On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:06:06PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > No need to do it. Even more telling experiments have already been done in > which > the "measurement" was just the unrecorded IR radiation from buckyballs. > Buckyballs which were sufficiently cold showed the 2-slit interference > pattern > in a Young's slit type experiment. But when they were warm enough to emit IR > radiation that, if detected, could have localized them, the interference > disappeared. So it is not only a matter of the experimenter not looking at > the > result, the rest of the universe has to not look too. > > Brent >
Interesting! Do you have some citations for this, or even let me know who did the experiment? Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
