Is the Photon Detecting a Golf Ball Pattern?

"We're really trying to figure out what's down there. You can see on slide 27, the same set up," he says. "You've got a, well, this diagram says a photon source, but a photon, electron, proton, neutron, whatever it is." After it's passed through the two slits and presumably interfered with itself,. you very sneakily shut the double slit, shut one of the two slit before it hits the screen so that it's got no way of interfering like a wave. Well, we don't know, but one thing it implies is the electron is capable of backwards causation or it's capable of detecting what the measurement device is doing