Anyone has a theory behind the double slit experiment ?

Or never thought about it before?

I'm just trying to collect thoughts some might have on the reason behind the outcome of the experiment.

here is a video explaining the experiment ( in case some never heard of it before).

Interesting video. Wish I was intelligent enough to actually have something of value to contribute.

I don't know, why don't you look online for the probably hundreds of articles/papers that have analyzed and discussed this already...

Photons (or electrons or whatever) exist in all their possible states at the same time until they're observed. When you have a sensor on one of the slits then you're observing it, thus collapsing its wavefunction to one state (in our reality / universe) which is either through one slit or the other. If you don't have a sensor you can't see them (because they're tiny, that's the only way to detect them) then they aren't being observed by anything, so each photon exists in all of its states, thus passing through the two slits at the same time and interfering with itself, and creating the pattern. That's just one of the many theories though..

This isn't really something to be explained in a forum topic, just go do some research if you're interested in the subject..

This is my favorite explanation, and fits in really well with the visual aids in the video (the fact they're in all possible states explains the formation of the wave "ripple" rather than the straight-fire behavior when observed).

TC, you're asking a bunch of random internet people for their thoughts on freakin' quantum physics.

OK, fine. Spoil sport :P

TC, if you really want to have an in depth online discussion on this stuff, I'd recommend this site.

I discovered this sub-site while using Programmers.StackExchange, and I've lurked it since. A lot of the people on there really know their stuff. The explanations on things like quantum mechanics and neutron forces often go well beyond the traditional visualization crutches while still being digestible.

It's well documented why. Just do some research.

there's a lot of regurgitated non-truth about the experiment that's perpetuated even among sources that should be in authority to set the record straight, such as the experiment behaves like particles when it's observed and like waves when not observed, which is hokum

So I guess each atom, is aware of itself? They all play a role in the bigger plan. We all might just be a big experiment by a higher being.

Interesting video.