Here’s the kicker: The insertion of the interferometer took only 40 nanoseconds (ns) while it would take 160 ns for the information about the configuration to travel from the interferometer to reach the photon before it entered the slits. This means in order for the photon to “know” if it was being watched, that information would have to travel at 4 times the speed of light, which is impossible
Of course there is a lot more to this :D
If you want further explanations here is a 30min video that goes into more detail.
That is some very interesting experiment. I wonder if there will be more use of this in future.
ReplyDeleteThat video blew my mind...
ReplyDeleteMaybe the electron is a little spaceship...with a little alien inside it...and he's just trolling us
If it;s impossible then how in the sam hell is it done!!
ReplyDeletethis is weird.
ReplyDeleteFinally something faster than the speed of light ! I still think they messed up somewhere :)
ReplyDeletelol informations > speed of light :D
ReplyDeletequantum theory says that electrons can be in two places at the same time.
ReplyDeleteman... i was actually trying to give a proper explanation here but it involves a lot of theory and i only vaguely understand most of them. if you guys are really interested about this topic, try reading some book about quantum entanglement, multiverse theory, and string theory. oh yeah, it also involves the schroedinger's cat! -___-
btw, this thing also suggest that one day, you might wake and found yourself at the other side of the planet. lol
Heh, I'm having an exam about diffraction tomorrow, this kinda helps me get motivated to know more. But yeah, you can't help but wonder if they've done something wrong in there.
ReplyDeleteScience really gets mindboggling once you get down to that incredibly small level, a lot of things don't seem to make sense down there!
great stuff i like it
ReplyDeleteAnd this is how black holes are formed!
ReplyDeleteThat video is fricking awesome and very interesting! Cool post
ReplyDeletecan i use this to kill zombies?
ReplyDeleteso many balls...
ReplyDeletedid any information actually travel?
ReplyDeleteonly takes 40ns huh.. how can u measure this stuff lol
ReplyDeleteUh... The creators of that Dr. Quantum video are from some cult. So while the Double Slit experiment is indeed real, the rest of the shit they say are, well, bullshit.
ReplyDeletedaaaaaaaaaaaamn O.o
ReplyDeleteI effing LOVE Dr. Quantum!!!
ReplyDeletephysics are interesting
ReplyDeleteLove science!
ReplyDeleteWow, thats hard core!!
ReplyDeletewow this is extremely interesting o_o mind blowing stuff
ReplyDeletefuck yea. you have rekindled my long lost love with physics.
ReplyDeletedam quantum mechanics, make my brain hurt
ReplyDeletedang man you're always posting interesting stuff! thanks!
ReplyDeleteYep, there it goes, my brain stopped. May need to dumb it down later lol.
ReplyDeletethis is madness!
ReplyDeleteHoly smokes. That was an incredibly intriguing video. And it was very easy to follow. I'm going to watch the full one now because it was so interesting. For anyone of these choads here whose brain it made hurt, they probably didn't watch it. So there. I said it.
ReplyDeletei wish my science class was as cool as this :P
ReplyDeleteWith the speed of light being the (as far as I know, I'm not too educated on this science thingamajig) speed of light, then how can it possibly travel four times that speed, unless there's some pretty flawed theories we're currently using?
ReplyDeletewow, I've bookmarked that 30 min video.. I'll watch it later on tonight
ReplyDeletethat video is really intriguing... I wonder how it was all originally figured out
ReplyDeletewow, I never understood quantum mechanics like I do now
ReplyDeletedammit, I wish I had YouTube resources available to me when I was in high school... it would have made understanding these concepts much easier
ReplyDeletehaha our chem prof showed us this in one of our lectures...
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