applebaum wrote:So until recently I always figured that the measurement at the slits was what was screwing up the interference pattern. Not that a consciousness was looking at the slits, but that something was put at the slits to interfere with the light particles as they went through. But I just recently heard about this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraserWhere the information about which slit the light particle went through is made ambiguous half the time and is known the other half. In this case when they looked at the results it showed that where the path through the slits could be known an interference pattern didn't show up. When the information was not known it did show up, but the light all passed through the exact same materials. I'm not really a new agey kind of guy, but how does this experiment NOT say that it is our ability to know that is collapsing the wave and not a measurement device?
Honestly if we are going to resurrect this thread I would really like Citta and SWIMfriend to address "The Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser experiment" outlined above.
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