
Why does measuring a quantum object change it?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Quantum Mechanics Says, It's Not Going to Take Just One Path
If you send a ping pong ball into a maze, it's just going to go down one path in that maze. But if you send an electron or photon into some sort of maze, like a sentaphoton into a set of mirrors and prisms on an optical bench,. It's not going to take just one path. Quanta mechanics says, no, it's it's going to take a superposition of all o those paths. When we try to measure the photon, the superposition sneaks away.
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