The conclusion of all this is that there is no experiment that can tell us what the electrons are doing at the slits that does not also destroy the interference pattern. This seems to imply that there is no answer to the question of what is going on at the slits when we see the interference pattern. The path of the electron from the electron gun to the screen is not knowable when we see the interference pattern.
"The path [of the electron] comes into existence only when we observe it." -Heisenberg.
It is the detector that alters the wave to a particle, not our minds.
ReplyDeleteNo. If you have the detector operating but don't record the data, the wave function does not collapse (get altered). It is only altered if a human (or other sentient that understands the meaning of the data) perceives the results.
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