Well, no. Not if you put a detector in one of the slits. It collapses the wave function, and the interference pattern disappears. The meme is a joke that your eyeballs are the detector, which is not true.
I was making a bit of a joke myself to get people to think about when the collapse actually happens. It could occur as late as when you look at the screen, and you can’t prove otherwise. You know… like, “is the moon still there when you’re not looking at it?” Except for real.
Well, no. Not if you put a detector in one of the slits. It collapses the wave function, and the interference pattern disappears. The meme is a joke that your eyeballs are the detector, which is not true.
I was making a bit of a joke myself to get people to think about when the collapse actually happens. It could occur as late as when you look at the screen, and you can’t prove otherwise. You know… like, “is the moon still there when you’re not looking at it?” Except for real.
Well that’s basically the bohr-einstsein problem isnt it?