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[–] pigup 248 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (77 children)

Fyi, there's a lot of ~~woo woo~~ (edit: apparently racist term) crap out there that tries to make you believe that somehow the photons can feel that a human is watching them and they choose to behave differently as a result. This is not true. It just means that when you use a detector or some sort of probe that physically interacts with the photons they change their behavior. It's not magic.

[–] PixxlMan -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The amount of times I've seen people misunderstanding this...

When you blast something with a high powered laser it behaves differently, who knew?

[–] kromem 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So how do you explain the quantum eraser experiment (note for those who might be excited to respond with recent YouTube physics videos, this is not the delayed choice quantum eraser, and has nothing to do with retrocausality claims)?

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