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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 u
by bad_haircut72 2y ago
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
- whatshisface 2y agoThe 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 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/12/11/4
- randunel 2y agoThat website's captcha is horrible!
- heylook 2y agoOr amazing.
- nextts 2y agoI got cats with sunglasses
- qingcharles 2y agoMe too. And I had to click on bird legs to verify o_O
- out_of_protocol 2y agoWiki, 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] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
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- rusk 2y agoIf the slits are big enough, isn’t that just gravity?
- cellular 2y agoAnd Why can't gravity serve as an observer?! The electron/proton entering a slit is affected by gravity!
- nick3443 2y agoThe 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.
- rusk 2y agoFrom 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)
- idontwantthis 2y agoI don’t know what it’s called but I read about a proposed experiment to do it in space with macrosized glass beads.