Re: Do I Misunderstand The Double Slit Experiment
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In 4, i could take the pictures far away and flip a coin. Heads I destroy them, tails I look at them. You can look at the screen after some time has passed and you will know if I flipped heads or tails. Am I wrong or does this make sense?
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Makes sense, except in this experiment there is no picture to destroy.
The setup David suggested will always produce point particle patterns. No matter what happens to the film, we looked so the interference got destroyed.
The Afshar experiment should always produce interference patterns, no matter what. But then again he is not really looking (which is the big point of contention afaik).
I think David is confuses about observing. Its not about who, its about the act (be it a film, a conscious observer, a photon detector or whatever).
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