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Double-slit (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Detecting" equals "interaction" in this context. You can't detect them without detecting them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Although, given some further thought, isn't the double-slit experiment being discussed here sort of demonstrative of a "detection" without detection, i.e. the wave pattern vs. the particle pattern emerging after "detection/measurement/interaction"? Or am I misunderstanding it?

Is there another way they operate/appear outside of the wave-particle that eludes observation?