Re: Changing the past by forgetting

From: russell standish <lists.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:07:54 +1100

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

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Received on Sun Mar 15 2009 - 23:06:36 PDT