I'm just trying to collect thoughts some might have on the reason behind the outcome of the experiment.



here is a video explaining the experiment ( in case some never heard of it before).



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tKncAdlHQ

 

Schrodinger's Cat.



It's called the Observer Effect.

 

Someone's crappy coding work on the simulation within which we are rendered.

 

It's just God trolling people who study his creation but refuse to acknowledge him.

 

somethin science related that I dont understand. MUST BE JESUS!!

 

It seems to me like the relationship is simply electromagnetic interference. A detector has to interact with its surroundings in order to observe the results. Take the case of the Photon and a camera. We know that light (and therefore photons) travel in waves, hence the results of the light test. Observing light is simple; you can use a camera which has some kind of photoreceptor, for the sake of example: film. Film has to absorb some light in order to reflect back the remainder to reproduce an image. In the case of atoms, it’s clear that they oscillate with electromagnetic radiation just like a photon. This in itself makes a lot of sense! Now we need to know how these detectors work.



http://home.web.cern.ch/about/how-detector-works

So in other words, you don’t so much detect the atom as you do its energy… by absorbing it. So you’re in essence stripping some of the electrons [needed for electromagnetism] from the atom. The process of detection is robbing the atom of the electromagnetic energy needed to flow as expected. By detecting the atom you are changing it's subatomic make up, and hence it's reaction.





For f*ck’s sake, if I can figure this out, why can’t he?

 

No. Light comprises particles that sometimes behave like a traveling wave when considered from distances larger than an atom or two. It does not behave in ways that are intuitive at the quantum level.



Example: It doesn't bounce off a mirror at the expected angle - it is absorbed by the electrons in the glass, mostly at the surface but some inside the bulk of the glass, and NEW photons are emitted at the expected angles in the expected amounts. It is impossible to know which photon will interact with which atom in the mirror. You can predict approximately how many photons you will get out of the glass, and you can predict in which direction most of them will be headed out, but that's as close to certainty as it gets. A diffraction grating shimmers like a rainbow hologram when moved at different angles under "white" light, because not only does light go where you would expect, but because it goes EVERY way. It's crazy stuff. The double slit phenomenon is a demonstration of one of the properties of light that we don't understand.



Feynman's book QED (Quantum ElectroDynamics) and his transcribed lectures are a both accessible and entertaining (well, entertaining for physics) way to begin to get your brain around what photons do at a quantum level. We don't know WHY they do, but we can predict fairly well WHAT they do.





It is no understatement to say the smartest people in the world do not understand the physics underlying quantum electrodynamics. They can explain what usually happens and how to use it, but the reasons are a mystery. Those of us willing to accept the idea of a God running the show are not bothered by this.

 

Like I said...

 

Incorrect. Actually Photons, if you insist on being technical, comprise all electromagnetic radiation. But that hardly has sh*t do do with my explanation, less trying to punch holes in the example. To use a detector that strips electron from an atom, you are changing the charge of said atom. Now this means that the atoms in use, since that is an unknown "X" in the equation, are those more prone to donate electrons voluntarily. It is easy to see that the the only addition to the process is the detector, which (as already been confirmed) does indeed use electricity (electron flow) for it's process. This is solid confirmation that, in the case of the upper stream of atoms input, we are changing the entire dynamic of the particle. So of course it is going to change the outcome of test.



I'm not going to pretend that I am versed enough in quantum mechanics to actually prove this in a lab test; but once someone qualified is capable, just keep in mind the elementary troubleshooting that resulted in the answer.

 

Photons are not atoms.



Photons do not have electrons.



I do think the most likely answer is that it is a flaw in the way the photons are detected. I don't think that's the answer, but I do think out of what theories I've seen it is the most likely current theory.