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Double-slit (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 239 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (80 children)

Fyi, there's a lot of ~~woo woo~~ (edit: apparently racist term) crap out there that tries to make you believe that somehow the photons can feel that a human is watching them and they choose to behave differently as a result. This is not true. It just means that when you use a detector or some sort of probe that physically interacts with the photons they change their behavior. It's not magic.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So you’re telling me that the double slit experiment has reached a sufficient saturation point in modern culture so as to have a conspiracy around it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it can happen with any scientific & technological concept that reaches wide enough in the collective consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Like "collective consciousness"?

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