement of energy, but why would it take two separate actions? (especially with the vision being a factor i can see why your skeptical)
narukid29 2 years ago
btw im talking 2 you sleeping eye
narukid29 2 years ago
yeah i PM'd you
sleepingeye 2 years ago
@sleepingeye If the explanation was as simple as that, why does observing or measuring these "arrangements of energy" affect the outcome?
sbthatcher 1 year ago
@sleepingeye what about string theory? i stilll remember Brain Greene's theatrical demonstration of his Superstring Theory on TED, saying, "this is where the conventinoal theory stops, and string theory comes along, and says beneath all that, there is something else... vibrating filament of energy just like vibrating strings of french horns. vibrating at a particular frequencies, different freqencis make up different particles, different particles make up different matters..."
Starstution 11 months ago
this just shows how little of the universe we actually understand. I think its amazing. but how do they measure if its a camera then could the light be disrupting it somehow?
UdderMarmalade 2 years ago
"let's go Quantum!"
yuothineyesasian 2 years ago 2
Very cool animation. It makes it ever more exciting.
Stargaze79 2 years ago
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wow. more stupid science that you can't back up
The observer somehow broke the wave by just being there? Or by using his eyes and looking at it? If the observer just broke the wave formation by just being there...then..would all physical matter break the wave formation? and if the observer broke the wave formation by just looking at it, then how does the neutron know someone is looking at it?
skamaster48 2 years ago
You need to try this mathematically and you'll see that it makes sense and is perfectly proved.
rosgalindo 2 years ago
it's backed up by math and has been directly observed. idiot.
pniiice 2 years ago
k, prove it. And i don't mean by this cartoon. Anybody can make a propaganda cartoon like this
skamaster48 2 years ago
why do u disbelieve that this can happen? just because we don't know why, doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.
redagron 2 years ago
it means that i question things before i see solid proof so i don't get sucked into the fucking propaganda. Look at history, how much times people just blindly started believing what was placed in front of their eyes? The outcome was not always pretty. Just cause some flying scientist cartoon is saying thats what happens i still actually wanna see the particles split in the wave theory. I wanna know how the observer destroys the wave,
skamaster48 2 years ago
Just google "double slit experiment" and you'll find enough material on it to keep you occupied for the rest of your life.
Amy31415 2 years ago 2
It's pretty apparent that you've never taken higher-level physics or chemistry.
If you can't digest this weirdness, then the other stuff in quantum mechanics would absolutely make your head explode.
But, unlike others, I'll give you a thumb's up, because it really does blow people's minds and with good reason. Read up on it, it's absolutely fascinating.
Amy31415 2 years ago
it's "weird" in the scientists minds
it's natural to the universe
sleepingeye 2 years ago
this freaking video blew my mind! My brain needs more!
nights2018 2 years ago 8
@nights2018: try watching the movie it came from "Down the Rabbit hole: What the bleep do we know" if you want more ITS GREAT!
FarieFly 1 year ago
Dude...don't collapse my wave function!
richsuga 2 years ago
my brain just had an anuerism
SargentandGreenLeaf 2 years ago
I think one of the most fascinating things about quantum physics is that the act of observing or measuring matter in these small pieces, electrons, photons, whatever, changes what they do. You don't have to touch or strike or do anything, just observe or measure them. It is a little disturbing in a way. But I've heard this many times.
ella22221 2 years ago
you have to relise what there useing to watch :)
from what iv seen they use a light,lol so you hit a light wave with a light wave thats what changes its path,all this rubbish to say a electron can know it is beaing watched madness lol
kevinstuartfr0st 2 years ago
You're sounding a little ignorant. Maybe you should open a book or two. Yes this is our world and it is not only as you have been taught, or as only I have been taught.
It is far more than Pop music or getting stoned or getting laid or about how much money you make. LOLOLOL
Caleprius 2 years ago 4
A good book discussing a lot of these phenomena is "Quantum Reality" by Frank Herbert. If you haven't read it I highly recommend it.
Chrisanthos1969 2 years ago 3
If a tree falls and no one is there to hear it does it make any noise??
Does that tree even exist?
so0o0o0 2 years ago
Perhaps not unless someone is observing it. Because the matter that makes up the tree knows!
khome4 2 years ago
That was a great video and very simply put. Thank you for taking the time to post it. This is indeed a very interesting and almost disturbing subject.
dmgates08 2 years ago
I think this video fantastically describes a conept which I only got to on about chapter 17 of my big fat quantom book.. 3 cheers for Dr Quantum!!! LOL
1111881311 2 years ago
FUCK YOU DR QUANTUM
parabolamaster 2 years ago
you know.. at least he's trying.. what are you doing besides being negative?
DyeVad 2 years ago
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4unitedMAN 2 years ago
Some of the comments are really depressing. I went to bad inner city high school and we were taught about this in our Physics class. It's often referred to as Young's Double Slit experiment and it was part of the beginning of modern and contemporary science. This is very basic stuff.
mehip 2 years ago
QM is extremely weird and counter-intuitive. Paradoxical to the point that Nobel prize winners were baffled by it for years until they gave up and accepted that it's crazy and moved on. If you're saying that learning that QM is paradoxical and beyond intuitive understanding is "very basic stuff", then okay. Two Nobelists have said that anyone who isn't utterly shocked by QM doesn't get it.
zarkoid 2 years ago
That's interesting, but it raises questions.
What method was used to "observe" the electrons, (an energy field)?
Was the measuring environment present in both iterations of the experiment?
If it was and the electron pattern varied based only on whether or not the data being collected was also being fed into an active recording or displaying device, then that would be interesting.
Otherwise I'd have to wonder if the nature of the measuring procedure altered the behaviour of the electrons.
GalacticChimp 3 years ago
From what i understand its the nature of the measuring procedure that altered the behavior. But you cant observe it any other way. So when you dont obeserve you cant know where its going, cause its going everywhere. Thats how i understand it.
Terminator4004 2 years ago
I'm inclined to agree; that's by far the most likely interpretation of the experimental results.
If we're right, then I have a BIG issue with this video. To explain something that simple and ordinary in a way that makes electrons seem conscious is extremely irresponsible.
Our society already has a problem with segments of the public not understanding or accepting science. This can only add to their confusion, by suggesting that there is a mind behind the movement of matter and energy.
GalacticChimp 2 years ago 2
There's nothing "simple and ordinary" about wave-particle duality. The whole mystery is sufficiently explained quite well in the first part. You are right that the eyeball machine watching is misleading. In reality, the act of detecting an electron going through slit A gives it no choice but to act like a marble. The observing is a physical interaction that makes it a new experiment in which the QM mystery is eliminated. Still, it is a great introduction to the concept for school kids.
zarkoid 2 years ago
You've misunderstood.
I'm saying that a physical / natural explanation is simple and ordinary RELATIVE to a super-consciousness / paranormal explanation. I'm confident you already agree with that.
I also agree that it's a good clip to give school kids an intro into the subject, but it desperately needs to have the eyeball explained by an informed teacher, (or the rest of the video, if there is more to it).
As it stands, I deem this isolated clip unfit for public consumption.
GalacticChimp 2 years ago 2
You misunderstood me also, but I think we agree anyway. My point was that the eyeball is presented as a portal to a MIND, as if being CONSCIOUS of which slit the electron goes through has an eerie effect. In fact, the detection involves something like hitting the electrons with photons, which nails the location of the electron as a physical particle. The fringes would disappear even if the observer were asleep. After thinking about it, I agree that the video is very misleading at the end.
zarkoid 2 years ago
'To explain something that simple and ordinary in a way that makes electrons seem conscious is extremely irresponsible.'
point taken.
But, asking as an atheist who does not know much about these kinds of things, are you saying that the possibility that these electrons made a 'conscious' decision should be totally disregarded?
roryphelan 2 years ago
But what if, given the multi-universe theory, these observations are happening simultaneously in another universe where the exact opposite result is observed. Could/would that have an effect on the outcome at the quantum level? Maybe these elementry particles inhabit all universes at the same time.
karadan100 2 years ago
I'm not sure what you meant by both iterations but the observer wasn't there when it was an interference pattern and was when it wasn't. I also don't know what you're talking about when you say energy field but generally you observe shit by bouncing a photon off of it.
boredman443 2 years ago
In the context of what I was asking, the experiment without active observation would be the first iteration, and with active observation would be the second iteration.
As for observing the electrons' positions, my assumption was that some sort of electro-magnetic field might have been used to track the moving electrons. The point of my question was that the video did not explain how the electrons were located, leaving room for wild (mis)interpretation of what the video was actually saying.
GalacticChimp 2 years ago
cool so if the theory of parallel universes is right does that mean the parallel universe is opposite to this universe.
in other words if im good in this universe id be bad in the parallel one. science is cool and mysterious
bogieman987 3 years ago
maybe the matter has a mind like a cell has a nucleus and since everything is made of matter it would most likely have some kind of inteligence because without matter there arent any cells and without cells there arent any humans or organic creature or plant that may be why when it was observed it acted differantly because it has intellegence
bogieman987 3 years ago
From somewhere know this series of interesting videos.
In case you're curious with, but like me:
Neither hear nor read(without subtitles), then ...
Hope URL below helps:
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8loyal 3 years ago
i guess particles are shy.
i've had real trouble coming to terms with the concepts in this vid; the slit test totally threw me!
this helped xD thanks for posting!
siouxziesoo 3 years ago
But how is that possible? It's like matter doesn't exist if we are watching it. It's like that theory of does a tree that falls in a forest makes a sound if we aren't there to hear it. O_o
DragonToken 3 years ago
So the observer did not interfer at all with it?
How could the act of observing change the way the electrons acted?
moulingalette 3 years ago
no one knows; quantum theory is weird, and totally illogical! lol really fascinating to study tho.
siouxziesoo 3 years ago
the strangest thing is what happens when adding an observer
TERRORcop 3 years ago
that's weird...
At least we know there's more to discover =P
HiLoPicoLo 3 years ago
wow!
kipptumor 3 years ago
Fuck I'm too tired.
I meant to say it might be what causes gravitational lensing due to light curving around near the object much like air or water does around smooth edges.
rubnayr 3 years ago
Obviously the light is bending or it would form 2 slits. I think this may be due to following the edge of the slit and is what causes really causes "gravitational lensing" in massive objects the stars.
rubnayr 3 years ago
For me to understand this I need a cosmology that will work. The first thing is to reject the improbable infinitely fast, and infinitely small, and the unlikely, that they are in sink with each other. This means that the fastest fast moves in more than one smallest small. The result is a quantum blur. Like a runner moving in a picture faster than the moment of the exposure. In the picture we call this smear motion blur. The difference is our film is in four dimensions and called space time
tmarti69 3 years ago
Like film, if multiple movements cross they appear stronger at the intersections. In film if you take both hands and wave them over each other, the intersection will be a solid flesh tone. This is eerily like the wave pattern in the double slit experiment.
In the double slit experiment size and speed matters. The larger a particle is the more it overlaps its self when moving very fast.
tmarti69 3 years ago
The faster a particle moves or the smaller a particle is the less it overlaps and interacts with itself. This means the probabilities decrease with a larger size and like the electron gun it behaves more like a particle than a wave of light, as can be observed in the one slit experiment. The electron beam in the one slit experiment does not diffuse out like light and therefore is somewhere between a wave and particle.
tmarti69 3 years ago
Imagine light or any particle in an expanding or contracting sphere of probability. As it approaches the wall its all wave, but at the moment and place of interaction the probabilities contract as it hits the wall it reflects off it. Like the formula for intelligent life, the more life you find, then the more probable intelligent life is.
tmarti69 3 years ago
The interaction of observing the electrons going through the slits, in the double slit experiment, reduces the probability smear and its wave like properties causing the electron beam to act even more as a particle resulting in the loss of the wave pattern that was there before and replaces it with the characteristic double pattern of a particle instead.
tmarti69 3 years ago
Although, this may be difficult to swallow, its easer to gulp down than the caster oil of alternative universes, or up to eleven dimensions and it allows a cosmology that combines the laws of Newton and Quantum physics. It also explains how any object or mass can become a wave if it is fast enough and or small enough.
tmarti69 3 years ago
the particle intefered with itself...
wat the hell is going on
nic0dem8D 3 years ago
i am so glad to see this information being spread. this is the greatest thought provoking experiment. the more that know = the more that want to know = a smarter world = a more peaceful world. thanks
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