The science of faith.
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Have you ever heard of the double-slit experiment? It's one of the coolest and most mind-bending experiments in physics, and it really shakes up how we think about reality. Trust me, you’ll want to read this one to the end because what they found is wild!
Back in the early 1800s, a guy named Thomas Young conducted an experiment with light. He shone light through two parallel slits and observed the pattern that formed on a screen behind them. Instead of getting two distinct lines of light, which you might expect if light were just particles, he saw an interference pattern of light and dark bands, like waves colliding and canceling each other out. This was a big deal because it showed that light behaves like a wave.
But the story gets more interesting...
Physicists later repeated this experiment with particles like electrons. If electrons are particles, you'd expect them to hit the screen in two distinct groups, one behind each slit. Instead, they still formed an interference pattern, suggesting that each electron somehow goes through both slits simultaneously and interferes with itself, again acting like a wave.
Wait for it…
Now, here's where it gets really mind-blowing. When scientists placed detectors at the slits to see which slit each electron passed through, the interference pattern disappeared! The electrons started behaving like particles again, hitting the screen in two distinct spots. It's as if the act of observing them changed their behavior. This phenomenon is known as the observer effect, and it suggests that particles don't have definite states until they're observed.
This experiment has been repeated with various particles, from electrons to larger molecules, and the results are always the same. It challenges our classical understanding of physics and suggests that at a quantum level, the act of measurement affects reality.
So what does all of this mean?... drum roll please!
It means that contrary to popular belief of needing to see something before believing it. This experiment proved that you must first believe it to see it. This would also explain why faith is so important when trying to manifest something.
