>>13327256I have to say that the two slit experiment as mysterious as it seems, also seems (at least parts of it) like bullshit!
I read that if you make ‘observation’ at the two slits (to see which slit the photon is passing through) that the wave pattern vanishes. Some say that this is because when you ‘observe’ the particle (or anything for that matter) you hit it with a photon.
Well I do not know how people have ‘observed’ which slit the particle is going through but if you have to ‘hit’ it with anything to observe it…then there’s the answer!
By the same token, when I ‘observe’ something…I am not hitting it with a photon! My eye is not shooting out any photons…I’m simply receiving photons that are already hitting it and are already bouncing off it—photons that already exist.
Furthermore, if you ‘observe’ which slit the particle is going through (however this is done) and the wave pattern on the screen behind it changes (is lost), are you telling me that if you block the observation (put a playing card in front of detector) that the wave pattern reappears? What about if the human watching this looks away?!
I’ve read a lot on it over the years and perhaps I just need to dig deeper. Nothing ever seems to detail how this observation is made. My reading seems to say that if you look at something you change it. That implies that the action of intercepting a photon which has already left the ‘observed’ thing somehow has a backlash that impacts that ‘observed’ thing before the photon left it therefore traveling backwards in time. BS on so many levels it seems.
