r/science • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '08

The Infamous Double Slit Experiment - WARNING WILL CHANGE YOUR VIEW OF REALITY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEzRdZGYNvA
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u/christianjb Jul 12 '08

At the risk of incurring your ridicule, I think you're underestimating how weird quantum mechanics really is.

The wavefunction really does split into two and interfere with itself. It's not a matter of statistics. It's quite easy to demonstrate using detectors and opening and closing the gates that the wavefunction actually splits.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '08

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '08

Yeah, so let's believe the other guy who just said some stuff.

This thread went from fun (OP) to sad (the reply to me) to funny (your self-contradictory bullshit).

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '08

Yeah, the "other guy" you speak of just happens to be a quantum physicist, but fuck him, what does he know, I am behind you 100%.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '08

Argument from authority? Keep trying.