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by erikpukinskis 3292 days ago
Side note: I recently came across this YouTube video which did a fantastic job showing just the basics of waveform collapse, without straying into silly metaphors and cartoons, or getting bogged down by historical narratives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bzE1E5PMY

Highly recommended for anyone trying to grok the relationship between a wave, a particle, and an observation. I find I don't want to hear what quantum physics is "like" I just want to have things explained to me slowly and completely.

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Thanks for the link. One of the best non mathematical visualizations/explanations for observation and uncertainty principle i've seen.