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Light is both a particle and a wave.

 

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Thanks genius' date=' now explain the last bit. How watching the partical makes it act differently.

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According to quantum mechanics, it's always in both states at once (particle and wave), but since we can only observe one state at our level, when we do so, it has to appear as one or the other.

 

Wikipedia "Schrodinger's Cat" if you don't get this.

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You haven't said why:/ I want a why not a maybe.

 

Entanglement.

 

At the quantum level' date=' you can't mention one state without the other. This isn't speculation; it's fact.

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Why... does... it... happpen?

 

I'm not trying to get your back up but you're not answering the question I'm asking.

 

I know quantum level sh!t but I don't "why" it decideds to act differently. If it was just a case of us not being able to see it then fine but it does something completetly different; that is what I don't get and that is what I want you to answer.

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You haven't said why:/ I want a why not a maybe.

 

Entanglement.

 

At the quantum level' date=' you can't mention one state without the other. This isn't speculation; it's fact.

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Why... does... it... happpen?

 

I'm not trying to get your back up but you're not answering the question I'm asking.

 

Who knows? I can't exactly explain why, or anyone else, really. Sorry. D;

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"Electrons are like small pieces of matter' date=' like small marbles."

 

We shot marbles thru the slits and observed.

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Did you watch the whole thing? That's like 30 seconds in, there's 5 minutes of the stuff.

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I know, I watched it all. What I meant was, we observed marbles and nothing changed.

 

Electrons are on a microscopic level. Because we decided to add an other object, it changed air pressure, dust formations and dust locations. This greatly affects the outcome.

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I know' date=' I watched it all. What I meant was, we observed marbles and nothing changed.

 

Electrons are on a microscopic level. Because we decided to add an other object, it changed air pressure, dust formations and dust locations. This greatly affects the outcome.

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I'm sure you know that's wrong don't you?

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So by putting something closer too it' date=' the particle stops acting like a wave and starts acting like a marble? That doesn't answer the question. (The giant eye wasn't real Dark)

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But they said it was being observed. Dude, I'm not in college yet, tone down the intensity of the intelligence.

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There are so many unexplained scientific things. I'm 15, and slightly disabled, so I'm in a specialty school (since I was 8, and I didn't do too well in regular schools. Also, it doesn't affect me much, but it can cause a few probs), and I struggled to understand this for a short time, but I got the jist of it.

 

Perhaps Doctor Who can explain? (lol)

 

On a serious note, perhaps the giant perticle accelerator thingy (forgot the name) will explain.

 

And off topic, half my friends were scared of that thing. One of them was shaking 'n' all. But science occasionally takes risks. Scientists thought that one of the nuclear bombs (dunno which) would set the atmosphere alight, but did it? NUU!

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