Originally posted by KazetNagorra
The double-slit experiment does not require multiple particles. You can do it with single particles and you will see an interference pattern from particles interfering with themselves. (this is also what quantum theory predicts)
If you change the experimental setup, then it's not surprising that you find different results, is it?
That was what I was seeking to refer to. As I understand there is not yet a logical "Newtonian type" explanation of these phenomenon. The quantum phenomenon are paradoxically weird to most scientists, yet highly predictable.
The below is a quote associated with very current experiments, with link to context.
The interesting thing to myself and others is that the ancient intuitive findings of the underlaying nature of reality sound extraordinarily similar.
(The ancient intuitive findings are quite counter intuitive actually. Who in their right mind would think that this so apparently real world would at base be such an "emptiness"?)
It is "neither a particle, nor is it a wave, it is neither local, nor is it non-local..etc.
And it refers at the end to the consequent sub atomic internal "freedom" that results from this.
This has also been a principle aspect of the Buddhist philosophy of the inherent "emptiness" of reality, that without which functional freedom is lost, that this potent "emptiness" is actually required for "things" to manifest. But ultimately, as in quantum findings, they can neither be said to exist nor not exist.
Is its nature not supremely vague? Even attaching terms like "consciousness-like" could be saying too much. The holistic interactive aspect does to me have that appearance however.
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"Researchers have shown in the last few years that for photons and atoms - and now, electrons - "both/and" and "either/or" exist side-by-side. In other words, there is a grey zone of complementarity. There are hence experimentally demonstrable conditions where matter appears to be both a wave and a particle. These situations can be described by a so called duality relation. It can be viewed as an extended Complementarity Principle for quantum physics; which should be more precisely called a Co-existence Principle. It states that manifestations of matter which would normally be mutually exclusive - e.g., local and non-local, coherent and non-coherent - are indeed measurable and make themselves evident, in a particular "transition regime". One can speak of partial localisation and partial coherence, or partial visibility and partial distinguishability. These are measurements that are connected to each other via the duality relation. In this transition regime the Complementarity Principle, and the complementary dualism should be extended to the more general Co-existence Principle, describing the parallel dualism of nature. Nature has thus a more ambivalent character than previously recognized. Atomic interferometry provides us with examples of this ambivalence. It was first found in 1998 in atoms, (5) which consist of an assembly of particles enabling internal degrees of freedom."
http://hasylab.desy.de/news__events/research_highlights/archive/molecular_double_slit_experiment/index_eng.html
Added edit: 'The ancient intuitive findings are quite counter intuitive actually. Who in their right mind would think that this so apparently real world would at base be such an "emptiness"?'