Greatest Proof We're In a Simulation

The double-slit experiment is wild! #shorts

[Newsthink]

*What are the implications of the double-slit experiment for our understanding of reality?*

[decract]

Greatest proof we don't understand our own world quite well

[davisfan]

Is this why my printer fails when I'm in a hurry to get to a meeting and works perfectly when I'm only printing memes for my grandpa?

[pauloshea]

When you "die" you're asked how convincing the simulation was

[davidcastillo]

That experiment is obsolete. It's not the "act" of observing that forces photons to behave like a particle. The thing is those detectors are laser detectors that emit photons as well, and when those photons interact they will behave as particles.
The experiment that is actually interesting is the delayed-choice experiment, and the quantum entanglement experiment. Which in summary shows that the particle we are measuring will behave differently depending on the way we choose to measure it.

[ricardokowalski]

Shy waves dress up as particles when in public 😊

[verslalchimie]

Here's why: Observation of the photon is a direct interaction. In other words, the photon has to strike something - an atom or an electron - for it to register in the devlce, . Once the interaction occurs, that photon no longer exists, and a new photon is created due to the excitation of the atom or electron it hit. The new photon starts its journey without the double slit, so there is no interference pattern

[david-xghb]

In short, photons get stage fright in an experiment situation 😂

[pixeldude]

I feel like it's a bit presumptuous to go from "oh we don't understand how this phenomena in our reality works... THEREFORE SIMULATION THEORY TRUE!"

[vendetta]

We in fact know exactly why observing a particle causes it to change. It takes light to observe or measure something. Atoms are so small and dense that when light interacts with them they move/change. We’re dealing with something so small that light has the strength to push or move it. Atoms are less dense than the light acting on it and less dense than the space it takes up.

[cavey]

When you ever have the feeling that you are being watched, now you know why you get that sensation.

[sarmadhabibkhan]

I swear to God if I die and get a "Game Over" screen, I'm spawning back in with cheat codes and 500 TSAR-100 Bombas.

[RocketPropelledGuy]

This does not support only a simulation as the cause, as it more likely indicates that our understanding of light is simply incomplete.

[EllieM_Travels]

This doesn’t prove we’re in a simulation. It only shows that we don’t know why particles change when measured.

[mtana]

This is answered in Star talk with Neil De Grasse Tyson, he gives the answer simply as, these are light particles; photons are so tiny that the object used to observe them is also projecting its own light particles in order for the observation to even take place therefore disrupting how the wave patterb would naturally occur causing the photons to behave how they do, when not observed they go back to the natural wave pattern because there are no other photons to disrupt the natural behaviour

[Titanos]

Not observing, but only measuring by measurement apparatus! Don't confuse people, you can make this experiment at home and observe as longer as you want and waves will remain as waves. Only special measurement apparatus has smth to do with that, not us.

[Iceflkn]

No one mentions how the sensing device operated. Was it passive or active? Was it simply a camera or did it project out something that needed to be reflected back? If it used a light source then it would interact with the incoming waves and a new interference pattern would be created.

Also, was this experiment ever done in a vacuum chamber? Is it possible that light was interacting with the air molecules it was passing through corrupting the results?

[milton]

Greatest proof people that want to believe the simulation theory will ledge on to anything as ‘definite proof’

[TokyoXtreme]

The measuring device is interfering with the wave pattern somehow, causing the waves to collapse.

[JackBrown-pi]

The most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is, "I do not know."