Ok, thanks for the references. I will have a look. Not necessarily using my iPod, which I don't have nor am I planning to buy in my way to understand the basics of QM ;).
Let's forget about the 'particle-like' nature once for all then.
I am not sure how one can take this example as an equivalent one to the double-slit experiment. For it to be so, whether a given antenna emits or not would depend on the receiver. Depending on where the receiver would be, an...
Ok, fair enough about a photon/electron/whatever being 'rather' a particle or 'rather' a wave, or 'basically' a wave. I think I understand that better after your helpful explanations, especially from sophiecentaur and Dr Chinese.
However, my main problem was about the operation of 'measurement'...
Thank you very much everyone for the answers. I will be answering as I get more understanding. As for now, I am seeing individual facts, but still I cannot see the sense of all this :). I need some time to reflect about this and to read a bit more...
Well, here and here (from 3:47-4:35) it is said (or at least I underestand it like this) that the act of measuring at A "removed the wave element completely" (I'm quoting literally).
I wanted to understand in which way exactly the act of measuring affects the behaviour of the electron as a...
Ok, I was missing that.
Let me call "A" the detector at the slit, which tells which slit the electron passes through. And let "B" be the screen onto which electrons impact.
My point is that, from what I've been reading, the fact of A detecting the electron causes the electron to 'choose' one...
Thanks for your answers.
From what I read it seems to be implied (but I am not sure) for the measurement at the slit to cause the trajectories of the electrons to be particle-like, so that the interference patterns do not appear anymore if the electrons are 'observed' to see which slit they...
Hello,
I am not educated in physics, but I would like to gain some understanding on the double-slit experiment. I am suspecting that not only its results are to me hardly understandable (as far as I know, that is the normal case), but also some of the assumptions on which the experiment...