Single molecules in a quantum interference movie

This video shows the build-up of a quantum matter-wave interference pattern from single phthalocyanine molecules. See also our original publication in Nature Nanotechnology (DOI:10.1038/nnano.2012.34). A version at higher quality is available at www.quantumnano.at .

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[techkitsune]

This is absolutely crazy. I thought this would only apply to quantum particles such as photons. This being demonstrated on a molecular level just blows my mind.

[Norbert Hinterberger]

The particle concept is probably purely subjective (intersubjectively, but just subjective to the part of the world, we see classic). Heinz Dieter Zeh has pointed this out repeatedly. The wave-particle dualism seems discreet not to be present. Objective or physically fundamentally just seems to be the wave. Under laboratory conditions (without decoherence) one can clearly show that, as we see here.

[David Ekstrom]

when we*

[David Ekstrom]

lol, maybe reality is created through our thoughts..hmm.

I mean when he go down to that scale (which everything MUST go down to that scale including any sort of wave), then really the matter you see around you is no different than a wave...and our thoughts are waves too. and as you know waves can be sent and received in the form of signals. and if everything is made of waves, then everything can communicate with eachother. :-)

[David Ekstrom]

well that's not even true. They say that in fact when you ARE observing them they act different that when your not observing them..

So not to sound rude, but it looks like you haven't really heard about this..

See the video to the right "The Observer in Physics Double Slit" video?

Cartoon guy wearing yellow, and glasses with mouth open. Watch that video. :-)

[David Ekstrom]

okay, yeah that makes sense. Pretty interesting, you could use this to help understand how we create reality...By us observing what we see in our current situation, we collapse all possibilities, but if we look past it, and towards the final result, we allow for multiple possibilities, I believe this explains Law of Attraction, and Synchronicity.

[Aphazel9]

Only then when it has already interfered, observing it on ending screen forces each molecule to choose a position, following probabilities corresponding to INTERFERED wave, thus the actual video.

[Aphazel9]

All possibilities would collapse only if you observ which one of the 2 slits each molecule goes through. Then yes, each molecule would be "forced" to choose one of the 2 ways, and you would only observ 2 bands on the ending screen.

But if you only record the FINAL position of molecules on the ending screen past the slits (just as in this experiment), the undisturbed wave of potentiality of each molecule remains free to go simultaneously through both slits and interfer with itself.

[matsmc]

The C60 experiments go even back to 1999!

By the way... it's the same group conducting these experiments...

[David Ekstrom]

by the way, this is just a re-creation of what happens, it has to be, because the very act of recording it would collapse all possibilities down to one, and you would only see two bands.

[David Ekstrom]

....This would lend more credence to the idea that perhaps our minds are controlling matter, and that things such as the Law of Attraction really aren't all that crazy. :-)