The goals of this paper are to analyze cognitively and linguistically the Double Slit Experiment, trying to understand what the functions of the observer in the collapse function wave are. To do it, a didactic video that explains the experiment in great detail was selected, and the audio (Brazilian Portuguese) was transcribed and rigorously analyzed. The theory that enabled to do this analysis was the Conceptual Metaphor, a central theory in the Cognitive Linguistics field. The results were: DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT was conceptualized and understood in terms of TRAVEL; ELECTRON was conceptualized sometimes in terms of OBJECT (CORPUSCLE); ELECTRON was another time conceptualized in terms of FLUID (WAVE). How a TRAVELER is an OBJECT and not a FLUID, the particular ELECTRON properties are highlighted during the measurement, whereas wave properties keep hiding in cognition. As a conclusion, the Description-Prescription Principle was proposed in this paper, trying to solve the problems between the realism of Natural Sciences and the idealism of Social Sciences.
The goals of this paper are to analyze cognitively and linguistically the Double Slit Experiment, trying to understand what the functions of the observer in the collapse function wave are. To do it, a didactic video that explains the experiment in great detail was selected, and the audio (Brazilian Portuguese) was transcribed and rigorously analyzed. The theory that enabled to do this analysis was the Conceptual Metaphor, a central theory in the Cognitive Linguistics field. The results were: DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT was conceptualized and understood in terms of TRAVEL; ELECTRON was conceptualized sometimes in terms of OBJECT (CORPUSCLE); ELECTRON was another time conceptualized in terms of FLUID (WAVE). How a TRAVELER is an OBJECT and not a FLUID, the particular ELECTRON properties are highlighted during the measurement, whereas wave properties keep hiding in cognition. As a conclusion, the Description-Prescription Principle was proposed in this paper, trying to solve the problems between the realism of Natural Sciences and the idealism of Social Sciences.
Abstract The double-slit experiment is a classic experiment that presents the clearest manifestation of wave-particle duality, one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. The double-slit experiment still remains the phenomenon that demonstrates wave-particle duality at the most fundamental level. This phenomenon quantitatively and conceptually demonstrates that microscopic objects can behave like both waves and particles at the same time. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the physical nature of dualism, the mechanism of formation of the interference pattern, and the impact of the act of observation on the dynamics of quantum systems. The need for a new perspective on this topic is due to the fact that the current uncertainty in the interpretation of quantum reality has not yet been completely eliminated, and the boundaries between classical and quantum behavior in microscopic objects are still being explored. The results presented here restructure the deep mechanisms of the interference picture, more clearly frame the relationship between observation and wavefunction collapse, and provide a quantum. Since the article attempts to provide a complete answer to the mechanism of the formation of wave-particle duality, extensive space is given to sections such as historical development, theoretical models, modern research, etc. New approaches to this phenomenon have been developed using modern research and string theory. As a result, a new mathematical expression has been proposed that explains the reasons for the initial emergence of wave-particle duality, and is also important for string theory. The article explains the measurement problem with a more effective physical structure and ontological model.
Traditionally, motion has been defined extrinsically, as the change in the position of an object, such as a particle, over time. This definition presupposes the existence of an external to the particle who measures the position of the particle as a function of time. Yet, in the double slit experiment, we have experimental proof that a particle can travel unobserved between a source and a detector. It does so in such a way that we cannot, even in principle, describe its motion by a position changing in time. We propose that the correct interpretation of this experiment is that the traditional extrinsic definition of motion is incomplete. We propose a more general intrinsic definition of motion, in which the role of observer is played by the particle itself, and which presupposes no external observer. We discuss the double slit experiment including the nature of measurement and the particle-wave duality. We show that using the intrinsic point of view allows us to avoid the weirdness that tends to crop up when these topics are analysed from the extrinsic point of view.
This article reconsiders the double-slit experiment by establishing a new type of relationship between it and the concept of entanglement. While the role of entanglement in the double-slit experiment has been considered, this particular relationship appears to have been missed in preceding discussions of the experiment, even by Bohr, who extensively used it to support his argument concerning quantum physics. The main reason for this relationship is the different roles of the diaphragm with slits in two setups, S1 and S2, defining the double-slit experiment as a quantum experiment. In S1, in each individual run of the experiment one can in principle (even if not actually) know throughout which slit the quantum object considered has passed; in S2 this knowledge is in principle impossible, which impossibility is coextensive with the appearance of the interference pattern, once a sufficient number of individual runs of the experiment have taken place. The article offers the following argument based on two new concepts, an "experimentally quantum object" and an "ontologically quantum object." In S1 the diaphragm can be treated as part of an observational arrangement and thus considered as a classical object, while the object passing through one or the other slit is considered as an "ontologically quantum object," defined as an object necessary to establish a quantum phenomenon. By contrast, in S2, the diaphragm can, via the concept of Heisenberg-von-Neumann cut, be treated as an "experimentally quantum object," defined as an object treatable by quantum theory, even while possibly being an ontologically classical object. This interaction is not an observation but a quantum entanglement between these two quantum objects, one ontologically and one experimentally quantum. This argument is grounded in a particular interpretation of quantum phenomena and quantum theory, which belongs to the class of interpretations designated here as "reality without realism" (RWR) interpretations. The article also argues that wave-particle complementarity, with which the concept of complementarity is often associated, plays little, if any, role in quantum physics, or in Bohr's thinking, and may be misleading in considering the double-slit experiment, often explained by using this complementarity.
The study of the dual nature of the electron is proposed, with alterations in initial double-slit experiment. We are aware of mysterious nature of the quantum particles, particularly electrons. The particle behaves as wave, but upon observation, the wave-function of the electron is collapsed. No longer is an interference pattern observed, which in a sense, limits us and binds us to what we can measure and what we cannot, with current detection methods. In the double slit experiment, a source of high-intensity light is used to measure the position of the electrons, which leads to the collapse of the wave-function. An investigation is proposed to observe the effects of the low-intensity electric field on the duality of electron.
The measurement problem is one of the greatest unsolved mystery of the foundations of quantum mechanics. This paper is an exploration of the underlying subtleties of this phenomenon from the standpoint of the quantum mechanical interpretations that are available to us at the moment. First, we revisit the infamous double slit experiment and contrast between the observer dependent and observer independent effects on the measurement process. In this regard, we have tried to establish a causal relationship between the observer's consciousness and the collapse of the wave function. The point is justified through the application of Godel's incompleteness theorems. Finally, we perform a thought experiment which shall validate our conclusions.
This paper presents a conceptual and philosophical interpretation of quantum measurement, focusing on the role of human intention as a metaphysical variable in the process commonly described as wave-function collapse. Rather than proposing a physical mechanism or experimentally testable claim, the work examines how intention, observation, and meaning-making may be understood within the broader limits of scientific epistemology. The paper argues that science functions as a powerful methodological tool for modeling observable phenomena, but that its scope is necessarily bounded by empirical measurement and repeatability. Within this framework, the study explores how trans-empirical aspects of experience—such as intention, consciousness, and belief—can be discussed without being reduced to physical causation. The emphasis is not on rejecting scientific inquiry, but on clarifying its domain of applicability. Using concepts from quantum mechanics (superposition, collapse, observer-dependence) as interpretive structures, the paper develops a metaphysical model in which collapse is understood as a process of selection aligned with intention, rather than as a solely mechanical outcome of measurement. Behavioral and cognitive examples are presented as illustrative analogies, not as quantum experiments. This work is situated at the intersection of philosophy of science, consciousness studies, and conceptual interpretations of quantum mechanics. It contributes to the ongoing development of Javed’s Quantum Thought, a framework that seeks to integrate scientific reasoning with broader ontological reflection while maintaining clear distinctions between empirical science and metaphysical interpret ation.