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- When conducting the double slit experiment, does the pattern change from an interference to particle pattern with human eyes?
So the double slit experiment. If I understand correctly when electrons are shot through 2 slits and no one is monitoring, measuring or watching they create an interference pattern if they are being measured they create a 1 to 1 pattern. I keep seeing it be said that the mere act of monitoring changes the pattern created. Here is my question and I am sorry if this is obvious but is the 1 to 1 pattern created when the monitoring instrument is the human eye? If not what are they monitoring / measuring with? Is it giving off some field that could be interacting with the electrons? I would imagine with how small the electron is it would not take much of an em field to have an effect on a single electron. I would also think if it were the mere act of observation then when a person is looking at it there should not be an interference pattern created right?