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Feb 17 2011 10:31am
Quote (HeLiCaL @ Feb 17 2011 09:39am)
by the way anyone know any science show episodes or something dedicated to this thing ?

If you're from the US or Canada, there's an amazing video series that you can watch online called The Mechanical Universe:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html?pop=yes&vodid=763668&pid=548

You have to register an account to watch, but it's free. It was put together by CalTech, so you know it's much better than some random link you'll find on YouTube.
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Feb 17 2011 12:53pm
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by the way anyone know any science show episodes or something dedicated to this thing ?


are you against books? :huh:

i reccomend brian greene for reading
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Feb 17 2011 02:16pm
thanks to all
will try to check everything out
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Feb 17 2011 03:50pm
should really refer to it as "young's double slit experiment" give credit where credit is due.
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Feb 17 2011 05:47pm
how can it act differently just by u observing it, but still produce the same shit i dont understand
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Feb 17 2011 06:36pm
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how can it act differently just by u observing it, but still produce the same shit i dont understand

It doesn't produce the same thing. That's the point. Rewatch from ~4:08 to the end.
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Feb 17 2011 09:56pm
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how can it act differently just by u observing it, but still produce the same shit i dont understand


when you look at it, you're bouncing photons off of it (photons are light "particles") so there's a phenomenon known as "wavefunction collapse" (google it, im not making this up)

nobody understands it (in a philisophic sense), but the math behind it and everything else perfectly describes matter on small scales

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Feb 18 2011 09:56am
this shit is nice but i wont sleep well if i learn some since
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Feb 18 2011 10:18am
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=

Interesting read while we're on the topic of quantum physics.

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A series of quantum experiments shows that measurements performed in the future can influence the present.
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