>>17082367
Can we please end this horrible 2021 meme? It really is bad and spreading it to brainlets is not a good idea. They come across thinking that casting one’s gaze on an experimental apparatus makes the difference. It does not.

In the double-slit experiment the idea is that if you can detect which slit the electron goes through then it destroys the interference pattern. That much is true but redirecting one’s gaze has never been what is used to make such a detection. In reality it typically amounts to placing a detector directly in the electron beamline in front of one slit.

In a properly designed experiment, even if you constructed the vacuum chamber required for it so one could “see” the electrons’ possible paths, looking at it or not would not change anything. You wouldn’t see the electron in either case. Period. Only if you create something to interact with the electron along one of the laths to a slit would it change the outcome, because causing an interaction with the electron is the crucial mechanism for changing the interference pattern

>>17082372
>but redirecting one’s gaze has never been what is used to make such a detection
As if you could see the electron with your naked eye. The gaze is the detector in that analogy.

>>17082374
For one to “see” a single electron travelling through a vacuum tube by simply redirecting your eye, you would also need to be shining something akin to a light source onto that electron so that your eye could see light bouncing off it. But if you do the calculations for electrons in such an experiment, such a “light source” would need to be extremely high intensity, like a burst of light coming out of a hydrogen bomb to even get a chance of lighting up one of these electrons. The electron has a very small cross section to interact with a normal amount of, say, daylight.

and then once you created such a light source, it wouldn’t matter whether you looked or not at the electron, only if the light source was shining on the electron or not. (Leaving aside the fact that a hydrogen bomb gamma burst would destroy the whole thing in other ways anyway)

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>>17082372
it's even worse than that. single slit interference is found when electrons pass through a single slit. in the top you see double slit. the bottom should look more like this, with a continuous band flanked by smaller bands

>>17082372
Your post was OK but then I looked at your post and it was actually not OK and gay. Explain that one

>>17082571
yeah true, it’s a horrible meme in more ways than one

>>17082975
ah yes true I misspelled “paths” as “laths” my bad, i blame it on my gay phone

The internet has become a horrifying thing. Normies who can't do calculus having hot takes and making memes about physics. There is no point to it. But it will all return to nothing. Ashes to ashes and slop to slop.

>>17082367
>normies hear "observation" influencing outcome
>think it means literally perceiving it with your eyeballs

>>17083435
>The internet has become a horrifying thing.
Let’s use that to train the next internet.

>>17083439
Yes, the great tabernacle of slop. A bright future awaits us.

>>17083441
We couldn’t handle 8 billion unfiltered human opinions.
A dozen authoritative hegemonic voices will help people choose their own teams for the next round.
It’ll be great. 4chan archives are always over-represented in training sets.

>>17083437
that's what it means to observe, yes

>>17082378
I don't think the atoms are in darkness. Each electron reflects the detector or eye, so the gravity amounts up with electrons being close and changes it.

>>17083500
try this experiment. Buy an antique guitar amp or an antique stereo that has vacuum tubes in the back. With it off look at the tubes and look at the space between the anodes and cathode where the electrons travel through. Turn it on. Tell me if you see little electrons flying through the tube after you turn it on. You can even turn it down real low and look if you can see individual electron paths

Why the hysteria?

The sized reflection rate of each electron has long blue/white energy chains of reflections whirling out.

>>17082372
Thank you. Same reason you can never have a picture of a photon.