TWeaK

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The real double-slit quantum eraser they don't want you to know about! (mander.xyz)

The recent post made me fear that a lot of you are taking this “monkey looks at double-slits” meme, which was only ever supposed to be a funny monkey meme, actually seriously. Honorable mention goes to @kromem, whose 12 posts on the topic, insisting that the quantum eraser experiment (but not the delayed-choice quantum...

TWeaK,

idk why so many people were having conniption fits over it.

It’s because it isn’t clear from the meme that the monkey is looking specifically at the interaction at the slits.

TWeaK,

It’s clear he’s observing something, but all too easy for the viewer to think the monkey is merely observing the pattern on the screen at the end. It also doesn’t help that there are a bunch of slight variations on the double slit experiment, like those listed in this post.

If the monkey was at 90 degrees to the experiment, looking at the slits only side on, then it might be clearer - though I’m not sure how you could draw that lol.

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