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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Sorry Bahai. I am pretty confused as well. As a matter of fact... I have come to the conclusion that no one really knows wtf is going on when it comes to light unfortunately. If they do, I personally haven't met anyone who is able to communicate it well enough for my little brain to understand...
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    That's because those are the results you are expecting after years of doing this. I am referring to when scientists first conducted the experiment and were surprised by the results. Also I don't really get the validity of the polarization experiments. When you turn the lens 90 degrees from the...
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    I would still call that messing up the experiment. Excuse my laymen terminology... but these guys don't create experiments without expected results... they were expecting to see a single photon going through that's why they put the detector up to see where it went through. When they did that...
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Ok... when I said "messes up the experiment", I simply meant to say that in the 2 slit the outcome became different than what the experimenters were supposedly expecting. Meaning the experimenters expected to see an interference pattern after they added the detector to the experiment. They...
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Sorry I guess I can be dense sometimes.. these were really just not the answers I was anticipating at all. I didn't think you would in essence agree that the detectors were messing up the experiment or that there were no peer reviewed papers with detectors not recording etc... I really thought...
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Let me paraphrase this... You are basically saying the detections don't change afterwards, however, if you keep the information to perform filtering in a specified way you have an interference pattern if you don't filter information in that way you do not... that is bizarre.
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Actually to be honest I don't know if it was peer reviewed.
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Bill I appreciate the truth and that's all I want, but I am getting a little upset that this so called "fake" information would be circling out there...
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Ok then here is a link to the peer reviewed paper from the University of Maryland. http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/quant-ph/9903047.pdf
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Anyone care to provide a real answer instead of saying particle wave duality is just to confuse newbs?
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Oh come on.. and this one? http://www.bottomlayer.com/bottom/kim-scully/kim-scully-web.htm These are real experiments using photons and detectors... now you are bordering on sounding like a conspiracy theorist saying these are fake experiments just to confuse laymen.
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Thanks Bill. So you are saying explanations like this one using photon in the link below are complete bs? He claims that the experimenter left the detector on and simply stopped recording the results and that still left an interference pattern. So it would seem that the recording of the...
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Why answer with sarcasm. I just want to know how it is done.
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    The detector itself contaminating double slit? How do we know?

    Just a simple question. How do we know the detector isn't messing up the double slit experiment when a single photon is shot out. When there is no detector we know the interference pattern is formed even with a single photon. If we add detector to see where the photon actually went through a...
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