Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment

I especially love 2:42 lol

Mind = Blown

I'm tripping...

yeah =p

doest he Heisenberg Principle have anything to do with this stuff or am I making that up?

YES haha

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measurement (i.e "seeing it"), the wave function collapses and the electron is found in one of the many potential positions it can occupy. This occurs with the mechanics of all subatomic matter as well, not just electrons.Cheers.

When they say they placed a "measuring device" it is most likely electromagnetic radiation (light) that disrupts the electron's momentum due to both the electron's very small mass and the light's high frequency. So our personal perception of the electron doesn't make it "decide to act differently" it is simply the fact that we need some sort of light to measure it. Someone stated it in a previous comment: the location of an electron is measured in a probability wave. At the point of ...cont.

...from a distance where they will not interfere with the "waves" from the particles coming through the slits of course.