Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by bad_haircut72 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @01:57PM
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I would love to try this experiment with something basketball sized out in space. Like we build an enormous basketball detector behind a double slit inside an unobservable black box. If thr basketball started acting like a wave I would be sooo freaked out
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Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by whatshisface on Sunday March 16, 2025 @02:15PM
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The largest double-slit projectile I know of is C-60, a soccer-ball shaped molecule of sixty atoms.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/12/11/4
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by randunel on Sunday March 16, 2025 @02:40PM
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That website's captcha is horrible!
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by heylook on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:00PM
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Or amazing.
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by nextts on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:47PM
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I got cats with sunglasses
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by qingcharles on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:49PM
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Me too. And I had to click on bird legs to verify o_O
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by out_of_protocol on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:55PM
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Wiki, citation 19
> The largest entities for which the double-slit experiment has been performed were molecules that each comprised 2000 atoms (whose total mass was 25,000 atomic mass units).[19]
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by rusk on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:35PM
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If the slits are big enough, isn’t that just gravity?
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by cellular on Sunday March 16, 2025 @08:10PM
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And Why can't gravity serve as an observer?!
The electron/proton entering a slit is affected by gravity!
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by nick3443 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:18PM
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The entanglement theory would imply that if you build a detector that turns the gravity interaction into a finite piece of data observable by an (amplified) system, then gravity will act as an observer and collapse the waveform when it reaches that point. That's my take on the whole thing... It's almost like information theory. If the information is lost to the sands of time (below noise floor if you will) then the entanglement can continue.
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by rusk on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:50PM
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From my recollection of Hawking - it’s the energy of light that disturbs the particle being measured thus confounding the measurement
Presumably a gravity based detector would have similar issues as these particles are affected by gravity (as can be seen around black holes)
Re:Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wav...
by idontwantthis on Sunday March 16, 2025 @06:09PM
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I don’t know what it’s called but I read about a proposed experiment to do it in space with macrosized glass beads.