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: At the same time, the result of this experiment does not change, and if electrons pass through the slit not as one single stream, but one by one, even one particle can be a wave. Even a single electron can pass simultaneously through both slits (and this is also one of the main postulates of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics when particles can simultaneously display both their “usual” physical properties and exotic properties as a wave). But what about the observer? The observer makes this complicated story even more confusing. When physicists, during similar experiments, tried to determine with the help of instruments which slit the electron actually passes through, the image on the screen had changed dramatically and became a “classic” pattern with two illuminated sections opposite to the slits and no alternating bands displayed. Electrons did not seem to show their wave nature under the watchful eye of observers. Is this some kind of mystery? There is a more simple explanation: no observation of a system can be carried out without physically impacting it. But we will discuss this a bit later.