Dear Steemers,
Einstein seemed to have a struggle with the behaviour of subatomic particles (particles smaller then atoms).
His famous quote:"God doesn't play dice" expresses how bizarre quantum mechanics is as a theory.
One of the famous experiments that is still unsolved as we speak is called the:"Double slit experiment"
When a red laser beam (stream of photons) is aimed at 1 slit and behind a slit you capture where the light hits,
you expect to see a red line and this is indeed what happens. See the picture below.
However when you aim the laser beam at two slits and capture the light behind it most people think that there will be two red beam lights displayed.
Well this is where the mystery starts, because as you can see on the picture it will not display two red lines, but it shows what is called an "interference pattern"
"Well great who cares anyway, c'est la vie!"
Fair point well made, but for those of you who are interested in why this is such an amazing thing I would definitely youtube the concept as everything around us works on the basis of this mystery.
One of the major outcomes of this experiment is that it seems that particles seem to act like waves when they have not been "watched". They act like they have a probability to be somewhere but nobody knows if they are there or not.
Once the particle is measured, by an experiment or someone consciously sees where the particle is, the particle then acts like a normal particle and there is no interference oattern anymore.
As if particles spring to existence when we actually consciously are aware of it.
Seems like voodoo or magic to you?
Hope you like it if this info was new to you!