How the double slit experiment is applicable to the universe?

So, the double slit experiment. What exactly does it mean? So the particles behave as waves when you are not looking.

What could this mean? I was thinking yesterday about how maybe when your not looking somewhere, which is everywhere besides your immediate vicinity. Then there are a lot of probabilities happening, which is why coincidences seem to happen. Say your looking at a car coming right at you, you move out of the way. Now say you dont see it coming. It could possibly, hit you, kill you, kill them, kill all of you, kill a bird with a piece of stray metal, tons of possibilities. But then I got even deeper, what if when you weren't looking, they were wearing theyre seat belt. Now you die, because you forgot this morning. Yet they are alive. BUT if you looked, and got out of the way, perhaps the whole chain was different. Perhaps they weren't wearing their seat belt. But the fact that you weren't looking caused them to have it on. Perhaps they thought that it was off, but it was this is all very far stretched.

I just want something applicable. What could this wave particle differentiation actually mean in the universe? I know a lot of you guys have a better idea than I do.

I've wondered that too since whoever posted that cartoon video on here. Anyone good with this stuff have some input?

Thanks, glad someone else shares my curiosity haha, my google search didn't amount to much..

The cartoon video did a good job at explaining it though!

high|hgih said:

So, the double slit experiment. What exactly does it mean? So the particles behave as waves when you are not looking.

What could this mean? I was thinking yesterday about how maybe when your not looking somewhere, which is everywhere besides your immediate vicinity. Then there are a lot of probabilities happening, which is why coincidences seem to happen. Say your looking at a car coming right at you, you move out of the way. Now say you dont see it coming. It could possibly, hit you, kill you, kill them, kill all of you, kill a bird with a piece of stray metal, tons of possibilities. But then I got even deeper, what if when you weren't looking, they were wearing theyre seat belt. Now you die, because you forgot this morning. Yet they are alive. BUT if you looked, and got out of the way, perhaps the whole chain was different. Perhaps they weren't wearing their seat belt. But the fact that you weren't looking caused them to have it on. Perhaps they thought that it was off, but it was this is all very far stretched.

I just want something applicable. What could this wave particle differentiation actually mean in the universe? I know a lot of you guys have a better idea than I do.

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At the farther reaches of the implication, it means the universe doesn't exist, except that we observe it. We, our consciousness, collapse the probability wave forms into particles can be detected by us.

Photons are accelerated electrons. Electrons I get. Photons, not so much. Still pondering.

So it basically means that the universe is just what we perceive.. I bought this book on biocentrism that I still need to read, maybe that will help.

Photons.. Does the same situation still apply?

Btw nice joke rob haha

ArcticGranite said:

Photons are accelerated electrons. Electrons I get. Photons, not so much. Still pondering.

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I would not say it that way exactly. But, I do agree with the idea of a quanta or particle of light is quite wild, indeed. We can't just get one and shake it up in a jar, too bad. It doesn't exist, then suddenly the wave goes from 0 to light speed, instantaneously. Light bulb. Then we have math to say it is also particles when want to count them....and we can. We can count them one every minute if the source is so faint. But, is there really such a thing as a photon, or is a construct of our limited understanding? Are we detecting a particle? No. Our instruments record something. Is an electron a particle in the atom? No. We have no instruments to observe that. These are models to aid our limited understanding.

So, our math works for what we observe. Then we make more instruments with more math and observe more closely. Then more Math. We now observe so closely and so far away, we can see the edges of our reality are quite frayed. Nothing really makes sense. We think there are non-causal energy exchanges occurring at vastly tiny distances. No, not in a cause and effect relationship. Outside of entropy, against the time flow, energy is balanced across the universe. How is that? And why? The double slit experiment is a clear indication to me, the fact that Now is all there is. In Now we can observe these two, irrational, contradictory effects. But, not at the same time. It is an entire branch of Science that has become quantum physics. I just say, weird.