The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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1. Those videos get me high as fuck :D....
2. What about the observer effect?
3. or we are just living in a simulation
4. I love the way Matt speaks. It's just so...
5. This presentation does not consider of all elements of experiment that is the mystery.The spread of photons or electrons... is caused because of slit they go through. Passing through the slit generates resonance something like in radio antenna on the edges of the slit. The resonance of edges interacts with every next photon or electron ... making wave pattern on remote screen. The pattern should be the same with anything else not only charged electrons or photons. I do not see anything unusual in it.
6. Here is a mind blower: maybe we all experience wave like possibility all at once until the last moment when the decision is made. Woahhhh....
7. So the universe uses lazy evaluation of its wave functions.
8. What happens if you build the double slit fence out of detector wall? Still with two slits for letting stuffs through, but detecting the ones that don't go through. Anything weird?
9. The troughs overlap behind the peaks overlap, in the initial simplified explanation. Based on the simplified explanation and the lack of brevity, considering the use of "choose" to describe an individual particle and the end location of that particle, it's hard to make the connection from the example to the result of the single particle in the double slit experiment. The example would result in an even spread across the final destination, based on amount of particles in the peak reaching the final destination. Unless the final destination only measured the intensity of an impact at the final destination, which is the case of the simplified experiment, but intensity isn't part of the single particle experiment conducted. Basically, myself being someone trying to learn, does this video represent a complete understanding of the single particle double split experiment, or is it just a simple starting point to find interest in the subject discussed?
10. How thin were the plates used in the experiment? Is the end pattern caused by reflection off the plate, light particles repelling one another, or unknown?
11. what if we didn't open the box that had the screen with the distribution pattern on the receiving end? we could say that it was like eight Schrodinger's cat distribution pattern in a box.
    
    Woody distribution pattern be a completely smooth wave function and to hell we as humans observed it and then it would be set of well-defined points fitting into that pattern?
12. this will be patched in the next update
13. I have a question - does the doubleslit experiment also work in a "corner" configuration? Ie "copy" the construction once and place it rotated by 90 degrees, so the screen now has "2 screens" (or one screen with a 90degr corner in it), and 2 times 2 slits in the same 90degree setting. Should those 90degree "wave" functions not also interfere in some way? Thanks! Briliant channel you have here btw, cant stop watching.
14. This would be a good channel, but I can't take more than 10 seconds of this dorks stupid face and retarded voice. He is Sofa King annoying. Please replace him. Thanks.
15. So if a tree falls in the forest with no one around, does it make a sound? If I am understanding this correctly, I guess the forest itself technically only exists as a possibility until someone or something is there to observe it? That would mean the answer to the question would literally be, "possibly," which I find infuriating lol.
    What about a theoretical plane crash, where every single passenger dies? Does that plane and everything on it, that was "real" because of conscious observation by the passengers and flight crew to begin with, suddenly become "not real" when there is no one left to observe it? If that is the way it works, then I may be sold on the simulation theory. I'm sure I am just misunderstanding, so if anyone has any insight I would greatly appreciate it!
16. Looks like the crosshairs on your electron gun need some adjusting. Not very accurate. :)
17. Baloney. Heisenberg proved himself wrong. Probability, chance, don't exist.
18. Outstanding layman's explanation.
19. This is not a good explanation or discussion of the double slit experiment. You should take it down.
20. How do you know that you've fired one photon?