Designed by Steven Warner
The Observer Effect
The Double Slit Experiment
This famous experiment suggest the Observer effect is true. Single photons are shot at a wall with two slits in it. Through the two slits is another wall that senses where the particles contact. Normally matter would only make it through one of the two holes and create two slit shaped patterns on the sensor. A wave would pass through bothe slits and make two similar paterns on the other side of the slit. The two patters bounce off eachother and create a new pattern. However, the photons behaved like waves and created the interference pattern even though only one particle was shot at a time. The particles interfered with themselves. When a device was placed on the otherside to attempt to observe the photons, they behaved like matter and only made the two slit pattern! This suggests that observation creates reality as we know it. Particles exsits in a state of superpostion when not being observed.
This famous experiment suggest the Observer effect is true. Single photons are shot at a wall with two slits in it. Through the two slits is another wall that senses where the particles contact. Normally matter would only make it through one of the two holes and create two slit shaped patterns on the sensor. A wave would pass through bothe slits and make two similar paterns on the other side of the slit. The two patters bounce off eachother and create a new pattern. However, the photons behaved like waves and created the interference pattern even though only one particle was shot at a time. The particles interfered with themselves. When a device was placed on the otherside to attempt to observe the photons, they behaved like matter and only made the two slit pattern! This suggests that observation creates reality as we know it. Particles exsits in a state of superpostion when not being observed.
Diagram of the photons behavior without observation
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