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Double slit experiment: Why does observation change the pattern?
I need DETAILS, please. Observing it forces the electron to choose only one path, so it can't interfere with itself, but can someone explain this in details, and give me the names of some theories that are involved in this, like why the particle even goes through both slits in the first place, how is it possible that observation itself changes that, and so on.
Anything and as much as possible!
Thanks!
8 AnswersAstronomy & Space1 decade agoHow does the Uncertainty Principle predict the spontaneous production of virtual particles?
Thanks for the answers.
2 AnswersAstronomy & Space1 decade agoHawking radiation; black holes losing mass?
All I ever read about Hawking radiation is that a pair of virtual particles are created near the event horizon and they have a high enough energy for one to be able to escape it... But what I can't seem to get is how the hell does that take away a black hole's mass? How does that make them not last forever?
Thank you.
8 AnswersAstronomy & Space1 decade agoIf time runs slower near gravitational fields...?
So closer to the center of the Earth you are, slower time passes for you...
But if you're closer to the center of the Earth, then aren't you also moving slower than someone who is higher [Earth's rotation]?
Am I wrong about this, or is it simply that the first reason, gravity, affects time more than the tiny difference in speed?
5 AnswersPhysics1 decade agoEinstein's gravity and the graviton?
If gravity is simply space-time bent by mass, then why are gravitons suppose to exist?
Because what I understand by Einstein's gravity, is that gravity isn't even an actual force... So what's up?
Thanks.
1 AnswerPhysics1 decade ago