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09-18-2009, 11:50 PM
Alright, I Just Became Aware Of A Scientific Study on Matter, Let Me break It Down To You Exactly How It Was Broken Down To me.
If We Randomly Shoot A Small Object, Say A Marble At A Screen, With A Slit In The Middle We See A Pattern on The Back Wall Where They Went Through The Slit, Now If We Add A Second Slit, We Would Expect To See, Two Similar Patterns Such As The First Experiment.
Now Let's Look At Waves. The Waves Would Hit The Slit Radiate Out, Striking The back Wall With The Most Intensity Directly Inline With The Slit. Just Like The Marbles, The Effects Were The Same. But When You Add A Second Slit, Like We Did With The Marbles, Something Different Happens, if The Top Of One Waves, Hits The Bottom Of Another, They Cancel Each other Out, So Now There Is An Interference Pattern On The Back Wall, Places Where The Two Tops Of The Now, Few Waves, Have The Most Intense Pressure Against The Back Wall. So There's Multiple Patterns. Where The Waves Canceled Eachother Out, There Is Nothing. No pressure On The Wall, Nothing. Thats Obvious, I'd Think We'd All Know That Without Doing That Test.
An Electron, Is Believed To be A Tiny Tiny Bit of Matter, Like A Tiny Marble.
They Fired A Stream Through One Slit, And Like Everything Else, The Pattern Is Normal, It Behaves Just Like A Marble, A Single Band Is Created On The Back Wall.
So, If We Shoot Through Two Slits, We Should Get Two Patterns. But Instead Of That, An Interference Pattern Much Like The Waves Occur, Now Remember, Those Are Electrons. Tiny Bits Of Matter Through, We Get A Pattern Like Waves, How? How Could Pieces Of Matter, Create An Interference Pattern Like A Wave? That Doesn't Make Sense. But Physicist Are Clever, They Thought, Maybe Those Balls Are Bouncing Off Each other And Creating That Pattern. So They Decide To Shoot Electrons Through, One At A Time, Instead Of A Stream, There's NO Way They Could Interfere With Each other, But After An Hour Of This, The Same Interference pattern Occurred
The Conclusion Is Inescapable It Seems, The Single Electron Leaves As A Particle , Becomes A Wave Of Potentials, Goes Through Both Slits, And Interferes With Itself. Mathematically It's Even Stranger, It Goes Through Both Slits, And It Doesn't Go Through either. And It Goes Through Just One, Then The Other. All These Possibilities Are In Super Position With Each other.
They Were Completely Baffled by This, So, They Decided To Peek, To See Which Slit, It Actually Goes Through. So They Put A Measuring Device Near The Slits, To See Which One It Went Through. But The Outcome They Were To Get, Was Far More Mysterious Then They Could Of Imagine, When They Observed It, The Electron, Behaved Exactly As Matter Should, And Produced A Pattern Of Two Bands. The Very Act Of Measuring, Or Observing Which Slit It Went Through, Meant It Went Through Only One. Not Both, The Electron Decided To Act Differently, As Though, It Was Aware It Was Being Watched. Which Made Them Ask The Question, What Is Matter? And WHAT Does An Observer Have To Do With Anything? The Observer Collapsed The Wave Function
Simply By Looking.
If We Randomly Shoot A Small Object, Say A Marble At A Screen, With A Slit In The Middle We See A Pattern on The Back Wall Where They Went Through The Slit, Now If We Add A Second Slit, We Would Expect To See, Two Similar Patterns Such As The First Experiment.
Now Let's Look At Waves. The Waves Would Hit The Slit Radiate Out, Striking The back Wall With The Most Intensity Directly Inline With The Slit. Just Like The Marbles, The Effects Were The Same. But When You Add A Second Slit, Like We Did With The Marbles, Something Different Happens, if The Top Of One Waves, Hits The Bottom Of Another, They Cancel Each other Out, So Now There Is An Interference Pattern On The Back Wall, Places Where The Two Tops Of The Now, Few Waves, Have The Most Intense Pressure Against The Back Wall. So There's Multiple Patterns. Where The Waves Canceled Eachother Out, There Is Nothing. No pressure On The Wall, Nothing. Thats Obvious, I'd Think We'd All Know That Without Doing That Test.
An Electron, Is Believed To be A Tiny Tiny Bit of Matter, Like A Tiny Marble.
They Fired A Stream Through One Slit, And Like Everything Else, The Pattern Is Normal, It Behaves Just Like A Marble, A Single Band Is Created On The Back Wall.
So, If We Shoot Through Two Slits, We Should Get Two Patterns. But Instead Of That, An Interference Pattern Much Like The Waves Occur, Now Remember, Those Are Electrons. Tiny Bits Of Matter Through, We Get A Pattern Like Waves, How? How Could Pieces Of Matter, Create An Interference Pattern Like A Wave? That Doesn't Make Sense. But Physicist Are Clever, They Thought, Maybe Those Balls Are Bouncing Off Each other And Creating That Pattern. So They Decide To Shoot Electrons Through, One At A Time, Instead Of A Stream, There's NO Way They Could Interfere With Each other, But After An Hour Of This, The Same Interference pattern Occurred
The Conclusion Is Inescapable It Seems, The Single Electron Leaves As A Particle , Becomes A Wave Of Potentials, Goes Through Both Slits, And Interferes With Itself. Mathematically It's Even Stranger, It Goes Through Both Slits, And It Doesn't Go Through either. And It Goes Through Just One, Then The Other. All These Possibilities Are In Super Position With Each other.
They Were Completely Baffled by This, So, They Decided To Peek, To See Which Slit, It Actually Goes Through. So They Put A Measuring Device Near The Slits, To See Which One It Went Through. But The Outcome They Were To Get, Was Far More Mysterious Then They Could Of Imagine, When They Observed It, The Electron, Behaved Exactly As Matter Should, And Produced A Pattern Of Two Bands. The Very Act Of Measuring, Or Observing Which Slit It Went Through, Meant It Went Through Only One. Not Both, The Electron Decided To Act Differently, As Though, It Was Aware It Was Being Watched. Which Made Them Ask The Question, What Is Matter? And WHAT Does An Observer Have To Do With Anything? The Observer Collapsed The Wave Function
Simply By Looking.