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[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If particles act as waves, but are not directly observed then those waves will interfere with each other and make the first image (this is correct). If it is observed directly, the wave collapses and you get the second one. Note that you would effectively only ever see the first one.

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