The most mysterious quantum experiment, which served as the starting point for the beginning of a new physics, is as follows. When an electron passes through two slits, it, like a wave, creates an interference pattern on the screen.
Wave interference.
When flying through one of the slots, it leaves a dotted trail.
It is striking that when, after the flight of the electron, but before the fixation of the result, the physicist conducting the experiment closed one of the holes, the picture on the screen turned out to be dotted. And in the case when the experimenter at the end of the experiment decided not to block any of the passages, it was found that the result on the screen was interference.
Electron “knew” what decision the experiment director would make, “creating” a corresponding trace on the screen !?
Later called experiments "with delayed choice", repeated in all laboratories of the leading scientific centers of the world, they still do not have a single theoretical explanation.
The electron, like the famous Schrödinger's cat, hidden in the box from the observer, was simultaneously alive and dead, until the moment the box was opened.
Shroedinger `s cat.
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In the first work on quantum paradoxes, "Can the quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?" (A. Einstein 1965 V.3 pp. 610-611) the author concludes: “From this point of view, the values of P and Q do not simultaneously have reality, since either P or Q can be predicted, but not P and Q at the same time. Here the reality of P and Q is made dependent on the measurement process … No reasonable definition of reality should, it would seem, allow this."
But, if this happens, it means that our understanding of reality is incorrect or incomplete.
If between two particles there is no connection between causes and effects, the transfer of information between them occurs instantly, that is, information always exists in advance.
In the paradoxical quantum experience of the passage of one electron through 2 holes (in the form of a wave), we are dealing with the direction of the flow of time, similar to the direction of time in our world. And, when the observer chooses one of the open holes, the time of events of the quantum experience changes to the opposite, which creates the illusion of the observer's influence on the result obtained.
In other words: the observer makes his choice after receiving information about which of the holes the electron passed through.
In one of the previous parts of this cycle, an example was described of a ball flying from point A to point B and the location of the observer's hand (the minimum time for which is equal to the time of the ball's flight) on the path of its movement. Remember the conclusion that the ball will definitely hit the hand, because the only time for placing the hand will be the moment before it leaves point A.
Also in the case of choosing a hole in a quantum experiment. The choice is made before the electron passes through the slit. But we perceive the result of the experience in reverse time!
For a quantum experimenter, an electron before making a choice exists in two states simultaneously, like an object at the moment of acceleration on the graph of the delta function.
Each event is a quantum correlation to which Poincaré assigned the fourth coordinate. A physically material object does not exist by itself. Everything becomes real only by correlating with the surrounding correlations.
As Professor Roger Penrose authoritatively stated, "Quantum correlations exist, but what they correlate does not exist." This means that matter exists only in the process of transition between states.
The observer is always at the same time between two frames of reference, choosing the direction of the passage of time between them.
The Oracle from the "Matrix" taught Neo that he does not understand the reasons for his actions, because his choice has already been made, and he can only understand why he made this particular choice.
A still from the movie The Matrix.
Every moment consciousness makes a choice: what will be the cause and what will be the consequence of the next event.
But what is this Consciousness itself? Where does information come from in the minds of genius people? Let's figure it out in the next part.