Recent content by ourben

Thank you DrChinese, I'm going to have to witness a practical experiment before it will sink in though. Not that what that link said doesn't make sense, but I need to see it happen. On a side note, why does that page say the moon doesn't exist when nobody is looking? Or was that a joke?

Okay, I think I need to explain this again... Hrmm... You know how there is no such thing as colour, how although we interpret different wavelengths of light to be colours - it's my believe there is no such thing as particles, we interpret waves to be particles... Make sense? Of...

I didn't say otherwise. I was talking about a collimator lens in that example, not the dual slit. Marvellous! I can live with that! Such as? It's interesting you said, without perturbing them in any physical way... maybe my knowledge is limited, but doesn't uncertainty principle...

Am I correct in thinking that the act of observing which slit a "particle" goes through causes the wave function to collapse, ergo making the source of the "particle" we detect on the back screen to actually be on our detection side of the slits rather than the emitter side? I've drawn it, in...

This is what I always understood entanglement to mean... and this is exactly why I don't get it. How do we know the state isn't already determined? Is that something we discovered by adding further polarisers to the experiment? I wish there was a garden shed way of witnessing this proof.