Do atoms “know” whether or not they’re being observed?

Do atoms “know” whether or not they’re being observed? May 28, 2015

 

Always struck me as weird.
The famous two-slit light experiment
(Click to enlarge.)

 

“My own suspicion,” wrote the British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane (d. 1964), “is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

 

“If you think you understand quantum mechanics,” the late Nobel Physics laureate Richard Feynman is said to have quipped, “you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”

 

Have a go at this one:

 

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/may/26/do-atoms-going-through-a-double-slit-know-if-they-are-being-observed

 

Posted from Berlin, Germany

 

 


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