Watch This When You're High - The Double Slit Experiment, And The Closest Thing We Will Have To Confirmation We Are Living In A Simulation Video Game
Strap yourself in, because tonight we have a doozy.
The first time I heard about this, and then watched the Youtube videos above, and below, my head was fucked.
This video appeared in my algorithm and melted my brain.
Down the rabbit hole I went from there. And it's only gotten more confusing and made me feel even more dumb the more I tried to comprehend.
Talk about a real mind-bender.
To put this into layman's terms that's easier to understand, imagine you’ve got a cannon that shoots tiny particles, (aka electrons), at a wall.
Between the cannon and the wall is a board with two vertical slits in it.
One would think that if you fire a bunch of those particles, they’d go through either slit A or slit B and make two neat stripes on the wall behind, right?
But one would be wrong.
Very wrong.
This is where things are fucked. Royally fucked.
When no one’s watching, the particles act like waves.
They pass through both slits at the same time, interfere with themselves like ripples in water, and land in a pattern of light and dark stripes, called "an interference pattern."
According to science and physics, that’s not how particles are supposed to behave.
That’s straight-up "ghost behavior."
Now, here’s where it gets even more fucking weird.
When scientists observe which slit the particles go through, (literally just try to catch them in the act with a detector, or the naked eye), the interference pattern disappears. Legit poof. Gone.
The particles start behaving like normal little dots again, going through one slit or the other like obedient physical objects.
Translation= the second we look, reality changes.
The universe somehow knows it’s being watched and reverts to “normal.”
When we don’t look, it acts all wavy and quantum and nuts.
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So the argument goes that either particles have trust issues, or reality is only pretending to behave itself when we’re paying attention.
The best way I saw this explained in video is to think of it like a large scale, modern video game. This experiment might be telling us that the universe doesn’t render itself unless we’re watching.
Exactly how video games work.
In most open-world role playing games, (think Grand Theft Auto) the game engine only renders what the player sees.
If you’re not looking at a mountain in the distance, your console or PC isn’t wasting resources rendering every tree, goat, or pixel on that mountain. It just shows what’s in your line of sight.
Everything else? It's in low-res, frozen, or not even loaded yet.
Just like this double slit experiment.
When we're not watching the particle go through the slits, it acts like it’s going through both at the same time. It’s like the universe is in “background mode,” doing its quantum wave-thing.
But when we set up a camera and observe it? Boom! It collapses into a single, observable outcome.
The universe suddenly renders a result, just like a computer graphics card would if you turned your character around.
It’s as if reality is optimized for observation.
AS Neil Degrasse Tyson put it, the big simulation theory idea here is, "what if the universe is only “loading” the details of reality when someone is around to experience it? Not because it's lazy, but because, like a video game, it’s conserving processing power. It doesn't need to run full HD physics and detail on the stuff you’ll never notice."
That would mean we’re not living in a stable, objective universe at all. We’re living in something reactive, something designed to respond to perception.
If you want another example of this theory, but in the reverse, watch and think about this.
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