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It has to be the first option, I think. This is similar to the double-slit experiment with C70 molecules that I mentioned, where the pattern gets a little bit messed up when you increase the air pressure a little. In both of these experiments, the problem appears to be that some of the the "quantum weirdness" is moved into the environment, where it's unnoticeable. (Maybe a decoherence expert could explain it better than that.yuiop said:One has to wonder if there is some slight loss of the interference pattern even in this case, with a gradually increasing loss of interference with increasing sensitivity of the mirror to photon deflection or if there is a threshold value with a binary switch from interference plus no which way detection to no interference plus which way detection?