My brain hurts but wow

[hallsofvallhalla]

Simply mind blowing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

then watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfeoE1ar ... re=related


just crazy

[Nexus]

O_O whoa haha

[SpiritWebb]

Nice...my head hurts now! LOL

[Zak Zillion]

What there saying is: If there is a possibility of us seeing what is happening, then it works like how a normal photon would work. Otherwise is works likea normal photon and a wave photon.

[hallsofvallhalla]

yes, if there is an observer it acts normal, if there is not an observer it changes its behavior. The second video proves that the actual camera does not affect the electron.

Imagine the AI possibilities of this if harnessed.


Makes you wonder how the electron knows and why it cares....

[Torniquet]

i have always wanted know the double slit one since i first watched big bang theory lol. I understand what Sheldon is saying now XD

[Callan S.]

I would just say what we call matter is simply wave correlations. You see the board with the build ups of intensities and gaps in between. That's what 'matter' is - simply where the waves crash into each other. They aren't sending a single 'particle of matter' through, ever. We only think in terms of matter because we live in what Richard Dawkins, iirc, calls middle world. Like a pond skater insect only thinks in 2d because that is it's world, we think in terms of matter because that is our world. Even though like the pond skater, this is just simplification. What were discovering is where our simplification becomes unraveled and insufficient. The point where the pond skater does not step left, or right, but up.

With the observer, it's simply that the observer is another source of waves, for an observer to exist as what we label 'matter'. Have they ever run the test treating the observation device not as an object, but as a rippling source of waves itself? Or perhaps not the source of waves, but certainly where a bunch of waves are colliding and spewing out over the waves they are already projecting?

I didn't grok the second video terribly well, but I think it meshes with this as the apperatus is 'matter'.

[62896dude]

Everything you just said Callan, made absolutely perfect sense, hahaha, really quite mind-blowing to think about

[Jackolantern]

I personally think the rabbit hole will keep going, and going and going. Being finite beings, we want to put absolutes on things. We used to think atoms were the smallest building blocks, then quarks, then on and on. But, if you were the size of a quark, it would likely be easier to keep looking deeper. Ultimate reality has no bounds, and probably no absolute truths. That is one of the mind-numbing realities of studying physics. The more you look and think you know, the more questions there are, because there is no end point where you get to the core.

[Ark]

So you would say, jack, that the universe has no boundaries