• drislands@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yes, but eyes and other sensory organs are passive observers. You can only see photons if they’ve already been reflected in your direction, and whether you’re looking has no impact on if they are reflected or not.

    Feels like a kind of “if a tree falls in a forest” scenario. Whether your eyes were in the way or not makes no difference.

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      9 months ago

      But experimentation says otherwise, that’s the whole fucking point mate.

      I understand logically what you say sounds like it should be true. But science is not about logic and making sense. It’s experimentation.

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        9 months ago

        I’ve done the double slit. Just looking at the slit does not cause the photons to start forming only 2 lines. Hell we did it back in high school with a class of 30 people, and got the wave pattern on the wall no matter who was looking.

        It takes more than just looking at it to get the photons to change behaviour.