Comment on The real double-slit quantum eraser they don't want you to know about!
NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 1 year agoThe original meme is definitely correct, idk why so many people were having conniption fits over it. In the double slit experiment’s simplest form, not measuring the photons leads to the wave interaction pattern and measuring the photons leads to the two bars as you’d expect from particles.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s because it isn’t clear from the meme that the monkey is looking specifically at the interaction at the slits.
NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 1 year ago
It’s a preeeeeetty clear joke reference to the use of “observe” for the behavior changing if the photons are measured/interacted with
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s clear he’s observing something, but all too easy for the viewer to think the monkey is merely observing the pattern on the screen at the end. It also doesn’t help that there are a bunch of slight variations on the double slit experiment, like those listed in this post.
If the monkey was at 90 degrees to the experiment, looking at the slits only side on, then it might be clearer - though I’m not sure how you could draw that lol.
NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 1 year ago
sigh bud if you’re not good at picking up context clues then I can’t help you. This conversation is going nowhere so I’m gonna stop responding