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Introduction
What do you think about the impact of consciousness and thought to physical reality? Tale, fantasy or a real phenomenon? If you think this is nonsense, then you got here by mistake, and there is no reason to read more. This article was not created in order to prove something, but in order to tell you about the interesting phenomenon, which can explode your most cherished notions about reality.
If you are interested in quantum physics and its phenomena and capable to take in yet unexplainable phenomena, then you have arrived in a right place.
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you,
you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr
How it all began
In the 17th century, Newton and Huygens began the great debate about the nature of light. Newton argued that light is a stream of particles. Huygens insisted: light is wave. The authority of Newton prevailed then. Corpuscular theory of light existed until the early 19th century, when Thomas Young conducted a famous double-slit experiment, which explicitly (as it seemed) proved the wave nature of light.
 He passed a beam of light through a thin plate with two parallel slits, and the light struck a projection screen behind them. The interference pattern was formed at the screen. That was what clearly proved the wave theory of light. After all, if light consisted of particles, then the screen would have just two bands, formed of particles passing through the two slits.
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The previous article describes the double-slit experiment, the paradoxical results of which show that the electron, without observing it, passes through two slits simultaneously. To put it somewhat more scientific, we can say that before observing (fixing the electron passing through one or the other slit), the electron is in a superposition of two states: the passage through one slit (the first state) and the passage through the other slit (the second state). The electron is characterized by a set of states, each excludes the other with a classical point of view. As soon as observing the electron as a point particle takes place, it immediately becomes like that, a particle of matter. In this case, the superposition collapses, allowing you to watch one of the states the superposition consisted of before observing.
One of the important controversial issues of quantum physics is this: Is there such a phenomenon as a superposition for the macroscopic world?
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