As a game developer, I can tell you its for performance reasons. Why waste processing power rendering particle behavior when there is no observer to output to.

@eltonmaiyo

7 жыл бұрын

Hahaha maybe so, I suspect upgrades maybe soon forthcoming. The question is whether these design artifacts & other physical constraints are necessary or intentionally?

@fkngeniuspappie

7 жыл бұрын

Elton Maiyo With the possibility of our physical observations being selectivly simulated depending on if we're physically observing them, it also seems possible that on "the other side" there may be beings living out several lives, each time starting with a new redeveloping consciousness that can't seem to grasp the double slit theory. I wonder if they're then able to remember each and every life when on the other side ("unplugged" from simulated reality). The social implications of your lives lived's quality can then be a factor when it comes to your footing in the community hierarchy on "that side". Not that I believe in this, but it is interesting that the Hindu idea of reincarnation and karma that basically says your life lived determines how you'll return can fit in that far out logic. This can obviously also explain other realms of _being consciousness_, like heaven and scary enough, hell. Hell, if these beings are only nearly as messed up as humans they'll send the oppressed or misbehaving to shitty simulations for possibly an infinite time period. The knowledge a civilization with this capability can produce when the data of many simulations are mined could make them infinitely knowledgeable. Another possibility could be that you are just a learning AI component. So many possibilities opened up by this gap (slit) in our knowledge. kooky

@eltonmaiyo

7 жыл бұрын

Adriaan Serfontein Interesting ..observations :) The nature of base reality/"the other side" is an infinitely interesting subject to explore with equally infinite conceivable possibilities. Your theories makes sense.

@kalahariskydive

7 жыл бұрын

Well, as a developer your algorithm knows what area should be observable on the screen at any given moment and does the rendering accordingly. How can a 'dumb' particle 'know' when it has been observed?

@SunnyApples

7 жыл бұрын

As a CG artist, what particle system is being used here?

Getting this kind of thing free and recommended for you is definitely a positive of modern life

@slangkam

2 ай бұрын

This comment can't be praised enough

@LisaBlooper

14 күн бұрын

It's also a negative because getting free stuff also means getting distorted facts. Back in the day of dusty roads, horses, and ipads, we had to seek Truth by wagon-based travel and persistence, often going thirsty along the way, due to lack of rain. We never got false info that way. Only facts. It's like digging for gold. You find pure gold if seek it out yourself, in the mountains, and if (instead) it falls into your lap, it's probably false gold. It's just a lure. Someone wants something from you. Look around to see what it might be.

@jimmydanger2223

14 күн бұрын

@@LisaBlooper what a load of verbal diarrhea

@LisaBlooper

14 күн бұрын

@@jimmydanger2223 lol no need to feel small and fragile. unless of course, you are Jimmy :)

The people are laughing but just the mere thought of it runs chills down my spine

@garrybarry4286

Жыл бұрын

exactly

@joxyjoxyjoxy1

Жыл бұрын

Why?

@garrybarry4286

Жыл бұрын

@@joxyjoxyjoxy1 well maybe we live in a predetermined universe, that's the scariest outcome. or maybe we live within a simulation or a conciseness, but the chances that we live within the universe that is material by nature is probably untrue

@joxyjoxyjoxy1

Жыл бұрын

@@garrybarry4286 or maybe God just likes messing with us.

@garrybarry4286

Жыл бұрын

@@joxyjoxyjoxy1 A bible god? Zero chance

I’d say one of the Best double-slit-experiment explanations on the internet. Fills you with awe and curiosity about this wonderful universe we get to experience.

@Oscaragious

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain how the detector detects? How can it detect the atom without touching it or shooting photons at it, potentially affecting its trajectory?

@skwervin1

Жыл бұрын

@@Oscaragious You can with X ray plates in the old days, now we have better detectors that pick up the tiny charge the atom/particle deposits on the screen.

@Red-Brick-Dream

Жыл бұрын

Given that it's a deliberately obfuscatory _non_-explanation, I have to disagree.

@marcocurrin8122

Жыл бұрын

The same way we turn on three dimensional box inside out is the same thing that’s happening here we are the 1- looking down at the H2 on the periodic table. THE HUMAN SOUL IS THE FIRST ELEMENT

@adamnguyen4517

Жыл бұрын

@@Oscaragious We can’t. At the quantum level to observe is to interact. This video was extremely oversimplified and feeds the popsci crowd (which isn’t bad since it gets people more interested in science). The popsci idea people seem to have is that observing (which means interacting) a photon causing change being the weird part, when its not. The weird part is the multiple questions and experiments that followed and are still continuing to this day.

I tried the double slit experiment at home. The wife was not impressed.

@PR0Z0MBIE9877

8 жыл бұрын

lolol

@HylianHero69

8 жыл бұрын

great fuckin comment, keep experimenting

@PR0Z0MBIE9877

8 жыл бұрын

Alex G haha i think he meant it in a sexual way

@HylianHero69

8 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah me too goof ball

@lifer3860

7 жыл бұрын

That was a funny ass comment! I am still cracking up!😅

Seen this experiment described a dozen times,,,, this is about the best one. Bravo for helping my slow brain.

@axion4523

4 жыл бұрын

I hear ya!

@kyannos

3 жыл бұрын

I'm with you as this is the first time I really "get it" !! wish this guy was my HS teacher back in the day !!!

@leecowell8165

3 жыл бұрын

this professor is amazing. What he is stating is that the atom somehow KNOWS that its being "measured" or sensed. and thus it ALWAYS becomes a "particle". it will NOT interact! but IF you turn the "detector" OFF.. it doesn't know! and thus it just becomes a part of a "wave". yeah how does that atom KNOW about the EXISTENCE or ABSENCE of that detector?? thus if there's only ONE slit present the atom has no choice but to pass through that one slit. thus every atom that does so hits the screen in basically the same place. its ONLY when you open the 2nd slit that things get a bi "hairy". But as long as nobody is measuring the atoms perform as interference waves. BUT if you turn on a detector for just ONE slit NOW ONLY TWO DISTINCT patterns on the screen are formed (one directly behind each of the slits). The atoms are communicating. hey if I go through slot # 1 YOU go through slot #2!

@dieseldanrr

3 жыл бұрын

@@leecowell8165 p

@eduardoaraujo8174

3 жыл бұрын

@@leecowell8165 The atoms knows its being measured or you know the atom is being measured or not? Im new to this but this observation behaviour seems to be related to knowing or not knowing. I wonder if there was a way to put a detector that beeps in a frequency we cant hear and that no one knows that it beeps for example. What would happen?

Even if we forget about thousands of other variations of this experiment with all the timetravel, causality breaking consequences, already the fact that a single atom behaves differently going through a single slit and double slit is enough to blow my mind.

@amihart9269

4 ай бұрын

There are no causality breaking consequences or time travel.

@goldnarms435

4 ай бұрын

@@amihart9269 There have been tests that have resulted in "reverse causality" concerning the double split experiment. This requires entangling two particles, and one travels a further distance than the other. The one that travels the shortest distance is not measured. However, if you measure the particle that travels further, it will be reflected in the interference pattern (or not) of the one that traveled the shortest. It's as if it knew the other particle was going to be measured, and thus its behavior is altered prior to the actual observation taking place.

@amihart9269

4 ай бұрын

@@goldnarms435 Nope.

@isaacmendes1926

4 ай бұрын

​@@amihart9269 care to elaborate?

@nabuk3

2 ай бұрын

No, that's not the major inconsistency. The rub is that the pattern seems to depend on whether the atoms or photos are being "observed". But I think there is an explanation, which is that the device doing the detecting is interacting with the atom. Why didn't he explain how the detector works, to rule this out, if he believes it is not the explanation?

Even though I struggled over this for the last 35 years I never stop to be amazed by this. And this explanation is simply clever AND cheerful. Cheers for that!

@nabuk3

2 ай бұрын

What explanation? No explanation for the inconsistent results were given at all. In fact we're told we'll get a Nobel prize if we come up with one. Did you even watch the whole video??

"Quick, the Sims are becoming self-aware!!!!" Expect a software patch shortly.

@Gcammo

5 жыл бұрын

Kurt V haha 😂

@grahamyodude

5 жыл бұрын

They tried patching it last week but I remember this happening last week so looks like the patch update failed

@danpoole9016

4 жыл бұрын

@@grahamyodude I'm from future. What happened last week

@manawearblack

4 жыл бұрын

It will never be patched, because then we would all realise that we are definitely in a simulation/computer program

@ludik2312

4 жыл бұрын

The COVID-19-restart-required patch?

I hope this analogy helps others to understand. When people say "observing" changed the result, they do not mean the physical act of watching the experiment - they mean the act of measurement changed the PROPERTY of the thing they were watching. My analogy; when you take your temperature, the thermometer you use SUCKS heat away from you (consider a metal teaspoon in a cup of tea, the spoon gets hot because heat energy is being transferred from the liquid to the spoon. The tea is actually getting cooler by transferring heat to the spoon) Therefore, the act of using an instrument to measure the temperature of something CHANGES the temperature of that very same thing. I believe this is the same thing (but of course, probably more complex) but am happy to be corrected. It's a layman's explanation which I feel stands up

@santos122122

3 жыл бұрын

But if they are watching only the upper slit, why the atoms that go trough the bottom slit don't still behave like waves since no one interferes with them?

@meganz020

3 жыл бұрын

This is actually incredibly helpful, dude. Thank you!!!

@davidfiler5414

3 жыл бұрын

@Dirk Knight Almost 100% of people? What's that 99 and half % peeps? or 99 and three quarters% peeps? Be specific man, or don't you know your sums?

@davidfiler5414

3 жыл бұрын

@Dirk Knight Were you missing me 100% or only 99.99%.

@davidfiler5414

3 жыл бұрын

@Dirk Knight Oh well, that would make it 100%. Well done, there's a good boy.

I'm not a physicist, so most of the time I'm just going about my life. But periodically, every few years, I remember this experiment, and I remember there is something about it that I find eerie. I can never remember exactly what it is, so periodically I review the experiment as I just did with this video. And once again, I'm left with the disturbing feeling that something is very wrong with our reality. It's almost like we are not supposed to be aware of certain things, we aren't supposed to be observing them, and when we do, they are altered to keep us from seeing what's really there. If I was running a simulation and didn't want my simulated agents to discover they are in a simulation and start trying to hack their way out, I would implement something to prevent discovery of the fundamental nature of their reality. Every time they tried to look at the substrate of their existence, I would show them something other than the processor they were running on. I don't know about anyone else, but this experiment has caused me to increase my estimate of the probability that we are living in a simulation.

@adamnguyen4517

Жыл бұрын

This experiment isn’t the confusing part. Everything in this video can generally be explained. At least the “relevant” parts. The questions and experiments that followed are what really get whacky. So to relate it to you: if you think we’re living in a simulation, Quantum physics is so whacky the simulation is debating on whether its living in a simulation!

@IAyala1010

Жыл бұрын

@@adamnguyen4517 this is comforting 😂

@adamnguyen4517

Жыл бұрын

@halligalli I'm just saying while quantum physics has some unanswered questions, its also a relatively new science. Just give us a century or two and I bet we'll have it down to a science, literally. Then we'll move on to the next weird phenomena of reality.

@steviesteve750

11 ай бұрын

@@adamnguyen4517 You didn't mention the real elephant in the room: quantum gravity. The idea that time doesn't exist in the human sense of a sequenced order of life, everything exists simultaneously, and life is the process of sequencing those events into some perceived order. And if that is so, then just why?

@adamnguyen4517

11 ай бұрын

@@steviesteve750 Well thats just one train of thought, but if that does turn out to be the case, I'm not sure. Definitely not qualified enough to answer something that complex.

My layman's theory: Photons generate very subtle gravitational waves in which they themselves travel. To prove this, one can try to disturb this wave with another device. The photon detector might actually interfere with this wave, which is why the result of the experiment is surprising.

@qaesarx

Жыл бұрын

No, still doesnt make sense, the detector is looking at only ONE slit, still the second slit is affected too. Also the detector is passive. And even if you unplug it, it will receive the energy but dont record it. Also ALL the atoms are shot one after another... The only explanation would be that space has a structure that guides the atoms. And that structure is becoming deactivated by the detector... the question is, WHEN. When WE look at the result or when the detector looks at it... If its about US (way later..) this would mean that the space has somehow temporal determinism or the atoms do... its weird anyway...

@steviesteve750

11 ай бұрын

You might think that the universal laws of thermodynamics apply here, after all to detect an atom, or "see" it, that requires an interaction with a photon, this changing it's energy level; a bit like using a contacft thermometer, which immediately changes the temperature of the surface once it's in contact, as the thermal energy rebalances locally. The issue is how does this interaction change the slit pattern?

@TheRetroGamerReese

11 ай бұрын

I agree with this and was going to post but was hopeful there was another person who saw it this way. Bravo go collect your nobel prize 🎉

@darkesco

10 ай бұрын

This is absolutely how it works. The observation device disrupts and, therefore collapses the patern. If we could detect a photon or electron without altering its state, we could theoretically have instantaneous communications between devices from one galaxy to another. The atoms do not "know they are being observed," like many experts say or allude to. It's just them witnessing to you about their silly simulation religion.

@RichardWebb-do6cw

10 ай бұрын

Nice glitch in the matrix if you ask me. Humans 1 creator 9999999999999😂😂

Bruh I started from a physicist reacting to Attack on Titan and now I’m here😂

@DaveZeke

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha same! Except it was him reacting to Rick and Morty and also referencing this.

@terencenjoroge463

3 жыл бұрын

me too but from rick & morty

@gabrielcornelia9995

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha anime working wonders

@bro0ke_lyn794

3 жыл бұрын

I started from a tiktok where a woman criticized religion and now I’m here ;-;

@terencenjoroge463

3 жыл бұрын

@@bro0ke_lyn794 i do not even wanna know what happened in between lol

"According to quantum physics, you cannot "just" observe something. That is, quantum physics recognizes that to make a observation, you must interact with the object you are observing " - Stephen Hawking.

@WAKMM

4 жыл бұрын

Im not sure if this was stated before the delayed choice experiment was done in 2007

@crystald3346

4 жыл бұрын

That’s not true just because Stephen Hawking says so. There are thousands of experiments on this, delayed choice is a perfect example.

@redcell9248

4 жыл бұрын

That has more to do with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle than it has to do with this experiment.

@alahjandrodagrate1611

4 жыл бұрын

Observing is interacting

@ONEMindCoaching

3 жыл бұрын

Could you tell me the source of this quote pls?

I've heard this explanation: So long as quantum particles do not interact with anything in the universe at all they act as waves. But as soon as they do interact with anything they take on particle like behavior. Every detector necessarily relies on some type of interaction with what is shot through the double slit in order to detect it. So, in this example unplugging turns off that interaction.

@manoj81478

Жыл бұрын

Have you heard of "delayed choice quantum eraser double slit experiment"??? If not Please checkout and explain to me with logic..

@takisk.7698

Жыл бұрын

ppl buy into the "spookiness" of quantum physics so easily.. while there are perfectly reasonable and simple explanations out there.. makes me pretty disappointed on my fellow human beings.. we are smarter than this if we just try a little bit.. come on now.

@popcorn2466

Жыл бұрын

@@takisk.7698 obviously everyone there know there's an explanation.... the point is with our current knowledge we are so far from understanding it that it ''currently'' is magic for us

@takisk.7698

Жыл бұрын

@@popcorn2466 there's way too much that we don't know and that's okay but when you get some unexpected results and you default to supernatural nonsense like "the human conscience affects the quantum world?!" instead of going with logical explanations.. it's just disappointing to see.

@popcorn2466

Жыл бұрын

@@takisk.7698 true

This issue is what sparked my everlasting curiosity in physics and quantum mechanics, just to fall down a rabbithole of hundreds of weird and confusing data from experiments that classical laws of physics just cannot explain. there's just so much unknown, and so much to discover and learn. This specific problem in quantum mechanics not only gives plausibility to an observers universe, but also in certain specific scenarios, it fully implicates direct time travel of photons as a normal working part of the universe

I can explain this easily but I don't want youtube people stealing my Nobel Prize

@yassineselmi7714

5 жыл бұрын

me too

@empty2110

5 жыл бұрын

grahamyodude it’s quite simple my good sir 🍷

@peteq1972

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Campbell has it licked in his video The key to understanding our reality.

@Valorince

4 жыл бұрын

watch him say God

@kenzomartini

4 жыл бұрын

American Movement email meee im interested to know

0:57 - with light 2:08 - with sand 5:48 - without camera 7:34 - with camera

@denisa7090

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Parshvamehta1991

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks but KZread ads ruined it!

@ernestamoore4385

2 жыл бұрын

It's the photons of the camera recording them that affects their behaviour. It's not a mysterious effect.

@David-jy7vh

2 жыл бұрын

@@ernestamoore4385 lol sure Mr einstein, you should be a scientist. 🤧

@obtheserverdmt

2 жыл бұрын

@@ernestamoore4385 I thought cameras contained sensors capturing photons rather than projecting them. However, you may be on to something, because it might be true that when the photon hits the material making up the camera sensor it is absorbed and an electron is released. Could these electrons being released from the camera sensor as the detector observes the atoms moving through the slit have an impact on where the atoms travel to as they pass through the slits?

I have watched many of videos with Jim Al-Khalili, and I can say that he is very good at explaining complex things. Very much like Jacob Bronowski, James Burke and Carl Sagan.

@bobbyb9907

Жыл бұрын

he did a great job

@akgreengirl9876

Жыл бұрын

And dear Richard Feynman

@danielpaulson8838

11 ай бұрын

And Brian Green

@beryllium1932

8 ай бұрын

He physically resembles Robert Andrews Millikan.

so if anyone ever asks you if supernatural things exist just point them to this experiment.

I learned about the double slit experiment in high school and then again in college. I never understood it as well as from your presentation. Thank you.

@digitallair3425

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. High school, then college .... errrr.. ok...huh? Now this video -- Ah I've got it!

@haydnrogan6789

2 жыл бұрын

I was just remembering doing this experiment at uni, I remember the girl I was doing it with and that's about it lol

@schrodingerscat8391

Жыл бұрын

Same here i study this in highschool when i was 16 yrs old and now i m 28 a doctor but still haven’t understand this

@tony_1980

Жыл бұрын

@@schrodingerscat8391 You covered quantum mechanics and the double split experiment in high school? Some high school you went to. I went to high school in Norway, and when I studied in the US at University, the math class my year at University in the US was high school level in Norway. So color me impressed of your high school.

@skulqerX

8 ай бұрын

Also learned the young double slit experiment at highschool. At the time it was only referring the wavelike pattern so no biggie. 10 years after that the same experimet cropt up on my feed and said it was one of the explainations of quantum theory .# My whole life is a lie

How do you detect an atom without interacting with it?

@im4485

4 жыл бұрын

this is an underrated comment

@David-bc4rh

4 жыл бұрын

Entanglement.

@marin7615

4 жыл бұрын

You don't. If I got it right, nobody has ever really detected these particles in an experiment, it's simply not feasible. It's just a theoretical thing to explain how QF works, based on the Uncertainty Principle stating you cannot measure both wave and particle behaviour. If you detect the particle it will act as a particle (two bands), if you detect the wave it will act as a wave (interference).

@David-bc4rh

4 жыл бұрын

@@marin7615 You contradict yourself saying particles can't be detected, and then they do detect particles and waves. We observe particles by measuring their interactions and vectoring. This experiment demonstrates the Observer Effect on the quantum level, the act of quantifying the particles collapses their wave function. This experiment also demonstrates that particles only exist in waveform when there is no observation, evidenced by the interference pattern that can only occur from waves. Using detection equipment collapses the wave function thereby causing particles to behave like solids.

@marin7615

4 жыл бұрын

@@David-bc4rh I fully agree. I just meant the particles cannot be detected both at the screen and in between at the same time. If we were able to do that, we could probably solve the mistery, similarly as we understood the micro-world in biology after the invention of the microscope.

It’s often given a sort of magical interpretation where just looking at something can alter the outcome. More like coming into contact with anything will always distort it to some degree.

@takisk.7698

Жыл бұрын

Bingo.. there's no way to "gently observe" as the presenter puts it.

@nmarbletoe8210

Жыл бұрын

@@takisk.7698 Gently doesn't mean without influence

@takisk.7698

Жыл бұрын

@@nmarbletoe8210 it's a misleading word to use.. the detector interferes with the result so there's nothing "gentle" about it

@esfbse8347

Ай бұрын

@@takisk.7698why would a wave function collapse when it is measured

As commented by some, I think what we perceive as atoms (just like electrons) may exist in a quantum cloud that's governed by higher-dimensional laws than we can detect. However, our detecting equipment may cause some tiny variations in those dimensions that account for this behavior. Figuring that out is obviously non-trivial, but imo that's where the answer lies.

@sentientbean1

4 ай бұрын

If the tree falls in the woods and no one is there to see it, has it really fallen?

@MsTringan

4 ай бұрын

Does the world exist before you Open the Door?

@nabuk3

2 ай бұрын

Yes, that seems obvious, so why didn't Kalilli address it??

Eureka! So that's why a watched pot never boils!

@kalebrand

5 жыл бұрын

I actually debunked this in 6th grade for a science fair. Watching the pot takes the same amount of time, but it generates boredom as a byproduct

@doktormcnasty

5 жыл бұрын

I make a point of watching every pot of every liquid change to the boiling state just to feel the satisfaction of putting it to everyone's face who repeats this nonsense.

@jitheto551

4 жыл бұрын

Boils but very slowly

@manawearblack

4 жыл бұрын

@@doktormcnasty You're taking too seriously fella, the phrase means that things seem to take longer when you watch it, kinda like how if you watch a clock for 5 minutes it will seem to take much longer than if you just watch a 5 minute video on KZread or distract yourself some way

@doktormcnasty

4 жыл бұрын

@@manawearblack You know what, if you don't mean it then don't say it. Why not just say "It seems to take water longer to boil when I'm watching it"? Why's that so hard? Why do people feel the need to get all hyperbolic with words like 'never' which are obviously completely untrue to the situation?

I don't know much about science, it wasn't my easiest subject growing up. I am just beginning to learn about quantum physics. Some videos I have watched on this experiment, and I couldn't quite comprehend what was going on. This explains it so very well in an easier to comprehend way. Thank you for this video.

@dr_jaymz

Жыл бұрын

in a way, quantum physics isn't very good at science either - because anyone who thinks they understands it, doesn't understand it. And by definition, quantum physics is very much not classical physics, and therefore not being good at that to start with isn't a barrier. Quantum physics in essence is anything that logically doesn't fit with any everyday knowledge and experience.

@3brenm

Жыл бұрын

​@dr_jaymz it's good at stats, but bad at theoretical physics. But everytime i watch the double slit experiment again i just get blown away again and again by it.

@ayezz2811

Ай бұрын

Stay curious Simon!! 🙂

I've read about this experiment tons of times and it still amazes me. The visuals really help. Its F'n nuts

This gave me chills!

"Described" rather than "explained".

@ayingchanda

5 жыл бұрын

Both are the same tbh but i agree with you

@danpoole9016

4 жыл бұрын

Because it's a mystery, we can't explain why it happens.

@sickduck9865

4 жыл бұрын

He explained the EXPERIMENT not the phenomenon.. smh..

@widjadija

4 жыл бұрын

I think you read it as “the results of the double slit experiment explained” when all the title implies is an explanation of the experiment itself, which it did.

@johnc3403

4 жыл бұрын

Duh! ....explain it and the Nobel prize is yours!

First of all, I would like to thank Jim Al Kapone for making this Nobel prize possible. Second, I would like to thank the atoms for being so confusing. I also have a split personality and thats why I can get in their mind. Its not easy to be an atom. You dont even know if you're a particle or a wave. Sometimes you behave like a particle, but sometimes you behave like a wave. And last but not least, I would like to thank me for being made of these particles waves. *Waves at atoms. Atoms wave back.*

@Mystical3030

2 жыл бұрын

Wow...so profound!!

@jucklowe

2 жыл бұрын

Swing and a miss.

@russcooke5671

2 жыл бұрын

As made as it seems in black and white it’s does make sense

@stephaniasanchez-tarre3604

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the unexpected laugh lol

@aeonsleo2

Жыл бұрын

That's intellectual venom

It'd be interesting to know more about this. How did the sensor work? Did it emit any waves or particles itself? What different detection methods have been used and what were the results? This was 10 years ago, is it still considered that the atoms somehow change their mind?

@XENONEZZ2

8 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same....it could be the detector interacting with the atoms that produces the results seen.

@Morethanamethod.

8 ай бұрын

Wouldn’t all these genius researchers also pose that question?

@davidbristoll195

8 ай бұрын

@@Morethanamethod. I'd have thought so, but, I'd also expect them to talk about those questions too and they haven't.

@rc6115

8 ай бұрын

That's a very very good point. Didn't think about it....

@willhamilton2467

8 ай бұрын

I believe that this is stiill the most accepted interpretation. I believe that cameras work by light wave/particles affecting the the recording part of the camera.

Best explanation out there. Made me finally visualize the two slit experiment. Unplugging the detector boggles the mind. My thoughts. When you take a measurement. You are making a call on energy much like a computer operating system to generate physical reality. When you unplug the measuring device whether you like it or not you have made your intention clear you no longer intend to take a measurement and reality corresponds accordingly.

@ronanmcw

4 ай бұрын

More boggling for me is that when the detector is plugged in it's only observing the top slit, not both, and atoms are only being fired out one at a time with a gap in between. This means atoms passing the bottom slit are both not being observed and not being influenced by a previous atom - why would these ones not form a wave distribution pattern? In those instances, the act of observing *literally something else and not the atoms in question* is causing a change in behaviour, which is just whacky.

An explanation of how the observing apparatus works would be helpful

@sickduck9865

4 жыл бұрын

thank you

@David-bc4rh

4 жыл бұрын

it's all very small of course, but it's just an electrode that's tuned to detect the micro current of electrons or photons. There's other ways to get particles to move a needle, but to count single photons passing through a slit, this is all that's needed. old tech.

@benitocamela6336

4 жыл бұрын

Does it really need an explanation though? It's based off of emitting a certain frequency that will detect the atom or some individual particles that compose it. I'd like to know what you think about the comment I made recently in this video. Sorry I can't provide you with a specific link though.

@bokchoiman

4 жыл бұрын

@@benitocamela6336 Not everybody understands everything without having scientific background.

As far as I am concerned, it was difficult to work in the same relaxed way in the office when the boss was standing at the back of my seat and observing what I was doing compared to the moments when no one was observing.

@sampsontendaimutsago1935

4 жыл бұрын

True

@Jagamy

Жыл бұрын

That’s because when he was there you were working and when he he was gone you were on the internet watching clips like this.

@vinojoshua841

Ай бұрын

And God saw the light, that it was good... Genesis 1:4 Jonah 3 10 Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way...

1. The behaviour of atoms going through the slits is the same as the behaviour of light, for whatever reason (e.g. maybe something is altering the behaviour of the atoms, or maybe some assumption about the behaviour is incorrect). 2. The detector interferes with the results. E.g. a detector could cause the photons to go through each slit with a 50% chance, whereas the absence of a detector could cause them to go through both(somehow). 3. The detector being activated or deactivated is a determinant in whether or not the results get changed. Even if that doesn't appear to make any sense. Maybe it changes it in a way we just don't know about yet. To me that's the most rational explanation even if we don't know how or why. Haven't they done an experiment where they put a filter on one slot as a method of detection and the thickness of the filter effected the result of the spread?

Thank you. This is the clearest explanation I have come across.

"Nothing is exactly as it appears, but everything is exactly as it is.. " - B. Bonzai

@greggrobinson5116

4 жыл бұрын

Or, as President Eisenhower once observed: "Things are more like they are now than they every have been before."

@vinojoshua841

Ай бұрын

And God saw the light, that it was good... Genesis 1:4 Jonah 3 10 Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way...

Love Jim Al-Khalili. This was a great video, cannot believe I never discovered it before.

It’s perfectly easy to explain:- The contra-di-fabulating trans-denominating upper and lower oodle Flori-murdle-bunds are all explurjigating in an anti-clockwise Oodle Splunge cloud. I thought everyone knew that.

Excellent video and presentation. Thank you.

Thank you Sushant Singh.. Learnt something new today

@crazyshitgaming

4 жыл бұрын

Hm

The atoms are having a party and we're not invited, so when we call them to see what they're doing they tell us they're just chilling at home. I think we just need to understand that we're not cool enough to hang out with atoms.

@princemateosparta5882

2 жыл бұрын

Like UFOs. They are more free and open when we are unaware of them but once we prepare the detector equipments they are gone

The double slit experiment is amazing and truly bizarre. That said, I will leave this little nugget: there is no observation without interaction.

@schmetterling4477

Жыл бұрын

What's bizarre about two slits minus one slit makes one slit? That's kindergarten arithmetic. Don't tell me you stopped paying attention in kindergarten. ;-)

Have been avoiding this freak show for 40 odd years --but Mr Al Khalili has a brilliant method of getting this phenomena across to dodos like me --thankyou Jim !

"No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"

Jim Al khalili is my favourite when it comes to quantum mechanics. I just love how easily he explains such complex things.

@schmetterling4477

Жыл бұрын

Why do you love false explanations?

@joxyjoxyjoxy1

Жыл бұрын

Technically, he failed to explain something.

@schmetterling4477

Жыл бұрын

@@joxyjoxyjoxy1 Yes, he failed to explain the actual physics of it. ;-)

@dwaynekeenum1916

7 ай бұрын

@@schmetterling4477u dumb , by ur logic explain the physics of God or a lack of God

@dwaynekeenum1916

7 ай бұрын

@@joxyjoxyjoxy1L

has there been an experiment set up for the double slit, where there a sensors at each level. And if each sensor (2 gaps, 1 wall) receives a ping over time, could we attribute the wave appearance to the gravitational influence on that photon at time of observation?

@williamb7275

Жыл бұрын

I am wondering the same.

I think this is one of the biggest arguments to say we're in a simulated reality - the simulation only does accurate calculations when required to due to observation in order to save resources.

Maybe the detector gives out an interference of its own which changes the way that the electrons act?

@2222badger2222

8 жыл бұрын

what about when the electron goes though the bottom slit ? the detector isn't required

@Drummerdude998

8 жыл бұрын

***** chill out, i'm just making suggestions xD

@ThatOneScienceGuy

8 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same exact thing. This is the only logical explanation. I can only assume this has been ruled out as a possibility, and if so, I'd like to know why.

@Drummerdude998

8 жыл бұрын

***** oh soz mate

@PR0Z0MBIE9877

8 жыл бұрын

it actually does seem like that lmao

You can now enjoy this mind bender in Spanish, thanks to a kind person who donated their time to provide us with Spanish subtitles. Gracias!

@griffinfloyd

6 жыл бұрын

The Royal Institution is it possible that the device used to sense the particles was interfering in some way... magnetically or electrically? and that that caused them to behave differently

@NinjaWarriorDude416

5 жыл бұрын

Witchcraft.

@HG-Pilot

5 жыл бұрын

You are on the right path my friend! So now The Mental Institution can mislead and confuse Spanish viewers as well! Watch The Primer Fields Theory 1 - 3 he goes into a great details about why all this is a new age BS. We are not allowed to go into higher energy physics and thanks to above bs is not going to happen any time soon.

@notdaveschannel9843

5 жыл бұрын

Lo siento, no entiendo. ¿Cómo se dice en español?

@promoteamutube

Жыл бұрын

Please remember that this is not a mind binder. I can give myself the Noble prize if you want but the explanation is so simple. The problem of course here is that scientists still think n term of electricity and magnetism as either wave or particle. They have not yet put feet n the other forms of energies that compose this duality of electricity and magnetism. If only they understood that thoughts are the creators of this duality, they would understand their own experiment. They still fail to understand how consciousness impact its own creations. They still don't understand the two impulses that manage this manifested expression. Time will come. I explained this mind binding illusion in simple terms but look into how consciousness create reality via its 2 impulses and you will understand why the camera impact on this experiment. No need to be a scientist, you see.

Excellent presentation... thanks.

I have one simple explanation for that: The equipment you use to check the behavior of atoms, affects the behavior of atoms. simply use another method. There are lot of bad measurement devices that affect the measurement process. for example a bad voltmeter can itself drain current and show less voltage. A bad thermometer can itself changes the temperature of item under examination.

I wish this challenge and admission that "we don't know it all" was written in my text books when I was studying..

Explanation: Atoms are actually aliens in tiny spaceships who like to confuse humans. Noble prize please!!

@br7078

8 жыл бұрын

+Avi K LEL

@gurjantgill8681

8 жыл бұрын

+Avi K You sir have just wrecked this kid hard. I guess you deserve the Nobel prize...

@hunterwillis7283

7 жыл бұрын

Jaydon Nolan i was just thinking something along these lines! lmfao or! or! or!... reality is trying to keep us from realizing thr truth, that truth being that all of reality doesn't truly exist, and reality conceals this secret with superposition. ;)

@LordSaboLP

7 жыл бұрын

i refuse to believe this isnt the right answer, for me...thats how it is now thank you.

@brentlio5578

7 жыл бұрын

Why so complicated? They are just trolls.

what role does light play on the test with the atoms? is it 100% dark when the atoms are shot through or is light also present during the test? Does the detector use light in a way that cancels out the normal light wave pattern?

Here's the most simple explanation, everything in our universe is just a wave, until our consciousness makes it a solid, is almost like if everything is a hologram until we're aware of it's existence, then becomes solid 😬😬

@hassaanrauf4349

Жыл бұрын

A detector isn't a conscious being tho, it being switched on/off affected the results

@Xgil2Play

Жыл бұрын

Are you suggesting simulation theory by any chance?

can the detector when switched on be causing some sort of involuntary interference with the atoms

@SurreptitiouSurprise

7 жыл бұрын

I'm certainly not proficient with physics, so I'm probably about to sound really dumb. So a photon is a wave particle, but because it travels at constant velocity, it has a zero resting mass, yeah? But we know atoms do have resting mass. First question is: do researchers get the same effects if they send just one photon at a time through the two slits as they do when they send one atom? Second, can the difference then mass between the two contribute to the differences in the outcomes?

@bme7491

7 жыл бұрын

The detectors are actually photo-multipliers, they don't "shoot" light/photons onto the particle.The more sophisticated "delayed" two-slit experiment shows that if you know the path of the photon (by which detector it hits), it will act as a particle. If the path is not known (possible two paths), it behaves like a wave. Really weird.

@bme7491

7 жыл бұрын

They've sent everything from photons to Bucky Balls and the results are the same.

@bradleyearl7257

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Truly mind boggling stuff. How do the photo-multipliers work?

@bme7491

7 жыл бұрын

ConsciousConversation They are basically multi-stage amplifiers, converting the photon into an electrical signal large enough to be analyzed and processed.

he's wearing a bowtie which helps me focus more by about 5%

@liberationwasalie2982

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@sephblack

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but it's also +5 RADS

@Mark_Agamotto1313_Smith

3 жыл бұрын

Well of course, Bow Ties are cool, just ask Matt Smith.

@posthink6166

3 жыл бұрын

oh God, if you get affected by these small things, then for sure you are distracting freak.... :)

This was mindboggling...breaks your understanding

Leave the detector turned on, but wear ear blockers so you can't hear the sound it makes. Also block your vision so you can't see the individual spots on the screen, just the aggregated result. Then repeat the experiment but let a (hearing) cat see and hear it as the experiment proceeds. Small bird, octopus (DNA significantly different from human), cockroach, whatever else you can think of. Then, combinations. This would be even more interesting.

Love prof. Jim. His 3 part series 'Atom' was life changing for me.

@williamdekker

2 жыл бұрын

Watching that next, ty for the rec

@feverkane

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamdekker enjoy

@Red-Brick-Dream

Жыл бұрын

Same bro. Still gives me goosebumps.

It bothers me how when describing the double slit experiment, they nearly always gloss over the inner workings of the detector. Since we're dealing with individual particles, it's kind of important to know what the detection method is so we can know how they are or are not interfered with. In this video, for instance, it is utterly un-awing to me that the interference pattern comes back when you turn off the detector. If it is in any way an active detector rather than a passive one (think bouncing a second ball off of a first ball to figure out where it is, vs looking at the track left behind as it rolls), then turning it off is essentially backtracking to the experimental conditions that produced the prior interference pattern, so of course you get the same result.

@badlydrawnturtle8484

8 жыл бұрын

ohemgee That's the problem, isn't it? An instrument effect is the most logical conclusion to draw from the double-slit experiment, but videos like this (and indeed whole communities, including seemingly many physicists) are trying to argue the exact opposite: That it isn't an instrument effect; that the “observer effect” is a separate concept that involves some sort of knowledge transfer rather than an interaction of physical states. You can see that this is what they are trying to do when they put in the detector and the interference goes away; and then they turn off the detector without removing it and say “Look, the interference comes back! It must not be because of the detector!” If they thought it was an instrument effect, the final round of oohs and awws wouldn't happen. Hence my comment about active vs passive detection; the way videos like this treat the experiment only makes sense if it is a passive detector, since turning off an active detector is effectively removing it. (It becomes even more troublesome when you know that passive detectors at the quantum scale are pretty much impossible.) I guess I'm less confused about the experiment than I am about people's reactions to it. Why do they think this is impressive, let alone a world-shattering paradox? I feel like I'm missing something by not finding it as baffling as all of these scientists make it out to be.

@badlydrawnturtle8484

8 жыл бұрын

ohemgee I think this guy honestly believes that there is something other than instrument interaction going on. I don't have any direct evidence of a large number of physicists thinking that way, but I get an impression of it from the phrasing that goes with this sort of experiment, even if the person talking is otherwise competent.

@Goohuman

8 жыл бұрын

Badly Drawn Turtle The reason we don't hear scientists refer to the detector is because it had the same effect on the experiment in both cases. Without changing a thing, the experiment was done recording and not recording the information. Believe me, this experiment has been repeated many times and by much smarter people than you and I. Detector interference was the very first thing they tested for. We are beyond that now. But there is a logical answer. It just doesn't apply to a strictly material world.

@badlydrawnturtle8484

8 жыл бұрын

Goohuman Yet, I have yet to find any reliable source that describes such an experiment with adequate attention to the detector. In other words, I don't believe you. Not without sources. A strictly material world is all we have evidence for. Postulating non-material answers would require a lot more than one type of experiment; it is an extraordinary claim that would need an extraordinary reason to consider it.

@Goohuman

8 жыл бұрын

Badly Drawn Turtle I get it. You are not willing to consider non-material causes. I put it to you that the results of this test are pretty extraordinary. If you are seriously questioning the detector, then you owe it to yourself to look into the actual research that was done. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment You may also be interested in an even newer version where the observation is made after the photons have passed through one of the slits and before they land. Quite fascinating: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment#Delayed_choice_and_quantum_eraser_variations

my answer is TIME .. the past, present and future exists simultaneously, hence, when carrying out the double-slit experiment at any given moment (without observation) then there is/was enough time passed already for the photons/atoms to form the interference pattern due to deflection, hence the result (notice how the atoms are concentrated in the middle of the pattern and less conentrated at the edges). Once we start observation then the result will be limited to the timeframe of our observation, therefore, we only see two bands of photos/atoms. It is impossible to see the interference pattern through observation as the only way to see the pattern is by starting the observation before the emission of first-ever photon

This is the BEST!! Explanation ever! I also never thought this would be funny.

All future Nobel Laureates in the comment section

@ranichoudhary1989

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@mudza92

4 жыл бұрын

But jut what, just imagine, what if one of those commenters is the one capable of solving this mistery, and is dehumanized by ordinary youtube commenters disgusting behavior, and actually never look back at this double slit experiment again. Yeah we humans deserve to be wiped out of egzistence

@techdesigner9741

4 жыл бұрын

Solved it: our thoughts create waves (brain activity can be measured through frequency) therefore when we're observing we're emitting waves and the particles are simply riding them 🏄‍♂️

@0i0l0o

4 жыл бұрын

@@mudza92 relax dude. your resintment for humans has nothing to do with his briliant comment.

@mudza92

4 жыл бұрын

@@0i0l0o That's briliant to you? You are very easily amazed lol

My kitten behaves in the same way. He stops playing as soon as I start filming him !

@harisnh1366

2 жыл бұрын

Does your cat happen to be a member of Atom Cats?

@philippizza1

2 жыл бұрын

Show him what happens to schrodinger's cat, and let's see if he still acts that way

I am 33, and just showed this to my 67-year-old university-educated, bible-following father. At the end of the video, he was speechless with raised eyebrows. My hope is that he will watch more of these with me in the future.

@kylekitzman

4 ай бұрын

Dont you think showing your dad things that are beyond his capability to understand is going to make him believe in the Bible even more so

@lawrence1318

3 ай бұрын

You'd better think a bit more about your own beliefs. That light is both a wave and a particle mimicks Christian theology: the Trinity is both 3 (which speaks to particles) and yet 1 (which speaks to waves). Commensurately, the bible says that "God is light". So the material world speaks to spiritual realities. God is light and God is 3 and 1 at the same time. This is an exact parallel of what has been shown here about light's behaviour. Couldn't be more exact.

I've heard these mysteries , never took the time to watch in detail very interesting .

Atoms are the same as humans, when they know that they are being watched, they act different. :D

@ramtinsharaf2416

5 жыл бұрын

No, humans are made of atoms

@jamesstevenson7725

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@moneerkarim7809

5 жыл бұрын

This is a very good one

@Dracopol

5 жыл бұрын

The "observer" in quantum physics is not a human being.

@jamesstevenson7725

5 жыл бұрын

But if a human being did observe the particle, it would still behave differently if it was being watched

'Do you really believe the moon is not there when you are not looking at it?' - - - Einstein

@Dailyplanit

3 жыл бұрын

according to this science its always there just sometimes as an energy wave and sometimes as a solid mass. But when is the moon EVER not looked at with millions of species crawling about the planet?

@game_developer_7382

3 жыл бұрын

This is a theory. There is not proofs about it. This theory uses in the games for optimizing the game. Just render where you look at. We do not need to render the back view scene in the game for optimizing the game. The world is not video game and then there could not be such as this theory.

@doji-san

3 жыл бұрын

@Fida Muhammad When you asked your friend you effectively transferred the vision to him so you ARE EFFECTIVELY looking at the moon. Now if he is also not looking at the moon and he tells you it's there, then he is lying to you :D

@johnmoore4523

3 жыл бұрын

Prove this to yourself, sit quietly,clear your mind, close your eyes, close your mouth, close your nostrils, give it half an hour and then ask your self what really exists. Then try this for 3 hours!!!

@erbalumkan369

3 жыл бұрын

I am looking at the moon where it was about a second ago.

I had a old wagon axel hub, really old & weighed about 15 lbs. I knocked out the spoke holes and put a small 110 volt lite in it. the effect was very neat.

Are you sending atoms or photons thru? Edit: presumably it's photons as you mentioned "mono-chromatic" at the beginning. What happens with a stream of atoms, or oxygen molecules (O2)? At what size molecule do you get the "sand" effect?

I just read Rovelli and have some thoughts about this. According to loop theory there is no such thing as a global time but the "mark" of events/processes. What does this do to the double slit experiment? Could it be that the probability wave is not collapsing because of the “record”/ obvervation, but rather that there is no particle, just a sequence of an event? That the future and past is indistiguishible if there is no “record” ie no “foot print” of the photon traveling towards the slits? So in other words there isnt a wave that collapses into a particle, but rather a series of probable events which are all leaving a mark and dont exist as eigher particles or waves. The particle is the event. When we mesure it, it doesnt collapse, but we just measure a point in this event sequence? When it has leaft a mark/footprint/has been measured it stops behaving like a “wave” because it gets a past and therefore its future is limited. What do you think of these thoughts? Is it just an uninformed thought of a non phycisist or am I just saying the same thing but in other words? ^^

@todoelmundoapesta

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like not recording allows for us to have a small glimpse of multiverse posibilities as if the experiment moves through 5th dimension but shows different paths, once we record, the gate allowing us to observe multiverse through 5th dimension closes, hence no more interference pattern

@generalruler

Жыл бұрын

I I think your thoughts are nice, I think they may have been informed by several physicists, because who else would make seemingly normal words become an abstract concept that is by human standards relatively inconceivable. I think it depends on how many slits were open when you sent the thought particles in to the comment field, but now that I've waved them through they might get a new future ripple into the slits that I may/may not be recording;/observing despite the inherit pretense of the wave's literal unobservability (adds triple word score) Perhaps you could experiment by saying the same thing but through other slits and the see if the result results on the "mark" but in actual words, I hope they do, not theoretically, with actual processable words though. What do they think do you think? thanks in advance. Ham.

@r.gelmers6580

Ай бұрын

Very similar to my thoughts on this effect. I think it's a natural mechanism to guard the laws of causality. Both interaction and information collapse the wave function because at that point, the particle becomes part of the chain of events.

Having watched the video again & again I stand by my original statement. If you unplug the detector & the wave pattern goes back to the multi-pattern then you are interfering with the atoms when you have the detector turn on. Exactly how does this detector in this experiment work?

The detector part is what caused the strange behavior; there is no way to detect a particle without interact/interfering with it; so this is merely a mental experiment other than a real one

The detector added a factor. It was just unplugged. We need more detail Information. Im sure someone will figure this out. This is easier to understand than previous once’s I’ve seen. I hope to see another one with what they actually use to “‘detect”

Make it 3 slits to confuse them 🤣

@David-bc4rh

4 жыл бұрын

block all the slits turn out the lights exit lab promptly

@davelordy

4 жыл бұрын

@@David-bc4rh Don't forget to lock up the atoms first, you really don't want to leave them loose in the lab, I use a shoe box.

@Mysixofnine

3 жыл бұрын

Or remove the slit and place a hair.

@Mysixofnine

3 жыл бұрын

@Tanaphar Plus Masks what’s waving? Aether? I don’t use the same mechanism everyone else’s uses for light. I use another assumption.

@Mysixofnine

3 жыл бұрын

@Tanaphar Plus Masks so the question is, why to we see fringe pattern on the wall? We have two hypothesis, on a “wave” two a particle. Can we assume of a third hypothesis that mediates light?

I don't know anything physics and have tried reading up on this experiment but could never really understand it and why it's so famous, but now i have a much better idea!!! Wonderfully explained and thank you so much!! It's so cool and weird😂😂 atoms are sneaky

@SunShine-kd6td

2 жыл бұрын

Veritasium did a much better video.

@tony_1980

Жыл бұрын

@@SunShine-kd6td If you think that. you don't understand the problem

@promoteamutube

Жыл бұрын

Not really sneaky my friend. The atoms and molecules themselves possess kinds of consciousness impossible for you to analyze, because the scales of your activities are so different. They are information-gathering processes, however, containing codified electromagnetic properties that slip between all of your devices. The atoms and molecules and all of the seemingly smaller "particles" within them are, again, information carrying processes, and upon them depends your entire interpretation of the nature of events.

@j.p.5617

Жыл бұрын

@@promoteamutube gathering information for reality?

My suspicion is that it has something to do with the method that we use to observe. It is not just some camera, but some kind of device that does something more "sciency" and I suspect that this process interacts in some way with the test.

@extravagantpanda7962

2 ай бұрын

That's exactly right. We "observe" the particles passing through the slits by using some sort of measuring apparatus, a "detector". The exact nature of this device will depend on the specific experimental setup, but the important part is that it must physically interact with the particle in order to measure its location, and it is this physical interaction that occurs locally at the detector that alters the particle's state. Whether an observer is present to witness this or whether they are consciously aware that the particle has been detected is irrelevant.

This blows my mind! And the man explaining it is no nonchalant about it too. The atoms are aware! This is so freaky!

@karlkarlsson9126

11 ай бұрын

They aren't really aware, as we know of, sorry to say, it's just a figure of speak to try to explain.

@91JLovesDisney

11 ай бұрын

​@@karlkarlsson9126Yeah. But they definitely have properties that make it feel like they know things. I am no qm expert, and I've been reading your comments and it seems like you are. So here's my theory I don't think this is an original theory, something I learned from vsauce probably, but I think that all quantum particles have pure randomness programmed in. Where they will land on that sheet is determined purely by chance, there's simply a higher mathematical chance they will land in specific areas, creating the interference pattern. The fact that the interference pattern looks like a light wave interference pattern could be relevant, or could be a coincidence. I truly don't know what I'm even talking about, just talking. This has been stressing me out all day

@karlkarlsson9126

11 ай бұрын

@@91JLovesDisney I'm no expert either :), but I know enough about this experiment by now that I want to help people who struggle with it, because even if videos like this are great, they often ends without any Q&A. What you say is somewhat what the experiments and the current math says, no one knows what a quantum wave is physically, but the math and the experiments suggests that it governs the probability of the locations of the particles based on a wave like nature, which explains the interference, similar to when two water waves interfere, and you can use Schrödinger's equation to calculate the probability. Some physicists calls it "potential particles", meaning that they don't really exist prior to observation, but the potential locations for them exists until they are being observed, which then determines the one location govern by the "probability wave". This is the part that makes it seem that particles are aware, but as it suggests it's not that it's particles are being aware, as you say about particles having randomness programmed into them, it seems that before any observation is taking place there's already an existing wave of probability as to where a particle will show up (superposition), and we can't get a good look at that situation without changing it by trying to observe it. So it seems that it's rather the observers when becoming aware of the fact, or the receiving of information that changes the outcome, which leads to interpretations of consciousness being fundamental, mind creating reality, but this is another controversial interpretation among many.

@91JLovesDisney

11 ай бұрын

@@karlkarlsson9126 Right. Okay, I gotcha. That is kind of what I've heard, but it's so hard to wrap my brain around (obviously) It feels like humans weren't meant to go this far

@karlkarlsson9126

11 ай бұрын

@@91JLovesDisney I agree, it does feel like that sometimes, from the vast and big distances in space that we can not cross, to the very small that we can't see or grasp. Do someone wants to limit us?

This was such a GOOD video. Understanding this experiment was very difficult, & you nailed it in one shot !

@johnnyc.31

Жыл бұрын

You only think that he nailed it in one shot, because you were observing! If you didn’t watch this video, it definitely would’ve been two shots.

@kanalbenenner7830

Жыл бұрын

So, how does one creat a particle pattern, if I want to do it at home, how would I do that?

@jimbrewer5048

10 ай бұрын

Ur comment deserves more love. Very clever

That sense we get when we feel like someone unseen is watching us is the atoms in our bodies doing what they do best.

@bethbartlett5692

Жыл бұрын

... that feeling you'll get when you actually realize, "Lots of unseen, NonPhysical, are watching you/us, all the time" - just keep observing Quantum Physics and *"keep mind fully open, free of predetermined beliefs, theories, opinions" i.e. apply the "Standards of Science and Research" ...* ... *"the info will flow to you in relative time".* ... and, *Keep in mind, the "Universal Law of Attraction" is Absolute.* Nothing to fear, it is all very Positive.

@Nothingness000

9 ай бұрын

Consciousness watching the body-mind

I'm glad to have seen this before the program gets updated.

Very small objects are affected by the act of observing them. For example, to observe the path of the atom you could try using light but the light will interact with the atom and effect it's path.

@SgtMacKerZ

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. So why is he describing it like it's bizarre and unexplainable? If turning the detector off affected the results, it is quite obvious it was interfering with the atoms.

This might explain how you can "feel" when someone is looking/staring at you..

@dyinginsidelol

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a survival instinct

@aliasanonym9778

3 жыл бұрын

You can't. People start experiencing the "I am being watched"-feeling because - for example - the room becomes awkwardly quiet.

@jesserodgers3759

3 жыл бұрын

@@aliasanonym9778 not at all man I’ve on many many situations through out my life just for no given reason looked in a particular direction that happened to be exactly where someone was looking at me and I have had the exact same thing happen when looking at someone else. In multiple different loud and busy situations as well like a bus a coffee shop the mall.

@zwan1886

3 жыл бұрын

@@jesserodgers3759 and there were many more times where you didn't observe the person watching you; you only remember the times where you caught them

@kilaa3417

3 жыл бұрын

@@jesserodgers3759 Yeah, it's amazing that we sometines just have a "knowing" about being observed, as we do with intuition

My god, that is unbelievable. Stunning explanation

i used to think that the particles might be accompanied by some kind of electromagnetic field (which acts like waves) and the field goes through both slits and interferes with itself, but the particle only goes through one slit. So the interfered field guides the particle into an interference pattern, even one at a time. But I didnt know that the pattern changed when the device was switched off.

@xfinity9397

8 ай бұрын

This has to do with the device which is being used. How are we detecting the small particle without interference that's the question.

I want to change the experiment a little, instead of a background we use a metal plate that heats up quickly, on the back of that plate will be that melts easily. Idea being that you observe the wax and not the photons. If only there are only 2 slits of light it will not melt the way, if there are more it will...

@emptycradle1304

10 ай бұрын

another theory, the particles are so fast that their magnetic fields follow behind them like a sonic boom follows an airplane, the field generated by the current location collides with the field from the recent location which is how the particle can bounce off "itself" without destroying itself...

Thanks for the explanation. Finally understood what this experiment is. 🙂

@ianp3112

2 жыл бұрын

2 channels you may like are, 'David Butler' and 'closer to the truth' Cheers

@CeRz

8 ай бұрын

Yes, and that's about as much as we can really understand haha what the experiment is, what's actually happening is just ridiculous.

I remember 20 years ago my elementary physics teacher mentioned this experiment and said "and this is where our physics ends". I didn't remember anything about the physics, just that phrase. Now as an older guy i decided to google it and see what that was and if they figured it out. I'm so glad i did, this has to be the coolest bug in the matrix that I've heard so far :D

@schmetterling4477

2 жыл бұрын

So you met an idiot with Dunning-Kruger. So what? There are thousands of them in this comment section alone.

@aga1nst

2 жыл бұрын

​@@schmetterling4477 whoa, what does Dunning-Kruger have to do with what I said? You're high or what?

@schmetterling4477

2 жыл бұрын

@@aga1nst A physics teacher who says that "this is where our physics ends" is displaying Dunning-Kruger. (S)he doesn't know what (s)he doesn't know.

@aga1nst

2 жыл бұрын

@@schmetterling4477 you mean she should have said "this is where *our understanding of* physics ends"? That's what she said actually, but it got lost in translation. Really big deal, if you get triggered by things like that, you have issues.

@schmetterling4477

2 жыл бұрын

@@aga1nst No, she should have said "This is where MY understanding of physics ends.". That she didn't is where her Dunning-Kruger starts. You are not very far away from displaying it, either.

Fabulous video. Induces brain meltdown. The simple presence of an observer changes reality. So what is reality if it is not what you observe?

@promoteamutube

Жыл бұрын

Your ideas and experiences with space and matter are determined by your own sense apparatus. What is matter to you might be "empty space" for beings equipped in an entirely different fashion. Your conscious mind as you understand it is the "psychological structure" that deals with conditions on a physical basis. Reality is multidimensional. On Earth, you only have access to 4 dimensions in a galactic 3d dimension.

@Nothingness000

9 ай бұрын

@@promoteamutube Very true. Even the self-realized beings on earth, ie, the Sages, see everything including all matter as emptiness. Buddhist Heart sutra: Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.

Each atom is a probability field of potential locations, and when the probability field goes through the two slits, it changes into a probability field that contains the interference pattern created by the two slits, which is then observed when the field collapses on the screen. But if we measure the atom at the slit, the probability field collapses at the point of measurement instead. As the atom passes through the measurement, a new probability field is created without the involvement of the other slit, hence no interference pattern is created.

My brain hurts in the best of ways

This is so fascinating! I could learn this stuff all day!

@steefv781

Жыл бұрын

What did you learn ?

@benbarnett9086

Жыл бұрын

@@steefv781 quantum mechanics

@inimene3796

Жыл бұрын

MIT must be a place for you my friend

This has been explained. The act of observation is itself a physical process, and it can disturb the particles being observed in some way. In the case of the double-slit experiment, this disturbance can cause the particles to behave more like particles and less like waves, which can alter the way they interfere with each other. It's important to note that this effect is not due to some mysterious influence of the observer on the particles, but rather a fundamental feature of the way that particles and waves behave. The act of observation simply reveals the inherent uncertainty in the behavior of subatomic particles.

@ArkFisted

Жыл бұрын

You made no sense

@MelbourneChazz

Жыл бұрын

Would you say physical since the detector needs to emit 'matter' to measure the particle at all, which causes interference? I'd assume that's how sensors function anyway. Hypothetically, the emission is constant (maybe cloudlike) and would interfere with the particles on the left side no matter what. So if the detector is on, the particle will never pass through the slit as a wave.

Also, try a 3 slit experiment with the beam, light or atoms, aimed down after being split into 3 beams to reflect in 3 mirrors to combine and display on 3 different screens. Then try the detector part of the experiment, also with the non-human observers.

Every time I hear about this experiment it blows my mind! Every time. This was a good simple explanation of the "mystery"!

@adamreecepiano

3 жыл бұрын

but see comment by Jako above with possible explanation

@promoteamutube

Жыл бұрын

There is no mystery my friend. “the observer is a part of the experiment, and the results will conform to the expectations of the observer”. By viewing the double slit experiment as not just an experiment, but as a reflection of the observer’s own experience, we see how our own expectations and beliefs can influence our reality. The "particle" itself is just information and has nothing solid. If you can find an individual capable of focusing so much as to see the picture of mona lisa in his mind, the "particle" will draw mona lisa on the detecting screen.

@Nothingness000

9 ай бұрын

@@promoteamutube Perfect! This is what enlightened sages have said too.

Great lecture. Probably the best explaining the Double Slit Experiment..

His comment of unplugging the atom detector? 100% reasonable and very much needed.

Atoms are like a look out on a mountain that spots incoming enemy and waves a burning torch, this signal is mimicked by the next person miles away by waving his burning torch and so on. Atoms communicate in a similar fashion but instantaneous like a chain of geared cogs, this chain could be an inch in length or a universe in length.