This one used to stop me completely. I'd be in the middle of something entirely unrelated and the question would just — arrive. And my mind would go somewhere I couldn't quite follow it back from.
It's not mysticism. It's not consciousness causing collapse or any of the romanticized versions you've probably heard. It's about information. Whether a record exists somewhere in the physical world of which way the particle went. That's it. That's the whole strange, stubborn thing.
0:00 Before the Question Existed
8:49 The Slit in the Dark
16:53 What Interference Actually Requires
26:09 An Attempt at Which-Path
36:00 Disturbance
46:25 Erasure
59:44 The Machinery of Knowing
1:12:02 Observed by Nothing in Particular
1:23:45 Roles
1:34:24 The Pilot and the Wave
1:47:10 What the Atom Doesn't Know
1:59:06 Toward Sleep, Through the Question
Researched and scripted by Charlie