Do you mean the bit where he talks about electrons interfering with themselves? That does seem quite fitting.
Observer effect?
Stockholm syndrome?
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Are you referring, perhaps, to the weird shit illustrated about 4 minutes into this video, Pap?
Yes, precisely that, but applied to forum mechanics.
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There’s an excellent book by Richard Feynman called The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.
It blew my mind when I read it. Weird shit indeed.
I think I speak for most men when I say that I’d love to be able to reproduce the double slit experiment at home.
Originally posted by @saintbletch
I think I speak for most men when I say that I’d love to be able to reproduce the double slit experiment at home.
Sexist. Just saying.
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Originally posted by @saintbletch
There’s an excellent book by Richard Feynman called The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.
It blew my mind when I read it. Weird shit indeed.
Some people might refer to me as a reductionist, and it is true to say that I occasionally dissect (in a contemplative sense) life into ever decreasing layers; but somewhere during this process (perhaps between the level of organism and cell, or cell and molecule, or molecule and atom, or atom and sub-atomic particle, or … ) some illusions that I have painstakingly constructed over the course of a lifetime – ‘purpose’, ‘meaning’, ‘reason’ etc. – suffer a sudden deflation like so many burst balloons; and, worse than this, things that I hold dear – family, friends, Saints, Hampshire CCC, fellow sotonians etc. – collapse into a multitude of sub-atomic particles (or is it waves?); and as I stand on the edge of an abyss, feeling infinitesimally small and insignificant, staring into the grey nothingness between the sub-atomic particles (or is it waves?) I begin to feel … disconcerted … disillusioned … disorientated … disconnected … disturbed … dangerously disturbed …
So, yeah Bletch, I’ll give that book a go … but if it sends me over the edge, it will all be your bloody fault! 
Incidentally, wasn’t Feynman the fella who said: “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t”?
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