In quantum mechanics, the act of observation fundamentally changes the outcome of experiments, as demonstrated by the double-slit experiment where placing a detector at one slit causes the interference pattern to disappear and the particles to behave like classical objects rather than waves.
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The Observer Changes The OutcomeAdded:
Because if it was already always going to happen, you didn't change anything.
It's not like you're in a different timeline.
It's that the future influenced the past. Right, but the observer influences reality in the results of the tests.
So, if you do an experiment, Yeah, no, I actually let me explain that effect and then So, with the double-slit experiment, the result is if you that that indicates this, if you put a little detector on the slits cuz you say, "I'm going to trap one of those I'm going to trap a photon or electron. I'm going to figure out which slit it's going through."
>> Mhm. So, you put a detector at one of the two slits. If it If you get a bing, it means it went through that. If you don't get a bing, it went through the other one, right? What happens is the actual outcome now looks different. You don't get the same interference pattern.
>> [clears throat] >> You get a single-slit interference pattern.
As if it didn't it wasn't non-local in space or time. It didn't interfere with itself, and it just kind of like went through like a billiard ball.
>> Right. And so,
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