VoterFrog

@VoterFrog@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, famously, they’re waves and particles. The double slit which way experiment will only set off the detector in one slit, as if it was a particle. Yet, without a detector it will interfere with itself as if it were a wave that passed through both slits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. But the thing that’s interesting about the double slit experiment though is that it works on only a single photon. It’s as if all the traffic was created by a single car. So classically you might not think that the single car should care if the freight truck is heading down a different lane than the car but I’m QM it does, because the car is in a superposition of occupying several lanes.

  I’m probably driving the analogy straight into the ground of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you trying to see exactly? There’s this video done with polarizers: youtu.be/unCXuRXpEhs Of course, it’s not an instant on/off but having an instant on/off doesn’t really change anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to accurately measure the location of something requires energy. The more precise the measurement, the more energy is required. The amount of energy required get the precision below the Planck length would literally create a black hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not American enough. I need it in football fields.