Can a particle like an electron be in two places at the same time?

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[anamariagiorgadze]

Well, my question is different, I suppose. What if you measured where the electron is and it's in two places at the same time, is that possible?

[njchannel]

what about situation when the same electron is observed by 2 observers. 1st observer seeing it in place A while 2nd observer seeing it in place B? Is that possible?

[timebandit]

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

[kacperlepper]

[Flashcard] Electron is in no place before measurement, after will be located in one of them as per probability

[sesshomarusma]

if the electron is not located in both points A and B before measurement
?! where it is then
dose it pump into existence in the moment of measurement

[dogit]

I just looked it up and you can look at the experiment and get all the information it's called the two slit quantum experiment

[timebandit]

It needs an observer to measure. If there's no one to measure it, does it even exist?

[SLEPR]

Do they exist without us measuring them though?

[eltouristoduo]

good grief thank you for representing reason in language. The word/concepts 'particle' and 'place' can't be used rationally to say 'two places at once'. Please do a similar comment about observation determining anything, because that language is a fail also.

[waqasahmed]

This electron stuff is more like a philosophical thing ain't it

[cadehalvorson]

This is wrong because when you split light it becomes dimmer so the original is lost its a copy if you split a laser over and over eventually it becomes dimmer I watched a documentary where a physicist shines a laser pointer into a glass apple and says if that light can be in two places at once then so can I so I was thinking if light can exist in two places at once that's infinite energy if you harness it but the theory is wrong light doesn't exist the same in two places it looses its brightness as you split it like when you look at a mirror facing a mirror you see a reflection but at the end the reflection is dimmer its not the same light its changed when its split electrons are also we couldn't be in two places because our atoms would be changed and loose energy.

[dogit]

No that guy is wrong I can't remember the experiment completely but they shoot Adams at a hole at a rate where only two atoms can go through the hole at the same time but yet they can measure 3 atoms on the other side of the hole something like that