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A photon can act like a bulletlike particle or rippling wave—but not both at once—depending on how experimenters decide to measure it. In the late 1970s, famed theoretician John Archibald Wheeler realized that experimenters could even delay the choice until the photon had made its way almost completely through an apparatus configured to emphasize one property or the other, thus proving that the photon’s behavior isn’t predetermined..

...That assertion suggests, weirdly, that a decision in the present determines an event in the past: whether the photon split like a wave or took one path like a particle. Quantum theory avoids the issue by assuming that, until measured, the photon remains both a particle and a wave.


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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78058726


which is evident in the double slit experiment, where a single slit measures particle hits on the backstop as random. when the second source of light is introduced via the double slit, the wave pattern of particle hits on the backstop becomes evident. the particle hits fall into a definitive wave pattern. thereby producing the particle wave theory! particles travel in a wave! lol

if it was any simpler it would be stupid! lol
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77631946


Why maybe they do travel in a wave.
Provided they're being measured
chuckle
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78058726


double slit is not a measurement its an observation! lol

for measurements refer to plancks work on the separation of colors from thermal! lol
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77631946


So what you're saying is, an observation performed by a human effects the state? Alters reality almost?
 
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