• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I mean, magic is just weird shit that isn’t fully understood yet.

    That being said, you might as well look at it as branches.

    Each state is a possibility, thus both exist.

    The “magic” isn’t that the probabilities of either state being in effect suddenly collapsed and became reality. The magic is that by observing the result, we collapse our own probability and are suddenly aware of the branch that we exist in. But we also exist in that other branch, suddenly aware that we exist in it. But “both” of us are incapable of viewing that other branch.

    Which is all mumbo-jumbo, but I’m a fiction writer, so I don’t have to be rigorous :)

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      1 year ago

      As far as I know, the detectors need to be able to interact with the photons, which redirected(or consumed) the outer “branches” that were landing in the outer slits. This left the only two slits untouched. It shows the fallacy of using detection equipment without considering their impact on the environment or experiment, especially when the extremes of our physical world are being tested. In the experiment, the detection equipment, or sensors, were placed in the two slits.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for this. Was getting tired of seeing people claim that our eyeballs change the photon path somehow and was getting ready to type.

        For anyone familiar with circuits, it’s the same concept as understand why connecting an ammeter or voltmeter changes the value you measure. That is, a miniscule resistance must be attached in series or in parallel, respectively, to observe/measure the current or voltage, which inherently changes the current or voltage.