Quantum physics is a newborn science that is rapidly growing in popularity. In it’s basic essence, Quantum physics attempt to explain phenomena that are not well understood. It has yielded some mind-boggling results. One prime example of these results would be the double slit experiment. Below is a video that will explain what the double slit experiment is in the simplest way.
So let’s recap some of the information that we've learned from watching the video. We have learned that light and possibly any other matter can move as both a particle and a wave when unobserved. It somehow was able to interfere with itself as if it was two particles.
The simple act of observing matter causes it to act only with the properties of a particles and not waves. What does this imply? Well two things.
- That as we go down the macroscopic level all the way to an atom, it becomes harder to differentiate whether it is a particle, wave or both.
- That if particles act differently when unobserved, could it mean that there is an “unobserved” world or realm that we currently don’t know about?
- Observation can affect the outcome of events due to changing the "behavior" of matter.
The Double-Slit experiment has shown us that the universe isn’t always logical. Logically it should act according to a set of easily definable laws, but that just isn’t the case in some matters. Quantum physics is a science of probabilities and not deterministic laws.
References
This Will Mindfuck You: The Double-Slit Experiment. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2014, from http://www.highexistence.com/this-will-mindfuck-you-the-double-slit-experiment/
Two-Slit Experiments. (n.d.). Retrieved October 08, 2014, from http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/21st_century_science/lectures/lec13.html
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