Quantum Shutter
The double-slit experiment is already a head-scratcher for physicists. But now add this twist: Suppose that you have one barrier that can block one of the two slits. Is there a way to get that barrier to block both slits at once? In classical physics, the answer is no. But a new experiment reveals that it can be done in quantum physics. Japanese researchers created a "quantum shutter" that can block photons from passing through both slits.
Paper:
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep35161
Story via Physics Today:
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.9076/full/
What is double-slit experiment?
The modern double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tKncAdlHQ
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This sounds familiar, though I can't recall when or where I read it. Perhaps on here
ReplyDeletei have this question for many years. what if have multiple slits than two and have a directer for only one slit and when the director is on is all the other particles or waves goes through slits affected by it ? (only one source)
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it, the observer is an important piece of any quantum experiment. A quantum entity has a dual potential nature, but its actual (observed) nature is one or the other.
ReplyDeleteThere's a deeper relationship between the observer and the phenomenon, at least at the subatomic level.
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ReplyDeleteAfter many years of tying to wrap my hard around of what is going on, I think I have figured out what's going on. We are in some alien kids video game and we've reached the edges of the simulation. What I would really like to know is what's the score and when does the game end?
ReplyDeleteSome think we are in a computer simulation. Perhaps as tech b get older, the more they do and research ways to 'escape'. Perhaps the world will 'reboot' itself, before we make too much of a mess of the world just for personal gain and making money
ReplyDeleteSam Collett I really don't think we live in a computer simulation, but I keep finding little bits of evidence. Like “Mandelbrot Sets” helped HAMS to make Fractal Antennas. “Mandelbrot Sets” can be found nearly everywhere in nature.
ReplyDeleteThen there is the Holographic principle. That one has me totally freaked! https://youtu.be/iNgIl-qIklU