Double-slit Experiment
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When light (or electrons) passes through double slits, if not observed, it behaves as a wave (producing interference fringes); if observed, it behaves as particles (two stripes). This means that the state of microscopic particles depends on whether they are observed. -
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Physical proof that subjectivity intervenes in objectivity. - This is the physical origin of the 'observer effect'. It profoundly shakes the materialist intuition that 'the objective world exists independently'. In higher-dimensional cognition, it implies that consciousness may not be a bystander of the universe, but a participant. Your momentary thought may indeed collapse the wave function of your life.
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When light or matter particles pass through double slits, they form interference fringes on the screen, showing wave nature; if 'which slit' is observed, the interference disappears and particle nature appears, revealing wave-particle duality and the influence of observation on quantum systems.
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