It seriously makes my mind hurt.
Can the double split experiment be explained in an eli5 way or is it just too complex for the layman with an average IQ to understand?
How does observing a photon crate a wave pattern *AND* change events that have already happened?
In: 5
I think your confusion stems from the word “observe”. On the quantum level, it’s impossible to peek at a particle and know its state without also interacting with it. Imagine if you were blind, and the only way you could see the world was to throw a tennis ball straight forward and measure the time until it came back to you. You might get some information about the world, but every time you threw that tennis ball, the object that it struck would change state. It might be pushed back a bit, it might get dented, or it might be completely destroyed. That’s also how we observe quantum particles.
Latest Answers