Title: 5 Thought-Provoking Quantum Experiments Showing That Reality Is an Illusion - Learning Mind
Headings: 5 Thought-Provoking Quantum Experiments Showing That Reality Is an Illusion
5 Thought-Provoking Quantum Experiments Showing That Reality Is an Illusion
5 Most Notorious Quantum Experiments
1. Schrödinger’s cat
2. The diffraction of electrons
3. The heated fullerene
4. The cooling measurement
5. Freezing particles
Quantum mechanics and consciousness
Anna LeMind, B.A.
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Content: In the 1920s, its general postulates were formulated by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. The wave function has become the core term of the Copenhagen interpretation, it is a mathematical function containing information about all possible states of a quantum system in which it exists simultaneously. As stated by the Copenhagen interpretation, the state of the system and its position relative to other states can only be determined by an observation (the wave function is used only to help mathematically calculate the probability of the system being in one state or another). We can say that after observation, the quantum system becomes classical and immediately ceases to exist in other states, except for the state it has been observed in. This approach has always had its opponents (remember for example Albert Einstein’s “God does not play dice “), but the accuracy of the calculations and predictions prevailed. However, the number of supporters of the Copenhagen interpretation is decreasing and the major reason for that is the mysterious instant collapse of the wave function during the experiments. The famous mental experiment by Erwin Schrödinger with the poor cat was meant to demonstrate the absurdity of this phenomenon. Let us recap the nature of this experiment. A live cat is placed inside a black box, together with a vial containing poison and a mechanism that can release this poison at random. For instance, a radioactive atom during its decay can break the vial.